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Quoth the penguin (and other confusions). / 🍿 Streaming media in prison is like streaming media outside of prison, it just has more layers of people gouging their fair share. ❝Each prisoner is assigned a tablet free of charge, but to watch films, we must buy a bundle of minutes. I can buy only 500 minutes of the Premium App Bundle for $10, which hosts three film apps. We must use all 500 minutes or forfeit them. New releases are available on the Premium Access Pass, which allows us to buy only 200 minutes for $8. The Premium Pass Bundle expires in 96 hours.❞ But also... / ...the comfortable problem of Mid TV. / Locally: The NFB is running out of money and soon we will have no nice Canadian things. / 📻 Normal music reviews don't make sense for Taylor Swift. ❝The Swiftverse is thousands of comments under Instagram posts, an additional three hundred and thirty-two million dollars for the NFL, a worldwide run on bracelet beads, and the Fed wondering why inflation persists.❞ / Fall asleep to the dulcet tones of the Northwoods Baseball Radio Network. / Some mixtapes. / 📰 Five Dials is done, but the entire archive is online. (Or skip to the Camus issue.) / ✍️ Poe's "The Pingu." ❝While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, as of flippers briskly slapping, slapping on my igloo floor.❞ / Wes Anderson's Montblanc ad. / 🖥️ The internet may be in ruin, but I’m always a sucker for interesting ideas wrapped in tortured metaphor. ❝Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within. But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday “hyperobject,” but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope? We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.❞ / Copy the shrug emoji. / User Inyerface. / ⚱️ Alice Munro, Frank Stella, Steve Albini, Rex Murphy and Roger Corman died. / 💼 The story of 427 suitcases from A New York State Mental Hospital. / 👾 The Delta emulator is the new best app on my phone.
