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• Links 4/3/16

  

  Politics:They'll start writing books in 20 years how the baby boomers managed to fuck up the entire planet for all future generations while writing snarky... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February

  Fiction:Nicola Griffith: Slow River. Nicola Griffith: Ammonite.Nicola Griffith: The Blue Place. Nicola Griffith: Stay. Nicola Griffith: Always. Kelley... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - i Adore Life.

  

  Adam Lupton [via tumblr]savages | adore. poliça | wedding. born in flamez modeselektor | tbf. thao the get down stay down. | departure. affelaye | fewer... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 29/2/16

  

  Politics:All the single ladies: "This is why the expansion of the population of unmarried women across classes signals a social and political rupture as profoun... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 19/2/16

  On the death of Antonin Scalia: This moment, with Scalia’s trademark snark, nicely sums up the paradox of how his religious views influenced his Supreme Court... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 4/2/16

  Politics:With his presidency nearing its end, The New Yorker asks if Obama is serious about closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay:Another, perhaps more... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January

  Non-Fiction:Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell. Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost.Films:Carol (2015, Todd Haynes).Oddball (2015, Stuart... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Person of Interest

  

  In Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom outlines in great detail how difficult it would be to programme a superintelligent AI to do... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/1/16

  Welcome to the new year! North Korea detonated a bomb of some sorts, a situation that occurred to late to make it into the Crisis Group's Ten Conflicts To... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Carol

  

  “Their eyes met at the same instant moment, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the woman just turning her head so she looked directly at... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Serien Des Jahres

  Best new show: Jessica JonesOne of the dominating features of the past few years, perhaps one of the most reliable thing about pop culture for me, has been a... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December

  Non-Fiction:Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Musik Des Jahres

  

  Albums: Laura Marling - Short Movie.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell.Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love.Howling - Sacred Ground.Tei Shi - Verde.Kendrick... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Filme Des Jahres

  

  Ex MachinaCitizenfour (2014)Mad Max: Fury RoadClouds of Sils Maria (2014)A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)Appropriate Behavior (2014)Inside OutBonus... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  Non-FictionMy non-fiction reading is essentially a divide between reading about technology, innovation, AIs, theories of information, and personal essays and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 23/12/15

  Politics:The Cairo Review with an in-depth report on how ISIS uses targeted brutality and violence. The Atlantic about the future of driverless cars, the... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "Which Means You Have Failed to Recognize That Women Are People"

  It isn’t a fact universally acknowledged that a person who mistakes his opinions for facts may also mistake himself for God. This can happen if he’s been... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2

  

  The compelling question at the heart of the series has always been how Katniss Everdeen can retain her agency, her freedom, her ability to make choices about he... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 17/12/15

  Politics:I moved out of Europe this year, and watching from a distance has had a strange effect on me - a combination of trying to come to terms with the lack o... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Paris Climate Deal

  The 195 negotiating countries reached a climate agreement in Paris, an agreement that includes China, India, and the Pacific island nations that will likely bea... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO