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The following is the start of Assal Rad's new book, Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.

A wonderful parody of the latest propaganda from Sverigedemokraterna.

BrooklynVegan, an interesting and important music news site, was a few days ago the victim of mass firings by its owner, Veeps1.

By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr, Link Kismet, a robot head made in the 1990s, is a machine that can recognize and simulate emotions.

Ludvig Aspling, migration-policy spokesperson for Sverigedemokraterna.

This is a log of my experience of listening to Xiu Xiu's new album, Eraserhead Xiu Xiu, for the first time, song by song in chronological order as they're played from the album.

I've started to read Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.

John Gregory Dunne was married with Joan Didion.

Some time ago, I reviewed a couple of books about Anthony Bourdain: World Travel that is written with Laurie Woolever, his long-time collaborator, and The Last Interview and Other Conversations.

Lundsberg is a Swedish boarding school.

I've just read Sarah Kane's posthumous Completed Plays.

Malcolm X, likely at a welcoming event for the African-American Students Foundation in 1959 or 1960 Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, singing 'We Shall Overcome'?

Look at the image of comedian Kathryn Leroux and the party leaders of the christian democrats and the moderates.

The Guardian recently released a list of 'the 100 best novels of all time'.

Recently, the father of a former work colleague died.

Yesterday I read a Bandcamp article about 'the best field recordings on Bandcamp, April 2026'.

The cover image for the album 'LIVE ROPE' by Swans.

Yesterday, Sveriges Radio (the state-run Swedish Radio) released an exposé1 of the biggest digital-healthcare providers in Sweden.

This is the start of a talk that Michael Parenti held in the University of Colorado in 1984.

I'm a Twin Peaks fan, although I'd be rejected by true Twin Peaks fans.

Dum curamus eum consequi, et operam damus, ut intellectum in rectam viam redigamus, necesse est vivere.

A few days ago, Jimmie Åkesson, the political party leader of Sverigedemokraterna8, purportedly threw himself from his bed onto floor and then into a mirror.

Joe Sacco - The Once and Future Riot Joe Sacco's latest book, The Once and Future Riot, is journalism and anti-fascism in a bundle.

Today Xiu Xiu release their new album of covers.

The Vanilla OS logo I've recently started to like using Linux again.

Cameron Crowe wrote and directed a film named Almost Famous.

The list is in chronological order: top to bottom, earliest to latest listen.

A few months ago, when Sweden was covered in sun rather than in...half-gloomy darkness most of the time, I visited Way Out West, a music festival in Gothenburg.

Detail of Nikola Tesla from a Serbian Dinar banknote.

An AI-generated picture of Ebba Busch wearing a t-shirt that says 'CHATGPT EXCUSE FORCE' on the back.

I've recently started reading Murderland1, a terrific and spellbinding book by Caroline Fraser.

Marshall McLuhan from La Ventana Ciudadana, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase 'the medium is the message'1.

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Laurence Rees is a great historian, scholar, author, and video producer.

The following is an excerpt from Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's brilliant book Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy.

I recently finished reading Blake Butler's memoir Molly.

Jimmy Carter.

The recently published book The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S.

I recently started reading Richard Flanagan's so-far radiant book Question 7.

The Tidö party leaders.

Cornelis Cort, The Last Judgment Triptych, engraving on laid paper, plate: 33.5 × 49.2 cm (13 3/16 × 19 3/8 in.) sheet: 37.5 × 52.1 cm (14 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.), 1570 1560, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52407.html.

Frederick Douglass in 1879.

The Tidö party leaders.

Henry Kissinger - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008.

AI interpretation of 'A technical writer who's leaving their fintech job for the last time.'

David Berman, photographed and tweaked by himself.

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons From the Start the Week episode Democratic capitalism - marriage on the rocks: Tom Sutcliffe: Capitalism.

The OpenAI product DALL-E 2 generated this image from the text 'artificial intelligence that kills all human life'.

This is a list of my favourite Obsidian plugins.

A DALL-E 2 interpretation of 'A Turkish militia taking over Sweden.'