Don Curren 🇺🇦

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writer/blogger, ex WSJ, DJ, etc. economics/markets, music, philosophy, books, technology, photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com

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Uncle Maddy / Madeline Tasquin 🍉🏳️‍🌈🖖

You’re welcome. I hope you’ve got your water back, or will be soon.

“The micro-democracy is an incredibly cool #sciencefictional idea, but it’s less important than the considerations of #narrative and #truthtelling and #persuasion that are woven all the way through the #book, which are all older political techniques than democracy …” fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

Five Books: The Best Political Sci-Fi Books, recommended by Arkady Martinefivebooks.com The best political science fiction, as recommended by Arkady Martine—author of the award-winning Teixcalaan sequence of scifi novels

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Riverdaleboy

That would be interesting, as the male/female relationships in The Castle tend towards the bizarre …

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Alana~

That is a very good read.

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Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Riverdaleboy

Hmm. I hadn’t heard there was a new biography out.

The men exhaled, smiling. Glen, a quiet raiser with a raised knife scar yoking the back of his neck, crooned so that no one else would hear, “You’re a good puppy, yes you are.” www.ft.com/content/dad8...

Inside America’s least probable prison experimentwww.ft.com How letting men in one of America’s toughest prisons raise dogs for wounded veterans and first responders works

And even if they don’t, you did the right thing …

One of the ways the far right wins is by inducing despair - you feel victory by Le Pen, Reform, Trump etc is inevitable and what difference will your vote make (eg that scandalous NYT ‘why I don’t vote’ piece). IGNORE THIS. Look at Labour or France - just f-ing vote for the good guys and they win.

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#Echinacea, Pape and Danforth, East End, #Toronto

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Robert Rauschenberg Sky Garden (Stoned Moon)

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Pombal Stoat

Now that has the potential to be a very interesting read. Thanks!

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In the #WaroftheRoses I’m not sure how I forgot to include the incredible rugosa roses 🌹 of the Crossways. Do we like Brutalist architecture and big rose bushes? Yes we do, @dbcurren.bsky.social , @heathermoandco.bsky.social and @canadianerrant.bsky.social

Great stuff, Kate. You manage to find beauty at Bloor and Dundas ... where sometimes it can be a little elusive. good work!

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Flemming Madsen

Maybe impossible to do justice to, but it would be nice to see some more adaptations- maybe a miniseries.

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Margaret Brown

I definitely won't!

Quite chuffed yesterday when a heard a distinguished British neurosurgeon use the word " #multifactorial" during an interview on CBC Radio doncurren.blogspot.com/2022/06/its-... #causality #guns #gunviolence #guncontrol #causes #causesandeffects

It’s People with Guns that Kill People: On Multifactorial Causation and Ockham’s Quiltdoncurren.blogspot.com

Glad to announce that as of a couple of weeks ago, I completed my #bucketlist ...

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"As recently as last year, General Motors was forecasting it would sell 1mn EVs in 2025. It sold just 21,930 in the second quarter of this year."

Battery maker SK On declares ‘emergency’ as EV sales disappointon.ft.com Supplier to Ford and Volkswagen may have to be rescued by its South Korean parent as losses mount

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dua ⁷

That’s a title/premise with a lot of promise. Thanks for engaging.

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"The power of metamorphosis is at the root of all seduction, including the most shifting forms of substitution: those of faces, roles and masks." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.