VOL 3, NO 9
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Confusions. / 🔗 The banality of Pop Loser. ❝Recommendations online are ubiquitous—we have posted our likes on the Internet since the earliest days of Facebook profiles—but “taste,” with its suggestion of deeper knowledge, perhaps, of why or how something is good, transforms the act of recommending into something specialized, with an aura of irreplaceability.❞ / 🍿 I have been saying this for years: the future of movies is just old movies. / 🤖 When does the robot decide your nipple is female? / 🪐 Manifesto of the committee to abolish outer space. ❝For unimaginable eons there will only be a few scattered particles sailing across a total void. If two happen to meet, a single positronium atom might form, float briefly, and decay again, and this single atom might be the first thing to happen in the entire universe for millions of years.❞ / 🧠 When does your brain decide to be afraid? ❝Honnold is history’s greatest ever climber in the free solo style, meaning he ascends without a rope or protective equipment of any kind. […] The concerned scientist leaned in close, shot a glance toward Honnold, and said, “That kid’s amygdala isn’t firing.”❞ / 📺 David Lynch Presents Interview Project. / 📸 The frightening familiarity of late-nineties office photos. / 📱 Homescreen Confessions. / NextDoor after the rapture. ❝Very suspicious man with wings seen on North Elm yelling about end of the world. Hate that mental patients are just free to harass whomever and the police can’t do anything about it.❞ / Lynx.boo is a simple free linktree. / BulletJournal.click is a simple free task manager. / 💻 Haunted domains. / ArchiveBox, self-hosted internet archiving. / Fav.farm turns emojis into favicons. / 📖 The Met has over 1,000 art books you can download for free. / Chicago turns 18. (I’m still rocking a 15.)/ 👾 PacCam (prepare to feel silly). / Video games and libraries. / 🙈 Math: still humourless. / ⚱️ Murray McCory and Paul Morrissey died. / 🎧 The new not-Pitchfork is called Hearing Things. (Story.) / Future Music is no more. I was a subscriber for a few years just for all the free software samples. / 🌪️ Redbox and the Twister bug.