dompates.bsky.social
Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
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Pah, that would never happen!
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Right! Right?
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That at least happened earlier in the year in ‘16. Mind you, I think there’s been a fair few already, it’s just that the likes of Stone and Wilson are the big hitters.
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Same damned week as Sly too. This is beginning to look like the year we lost Bowie and Prince in quick succession.
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We launched a London-based research institute last year to look at the polycrisis:
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Oh absolutely - can easily see FIFA and the IOC going along with things as they are unfolding. However, neither event works without spectators. Depending on how things unfold, they might easily be driven away by further unfolding chaos.
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Really wish people would stop giving this man a microphone.
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And perfectly exemplified how musicians from different cultural backgrounds could come together and make music that fitted so well with itself.
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Sad, sad, sad (but a tune that’s so, so good).
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That’s all somewhat troubling, to say the very least.
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Now that would be amazing! If only we were more wholeheartedly embracing the possibilities of digital and current technological approaches rather than just using it to amass advertising revenue…
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Bon chance.
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An entirely plausible scenario in the current circumstances. Makes sense to prepare folks for the possibility.
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Probably not, no.
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*Such* a great playlist!
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Finally reached a presentational moment where it’s fitting to nail my own story to it. Expecting scars…
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The one paraphrased by Žižek to include ‘Now is the time of monsters’.
Original: ‘…the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’
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Chinese social credit, but more extreme (and vindictive) than that then…
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Nice one on all those solar panels 😊
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Thanks for the steer - a fascinating listen. It’s very easy to be most disheartened about the still fairly new Labour government’s direction and apparent lack of progressivism, but that was a good counter to that. Important to hear the point about all this stuff needing time to get right too.
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ie Bad Things…
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But but but…California had oxygen before it had white people!
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The dismemberment of a superpower to further enrich and reinforce an existing gilded elite is pretty staggering to observe, from the outside…
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CC-BY 5.0?
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Sometimes the emperor has to be seen for wearing no clothes…
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Indeed indeed. In the post-truth era, anyone can say anything and have it accepted, even if it isn’t believed, as long as it aligns with the tribe.