Status:
Rest day, mostly. Slept long and did some light pottering around the house. Feeling OK.
Family member is having a clear-out and asked me to sell a bunch of their books on one of those “scan them and we pick them up” services. Only a third of them were accepted and that box came to £20, about £2 per kilo. Every little counts but it really feels like books have no value outside of collector markets. I can’t be too upset – I very rarely buy physical books these days unless I want to support the author. Reading in medium where I can change the font and type size is much more preferable. At the same time I’m getting interested in print and physical publications as alternatives to an increasingly flakey and fractured internet, so there’s an interesting tension there.
Overnight listening:
- Lifepod: Pirate Care, with Valeria Graziano & Tomislav Medak - quite an intense conversation about some deep topics, maybe too much for a 1am listen so I’m glad to see there’s a transcript. Related links: Pirate Care website, book and their previous project the Memory of the World shadow library.
Reading:
- John Harris: Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century. - It’s interesting that Labour’s best hope seems to be some combination of Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan. Almost as if the mayoral system is producing politicians who known how to govern while Westminster just isn’t fit for purpose.
- Zürich turned its rooftops into a climate shield. - “We must again live in houses where nature is above us, for it is our duty to put nature, which we destroy by building the house, back on the roof. The nature we have on the roof is this piece of earth that we killed by putting the house there."
Watching:
- Laura Kampf: The perfect lamp (28:20)
Telly:
- English Teacher
- The Knick - The medical historical show from a decade back, directed, shot and edited by Soderbergh, and brought to my attention by this CinemaStix video.