Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Saturday, 17 October 2026

Scrapings from today's newspapers.

Who remembers cardboard discs on top of [thick glass] milk-bottles ? 

“You can show two men killing each other at three in the afternoon in any country in the world on public television,” said photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in an interview in 2022. “But you can’t show two men kissing each other.” 

...a world in which capital moves freely but people do not.

Socrates relates a legend of the invention of writing, and the warning that accompanied its creation: “this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.”
“scratching many deadly signs on a folded tablet”, according to The Iliad...

Sleeping Tesla driver using self-driving mode crashes into police car injuring officers.


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