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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