Guts Van Sant<p>I have a new piece at Vague Visages about Dirk Bogarde and the spirit of rebellion in post-war Britain:</p><p><a href="https://vaguevisages.com/2025/07/08/dirk-bogarde-essay-movie-film-post-war-rebellion/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vaguevisages.com/2025/07/08/di</span><span class="invisible">rk-bogarde-essay-movie-film-post-war-rebellion/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a></p>
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Frankie ✅<p>Why Compare the Present to the Past?</p><p>Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties. </p><p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/history-analogies-geopolitics-policy-ideology/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/h</span><span class="invisible">istory-analogies-geopolitics-policy-ideology/</span></a> </p><p>Paywall Free: <a href="https://archive.is/XAYZN" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/XAYZN</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>My personal essay "Insides In and Outsides Out" just went up on Breath and Shadow. <a href="https://www.abilitymaine.org/bs2025spring/%22insides-in-and-outsides-out%22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abilitymaine.org/bs2025spring/</span><span class="invisible">%22insides-in-and-outsides-out%22</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Jectoons :krita: :debian:<p>A few months ago I talked about a BIG THING I was writing.</p><p>Well, I finished a second draft, and it feels ready enough for people to read. It's called:</p><p>'Why Free-Culture: Art, Knowledge and Culture as Commons'.</p><p>It's the longest thing I have written and I am happy with it, but it is not the final version. Here's a link to read it:</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/jectoons/Why-Free-Culture/src/branch/main/versions/english/WhyFreeCulturev0.5.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/jectoons/Why-Free</span><span class="invisible">-Culture/src/branch/main/versions/english/WhyFreeCulturev0.5.pdf</span></a></p><p>There's also the .odt file in that repository, so do what you will with it! It is licensed CCBYSA 4.0. You can also see v0.1 in case you're curious about changes.</p><p>I would love any feedback anyone would care to give me, so please share far and wide. :)<br>Thanks for your time, and solidarity!<br>:boost_ok: </p><p><a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/freeculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freeculture</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/ccbysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ccbysa</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feedback</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/request" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>request</span></a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/long" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>long</span></a></p>
Joe Ortiz<p>Just finished watching this great video piece by John Oliver on his Last Week Tonight show on AI slop and gen AI altogether. It's sad that most companies big and small alike are embracing this BS.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAb</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p>Mirror: <a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TWpg1Rm</span><span class="invisible">zAbc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AISlop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/videoessay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videoessay</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.einverne.info/@HackerNewsBot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HackerNewsBot</span></a></span> </p><p>To be clear, <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/THATrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>THATrpg</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <br>Link: <a href="https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>HN thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281016" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">4281016</span></a></p><p>Note that Richard P. Gabriel also wrote a book on the practice of writers' workshops including lisp writing as well as traditional writing author communities, which he straddled with his poetry books.</p>
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)<p><strong>We Should Free All WordPress Plugins and Themes</strong></p><p>What if we democratized everything in WordPress, and not just publishing? What if we freed all themes and plugins? How far could we fly?</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://halfelf.org/tag/administration/" target="_blank">#administration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://halfelf.org/tag/essay/" target="_blank">#essay</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://halfelf.org/tag/fair/" target="_blank">#FAIR</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://halfelf.org/tag/wp/" target="_blank">#wordpress</a></p><p><a href="https://halfelf.org/2025/we-should-free-all-wordpress-plugins-and-themes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">halfelf.org/2025/we-should-fre</span><span class="invisible">e-all-wordpress-plugins-and-themes/</span></a></p>
Arpad Nagy<p>With coincidences galore, my impressions of the Brutalist as a Hungarian.<br><a href="https://fanfare.pub/the-brutalist-a-hungarian-s-review-2e596915fb30" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fanfare.pub/the-brutalist-a-hu</span><span class="invisible">ngarian-s-review-2e596915fb30</span></a><br><a href="https://me.dm/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>films</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TheBrutalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBrutalist</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hungary</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Popculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popculture</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
GhostOnTheHalfShell<p>Jun 6</p><p>8 min</p><p>Gaming out a society of psychopaths. The funny part about.. that I game out, is that no society of psychopaths who all understand that everyone is out to rule the world like they are would ever tolerate any level of wealth inequality. Such as society would tend to converge on constant warfare and destruction or tyranny and destruction…</p><p>If we were exactly like what conservatives say you would never tolerate billionaires </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2YdrRvrpg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=te2YdrRvrp</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a></p>
fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻<p>Good morning!</p><p>I wrote about my little mighty moka pot, and the bliss of ritual. </p><p>I wasn't going to publish this one. It's a little different than my normal essays. But here we are. What the hell. </p><p>I hope you enjoy. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coffee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coffee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mokapot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mokapot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-b</span><span class="invisible">liss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"In its simplest form, a whale’s death becomes a source of life for years beyond its time. It is a transformation that turns death into life on an almost incomprehensible scale."<br> <br>Omnia Saed for Atmos Magazine: <a href="https://atmos.earth/after-the-fall/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">atmos.earth/after-the-fall/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whales</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ocean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MarineLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Afrofuturism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afrofuturism</span></a></p>
botwiki.org<p>"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkersRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️⚧️🇳🇴<p>Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! - Based on David Graeber's Essay | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-027_d_8Y&t" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=r6-027_d_8</span><span class="invisible">Y&t</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/NowWatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowWatching</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anachy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anachy</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchist</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/DavidGraeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidGraeber</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Five years after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a cracker murderpig named Derek Chauvin, it's easy to look at police murder and use of force statistics, as well as a white nationalist Trump regime, and conclude the 2020 uprising failed; which is precisely what a pro-cop liberal "reformist" chatterati is doing. The reality is however that "a system cannot fail those it was never designed to protect" and the lack of legislative progress to protect our civil rights from police abuses falls on the elected reformers not advocates and abolitionists in the streets. The 2020 Uprising taught us to band together because we are all targets in for the carceral state in the right circumstances; and just in time too, because Donald Trump is dead serious about transforming law enforcement into his own fascist army.</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/30/the-widening-maw-of-racialized-police-violence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/30</span><span class="invisible">/the-widening-maw-of-racialized-police-violence/</span></a></p><p>The Widening Maw of Racialized Police Violence</p><p>"The reality is that Downmarket Mussolini has only been back in the White House for four and a half months, and these police killing statistics go back years into a Biden administration that was elected in part, to specifically stop racialized police violence in response to the protests; the city where George Floyd was slowly murdered on camera by a sociopathic cop is in a Democratic-controlled State, run by one of the most progressive Governors in America. For a larger liberal establishment in the United States that had no answer for Trump at the ballot box to point at the Kelpto Kaiser’s racist authoritarian regime and declare the movement against police violence and white supremacist policing has failed, is one part deflection, and one part scapegoating. It is ultimately reductive to argue that the 2020 George Floyd protests were by themselves responsible for the broader fascist “white-lash” driving Trump’s second rise to power in an already white supremacist America, and disempowering to believe organized resistance against that white supremacy accomplished nothing merely because a state that was never designed to protect racialized people, or the labor class in general, refused to take meaningful action against police violence. Those hard-fought hours in the streets opened a broad swathe of society’s eyes to the racist and violent nature of American policing, taught communities across the globe how to organize in the face of state-sanctioned repression, and helped make so many young people “woke” that the fascist Trump regime is trying to make “wokeness” illegal. We cannot un-see what we have observed, or unknow what we learned during the uprising, and the affliction of knowing cannot be cured with rubber bullets and tear gas."</p><p>Note: I literally had to take yesterday off just to edit this one and find all the source links. It's a bit longer, and this content has never appeared outside NIDC.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/JusticeDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeDepartment</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GeorgeFloyd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFloyd</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BreonnaTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreonnaTaylor</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MPD</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LMPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LMPD</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/2020Uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2020Uprising</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceViolence</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceKillings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceKillings</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Reformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reformers</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
"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
Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature · Survival: Active Recall | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and NatureAfter I found out I was going to have a baby, I started filming one second of every day. I used an app that allows you to select one second from a video, add it to a calendar, and then, when you’re done, mash the seconds into one single video.
"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/
Urban Omnibus · Neither Here Nor There - Urban OmnibusGlobally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?
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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
The Baffler · W.A.S.T.E. Not | Madeleine AdamsJohn Scanlan’s “The Idea of Waste” argues that all civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.
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).
screwlisp.small-web.orgLiteral transcript Kent M Pitman’s Whither Original thought previously unpublished essay
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