From Dusk Til Dawn’s story was from a treatment written by Robert Kurtzman in 1988

Oh when is the Clerkenwell -> Old St. one going to be built? I've been waiting for it my entire life I think

Like, how should I weigh more X against no longer having a local newspaper? Or all of the local businesses being overtaken by monopoly businesses that take their profits out of the community?

been thinking about this, and I have a question - should I care about relative inequality, or compare myself with past relative inequality? Or should I be happy, if there is a general rise in X, but my position in society relative to past positions has declined?

I guess it depends! It probably felt satisfying as hell to read 100 books in the year 996 and be known as The Book Man - relative to that I have almost no social prestige from reading 10 times as many books

I’ve always wondered - why look at comparable rather than prevailing? comparably I have read more books than probably any single person before the year 1000 - but that doesn’t mean I’d be the smartest person then or that I have a great social position now, you know?

2019 horror comedy ready or not

So just trying to follow along here, the EU attacked Folkestone when the UK left the single market?

just checking my notes here, but I don’t think the US is attacking Folkestone at the moment

I think ultimately they have a theory of mind that has proved incoherent - they punished the nans for greedily taking winter fuel payments, failing to realize that winter fuel payments was not what the right wing press meant when decrying benefits, because they do not understand other people

Assessing the Long-Term Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions - The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions - May 2019

Maybe this book on Chile by Anita Ferrara www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Hard to point to when it’s worked. it seems like it mostly does not.

20 years later (1984, Brazil)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, France)
The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence
There was a Country, Chinua Achebe

Maybe for some version of working, see South Africa?

Starry night on the Rhône, 1888 info plaque

Daytime view of the Rhône near Arles, from the perspective Van Gough painted Starry Night over the Rhône

That’s not the name of the painting! beautiful painting though, he painted it on the curve of the Rhône near the ancient town of Arles

Local government fails again - time for something new? Integrated region wide transport planning?

Just killing time waiting for the train (waiting for me to leave)

A red fox on the emergency exit stairs in Hoxton

Say this fellow getting the overground last night

#foxoftheday #redfox

The essential problems is the cost of essentials has gone up so much, that imagining a nice future where you retire comfortably is hard! If housing and healthcare cost a lot that makes getting old scary! I need a house and a healthcare when I’m old 😔 I will not need a cheap tv

The Mittelwerk episodes are a great series, just wanted to say! You should have somebody on to talk about Mittelwerk in culture after the war (Gravity's Rainbow, V-2 Schneider, etc).

Any of the set meals at Toconoco in Kingsland basin - they are all around £8!

This is a beautiful venue, can't wait!

Box: Some key facts on inequality • Nationally, 83% of countries have high income inequality (using the World Bank definition of 'high inequality' as a Gini coefficient above 0.4). These countries account for 90% of the world's population. • Globally, income inequality between all individuals in the world has fallen since 2000, due largely to economic development in China. However, it remains very high, at a Gini coefficient of 0.61. • Wealth inequality is far higher than income inequality. Globally between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth, in contrast to just 1% being captured by the bottom half of humanity. • The richest 1% have seen their average wealth increase by US$1.3m since 2000, while someone in the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth increase by an average of US$585 over the same period (in constant 2024 USD). • One in four people globally (2.3 billion) face moderate or severe food insecurity, i.e., having to regularly skip meals, which is up by 335 million since 2019. Inequality is a policy choice. The negative trends can be reversed. An International Panel on Inequality (IPI), as we propose in Chapter 5, could track trends on inequality such as these, and assess the forces contributing to those trends

I was reading the new G20 report on inequality - 41% of new wealth is capture by the global 1%, compared to only 1% capture by the bottom 50%.

If trends continue, the global poor’s net worth will only increase by $1755 by 2100!

another day, another L for Chomsky

Is this sister-steals-the-will

Brian De Palma Over here

nice looking Maß - Prost!

Oh maybe I misunderstood - I read it as collapse for these societies meant these specific things - but I think I should have read, collapse meant these specific things (among others)

I wholeheartedly agree that collapse can mean many things, but that's in direct oposition to what you wrote in your previous post

it also would lose canals and irrigation coordination - feeding the Faiyum was pretty important to the people living there.

Byzantium and the Crusades, by John Harris

I’ve wondered - I listen to this podcast called Fall of Civilizations, and they just released a podcast today - I guess it feels a bit value judgmental. Have you heard it? Do you have thoughts on it?

Loved the crusade podcast btw! Got this book from the reading list

I don't think that's what is being said, but I do think that seeing a city you live in get turned into something else (like warehousing for students) can be sad actually.

When they build it all, and your world comes to pass, are you sure you'll want to live in it?