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#christrotter — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Drawing from cinema, visual arts and advertising, writer and teacher #ChrisTrotter discusses whether all art is derivative and whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Episode 13 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast:

    podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

    #art #creativity #podcast

  2. "The last time a right-wing government passed such a law, the author and some comrades, under cover of darkness, chained together and padlocked the doors of the Dunedin Law Courts, on the grounds that Rob Muldoon’s “Clutha Development (Clyde Dam) Empowerment Act” (1982) had just made them irrelevant to the conduct of public affairs."

    #ChrisTrotter, 2024

    thebfd.co.nz/2024/05/15/is-the

    #NZPolitics #FastTrack

  3. Chris Trotter’s History of Atari
    The Atari brand has been in so many hands, and been used for so many things (including, most recently, NFTs and hotels) that making sense of it all is maddening. Christ Trotter on the atomicpoet Pleroma instance made a fairly lengthy series of posts laying it all out that, to
    setsideb.com/chris-trotters-hi
    #niche #retro #arcade #atari #atomicpoet #christrotter #fediverse #history #infogrammes #namco #niche #pleroma #retro #tengen

  4. "Best of all, Stephenson was able to enlist the support of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the man who would later set up the Central Intelligence Agency. Indeed, [Henry] Hemming makes a pretty strong case for the CIA, along with its forerunner, the Office of Strategic Services, being designed in London, by London, for London."

    - #ChrisTrotter

    thedailyblog.co.nz/2020/07/31/

    #HenryHemming #CIA