Starlink Mission

SpaceX is targeting Friday, March 17 at 12:26 p.m. PT (19:26 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 52 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. If needed, there is an additional launch opportunity the same day at 4:24 p.m. PT (23:24 UTC). […]

Verse Letter to Christopher Hitchens

Verse letters – letters in verse – are a venerable poetic tradition. So I thought I’d contribute to it with a letter to one of my abiding heroes, Christopher Hitchens. Sit back, raise a glass, enjoy. Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cuthbertconker Substack: https://platoonpost.substack.com source

Coming Up this week on the Dot-Connector

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Slavoj Žižek presents ‘Unholy Alliances Today’

A Zoom paper presentation by Žižek from 17th March 2023 for the Centenary Lecture Series of St. Berchmans College, Department of English in Kerala, India. Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of […]