Minutes of a Monday #46

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Brain Food > Viva la Tik Tok

“In history books, coups almost look neat. In real time, they are usually surreal and contradictory, particularly when they occur in places where power is exercised in such shadowy ways that almost nothing is quite what it seems. In that sense, we should not be surprised at the sense of bewilderment surrounding current events.

There is one crucial sense in which the events in Russia now differ from previous coups: the influence of smartphones. Thirty years ago, journalists could obtain an intense, street-level perspective on events. But it was tougher to get a bird’s-eye view on anything unfolding more than a few miles away.

Compare that with last weekend, and the deluge of eye-witnesses accounts readily available on social media platforms that could be viewed in such detail that, at certain moments, Prigozhin’s march toward Moscow felt like an episode of Band of Brothers was being live-streamed.”

Gillian Tett on how the Revolution will be TikToked.

Soul Food

“Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it has been.”

Wayne Gretsky

LOL

Harrison Ford goes off script:

Appendix

“When Columbus returned from the New World and proclaimed the earth was round, everyone else went right on believing the earth was flat. Then they died - and the next generation grew up believing the world was round. That’s how people change their minds.”

From Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland

AOB

Until next week mind yourself out there - Niall