Scott MacEachern
@scottmaceachern.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor, archaeologist, Maritimer
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
The New York Times, keeping it classy.
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The New York Times, keeping it classy.
“Vote for the liberal though he harms you, because the conservative will harm you more” starts to sound a lot like “Vote for the liberal though he harms you, because the conservative might harm me, too.”
May 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Vote for the liberal though he harms you, because the conservative will harm you more” starts to sound a lot like “Vote for the liberal though he harms you, because the conservative might harm me, too.”
He’s not the only one.
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
He’s not the only one.
Quite something, to have your brand so prominently associated with an atrocity like this.
May 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Quite something, to have your brand so prominently associated with an atrocity like this.
He’ll have to wait until next year to designate April 30 as ‘Victory Day for Vietnam’.
May 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
He’ll have to wait until next year to designate April 30 as ‘Victory Day for Vietnam’.
Fascinating to see these two editorials in today’s New York Times, discussing politics and Christianity in the United States and coming to diametrically opposite conclusions.
Of the two, David French’s article is much more interesting…
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
Of the two, David French’s article is much more interesting…
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
May 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Fascinating to see these two editorials in today’s New York Times, discussing politics and Christianity in the United States and coming to diametrically opposite conclusions.
Of the two, David French’s article is much more interesting…
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
Of the two, David French’s article is much more interesting…
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
When writing about Boko Haram as slave-raiders and borderland wealth-seekers, I worried Western readers might find too alien the concept of African states’ interest in maintaining areas that they only partially control.
So I talked about Guantánamo Bay. Now we can add parts of El Salvador, too.
So I talked about Guantánamo Bay. Now we can add parts of El Salvador, too.
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
When writing about Boko Haram as slave-raiders and borderland wealth-seekers, I worried Western readers might find too alien the concept of African states’ interest in maintaining areas that they only partially control.
So I talked about Guantánamo Bay. Now we can add parts of El Salvador, too.
So I talked about Guantánamo Bay. Now we can add parts of El Salvador, too.
Void Star is a very good novel.
April 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Void Star is a very good novel.
And in a non-surprise, the last public statement made by the Academic Freedom Alliance is… the one condemning Penn’s suspension of Amy Wax last September.
@kewhittington.bsky.social
@kewhittington.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
And in a non-surprise, the last public statement made by the Academic Freedom Alliance is… the one condemning Penn’s suspension of Amy Wax last September.
@kewhittington.bsky.social
@kewhittington.bsky.social
“The alternative to the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home without school without hospital and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and the days-old babies left to scream and starve, is barbarism.”
Omar El-Akkad
Omar El-Akkad
March 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“The alternative to the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home without school without hospital and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and the days-old babies left to scream and starve, is barbarism.”
Omar El-Akkad
Omar El-Akkad
Rereading William Gibson’s Zero History on the flight in from Shanghai, and feeling sad that instead of the future being cool, it turns out it’s going to be really, really stupid.
greatdismal.bsky.social
greatdismal.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Rereading William Gibson’s Zero History on the flight in from Shanghai, and feeling sad that instead of the future being cool, it turns out it’s going to be really, really stupid.
greatdismal.bsky.social
greatdismal.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Interesting that Michael Adams book ‘Fire and Ice’ has been more or less forgotten about. Ten years before Trump came to power for the first time, he predicted America’s drift towards authoritarianism and deference towards strongmen compared to Canada…
www.environicsinstitute.org/michael-adam...
www.environicsinstitute.org/michael-adam...
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Interesting that Michael Adams book ‘Fire and Ice’ has been more or less forgotten about. Ten years before Trump came to power for the first time, he predicted America’s drift towards authoritarianism and deference towards strongmen compared to Canada…
www.environicsinstitute.org/michael-adam...
www.environicsinstitute.org/michael-adam...
This is illustrative of the differences in how the New York Times and the Washington Post handle issues in the Middle East.
January 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is illustrative of the differences in how the New York Times and the Washington Post handle issues in the Middle East.
I’ve been blocked by @jamellebouie.net for (checks notes) saying that it’s very American to assume that the only form of Canadian nationalism is Québecois.
Which implies (1) NYT writers are thin-skinned irrespective of their political views or (2) he’s listening too much to Ross Douthat.
Ah well…
Which implies (1) NYT writers are thin-skinned irrespective of their political views or (2) he’s listening too much to Ross Douthat.
Ah well…
January 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’ve been blocked by @jamellebouie.net for (checks notes) saying that it’s very American to assume that the only form of Canadian nationalism is Québecois.
Which implies (1) NYT writers are thin-skinned irrespective of their political views or (2) he’s listening too much to Ross Douthat.
Ah well…
Which implies (1) NYT writers are thin-skinned irrespective of their political views or (2) he’s listening too much to Ross Douthat.
Ah well…
This is a weird claim: the increase in percentages of contingent faculty and the growth in tuition started to really hit in the -1980s-. Possibly he thinks ‘performative social justice’ means either Reaganism or the Civil Rights Act: otherwise this statement is just factually wrong.
December 17, 2024 at 7:06 AM
This is a weird claim: the increase in percentages of contingent faculty and the growth in tuition started to really hit in the -1980s-. Possibly he thinks ‘performative social justice’ means either Reaganism or the Civil Rights Act: otherwise this statement is just factually wrong.
A peak set of headlines from today’s Washington Post.
December 9, 2024 at 9:30 AM
A peak set of headlines from today’s Washington Post.
For no particular reason, a few photos from a recent trip to Fada, central Chad.
November 23, 2024 at 8:09 AM
For no particular reason, a few photos from a recent trip to Fada, central Chad.