What I saw on the web on 2025.2.9

[reblogarythm]

1. Sauron’s Predicament: As a Chess Position
   by Daniel Stride
   https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/saurons-predicament-as-a-chess-position/
   yup, precisely this. and precisely the NSFWism that i always think of when i read that passage too
   via rss
   
   
2. The Only Girl In The Orchestra
   by Molly O'Brien featuring Orin O'Brien
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XclJCRae8pk
   i'll likely have to watch this
   via cbc news story
   
   
3. Brown Rice
   by Don Cherry
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgZnyxD-bk
   fun! OP suggested this as evidence that Don Cherry invented Krautrock
   via FB
   
   
4. XX- Risk.
   by Laurie Penny
   https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk
   a point that i wish i could say was fairly obvious, but here we are. well-stated
   via rss