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movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended tv or whatever we’re calling episodic streaming these days. likely with misc. other stuff thrown in. love and death (HBO/max) - the spirit of the christian 80s is strong with this one. news lately, i’ve been having a lot of discussions with folks as to where to get news. here’s what i’ve settled on to preserve my sanity and to get access to facts....

goal target: 30 - read: 05 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something high minded, like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note, this is a running list. maus i: a survivor’s tale: my father bleeds history (art spiegelment) another graphic novel that i found lurking on one of our shelves and lo, i hadn’t read this. definitely worth all of the press that i recall from this in the 1990s....

links, etc The Love Machine | Julia Elliott | Granta bigly amusing short story about a robot’s need for lovin'

links, etc We’re seeing the end of the long 20th century yeah, i didn’t really need to see this but there are some really interesting data points in here. this one terrified me: Literacy is now declining for the first time on record. A recent OECD report finds that adult reading proficiency is falling around the world. The crucial moment may not have been the arrival of the smartphone but the more recent dominance of short video....

links, etc Hodlers: an apology FT has been right from the word go on crypto. holding fast. right on. Private equity to lobby Trump for access to savers’ retirement funds the grift and the pillaging will know no bounds. (archive.is)