Caught up

Out of sight, out of mind (or at least, maybe, out of the news)

California ship pileup still piling up — but out of sight, over horizon

“The overall flow of container ships and big-picture backup has not changed,” acknowledged Marine Exchange of Southern California Executive Director Kip Louttit.

Chapter II and counting

 About those NYPD cops who DeSantis praised for coming to Florida: There are issues

Some of them included intriguing details about their past work or lives.…

[H/T Lawyers. Guns & Money]

Thanksgiving with Calvin Trillin (and the New Yorker)

DOING IT THE LARD WAY

Notes from “1984” by George Orwell

1984

Chapter 7

If there is hope,' wrote Winston, 'it lies in the proles.' If there was hope, it MUST lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within.

Excerpt From

Orwell, George. "1984." Sanctus Books, 2021-08-15. Apple Books.
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Available in Apple Books

Standing

Not quite yet

An old photo editor once told me…

…enlarge dramatically, crop ruthlessly.

One more reason…

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation

An MIT Technology Review investigation, based on expert interviews, data analyses, and documents that were not included in the Facebook Papers, has found that Facebook and Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors, fueling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

…to be…what?…concerned?

Worse? 

Spoor