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• Friday, 22 Mar 2024 11:55 pm

  Dynomight

  I like this person's perspectives on cultural/legal/personal commentary: they strike a very good balance between well-reasoned and irreverent. Smart but unserious. For example, discussing cultural capital + economic capital = total capital/wealth/class, they observe that there are very few (if any) people with significant cultural capital but without economic capital:

  That’s because Bourdieu thinks there are almost no such people. If you’re starving from a lack of food and “starving for better art”, I guess you prioritize the literal starving.

  They've been writing, it seems, pretty consistently since 2020. This is an easy signup for my RSS feed; I'm working through the backlog now.

  I also appreciate the .net TLD:

  DYNOMIGHT INTERNET WEBSITE

  Blogs Dynomight

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  Tuesday, 3 Jan 2023 1:35 pm

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys

  

  Phil Gyford (spotted most recently on Hacker News for his ooh.directory site) is back at it again with The Diary of Samuel Pepys. The Diary (the blog) updates each day with the corresponding entry from Samuel Pepys's Diary (the diary), 363 years earlier. So the entry for Tuesday 3 January 1660 will be posted at the end of today, 3 January 2023.

  The blog contains more than just the diary, however—it also features an encyclopedia of people, events, and things from Pepys's time, along with excerpts from relevant letters sent to or by Pepys.

  We're officially on the Third Reading of the Diary—the First Reading started in January 2002, and the Second in January 2013. The Diary spans a period of 9 years and 5 months (after which Pepys stopped writing for fear that it was damaging his eyesight). We're in it for the long haul!

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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