DO 216 - Doomer Optimist Guide to Geopolitics w/ James Pogue, Christopher Mott and Ashley Fitzgerald

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Reminds me of James Pogue piece in 2020. It’s a good read.

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Trying to liberate this huge native hummingbird sage I found fighting its way through the ivy

MY FIRST BOOK by Fall '23 Resident Honor Levy (@penguinusa) is a 'Best, Most Talked-About Book). Also great to see GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE by Foundation friend Sloane Crosley (@mcdbooks) and FAKE PIÑATA by Ashleah Gonzales (@RoseBooks_ ), among others on this list. wmagazine.com/culture/best-b…

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Just got a letter from the FBI pursuant to my request for my personal file and apparently it’s more than five hundred pages long (?)

I know everyone hates New York literary culture, but guys I promise that the problems of American writing just don’t have much to do with the fact that a few dozen former honor students and functioning alcoholics in Brooklyn happen to share a loose social circle

Always amazed to come on here and see people I otherwise respect jumping (with both feet!) onto an abject pile-on. What is the point? Is it just to feel a part of things or do people really think they have a distinctive way of registering their agreement that “this is bad”?

The wild trout of Pasadena, California

Just realized I made two flights with an opinel in my briefcase

I’m slowly gathering material to write the great Angry French Farmer piece, and the most interesting thing is in Provence there is an American West-style culture war over wolf reintroduction and whether or not you can use night vision to hunt them.

🧵A writer's published work should not be yanked from circulation because it sparks public outcry or sharp disagreement. At its best, literature is a bridge, connecting us across differences; writers help guide the rest of us across that bridge. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Anyone who wants to seriously grapple with war had better be prepared for far more shocking opinions than are found in this thoughtful essay by a translator and writer living in Israel. Shame on Guernica Magazine for pulling it down.

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First episode of Redacted Island is now live! Journalist James Pogue joins from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 🔻🔻🔻

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Kneecap has won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award — the first Irish language film to win the award 👏

Comhghairdeas to the filmmakers on this historic triumph for the film and the Irish language! 💚

African spurred tortoise, released back into desert after long negotiations

With the camel corps

Perfect example of what Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK calls ‘enshittification': I’m on a residency in Italy and bought a cheap HP laser printer. 10 years ago I’d have just installed a driver and started printing... 1/x