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Baychimo – Magical Keygen Brilliant piece from Danish artist Baychimo (Frederik Meyer), from his latest full-length Personality Computer. The album is an ode to the optimism of nascent Y2K internet culture, its atmosphere of exploratory...
The Last Column, 9/11 Memorial Museum – New York, New York The 9/11 Memorial Museum is the most powerful museum I’ve ever visited. I can’t say I enjoyed it, given the tragic events it documents. However, I believe it’s worth visiting at...
The Ukrainian–English dictionary seems to have had an upgrade in iPadOS 27. When I trigger the contextual menu with a long press and select “look up,” I no longer come up empty when the word has been declined or conjugated in some way....
David Imel, reporting for The Verge: Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you’re interacting with Gemini, or...
You've heard it throughout your life. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. Last week I got an email from a subscriber who wanted to unsubscribe. Their email said: Please take me off your list . I don't want to see your...
I've been designing in Blender an indexed flight stand for use with my 1/144 aeroplane models. The wheel is numbered from 1—10 to indicate altitude (Canvas Eagles maxes out at 10 levels of altitude) and the cap has a big arrow embossed...
Cringe: “Thank you for trusting us with your information.” In an email from a U.S. online pharmacy (owned by a huge health insurance company) requesting information outside its remit. Capitalism isn’t satisfied with leaving health to the...
"An escape from the erosion of self" A stranger feels compassion for the suffering of another. This other is sensitive, brilliant, desperate, isolated, possibly dangerous, profoundly loved, and terribly, terribly trapped. A kindred...
Project Runway 22 gaslit us into thinking there hadn't already been an unconventional materials challenge, and thought we'd want to see season 21 designers back again. But! The result was an incredible runway show.
I've been prolific of late and so I think instead of writing another longish one tonight I'm going to take a look at where the work has been going, lately, and whether I think it's worth going deeper. That said, you should know that it...
Meta image credit by Negative Space on Pexels Lately on Threads (yes, I know) there has been this talk of people dropping this sort of advice for ADHD: write. Write everything down. Ideas, lists, to-dos, dates and such. Because if you...
Over the last few years, right-wingers have finally started to realize that what they’re missing is empathy. Several decades’ worth of “I didn’t realize how bad this policy was until it hurt someone I know personally!” statements had...
K. H. SCHEER & WALTER ERNSTING – Enterprise Stardust. Perry Rhodan #1, Ace, paperback original;1st printing, 1969. The first of a long German series, in two parts, probably first punished separately. Comments of each follow. Tolerably...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 27-29: In 1498 the crew of the ships of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama became the first people known to sail...
The Intellectual Circle Jerk and Why We Can't Stop https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-intellectual-circle-jerk-and The credentialing cartel. Same top-tier universities, same books, same thinking. If you do not think like them, you do...