I marvel at the sky: How lucky we are it does not fall and crush us without announcement.

"A Day in the Life", Noura Erakat for The Nation

This entire package of essays is incredibly good and I have only picked two sentences, which was difficult.

Here is a world governed solely by its severed geography.

"The Question", Mohammed el-Kurd in The Nation

To the romantic neophyte of Karl Marx, the election of Richard Nixon seemed like a modern replay of the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.

"World Machines: The Steam Engine, the Railway, and the Computer", Wolfgang Schivelbusch's 2014 preface to The Railway Journey

Wolfgang Schivelbusch's sentences tend to live up to his unbelievable name. Like, of course a guy named Wolfgang Schivelbusch wrote that sentence.

For those not blinded by laissez-faire dogmas, it was obvious that the Americans have always had state planning: only they call it the defence budget.

"The Californian Ideology", Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

The first third of the CS ethics class I teach is basically just computer and internet history and this week I gave them the double header of this essay and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace." The last time I taught this class the students absolutely hated both of these texts as basically tone-deaf polemics, which is how I learned that "primary source reading" is not taught as often as I thought it was.

I’m a vegetarian who has no [palate] for spice and now all I can think about is eating dog stew made with sheared fresh green chiles and plain beans.

"Book Review: Cuisine and Empire", Georgia Ray's Eukaryote Writes blog

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Looking at CUC’s books was to see the thing behind the dumpster in Mulholland Drive.

"How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud", Duncan Fyfe for Waypoint

Some spoilers for an upcoming episode of RIP Corp about Sierra On-Line, but too funny to not share. Also this sentence sent me down the rabbit hole of David Lynch's never-made video game, Woodcutters From Fiery Ships.

Someone just put the wrong numbers in the spreadsheet, somehow, at some point, probably.

"Sure, Blame the Compliance Consultant, Matt Levine for Bloomberg

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