Steve Walker
@steve-walker
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". Voltaire, 1765, Questions sur les miracles
Apparently, this is at least a month earlier than 'normal' around here.
A bleak, if entirely plausible take on urban futures. The de-academisation of cities like their earlier deindustrialisation. Susan Pedersen in the current LRB
Plus ca change... from Ruth Schwarz Cowan's 1997 'A Social History of American Technology'
Say this in the other place. Made me smile. Anyway, there's a game needs watching
His father, Alf Inge Haaland, played for City also. Here's a pic of a young Erling in his first City shirt
A 60+ year old Soviet tractor designed to keep chugging across the steppes (in my mind at least) with minimal maintenance. Now, pulling the roller for the village cricket pitch.
From a 1937 IBM corporate songbook... For more of this see: arstechnica.com/information-...
And, I kid you not, this was the first image generated for the prompt '1984'...
I've been amusing myself exploring an AI image generator. I give you Thelonious Monk.
The Chartist Northern Star blue plaque unveiled in Leeds this afternoon
I think Bluesky mods need some cultural sensitivity. Unless 'making a brew' has acquired some meaning I'm unaware of. That's possible, but would radically change my understanding of life in Yorkshire.