Caspar Henderson
@casparhenderson.bsky.social
Award-winning knees https://linktr.ee/casparhenderson
"We are living through the culmination of converging historical processes in which our cosmological and geological context is becoming more salient, while our modern story of progress is unravelling" perspecteeva.substack.com/p/the-tempor...
The Temporal Sublime
What time is it, and why does it matter?
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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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"Bach was the master of inevitability. The music feels as if it's spinning out from the universal consciousness. It was always there. And when the music plays you're just turning up the volume on the invisible stream of consciousness where all music comes from" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Classical Life - Jess Gillam with... Jon Batiste - BBC Sounds
Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with songwriter, pianist and composer, Jon Batiste.
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Blushing “seems to be associated with increased trustworthiness” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it – and why it’s actually good for us
Humans are the only animals whose faces redden with embarrassment. Should we see that as an affliction, or as a blessing?
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"The endgame here is massacres, vigilante violence, not stop the boats but shoot the boats, the border reimagined as a computer-game war zone...and the problem is...your 'suicidal empathy' because these are not equal humans deserving equal treatment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew
It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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“SpaceX will be worth more than Earth” 😶 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/t...
SpaceX’s Stock Lockup Is Expiring. Prepare for a Bumpy Ride.
On Thursday, employees and other insiders at Elon Musk’s rocket company will be released from their first stock “lockup” and can start selling some of their shares.
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“for every 1°C rise in global temperature, the water vapour held in the atmosphere increases by 7 per cent… The increased water vapour in the air means two things: more evaporation from the seas and soils, leading to more intense droughts and dry spells; and more intense rainfall…”
Tim Smedley@timsmedley.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you're wondering why we keep lurching from "the longest ever wet period" to "longest ever dry period", then (wherever you are in the world) this article explains it: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
‘The only way to fight plague, Albert Camus told us, is with decency. The decent people in “Biological War” are among the first to perish.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/b...
These Weaponized Germs Are Deadly, Unstoppable and Very Real
In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.
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“The world is walking a path toward a world war, and no one — including the president of the United States — seems to be in command of events.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
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"With the shadow of death hanging over them, the main impact of the Sanatorium on its patients is not so much to offer a cure as to progressively release them from any conventional understanding of time and to normalize the process of dying" adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 463: Zauberberg/Magic Mountain - how history ended in Davos ... on, or about September, 1907.
We are in a moment of historical transition.
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A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!
"The ideas and morals upon which the best of our culture was built have been disrupted and desecrated. The question now is whether that disruption can be met with creativity and renewal" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul
Then he turned toward Stephen Miller.
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“We are putting the cart before the horse when we understand ourselves as the source of sense and meaning. In reality, we are participants in something that exceeds us, and the aesthetic, poetic dimension of great art reconnects us with that excess as a matter of course” aeon.co/essays/human...
"What is perhaps most remarkable about the life Said created for himself...is that such humane and intellectual expansiveness was fashioned in a terrain of desolation, a dark gulf caught between an inheritance of loss and a diminished present" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hisham-mat...
Hisham Matar's New Introduction to Edward Said's "Out Of Place"
An unreleased acclaimed Libyan-British writer's new foreword to "Out of Place" - Edwar
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“A remote village in the Pamir Mountains, one of highest inhabited elevations in the world, where a very small population of Kyrgyz nomads still exists… A girl named Shargha milks a yak. In this region, the women wear red veils before marriage & white ones after” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
“The premise that the future will resemble the past because it has always resembled the past will continue to be true until the first time it isn’t” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future
In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?
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“I wanted the bees to adapt to these harsh conditions, just as we have had to adapt” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
From 400 hives to 35: the Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s work
Ibrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipment
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Is there hope for breaking up giant monopolies? Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” thinks we’re well positioned to take on these companies. New podcast out now!
“the extreme levels of inequality predicted in this essay justify a more robust tax policy on basic moral grounds, but [for] the world’s billionaires it’s in their interest to support a good version of it: if they don’t, they’ll get a bad version designed by a mob” darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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"Elon Musk can keep wreaking havoc and bullshitting everyone because he’s simply become too big to fail. Investors can’t let him go bust, and the media can’t let him become irrelevant. Too much is built up around him, so he can effectively do as he pleases"
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
"this isn’t just about £80 T-shirts. This is about a bigger question: about the rights and wrongs of sourcing stuff from overseas, about whether we, as an economy, should be making stuff or buying it in" edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
What Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells us
This isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography"
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‘This sense of a society adrift after so many years in the economic doldrums is crucial when reading politics in the UK today. To sum up why he thinks Farage may be the best choice for the future of the country, he says: “Someone’s got to do something.”’
Sarah Elizabeth Cox@oispooky.bsky.social · last wk.I'm slightly biased because me, my dad and my favourite purveyors of cake, vintage clothes and soft play centres are in it... but this portrait of Clacton by @timburrows.bsky.social and 📷 Andy Hall is superb. Balanced, diverse, intelligent, so so well done: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
THE UPRISING - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters September 11
YouTube video by Focus Features
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
“In a world of plums, one man dared to eat and face the consequences.” Icebox, coming soon to a screen near you. “So sweet” – Empire
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
“Most U.S. states have a reckless endangerment offense. This criminalizes reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of injuring another person… That’s exactly what big oil did…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to prosecute climate crimes – with laws that already exist | Aaron Regunberg
Some have called for Nuremberg-style trials against big oil. But there are laws already on the books to describe companies’ conduct
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To truly rewild the uplands, bring back mammoths, giant elk, cave lions and sabre-tooth cats NOW! Giant short-face bears as a stretch goal www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high places
The writer and climber brings colour and carnival to his account of a country and people shaped by its mountains
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"Quite how radical Burnham will end up being remains to be seen, but some of the appearance of political radicalism is merely the shock of politics being done purposefully and enthusiastically..." willd10.substack.com/p/keir-starm...
Keir Starmer, a negative political theology
What can we learn from the leader who wasn't?
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