Saturday, 7 November 2026

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synchronoptica 

one year ago: a dystopian novella from E M Forester (with synchronoptica), flight safety and the US government shutdown, more AI blind-spots plus a compendium of English nonce words

two years ago: Germany’s coalition government faces collapse, an archive of military uniforms, America’s first Red Scare plus assorted links worth the revisit 

three years ago: Operation Able Archer (1983), Ukraine to change the date on which Christmas is observed plus a gallery of bad Jane Austen book covers

four years ago: a documentary on picking the wrong venue, a bombing in the US capitol plus the Riace bronzes

five years ago: your daily demon: Bifrons,  awaiting US election results, the collection point for cataloguing art looted by the Nazis plus the first female US vice-presidential candidate announced

six years ago: an unused deck of tarot cards by Salvatore Dalรญ

seven years ago: assorted links to revisit, Nixon’s concession speech (1962) plus more from the Center for American Politics and Design