Saturday, August 31, 2024

US orchestrated Durov arrest – former spokesman

“Since every man who lives is born to die,

And none can boast sincere felicity,

With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,

Nor joy, nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend;

The world’s an inn, and death the journey's end.”


US orchestrated Durov arrest – former spokesmanRT 


Soros pays for the fight against the BSW and ZDF helps Anti-Spiegel BSW = Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance

Bald eagle thought to be hurt was really just ‘too fat to fly,’ Missouri officials say St Louis Post-Dispatch




The search for Celebrity Number Six. The internet has been unable to identify the 6th celeb pictured on a piece of fabric from the late 00s (others include Adriana Lima & Jessica Alba). Can you help?


Ideology, totality, utopia, form: Frederic Jameson, now 90, has never wavered in his obsessions... more »








Cilantro used to be a key ingredient in Italian cooking. “Roman chefs prized both the citrusy seeds and pungent leaves of the plant they called coriandrum for sauces, salads, roasts, and flavored beverages.”


Elephant names


Tina Brown on Martin Amis


Valley of the books


Chinese keyboard


Literary treasures


Patriotic exercise


Long audiobooks


Professor and pornographer


Divas


Notorious pest


Drama at Penguin Random House


Cromwell's prophecy


Alice Munro, R.I.P.


Lauren Michele Jackson


Plant intelligence


End of reading?


Global entropy


Claire Messud


War of words


John Guillory


Homepages


Eileen Myles


Backstories


New Yorker succession


Book thieves


Emily Oster


Helen Vendler, R.I.P.


Architectural gifts


Daniel Dennett, R.I.P


Writing in China


Jameson at 90


Why philosophy?


Liberalism


Vinson Cunningham


The Diggers


Goodbye New York


'Pluralism'


Death and typos


Ellies


Small press collapse


Sun dimming


End of language learning


Borrowed titles