Clearing the tabs

I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven't read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution and trepidation!

• Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj Ali
• Museum of time-based art - Celebrating artists who commit to long-duration and daily creative practices
• Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
• Where To, Brum? A Moan
• On Walter Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)
• Letter from Doggerland - Mapping a Vanished Landscape
• If none of your needs or desires are app-shaped
• What if we just stopped? — Doing social media, that is.
• Slate’s commenters have been trolling my writing for years. I finally asked why. I’ll never look at them the same.
• In praise of occasional staples: James Brown on the age of the zine — yup, that James Brown. When we watched the recent doc on Loaded and the lads mags I was struck by how tight the his continuity was from zines.
• Do Not Answer: Bogna Konior and the Dark Forest of the Internet
• The examined life in the age of optimisation - New York journal of philosophy
• Humanists have done nothing wrong — Good to know.
• Why are rivers so mathematical?
• I Crash: Texts from M.E. — "This post uses my own text messages to give a first-person documentary account of an experience of Long Covid and ME/CFS. I use private messages, sent at different times to different people, as a record of crashes, fluctuating symptoms, relapse, remission, pacing, medical uncertainty, and the struggle to make sense of a poorly understood and poorly supported illness."
• Book review: What Can A Body Do? — This book has been on my long-list of books that I'll probably never get to so it's nice to read a decent review and summary.
• A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics — "You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties."
• Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse — Mentions the seminal text ‌Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, which, not coincidentally, was where I first came across the term 'teledildonics'. I would not have considered it a radicalising text, but here we are…
• Yes they want to kill us: The worshippers of machines versus human beings — Rebecca Solnit, referencing the above.
• The dark side of mindfulness
• David Graeber: What’s the point if we can’t have fun?
• What if we never built another new building? — One of the surprising things about those campaigning to save Birmingham's 60s architecture is they're not necessarily fans of modernism but object to the waste of demolishing perfectly good buildings.
• Neuroplasticity as a praxis — Yeah, me neither. But I think it means we can reprogram our meatbrains by reading books.
• “The ghosts are fast and they don’t turn blue.” — This is about a hacked PacMan game that starts at level 255, so you're literally thrown in at the deepest end. I had it in my tabs as an example of how I was feeling trying to build a website with Eleventy last month.
• ‘I love provocative stories’: producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her ‘offensive’ movies
• How much dark money is in professional philosophy? — I think this is about far-right dark-enlightenment infiltration of Cambridge Uni.
• Listen. Believe. Do No Harm. — "An occupational therapist’s guidance for caring well for people with severe ME/CFS"
• The End of History and the Final Girl
• There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas