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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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I wish I was immune to secondhand embarrassment.

Another wave of severe storms pummeled a wide swath of the United States & Canada, leading to flash floods and water rescues Wednesday in the Ozark Mountains, dropping a tornado that ravaged a community in upstate New York and stranding drivers in high water around Toronto apnews.com/article/seve...

Storms flood the Ozarks and strand drivers in Toronto. New York community is devastated by tornadoapnews.com Much of the U.S. and Canada is cleaning up or still dealing with a new wave of severe storms that have caused deaths and damage this week from the Plains to New England.

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We don't talk enough about how Citizens United laid the groundwork for the slow death of democracy. Especially after decades of tax cuts that allowed ultra-wealthy people and corporations to hoard huge amounts of wealth, which they can now much more easily translate into political power.

“the Venice Film Festival, where, in 1982, the Golden Lion was awarded to Wim Wenders’s “The State of Things”—the sorry chronicle of a film crew marooned in Portugal and running low on funds. And what are they meant to be making? A science-fiction movie” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

1982 and the Fate of Filmgoingwww.newyorker.com A new book claims that a few big summer movies heralded an epochal shift in the motion-picture industry, but is that really how cultural history works?

“Now, as #X, with its #contentmoderation gutted and #news articles deprioritized, the platform is more like a particle collider chaotically remixing bits of content to produce the most attention-grabbing #memes.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

The Trump Assassination Attempt Meets the Internet’s Brain-Rot Erawww.newyorker.com Today’s social platforms can instantly convert even the most harrowing news events into misleading tidbits and gleefully empty jokes.

“My colleague Benjamin Wallace-Wells described this scene, as captured by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press, as ‘the indelible image of our era of political crisis and conflict.’ ( #Trump later gloated, ‘Usually you have to die to have an #iconic picture’.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

#Daylilly, East End, #Toronto

Someone got to the #LittleLibrary before I did …

Rene #Magritte The Fire (detail) 1947 #painting #art #paintings

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You should read my dad’s amazing book:

I Feel So Goodpress.uchicago.edu A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His su...

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Wow!

Japanese Wisteria tree. Wow, right??

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"There are three methods of gaining wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest." ~ Confucius 📸 Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro #photography #landscape #photographer

“A sniper from a local tactical team … at (the #Trump) rally on Sat took a picture of the gunman & saw him looking through a rangefinder minutes before he tried to assassinate the former president, a local law enforcement officer … told CBS News” www.cbsnews.com/news/sniper-...

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Instead of referring to the parties as "left" and "right," how about we switch it to "forward" and "backward"?

Henri #Matisse Still Life with Compote, Apples and Oranges, 1899 Baltimore Museum of Art

Echinacea (?), Shops at Don Mills, North York, #Toronto.

Think I’m going to swap out of following #US #politics and into following #UK politics …

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Former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided death after being shot in the ear during a campaign rally, with one spectator killed and two critically injured. What do you think? www.theonion.com/nation-rocke...

“In a dramatic and welcome reverse of #Tory practice, (the #Starmer) cabinet may come from a variety of class backgrounds but its members were overwhelmingly educated in state schools.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Chartbook 299 "Shit life syndrome", Starmer's Labour Party & the UK election: democracy under conditions of deconvergence.adamtooze.substack.com “Shit life syndrome”, as Sarah O’Connor informed us in her prize-winning FT report on the depressed English seaside resort of Blackpool (2017), is a folk diagnosis amongst doctors in the UK National H...

Adam Tooze’s Chartbook is chock a block with fascinating charts this morning, many of them relating to economic malaise in the UK, but also shedding light on other countries, as well. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

“ ( #Republican) messaging, the #RNC platform, and the entire #Trump campaign are about meeting people where they are and giving them #resentmentpolitics to chew on, while actively selling government policy to the highest bidders” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As the Ultra-Wealthy Rally Behind Trump, Republicans Pitch Fake Populism to Workerswww.rollingstone.com Trump’s allies courted the working class with hollow, populist rhetoric at the RNC on Monday, as billionaires pledged their support.

“Starmer’s Labour party and his government are defined by #Britain’s peculiar national problems that are related to, but are increasingly distinct from and articulated in an idiom divergent from that of Britain’s European neighbors.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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To piggyback: I truly think a few too many of you are far too passive in your participation in media consumption. If you are sick of having crap firehosed onto your dash/feed/scroll, CHANGE WHAT MAKES IT TO YOUR DASH/FEED/SCROLL. Block, adblock, mute, actively seek out instead of waiting for recs.

reminder that this website does not have an algorithm so if everything on your homepage sucks or you think this website is “dead” it is quite literally a skill issue. follow more & better people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Monsoon Season in #Toronto Part 3: It finally ends with some weird, strange object emerging from behind the clouds and shooting light at the city.

Fountain area, Rosetta McClain #Gardens, East End, #Toronto

Small pink and white blossoms that my phone refuses to identify, Rosetta McClain #Gardens, East End, #Toronto.

#Echinacea, Rosetta McClain #Gardens, East End, #Toronto.

An article in the Toronto Star this morning refers to the “Toronto Conversation Authority.” If only such an institution actually existed …

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"Only signs without referents, empty, senseless, absurd and elliptical signs, absorb us." - Seduction