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“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union
#BookSky #ReadingPledge
#Photography Antanas Sutkus (1960's-1970's), Vilnius Lithuania (then Soviet Union).

What does it look like when a government can silence 90 million people while keeping itself online?

Iran just showed us. Russia is next.

(🧵Read on 1/17)

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When Is The Collapse Going to Start? The definitive answer.

This feels heavy but worth reading. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/when-is-th...

I hacked together a js animation which displays Bluesky firehose in a Matrix style rain: simone.computer/bluerain/
ugly source code available here: github.com/syxanash/blu...
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Typography in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979).

Rétro truck 🚚 épave de camion Chevrolet 1953 en cité froide de Sibérie 1970s

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Seventy years ago today, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published.

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

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A warning from 60 years ago

h/t Anthony Keetch

Globally averaged surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1991-2020 for each September since 1940 from ERA5

Unprecedented!

The anomaly for September 2023 is:

the largest warm anomaly 

of any month

of any year

in the ERA dataset (back to 1940)
September 2023 was around 1.75ºC above the preindustrial average

#greensky 🦑

More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-s...

'Children of Men' – 17 Years On: A Grave Warning to a Nation Adrift – Byline Times The 2006 film set in a dystopian London of the future has much to say about modern Britain – especially the 'doom loop' trapping younger generations, writes Matt Gallagher

🎞 ‘Children of Men’ – 17 Years On.

bylinetimes.com/2023/09/29/c...

“Humans have a surprisingly long history of ditching systems and ideas that aren’t working. First, they just have to be able to conceive of new ones.”

Cover of L'Eternauta the graphic novel masterpiece by Héctor Germán Oesterheld e Francisco Solano López

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