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Monday Message Board

https://johnquiggin.com/2022/12/05/monday-message-board-579/
Created
Mon, 05/12/2022 - 05:27
Another Message Board Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’ve moved my irregular email news from Mailchimp to Substack. You can read it here. You can also follow me on Mastodon here I’m also trying out Substack as a blogging […]

Jane Austen on the Post Office and State Capacity

https://coreyrobin.com/2022/12/04/jane-austen-on-the-post-office-and-state-capa…
Created
Mon, 05/12/2022 - 03:53
“The post-office is a wonderful establishment!” said she.—”The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!” “It is certainly very well regulated.” “So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! So seldom that a letter among the thousands that are constantly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong—and not one in a million, I supposed, actually lost! And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder! “The clerks grow expert from habit.—They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. If you want […]

Guitar strut 1111 (Live in studio)

http://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2022/12/guitar-strut-1111-live-in-studio.html
Created
Sun, 04/12/2022 - 18:07

Guitar Strut 1111

This is a live version we recorded in our studio of the song "Guitar Strut 1111" from our album Rom-Comm Mixtape.

When we decided to add this song to our live set we extended it because the version on the album was a bit short. 

Also, we couldn't recreate some of the sounds from the original so we improvised.

After doing that the song got a little more over the top and kind of a bit more fun 😎

You can listen to the original version to see what we mean

Rom-Comm Mixtape by Lorenzo's Music

Listen to the whole album

Never forget who pushed Zero Covid

https://thomasfazi.net/2022/12/03/never-forget-who-pushed-zero-covid/
Created
Sun, 04/12/2022 - 02:25
Western media have covered the recent anti-lockdown protests in China extensively, unanimous in their condemnation of the government’s extreme measures and their praise of the protesters’ “collective bravery” and “remarkable expression of defiance”; many Western leaders have reacted similarly. This is a jaw-dropping reversal. Those same outlets, along with the entire Western scientific and political …

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The rise of the biostate

https://thomasfazi.net/2022/12/03/the-rise-of-the-biostate/
Created
Sun, 04/12/2022 - 02:23
As new authentication and surveillance technologies, such as vaccine passports and track-and-trace apps, were rolled out during the pandemic, civil rights organisations and activists raised the question of mission creep — that is, the likelihood of governments clinging on to these technologies and using them for unanticipated ends, heralding a new era of normalised state …

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Trains (Mostly) Planes and Automobiles Part 2

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/12/trains-mostly-planes-and-automo…
Created
Sat, 03/12/2022 - 22:08

When I agreed to do the tour of Germany, I stipulated that I would need to break off to honour a speaking commitment in Maribor, Slovenia. This turned into a crazy epic. The straight line distance from Berlin to Maribor is 425 miles, not very different from London to Inverness. Unfortunately the entire Alps are […]

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