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52. Going Walkies
F, the soon to be 16 month old, seems to be doing things at pace: not talking yet but humming along to several nursery rhymes, pretending to take phone calls and more importantly walking alot. Since discovering the ability to walk, it has been tons of walking everyday. I guess I no longer have an… Continue reading
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51. We, I and Them
As I write, England are playing Panama and making hard work of it. Coincidentally, I am on the home stretch of Zadie Smith’s Dead and Alive, in which the Essay, The Realm of the Unspoken engages with being a supporter of the England Men’s National Team at a previous World Cup within the context of… Continue reading
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50. We, the Product…
… [T]he forces of capital have always despised the commons, precisely because you can’t monetize it, and that their signature move has always been to denigrate whatever is shared and free (in this case, reality itself, time itself, which was designated as impossibly, unliveably boring, around 2008). In its place they offer instead something costly,… Continue reading
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49. On (Gen) AI and The Trappings of Faith
Not for the first time, this week I clicked through a friend’s WhatsApp status to a song. Its beat was strongly resonant as were its words. I quickly found myself nodding along. I couldn’t however quite put my hand on what felt off. This led me to a web search which confirmed the artiste, Noah… Continue reading
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48. In (Despairing) Praise of the Data Nerds…
Coming across two posts in quick succession, one on twitter, and the other on the attitude blog somehow focused my mind on data nerds and their outsized? influence on politics. I don’t purport to know what the politics of the two persons with the posts are above are but would hazard a guess that they… Continue reading
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47. Baader-Meinhof
I think I spotted my first properly purple Nissan Qashqai, and now it seems they are everywhere. The Qashqai is of course one of the more popular UK cars, I just haven’t seen many in that colour. The Baader-Meinhof effect, I suppose? Continue reading
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46. My Blogger Archetype – Author and Community Gardener
Robert Birming, increasingly my gateway to a small, close-knit section of the IndieWeb took James’ Blogger Archetype Quiz and shared his results. I dived in of course, such is my fascination with Enneagrams, personality tests and the like. Here are my results You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of… Continue reading
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45. Weird Assistants
Picking up Zadie Smith after a long time away has me all in my feels about how much I have missed her excellent way with words. On my current reading docket is her essay collection: Dead and Alive. One of the essays in the collection is The Instrumentalist: On Tar from which an exchange (which… Continue reading
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44. Favourite Poems
There is a certain type of poem I like (as do most people I suspect); poetry which takes the mundane, quotidian things of life and grants it a form of transcendence. A bonus is it being simple, without any of the overtly scripted flourishes which can come across as contrived (to me at least). I… Continue reading
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43. Gina tells all
Stumbled on Gina Yashere’s appearance on the One54 Africa podcast very recently, and just had to listen to the whole thing. For some reason, it took Bob Hearts Abisola for me to come across her (impressive body of work) but the more I learn, the more impressed I am: British-Nigerian (with roots in my corner… Continue reading
