VOL 5, NO 8
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The hollowed men. / My wife and I go for a walk almost every morning. This is our time to complain about things to and with each other. She complains about practical things, like work and meetings and some oddly difficult people she meets in her day. My complaints are both more specific and more general — more existential — like how the world will end not with a bang, but with the motionless gesture of a thousand men whimpering away on their own prickly pears.
❝What they apparently hadn’t considered was that the porn alone might be enough, that at sufficient speed and in sufficient quantity it could function as a workable substitute for life itself.❞
Good lord, that’s some grim shit. My wife has rightly threatened not to walk with me anymore.
Not unrelated: There’s now a casino in everyone’s pocket. It’s going poorly.
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Untitled (Looking at The Great Masturbator), Salvador Dali, 1981
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Confusions. / 🤖 Hi, it’s me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology. ❝Listen, in some ways, I get it. When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. Tell me, how have you guardians of facts been doing recently? (See also: Techno-Feudalist Infocide.)❞ / Also: Grokipedia is the antithesis of everything that makes Wikipedia good, useful and human. / Frank Chimero’s treatise on AI and creating. ❝I wouldn’t want an irregular AI in my bank app, but in a creative workflow, hallucinating feels like the point of it all.❞ / AI is a false god. / 🧑💻 alive internet theory. / Why does new technology feel like it was inspired by dystopian sci-fi? / 📰 The FBI is looking for the person(s) behind one of our greatest resources, Archive.today. / 📔 The Farmer’s Almanac is shutting down (but not the one you’re thinking of). / The (near-complete) Whole Earth Catalog archive still exists. / Digging up Gendertrash From Hell. / 🖼️ Semantic.art. / ⌚ 52 weeks of obsessions. (Example: Soviet watches.) / 👾 Want: The Art of Atari. / 📓 Already Have (but you should Want and, like, Get): Scott Boms’ Context Window (buy link). / 📺 Sitcoms that primetime forgot (I watched all 2 hours of this and not once did it get old). / 🔤 Space Type Generator. / 🫥 Durves. / 🧤 The Canadian Glove Museum. / ⌨️ The Interim Computer Museum.
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Extensions. / As has been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, I was a victim of The Great Ma.gnolia Crash of aught-nine. Since, my bookmarks have been a mess moved through a dizzying array of online tools, including Pinboard, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, Delicious, Raindrop, Notion and so many others. I’ve declared link bankruptcy no fewer than five times. It’s a fucking wreck, and I decided it was time to get my shit together and find something that actually works for me instead of this hodgepodge of sites that either look like that are one ill-timed bus accident from total collapse, or use that shady subscription model that’s become the hallmark of our time (or at least the hallmark that isn’t all of the icky chronic masturbation, but also I might not know what a hallmark is).
Enter GoodLinks.
✅ Offline with (iCloud) syncing between phone and laptop.
✅ One-time price gets you “forever” access with a year of updates.
✅ Tagging system for saving links.
✅ Reading system for, uh, reading links, but also highlights and notes, also saved locally.
✅ Import/export in all your favourite flavours.
✅ THAT’S IT. WHY WAS THAT SO HARD?
Anyway, great piece of software. Hard recommend. / ✌️
