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"As of his sixth birthday next month, he will have 2,462 seconds, his entire life compressed as I wanted to remember it, into approximately 41 minutes."
Kristin Winet for Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature: https://panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-14-survival/survival-active-recall
"Nowadays I don’t know what story to tell about Flushing."
Jefferson Mao for Urban Omnibus: https://urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/neither-here-nor-there/
If you ever do decide to play with that palette, even just for quick digital doodles, I'd love to see it. #Synthwave is kind of an alternate history of the 80s, based on idealized images of 1980s science fiction, but it wasn't nearly as prevalent as people think it was.
That's kind of the beauty and allure of it, it's a reimagining of the 1980s as this incredibly forward-looking, futurephile era when it was, in fact, a very hum-drum, wood-paneled, boring and even regressive decade in a lot of ways, in terms of day-to-day life.
Ok, I didn't think this toot was going to turn into an #essay. That was wild.
"Seen his way, all civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear—but, like any repression, waste returns in fantastical forms."
Madeleine Adams for The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/latest/w-a-s-t-e-not-adams
In "On (the) Sublime," Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about Sublime's late frontman Bradley Nowell, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction, and limits: https://longreads.com/2025/05/22/sublime-nowell-coleridge-addiction/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#softwareEngineering #computerScience #programming #commonLisp #history #essay #reading of Whither Original Thought #transcript from @kentpitman
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/kmp-whither-original-thought/
with a link to its beginning in the interview.
I chose to hand-transcribe it to remove (and probably introduce) discontinuities.
A central theme is the tyrannies of programming libraries and the question of having exhaustive knowledge of your increasingly numerous dead forebearers.
Read it yourself (and/or listen finally).
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