This photograph has acquired a new salience, no?

Not at all how I imagined Yevgeny Prigozhin's business partner [svetskyspb.ru/files/issues/m…]

did this used to be called a googlewhack? "draft kine", as in cattle used for plowing, returns one result on google — albeit followed by a long tail of AI garbage and of "draft" and "kine" used adjacently with different meanings

Here is your flying car thechinaproject.com/2022/12/…

Every time we praise Norman Borlaug for improving the most lives in human history, we should remember to blame Thomas Midgley for blighting the most lives in human history. Excellent podcast by @TimHarford timharford.com/articles/caut…

⁦@tylercowen⁩ "Considering that it predates the Bank of Ireland and the State itself, it could even be said that Guinness is the longest-running successful large institution in Ireland" thefitzwilliam.com/p/no-grea…

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-c…

Who'd a thunk it? "It turned out Putin liked to see his food being shot! We later had a wild boar and a deer from the barbecue!!" alastaircampbell.org/2022/04…

Is there any public figure whose diaries make us think better of them?

so of course, having read the table of contents, i went straight to page 439 governmentattic.org/39docs/N…

If you happen to be an @thebrowser subscriber, I've started publishing there my commonplace book of clippings and quotes from my daily reading: thebrowser.com/reader/

Words whose first recorded use is by Chaucer, and which did not really catch on: "besmottered, corrumpable, displeasant, horsely, jangleress, necessarious, rete, withinforth" viviancook.uk/Words/Chaucers…

today's useful reading: the starbucks training manual studylib.net/doc/18652364/st…

"privacy is an antiaccuracy value" harvardlawreview.org/2021/06…

but what if you believe the vaccine contains a microchip which is *not* the sign of the beast? prri.org/research/qanon-cons…

URL Lengthener aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

"He immediately dispensed with coffee". A fine circumlocution for Norman Stone's manner of mid-morning refreshment theoldie.co.uk/article/lesli…

gripped by @lionelbarber's reading of his @ft diary 'the powerful and the damned' on @audible. now at the bit where he pitches marjorie scardino to oust andrew gowers. much i remember, much more that is new to me

has any anti-brexit campaigner yet said, "i admit, things are not as bad as we said they would be"? (if that is indeed the case)

stephen platt's "imperial twilight" is wonderfully researched and written. it has up-ended all my ideas about 18C and 19C china. best single book, i would say, for understanding 21C china amazon.com/Imperial-Twilight…