JPS Lindberg

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2 months ago

At the Foot of the Mountain For nine years have we been here. For nine years have we been juggling geopolitics and philosophy to add something to the collective labour of righting the tilting vessel of human civilization. For…

#TuesdayColumn: In which we - after nine years - bid farewell to a weekly habit, learn to let go abandonment by abandonment, and slough off what used to make us we. #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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2 months ago

#TuesdayColumn: To steal #Greenland from its inhabitants and Danish sovereignty, the #US "diplomatic" corps is inviting Greenlanders to take part of the usurpation. #politics #Trump #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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3 months ago

Make or Break or be Remembered We’re talking about art. About catching – or making – a break for yourself, and reaching out to find an audience. About making it big, by bending, just a little, to commercialist …

#TuesdayColumn: Is it worth giving an inch of your artistic vision to #capitalist endeavours just to get a foothold in people's attention spans, or trust to history to appreciate your #creative work - that is the question. #writing #art

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

3 months ago

A Candle in Dolorous December The perpetual darkness is the only clue to the time of year. Snow hasn’t been spotted for months, apart from the artificial smut they pollute the theme park with, and the commercial lights ar…

#TuesdayColumn: On this night before #Xmas, let not some lit lantern in the window be the only thing staving off #SeasonalDepression. #writing #Christmas #ChristmasBlues

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JPS Lindberg

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3 months ago

Paying the Resistance from the Empire’s Purse Late last week, the EU elected to piss in the eye of both Putin and Trump, as it voted to freeze indefinitely the 246 billion USD in Russian assets it seized in 2022, without having to vote every 6…

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when the #EU use frozen Russian assets to fund #UkraineWar, while #Trump and Orban play the role of Putin's Borg by saying resistence is futile... #politics #economics #RussianEconomy #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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3 months ago

The Freedom Crusade Comes to Europe Remember the days when the American crusade to deliver democracy and freedom to the world could comfortably be condoned or condemned from your European armchair, while sipping our tea and doom-scro…

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when the #EU has become too brown for the #USA's liking, so the #MAGA cult and #Trump aim threats at their once-allied union in a preamble for intervention and course correction... #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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3 months ago

Disbelieving the Capitalist Gospel “Everybody must have employment.” “The most important thing is to get young people interested in working.” “Don’t be a burden on the economy.” You can tell the acolytes by their priorities: That a …

#TuesdayColumn: In which I get tired of the #capitalist dogma that there's nothing more important for a human to be than a corporate revenue generator. #economy #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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4 months ago

Translating Corporate Wealth US dependency is a hot topic, world wide. Who wants an enemy out of the grossest defence spender in the world, but on the other hand – who would want the current state of the US as an ally, w…

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when overrepresentation on the #Fortune500 list of #usa #CorporateWealth may not translate into national power, but might rather undermine it... #economy #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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4 months ago

Driving the Desert for the Children It’s that time of year again. The Bus has come. Rolling at a steady pace of 72 km/h through the desert, the Desert Bus is on the road again, with sleep deprived comedians and nerds providing …

#TuesdayColumn: Another November comes around, and once more the #DesertBusforHope rolls through the wasteland for the Children #charity #childsplay #writing

JPS Lindberg

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4 months ago

Supping the Marrow of Art “You see all these things – notice all these details – while my reaction’s just ‘Yeah – that’s cool – I liked that’. Can you never just… …

#TuesdayColumn: Why once you start digging into the guts of #art and analyze the heck out of whatever piece of media you're enjoying, you can't ever fathom stopping. #writing #artcritique

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JPS Lindberg

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4 months ago

In Rejection of the Audience The Musical genre is one of the most disruptive and antagonistic forms of storytelling which this our post-modern society has spawned. Shots fired. I get it; them’s fighting words, but bear with me…

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when you realise that genre of #MusicalTheatre is in fact the most tsundere of #postmodern #art forms #writing #musical #artcritique

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JPS Lindberg

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5 months ago

Who Loots the Looters This Sunday last (October 19th) saw the daytime despoilment of one of the loftiest bastions of Europeans hegemony known to modern history – the Louvre museum in France – as four horsemen of ridicul…

#TuesdayColumn: While someone re-pillages the French #CrownJewels in a #LouvreHeist, it brings the questions of whether or not it's possible to steal something which was already stolen... #colonialism #France #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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5 months ago

Europe’s Brain Gain The US is in dire straits. This isn’t news – it’s been a long, arduous process – nor is it surprising to anyone who’s kept their ears to the ground for the past two de…

#TuesdayColumn: As #Trump and his #MAGA-cult turns #USA increasingly anti-#science, their best and the brightest are fleeing to #Europe, giving rise to a European #BrainGain. #EU #politics

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

5 months ago

By the Power of Osmosis Renewable energy’s the holy grail to a sustainable civilization – This we know. The capacity (and resistance) to wean ourselves off the drug of fossil fuels will make or break the world…

#TuesdayColumn: Another contender to save us from #FossilFuel reliance has entered the race, harnessing the power of something so mundane as the salinity of water. #AlternateFuels #ClimateChange

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JPS Lindberg

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6 months ago

The Great Software Divestment Microsoft is losing ground. Its influence wanes as its American roots rot from criminal malgovernment. The trust in Office and Windows erodes, and its security features more and more look like the …

