Steve Earle and the Dukes Guy Clark Tribute show on ACL

https://acltv.com/2019/10/18/steve-earle-and-friends-bring-guy-clark-tribute-to-acl-season-45/ 

The V language

HTTPS://vlang.io/ 

EOY

 Inspection/Evaluation. Reconciliation/Revision. Initiation.

It’s that time. While knowing the pandemic will continue peaking and then running strong for months, so the New Year will not be a whole new ballgame, I nonetheless am getting down to it again.

Mesmerizing abstract choreography

 

I read Heather Cox Richardson every day - NY Times writes about her success

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html 

AI spending trends per nation

 Short write-up of results from a study of national spending - China headed for dominance with US #2 + mid-level countries rising in importance

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/ai-looks-set-to-disrupt-the-established-world-order-here-s-how

Searching for old friends

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Jackie Barceloux

Doug Shaw

Larry Parker

Dwight House and Village of Arts and Ideas people

Tom Alexander

December 23, 10AM PST Kim Stanley Robinson

https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/ministry-for-the-future-author-kim-stanley-robinson-meets-inheritors-of-our-climate-future 

Bruce Sterling’s 1999 novel, “Distraction”, reminds me of today

https://smile.amazon.com/Distraction-Bruce-Sterling/dp/0553576399/

Written more than twenty years ago, this sci-if novel about politics in the near future is prescient. Oddly enough, it echoes with Trumpism and social media influence on politics. While I prefer Gibson’s novels, this one has unique resonance that made me finish it.

30 minute video discussion of an Auden poem on suffering and the ordinary

 A discussion of Auden’s poem about suffering and the ordinariness surrounding it. The commentators/readers are superlative and bring forward what Auden was up to, pointing out things I easily missed.

https://www.poetryinamerica.org/episode/musee-des-beaux-arts/

COVID vaccines info

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1333982736760139777.html