[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• 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.