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Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes... ¡Yo no sé! Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos, la resaca de todo lo sufrido se empozara en el alma... ¡Yo no sé! César Vallejo, Los Heraldos NegrosIt’s time to talk about Mark Fisher. Darling of the new generation of the literate disenchanted. I can think of no other writer who has  so convincingly conveyed a ubiquitous experience of feeling broken and anxious while also giving it a clear sense of meaning.

You’ve probably heard the rumor that Saratoga Springs has more bars per capita than any other city in the US. We’ve been hearing it for years, most recently from our account executive at the Pennsylvania-based printer we use. In other words, word has spread far beyond the city limits. But—and this is a huge but—is it even true? A quick Google search of “city with most bars per capita” yields approximately one reliable answer: ncG1vNJzZmirkaeutbvGmqOirpmjtG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ihpKh6tb7UnmSwnV2ptaq6yg%3D%3D

Yesterday, the Brooklyn fourpiece Big Thief wound up being the latest band who have cancelled gigs in Israel as a result of widespread pressure and bullying from the BDS movement. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I hate Big Thief, or 'Big Thief: 'I’ve never heard of them', because I don't, and of course I have. I remember the first time I heard their breakthrough album “Capacity” and its most noteworthy track 'Mythological Beauty'; it was August 2018 and I was living in East London briefly with a band who no longer talk to me.

Humans need “to divide” in order to understand. We have to break up a big whole, then break it into even smaller parts, make it as small as possible, and then understand each part. This is the same for either deduction or induction. Wholes and parts. We approach time with exactly such a need for dividing to understand. Our limited minds need compartmentalization in order to understand an infinite universe of time—time that we see as linear but that is probably an infinite-dimensional universe.

What’s in a name, or rather a number? The Motorola 68000 wasn’t just a little bit better than its 8-bit predecessor the 6800. The name told you it was ten times better. The 68000 boasted powerful features that put it in a different league from that earlier 8-bit design. It had eight general-purpose 32-bit data registers plus eight 32-bit address registers, a 24-bit address space with the ability to address up to 16 megabytes of contiguous (not segmented) memory and an instruction set with 56 instructions and 12 addressing modes.

It’s yuca the word that you are probably thinking, when writing of a plant that you might be eating. Yuca with one C is almost definitely the one. In cooking you can use it a considerable ton. It’s a tropical tuber that was born in Brazil. It grows quite easily so have your fill. It’s sometimes toxic if eaten all on its own, but why would you want to? It will taste like a bone.

Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to producer Sally El Hosaini, who is of Welsh and Egyptian heritage. Her latest film, The Swimmers, is out now on Netflix and follows the true story of Yusra and Sara Mardini. The sisters fled Syria for Germany, with Yusra eventually making the first ever refugee team at the Rio Olympics. For Sally, the story struck a chord of feeling out of place.

J.B. HandleyCo-Producer, SPELLERS. Co-Author, Underestimated: an Autism Miracle (Skyhorse, 2021). Best-selling Author, How to End the Autism Epidemic (Chelsea Green, 2018). Stanford grad, private equity entrepreneur. Extremely proud dad of three great kids. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauux5qlnaSVrg%3D%3D

File this under things you didn’t necessarily ask for, but when I LOVE something, I want to shout about it from the rooftops—be it a book, a podcast, or, in this week’s case, FRENCH LESSONS. Welcome to “J’adore” a smidgen of declarations from moi about something I adore. (Like, for example, the fact that “adore” and “adore” mean the same thing in English and French. But no need to devote more than a sentence to that!