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A cartoon is not an image taken from life. A cartoon is taken from memory. You’re trying to distill the memory of an experience, not the experience itself.” — Chris Continue Reading →
Category Archives: George Orwell
Weekend 558.1
All these drove my interest in [computers] [technology] [futurism_]. (IOI-643118) WarGames(IOI-645119) Tron (and later Tron: Legacy)(IOI-675123) Atari <<< Rick Guidice and John Enright(IOI-675129) Origin Systems (2400 AD)(IOI-678999) Walt Disney World: Continue Reading →
Adolf Hitler or Justin Trudeau?
“The small, fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing, do not represent the views of Canadians who Continue Reading →
“You may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently.”
Read some Orwell, get radicalized, and flex your extremism proudly. (1) Facebook goes full Big Brother with new “extremism” warnings (OffGuardian) (1a) Facebook asks users to report their ‘extremist’ friends Continue Reading →
Weekend 474.3
“Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you Continue Reading →
Weekend 448.0
(1) Academics ignore the anniversary of 1984 because they know they’re living it out (Washington Examiner) (2) How disease, war and a remote Scottish island inspired George Orwell’s ‘1984’ (NY Continue Reading →
Weekend 413.0
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell (1) The Reckoning of the Continue Reading →