[Falling Down]

More Lanchester in the LRB, this time on Crypto-Currency, Bitcoin and The Blockchain http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up

[Falling Down]

Very strange https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/05/9mother9horse9eyes9-the-mysterious-tale-terrifying-reddit

[slackline]

Very strange https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/05/9mother9horse9eyes9-the-mysterious-tale-terrifying-reddit

That is weird.

Read it at https://www.reddit.com/user/_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 (from bottom to top to get the chronology right)

[slackline]

What would happen if we just gave people money?

[Falling Down]

A great piece by Ferdinand Mount on the referendum Nigel's Against the World

[csl]

I enjoyed that one too Ben, got me all panicked and posting on facebook to get people to vote though!

[T_B]

Brilliant, in-depth Autechre interview by Joe Muggs:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

[Wood FT]

Brilliant, in-depth Autechre interview by Joe Muggs:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

Really good, thanks

[Falling Down]

Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

[Plattsy]

Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

Loved it. Thanks for posting FD.

[slackline]

Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

Finished reading that last night and also thought it was a brilliant article, thanks for sharing the link FD.

[jwi]

Short but very useful article on the admiration of Hitler in the third world.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/05/the-developing-world-thinks-hitler-is-underrated-duterte-world-war-ii-nazi-politics/

When I was teaching summer school, one of my Indian students asked a German student: “Do you admire Hitler?”, as a bit of an ice-breaker I assume.

[moose]

Interesting.  A recent Ross Kemp doc on Sky (dont' mock me too much - they are usually pretty interesting) covered Neo Nazi movements in Mongolia - they targeted Chinese immigrants who they viewed as taking all of their jobs and resources.  Some were just low rent nutters but others were more prominant (e.g. a local hero ex-Olympic wrestler).  By and large, they just saw Hitler as a strong leader who did what was best for his people - either ignorant of or did not believe in the Holocost.

Link to the only story I could find on the doc here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ross-kemp/ross-kemp-extreme-world_b_11886406.html

[Falling Down]

Two more good ones from recent LRBs.

Home Office Rules an insight into Theresa May and her inner circle's thinking shaped by her time at the Home Office.

England Prepares to Leave the World - a good piece on Brexit and nationalism.

[csl]

Enjoyed this article on #vanlife from The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

[36chambers]

Enjoyed this article on #vanlife from The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

+1 enjoyed that. Now back to work while I long to be out climbing.

[Will Hunt]

Enjoyed this article on #vanlife from The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

So much of that reminded me of the Withanil and I quote:

They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over.

[Falling Down]

Long and very good - James Meek on Cadburys, Poland and the EU

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/james-meek/somerdale-to-skarbimierz

[seankenny]

Short but good:

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/hbos-confederate-what-about-the-half-that-hasnt-been-told/

[Falling Down]

John Lanchester on Facebook https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product

[andy popp]

On Charleston killer Dylann Roof: https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist

[duncan]

Thanks for posting that Andy. A powerful piece of writing.

[jwi]

One of France's greatest writers on Emmanuel Macron
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/20/emmanuel-macron-orbiting-jupiter-emmanuel-carrere

Emmanuel Carrère seems to like strong personalities and also wrote a very suspect biographical novel on Limonov (I read the first third of his Limonov book, but I'm against bio novels by principle, unless they happen to be written by Kawabata)

[Falling Down]

A long reflective interview with Barry Lopez (author of Arctic Dreams and long-time environmentalist)

https://medium.com/the-alpine-review/on-the-edge-calling-back-barry-lopez-48535505424b

[seankenny]

Too Much Music - the challenges of listening to music in the digital world.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/01/16/578216674/too-much-music-a-failed-experiment-in-dedicated-listening