

AN ANTIDOTE TO GOLDFISHING or OCCASIONING OCCULTATIONS
Deborahlis : Yeah, I’m calling it ‘goldfishing.’ Cephorrhoea : Goldfish? Deborahlis : Gold-fishing. Not the cracker. Cephorrhoea : Right. Deborahlis : I think of it as the parent phenomena out of which comes things like gaslighting, deepfakes, PR spin, and the like. Cephorrhoea : A goldfish has a three second memory. Deborahlis : Right. Cephorrhoea : Laughter and forgetting. There’ is no past, no future. Deborahlis : Yes. But, of course, it’s not true. Cephorrhoea :
Jul 27, 20249 min read


FEMMES FATALES
In their ongoing effort to frame everything Palestinian as benevolent and peace-oriented, CBC sought once again to amplify the voice (and fabulous fabrications) of reporter and associate producer Keena Alwahaidi. Like so many before her, at the beginning of July Alwahaidi gleefully pushed the Gaza famine myth. That, of course, only came after this fiction had been debunked many times and on many fronts by anyone able and willing to muster the sympathy to look into the situat
Jul 20, 20249 min read


WHAT NOT TO DO WITH CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
I was hearing about all this stuff around Trump-related court cases and some being consequential far beyond those cases. Knowing nothing...
Jul 16, 202416 min read


IT CAN'T BE THIS HARD
With a couple of communication degrees, I think of it as my job to comment on media matters. But at this point the relentless barrage of infelicity — from serious reporters and journalists at all our leading news outlets — has become pretty overwhelming. To be honest, I find it tiresome, too. But it's also hard to look away. Aside from how I feel about all this, folks also like to tell me this “obsession” of mine is both pointless and overly pedantic. All I can offer in respo
Jul 14, 202415 min read


LOKI-FACED CERATOPS
As a kid I was always a big fan of triceratops. But at that time we knew only of about half the ceratopsian species we know today. There was a boom of discoveries of ceratopsids between 1870 and 1925, then very little for almost a century. But over the last two decades there have been a bunch of new finds. 1996 saw the discovery of Zuniceratops , significant for being the earliest-known ceratopsian with brow horns and, it must be noted, discovered by an eight-year-old in New
Jul 4, 20242 min read


EUPHEMISTICALLY
Guy : What's been your favourite output from Santa Clara Valley? Maël : I'm pretty into illegal-taxi-company and...
Jul 3, 20241 min read

























































