#TuesdayColumn: With the #USA's #BigTech's political meddling, the #AustrianMilitary elects to replace their #MicrosoftOffice reliance with the #OpenSource #LibreOffice alternative in an effort to rebuilt their #DigitalSovereignty. #technology #writing

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

6 months ago

Ending The Clam Scientists in Australia are shipping a vaccine for the virulent affliction chlamydia. No longer shall a burning sensation when one slings a piss afflict us. Well – not “us”-us. We…

#TuesdayColumn: While certain nations reset their #healthcare services back to before industrialization, #Australia steps up with their own #vaccination program - of chlamydia-addled #Koalas. #KoalaVaccination #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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6 months ago

The Land of the Politically Violent Much ado this week about a shot-dead alt-right provocateur; Charlie Kirk at a rally at Utah Valley University. About a person who made a celebrity career out of dehumanization and outrage, about th…

#TuesdayColumn: When #PoliticalViolence is marshalled to condemn that very violence in the wake of #CharlieKirk's assassination, I'm confused - because it seems to me like political violence is part of the very life-blood of the #USA #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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6 months ago

Wasted Esteem We remember the legends. We remember the myths. We imagine three hundred sovereign soldiers hold the gates of hell against the onslaught of thousands. We imagine the iron-clad legions march across …

#TuesdayColumn: When the fabled #SEALTeam6 murders civilians and mutilates their corpses just to bug #NorthKorea for the benefit of the #Trump House, we're reminded that no glory's so gilded it can't be tarnished. #USA #warcrimes #writing

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

6 months ago

But by the Power of Flag and Gun Civilization is hard, yo. It’s messy, and intricate, you have to cooperate with a bunch of other people – some of whom are absolute morons – and every solution creates new problem…

#TuesdayColumn: When an Australian kid plants his home-grown flag on a plot of unclaimed land and call it the Free #RepublicOfVerdis, it behoves us to question the fundaments of sovereign #statehood. #WhatMakesACountry #writing #politics

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JPS Lindberg

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7 months ago

Fight or Flight in the Fourth IndustriAI Revolution “You got to stay ahead of the technological curve.” “If we don’t make use of these tools, we’ll fall behind.” “If this makes you obsolete, maybe you deserv…

#TuesdayColumn: As #AI is pushed as our 4th industrial revolution, it bears keeping in mind that with the same historical prejudice, you and your children will suffer greatly for it and the ambitions of #BigTech... #economy #luddite #writing #politics

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

7 months ago

Luffy’s Flag over Indonesia Across Indonesia, the jolly roger of Monkey D Luffy flies from trucks, windows, and street corners. The grinning straw-hat pirate leers across the nation as a symbol of disappointment in an ailing …

#TuesdayColumn: The #OnePiece-strawhat jolly roger becomes a symbol of government disgruntlement in #Indonesia, and once more scared politicians breathe life into the symbol like no grass-roots movement ever could... #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

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7 months ago

Another Murder, Unaccounted The Israel Defence(HAH!) Force murders another set of journalists in Gaza. This time (because this is by far not the first time) they murdered Anas Al Sharif, Mohammeel Qraiqea, Ibrahim Al Thaher, …

#TuesdayColumn: The #IDF perpetuates its war on #journalism amidst their #GenocideInGaza, by bombing a tent of Al Jazeera employees, and now it's once more our job not to turn a blind eye to their atrocities. #AlJazeeraJournalists #politics #writing

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JPS Lindberg

@jps-lindberg.bsky.social

7 months ago

To Lose Your Head over Statistics We live in a data-oriented society – where statistics and measurements dictate government policy and corporate action, or for that matter what information we receive as part of the algorithm-…

Belated #TuesdayColumn: #Trump's Orange House wages war on #statistics, as the #BLS #JobGrowth data doesn't reflect Trump's fairy-tale, and its Commissioner is fired. #writing #politics

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JPS Lindberg

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8 months ago

About Damned Time In September, at the UN General Assembly, France’s Macron intends to officially recognize Palestine as a sovereign state, drawing ire from the few and powerful wingmen that the rogue state Is…

#TuesdayColumn: As #France becomes one of the last nations, and first among the #G7, to recognize the #StateOfPalestine, the only remarkable thing about it is how long it took. #PalestineStatehood #Macron

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JPS Lindberg

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8 months ago

The Silencing of Colbert Last week we learned that ‘The Late Show’ will be cancelled come May 2026 – as announced by Stephen Colbert himself. This ends a fore-runner in US talk shows that has been a stapl…

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when #authoritarinism weaponizes #capitalism to silence criticism, and #StephenColbert gets thrown off the air only to let Skydance eat Paramount #writing #politics

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JPS Lindberg

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8 months ago

The Battle over the Reincarnate As the Dalai Lama, the “reincarnated” highest spiritual authority in Gelug Buddhism, is set to celebrate his 90th birthday, India and China squabble over his death – and who has c…

#TuesdayColumn: As the #DalaiLama90 celebrates his 90th birthday, #China's #CCP contests his coming succession as a matter of domestic policy - as opposed to a religious tradition in #Buddhism... #writing #politics #tyranny

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