2019-01-21 – Ecce Signum

Links and Notes for the Week of January 13, 2019

2019-01-21 John Winkelman

China Mieville on his book October.
Via Bruce Sterling at the 2019 State of the World discussion over at The Well, Procedural Rhetoric.
From the end of 2017, Charles Stross talk at CCC. In particular, Corporations as slow A.I.s. (transcript here)
This is pretty cool: The World’s Writing Systems is working on translating all of the world’s writing systems into Unicode.

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Talking to someone about an estranged adult child and their parent, and the person could not understand the child cutting the parent off because "if they die, wouldn't you feel terrible you never made peace?" And it's interesting because... (cont'd)

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19 Jun

Father's Day Sunday brunch with @gallafe . Pop-up brunch in the Chez Olga space on Wealthy Street. Pork sisig, singkamas salad, deviled eggs, and rice. Food served until 1:30 pm so you still have time! I think Jim Harrison would have liked this meal.

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17 Jun

Lauren Boebert spells things wrong in her tweets because it dramatically increases engagement, hope this helps.

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