Thoroughly depressing if true but I remember a similar story about Netflix introducing an option to skip long dialogue scenes which never materialised so I remain sceptical
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Recently finished J.G. Ballard’s “The Drowned World”. Enjoyed the basics, especially since I read it on a week that was hovering around a balmy 40 degrees. Don’t like the undertones of weird racism and sexism, but he’s definitely not the only writer from that era that focussed on a colonial white patriarchy.
Worth a read, as are several of his books.
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I always go back to both volumes of his short stories, well worth a purchase
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Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pychon. A mad ride at the confluence of science, technology, exploration, physics.
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A busy man but I do wish ‘Rotter’ wrote on here. He always added value on DJH. Some killer tunes here, from Masimbabele all the way through to Auntie Flo.
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Time Actor is such a brilliant tune. I didn’t know it through Alfos, but it makes sense that it would have been popular.
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Do Books are having a ‘seconds’ sale
https://thedobook.co/collections/seconds?mc_cid=bbcbb5e5f0&mc_eid=4b0b51ee36
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I saw that Ross Ulbricht just got pardoned. The ‘Silk Road’ dark net always posed a bit of an ethical challenge to cyber libertarians. A really good article on it all from 10 years ago.
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Thanks for posting this - knew very little about Silk Road but that’s one crazy story. And didn’t expect the twist at the end about the cop that first infiltrated and won over Ross/DPRs trust. Quite the story. But still bonkers that Trump let him out.
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A lot of speculation about why… if this is correct, we’ve reached a situation where anyone with cash can bribe the President to let them out of jail
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My main takeaway from this was that Sean actually works in recruitment. Like me. Proper day job. Mind blown. I actually found him on Linked In!!!
Leaves me thinking: there’s still time for me to become a legendary DJ. And how fucked it is that someone as brilliant as him can’t earn a decent living from music.
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great read!
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The 12 Inch Substack blogs are a bit ‘beginner’s guide to’ but serve as a useful refresher on people you’d half forgotten about. Fond memories getting silly to Kid Creole records.
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I love that record sooooo much
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Yes, my old self can still sing along word perfect. Still got my original copy.
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Me too 
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I said the same to my Missus! How does he have time for anything at all?
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