A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
"Our Hidden Wound | The Contrary Farmer"
On World Food Day, so delighted to see this piece from Gene Logsden pop up in my feed.
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Sometimes, it’s the data you’re missing that’s the key to understanding something
Illuminating anecdote from WW2.
PESOS from Reading.am.
On Cash, in which a busker prompts Tim Bray to reassess his priorities
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with a really good voice: When I’m sad, she comes to me… plenty room between the notes and lots of soul in them. He looked a little hard-pressed; I put my hand in my pocket for some coin but there was no coin there because I live on plastic these days and that busker went unpaid that morning. Another reason for a thing I’m thinking of: Going back to cash.
PESOS from Reading.am.
Squalid London - Craig Murray
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.
"Geohashing expedition 2018-08-23 50 -1"
PESOS from Reading.am.