[a pleasurable headache] powerful new marxism
Why Are We in Ukraine? <https://harpers.org/archive/2023/06/why-are-we-in-ukraine/> Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Lane in Harpers ask the question. It's a...
[a pleasurable headache] fetishizing the machinery of war without fetishizing the war machine
A 23-year-old Snapchat influencer used OpenAI’s technology to create an A.I. version of herself that will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute...
[a pleasurable headache] the irrational factionalism of human beings
It’s a very short set of links this time around. I read quite a few longer pieces during the last fortnight, rather than a lot of shorter pieces. /// Overdue...
[a pleasurable headache] guerilla criticism
I've thought a lot recently about making these newsletters into blog posts instead. They would, I think, allow a great degree of flexibility and also allow...
[a pleasurable headache] blue hair and spats
Top Gun: Maverick https://www.patreon.com/posts/top-gun-maverick-80420500 Priscilla Page does it again, this time with a great read on the blockbuster...
[A Pleasurable Headache] No Show
Alas, no newsletter this week due to a series of cascading indigents, including losing an earlier draft. This week has conspired against me. Normal service...
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[a pleasurable headache] like flipping a coin
So many links! Apologies for the formatting of this issue. Buttondown seems to have changed up the formatting options/layout and everything in between. No...
[A Pleasurable Headache] always be a chameleon
Nowt but the links this week. === How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream...
[a pleasurable headache] No one wins a giant teddy bear unless the carny wants them to win it
The last two weeks have seemed like someone has shoved six months into a fortnight. We’ve had illnesses, late night hospital visits, missed gigs we’ve been...
[a pleasurable headache] don't create systems that obfuscate waste
A pocket-sized edition this week. Links Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’...
[A Pleasurable Headache] stop being human
As is tradition, I present the books, TV and movies I enjoyed the most in 2022. Books My book reading took a hit this year. I tended to favour physical books...
[A Pleasurable Headache] a subterranean white elephant
Not much up top this week. The plan for doing my usual 'Faves of the Year' is to include it in the next edition of the newsletter as there are still some...
[A Pleasurable Headache] choose your words as if someone will remember them
It’s not a huge edition this week as I’m prepping to drive down south for a family gathering. North Devon in December, of all places. Time off at the day job...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Nowhere to Hide
Everything is in increments now. My head still hasn’t fully switched from writing before baby to the current reality. It’s getting there though. As ever, the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] masters of our environment
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Had Secret Plan to Crack UK’s NHS: ‘Buying Our Way In’ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/palantir-had-plan-to-crack-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] restorative endeavours
I'm still getting used to having another living thing be entirely dependent on me/us to live. As mentioned previously I have been attending a writing sprint...
[A Pleasurable Headache] scribbling in the shadows
This was supposed to go out two weeks ago, and for some reason has been sat in drafts instead. Which means you will be getting two newsletters from me this...
[A Pleasurable Headache] A quick update
Apologies, but no newsletter again this week. My reading input the last few weeks, as you can imagine, has essentially been zero. However, now there is...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Flo State
Florence Aletta Hill, born 29th July at 0100 after a very chaotic birth. She and mother are both doing well. Needless to say there won't be a newsletter this...
[A Pleasurable Headache] What is a veggie korma?
This newsletter, like everything else at the moment, is stuck in a kind of limbo. Baby is imminent. The day job is a relentless maelstrom, prone to pangs of...