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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Rachel Johnson, sister of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, writes in the Spectator, a magazine once edited by Boris Johnson, in sympathy with for a woman credibly accused on facilitating mass child rape. Image
There have been a few odd articles in right-wing British media expressing sympathy for Ghislaine Maxwell. One possibility is that they are sending a message: "you're still part of the club. Be a good girl and keep quiet."
"We met briefly at Oxford" is Humblebrag meets Humbert Humbert. Image
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19 Nov
1. This is a photo of Geordie Greig, a big-wig in British journalism and until recently editor of the Daily Mail, propping up Ghislaine Maxwell. It's the type of scene you'd avoid using in a novel because it's too apt a metaphor. Image
2. I know what you're thinking. "Jeet, we know the British press is depraved and incestuous. But surely there are limits to even their moral degeneracy. Surely they wouldn't stoop to sympathy for Ghislaine Maxwell." I have bad news for you.
3. The Rachel Johnson piece about her "old chum" Ghislaine got much attention but it's important to know it's part of larger patter of stories expressing concern for Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. Like this Daily Mail piece. Image
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16 Nov
1. So, one week after being announced on Bari Weiss, the "University of Austin" is turning into an epic clown show. Two prominent members of Board of Advisors (Pinker, comically, below and Robert Zimmer) are out. A third (Gordon Gee) is openly distancing himself from its mission
2. I'm reluctant to call this place "University of Austin" by the way because there already is a University of Texas at Austin (one of the world's great universities, actually!) and this new enterprise, among its other frauds, is clearly intent on brand confusion.
3. So instead of calling this place "University of Austin" it would be better to give it a more accurate name: Potemkin University: it's not so much a real school as a facade of a school designed to fool the credulous and the indoctrinated.
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8 Nov
1. It's a minor problem in grand scheme of things but the one store here in Regina that sells magazines is constantly shrinking its ware. No longer carrying New York Review of New Left Review. But they do carry this gem
2. You would think Hungarian Conservative is a magazine with limited audience outside of Magyar-sphere. But it has a surprisingly robust distribution, popping up all over English speaking world. A handsome journal with clear government & foundation $$ behind it.
3. Hungarian Conservative is a curious bridge journal, bringing together specialized concerns of Obran (lots of anti-EU articles) and USA right (Rod Dreher has a piece accusing Disney corporation of "anti-white racial ideology." Also: "Rommel's Hungarian Soldier"
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29 Oct
1. You see people saying "Dune" is a "Star Wars" rip-off and the first impulse is just to laugh b/c of course the novel Dune predates Star Wars & influenced it etc. But there's a larger thing at work, which is the shared universe of the science fiction genre. ImageImage
2. One of the interesting features of science fiction is the way concepts in it are shared. Not unlike scientific discoveries, once a writer comes up with a great idea, it gets added to common storehouse of the genre & built on: robots, time travel, galactic empires.
3. The idea of the "rip off" is the language of fandom & intellectual property lawyers, within science fiction writing community, it's recognized that writers work by sharing and adding to the storehouse of ideas.
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28 Oct
1. In his New Republic review of Dune, @DavidKlion noted film had difficult task of needing to please both "general audiences looking for an epic sci-fi blockbuster, and fans of the classic 1965 Frank Herbert novel"; achievement of movie is it does that.
2. In my experience, Dune does in fact satisfy both those coming in fresh as well as hardcore fans. I saw it with my partner, who (unlike me) hasn't read the books or seen any of the earlier adaptions & she was impressed. It threads a very narrow needle.
3. What the movie does that's smart is take the long bits of exposition (really info-dumps) in the novel & puts them as unexplained background, foregrounding actions of characters. Exposition is turned into visual narrative to an impressive degree.
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26 Oct
1. Some in CIA want to go all out to punish Russia for using microwave weapons to harm US spies & diplomats causing Havana Syndrome. My suggestions: we find out first a) is it Russia? b) does weapon exist? c) does Havana Syndrome exist?
2. Given how conjectural "Havana Syndrome" caused by microwave weapon theory is, it's unnerving to see it being used to advocate hostile action against another country.
3. In some ways, threat inflation on Havana Syndrome is worse than WMD claims in run-up to Iraq war. After all, the non-existent weapons at least were things that we knew exist in some form in the world & CIA was pressured by Bush admin. Here it's conjectural weapon & from CIA
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