The number of tabs open has gotten ridiculous. This is not a collection of endorsements, this is just some of what I am reading.
Too many control Panel inspirations https://kottke.org/26/10/lots-and-lots-and-lots-of-control-panels (h/t Kottke)
Too many Zizian threads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians
The Redstockings Censored chapter on Gloria Steinem https://womenwhatistobedone.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sept-6-1979-statement-feminist-revolution-censored-section-restockings.pdf and her response https://www.jstor.org/stable/25772314
The late Edward Said’s LRB review of the late Frances Stoner Saunders https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n19/edward-said/hey-mister-you-want-dirty-book
Peter Gelderloos’s The Failure of Nonviolence https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence
A documentary history of communism in Russia https://files.libcom.org/files/DanielsRussia.pdf
Something something Amnesty International (“Although Amnesty was on its way to becoming the 1977 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize as the world’s largest and best-known human rights organization, it nearly collapsed in its early years from internal conflict. A crisis was instigated in 1966 by Benenson, who had long considered it a serious problem that Amnesty was not based in a neutral country. Few in Amnesty shared this concern. Benenson was suspicious that British intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency money had compromised the organization. When a strongly critical Amnesty report on British activities in Aden (Yemen) was delayed, Benenson himself released the report. He then asked longtime friend Seán MacBride, chair of Amnesty’s executive committee, to authorize and oversee an investigation.”) https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/amnesty-international-founded/
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa https://hurstpublishers.com/book/white-malice/
A new resource for public domain video: https://destockd.com/
A chapter from Capital Vol 3 to read: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm
What Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism Gets Wrong
When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Thank God The FBI Is Run By Kash Patel
The following answer from Bob Dylan about being old:
The best thing
The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program. You’re not rushing to become anything and you’re not haunted by things that you did. You’re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.
The worst thing
The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.
The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t; it stands still. We’re the ones that move.
Beware the Genre of Criti-Hype: Two Documentaries about AI
Ha ha ha, I’m just realizing that this is only one browser on one computer. I need to close some more tabs.