Category: People

  • Money on the Devil (Diablo *)

    (Below: a slightly longer version of a review that I first wrote on the website of a swedish book company) “Play Nice” – an interesting review of the fates and adventures of a game company. This book is about the particular culture in which game creation arose, and especially when the company “Blizzard” was formed…

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…

  • A support action for Ilya Yashin and other political prisoners in Russia

    That is what was carried out on Saturday, June 29 at “Free Ukraine’s Place” next to the Russian Embassy on Gjörwellsgatan in Stockholm. That it was this particular date – June 29 – has to do with the fact that it is the birthday of Ilya Yashin – Yashin, one of hundreds of other political…

  • Acts of Protest !

    Russians in exile took part in protests against the Putin regime’s war in Ukraine on the anniversary of the invasion, February 24. Such was carried out in more than fifty cities around the world, according to Lyubov Sobol who speaks at the beginning of this clip (with English subtitles) / CNN