Native Londoner, long-time Cairene, now living DK. Citizen of Nowhere par excellence. Live by the written word. Lifelong close reader: originally Greek/Latin, then Wittgenstein, then medieval ceremonial architecture in Mamluk Cairo, now back to Eng Lit.
Incredibly important theme, & thread.
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
Just *look* at this.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
My god.
Jeff Bezos — and his lickspittle lieutenant Will Lewis — are vandals.
Yeowch.
I had missed this in the FT from
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social, on digital sovereignty, the European digital stack, dependence on US tech—and the example of Solvinity, the cloud company that hosts all Dutch citizens’ digital IDs, acquired by US company Kyndryl last November.
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.
1. The Greek & Roman novel
2. Greek prose composition
3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.
4. Greek tragedy.
5. Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.
1. Viola performance
2. Western music history
3. Western music theory
4. probably something like Orchestra
5. I seem to recall we had to go to 50 concerts a year
UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.
