November 2022

[muninnhuginn]

November 2022

Read:

Fiction:

• Holes by Louis Sachar (reread)
• Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter (reread)
• Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter (reread)
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter (reread)
• Service of all the Dead by Colin Dexter (reread)

Shorts:

• Speaking for Those With Obsidian Tongues by Wendy Nikel (DSF)
• Gosfond by E.E. Rhodes (https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/flash/gosfond)
• LINGERING by YVONNE ELIOT (https://everydayfiction.com/lingering-by-yvonne-eliot/)
• Apples by Daniel M. Cojocaru (DSF)
• First Dates and Other Action Items by Jenn Reese (DSF)
• EXTINCTION by TYGAN SHELTON (https://everydayfiction.com/extinction-by-tygan-shelton/)
• 160, A VOID ~ THE SMALL CAT OF BEING MISUNDERSTOOD by Seanan McGuire & Lee Moyer (https://smallgodseries.tumblr.com/post/701572502112157696/image-description-an-inky-cat-almost-a)
• Optimized Childhood by Victoria L Brun (DSF)

Non-Fiction:

• The Pong Imperative: Driving Dishbrain to Suicide by Peter Watts (https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10307)
• Digital Bonsai: Hands-Free Storytelling by Joe Baxter-Webb (https://thanetwriters.com/essay/technicalities/digital-bonsai-hands-free-storytelling/)
• When Everything Happened So Much Why Weird Twitter died and why—especially now—we need it back by DAN SINKER (https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/weird-twitter-elon-musk-dril-darth-horseebooks-mayor-emmanuel.html)
• My Sad, Lonely, Expensive Adventures in Zuckerberg’s V.R. by FARHAD MANJOO  (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/facebook-meta-zuckerberg-virtual-reality.html?unlocked_article_code=r2XlurDPdGugnQ3W7tyVjIALIMZ-bWgQrkhgda0Bwfu6tUmfwlHxprUi84pGLj00mj8GDL0hVGU_5SbvWD1uSeM9BKMVQgU1k9rd_hiFZzMopYp15dMpt2f6URq0Z6Jo-s4IuVg1pOA5O4mTN8rzA6971sHSSkiDUoyP-pjAgcnfRATZio5N_IBCSPU9vkbEy_A-SYz8ClnDLQTYKW85O0RQNKCey63uzJUCUZ4DX1n0ogN0TWqLbYHYiTw5a7O6TIiktG565L4iGFRpLr_9bRVXnYgMKPS2lR3f1T0V986Ppm3qmPP46-ElAlYJWk8rJQYuaVopMKpNpBV4AUz5ZBSmSFXhqHBBxfiTaJewntYkqA&smid=tw-share)
• Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks by Chris Stokel-Walker (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/) reminds me of Greatest Journal’s demise
• A Guy Who Already Got Booted From Twitter for Impersonating Elon Musk Explains Himself by NITISH PAHWA (https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-impersonators-suspended-manu-saadia-trekonomics.html)

• Swampy on tunnels, bailiffs and 25 years of protest: ‘We need to stop capitalists destroying the planet’ by Patrick Barkham (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/swampy-dan-hooper-tunnels-bailiffs-protest-capitalists-human-mole)
• INTERVIEW: STUART SEMPLE ON PANTONE, FREETONE, COLOUR, AND OPEN SOURCE by Jenny List (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/interview-stuart-semple-on-pantone-freetone-colour-and-open-source/)
• ‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong? by Alex Blasdel (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/24/have-toys-got-too-brainy-how-playthings-became-teaching-aids-young-children)
• Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth by Robin McKie (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/27/atlantis-lost-civilisation-fake-news-netflix-ancient-apocalypse)
• The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self by Roger Keen (https://the-mad-artist.medium.com/the-singing-detective-the-triumph-of-the-invented-self-98f36ec695eb)
• What happened to the cockney riviera? The botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead by Oliver Wainwright (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/30/cockney-riviera-botched-regeneration-brutalist-utopia-thamesmead)
• Why Is Screwtape Called Screwtape? by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/why-is-screwtape-called-screwtape-13ba552f5bdb)

 

Poetry:

• The Werewolf and the Fox Spirit Are Neighbors by AMY JOHNSON (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/poetry/the-werewolf-and-the-fox-spirit-are-neighbors/)
• Jabberwock Replies by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/jabberwock-replies-c9eaa3c2ee67)
• Used Book by Julie Kane (https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/1596488996804526080/photo/1)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

• The Secret of Kells

• *may have instantly become one of my favourite films*

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