Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for March 22nd from 09:02 to 03:24:

• Seven reasons why Turkey’s Twitter ban matters to the world | Paul Mason | Paul Mason – “This is not about Turkey, it’s about the right to be modern.” – @paulmasonnews being brilliant as ever:
• Twitter / annapickard: See, what you’ve done here, … – See, what you've done here, IKEA, is less describe *these* curtains and more describe the concept of "Curtains":
• Anti-Star Trek: A Theory of Posterity –
• After WhatsApp: An Insider’s View On What’s Next In Messaging | TechCrunch –
• Artistic autonomy and subsumption – The New Inquiry – @hondanhon A much more academic version of a point you made a few newsletters back, on writing non-performatively:
• Twitter / MeredithFrost: Westboro Baptist Church members … – Westboro Baptist Church members picketing a Lorde concert in KC were met with this sign (via @neetzan)