Rules of the discourse.

"Hard right", you see, is a smear.
Would "hard left" also be a smear, I wonder?

But mostly, I am just amused by how 'the right' seems to function as a bad word.


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When the news are consumed as a romance or a science fiction novel:


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Screenshot from the RT site:


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Uncle Bob on codes of conduct. I do not remember when they became a big thing. 2015? Earlier?


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There were several moments in Tucker's interview with Lavrov that were spectacularly, embarrassingly bad ( Read more... )

I have very mixed feelings about this.


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I remember my shock when I learned that shop owners were required (I think I am remembering this right) to decorate their shops accordingly during/around public holidays. I thought the posters or the decorations that appeared on walls or glass windows, or were hanging from the ceiling, did so out of the exuberance of shop keepers' characters; and ( Read more... )

It only now occurred to me how similar the name of the Yandex virtual assistant - Алиса - is to the name of the Amazon virtual assistant, Alexa.

Coincidence?

Jeff Sutherland thinks ex-Twitter is a success story.

I do not know for sure one way or the other - I just see conflicting messages on social media from people inhabiting parallel universes, and observe the recent wave of migration over to where the sky is bluer - but I strongly suspect that this is bullshit.


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Two paragraphs from a Medium article about writing for digital products, one after the other:


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