[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the old HMV store in the Dufferin Mall is now a fidget spinner store. This has gone viral.
  
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her week in Paris.


• Centauri Dreams notes one paper examining the complex formation of the dense TRAPPIST-1 system.


• Far Outliers reports from early 20th century Albania, about how tribal and language and ethnic identities overlap, and not.


• Language Log notes efforts to promote Cantonese in the face of Mandarin.


• The LRB Blog wonders if May's electoral defeat might lead to the United Kingdom changing its Brexit trajectory.


• Marginal Revolution notes that cars have more complex computer programming these days than fighter jets.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that the counter-cyclical Brazilian fiscal cap still makes no sense.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia is edging towards an acknowledgement of its involvement in the Ukrainian war.