Also doesn’t help Nike that the Celtics AF1 line looks ridiculous while Brown’s own-brand 741 is pretty fresh

Why Jaylen Brown Turned Down $50 Million Nike Sneaker Deal Jaylen Brown did not want to sign a contract with Nike if it meant censoring his speech.

Another factor: www.si.com/fannation/sn...

Re: the current moment

Perhaps a big disconnect comes from the gap between "people who can see through the hype and are assessing utility in a post-hype environment" and "people who know how dangerous the hype is precisely because being able to see through it is actually pretty rare in humans"

“I recompiled my Linux kernel”

Tom Waits

Like, it’s not exactly hard to find newsworthy and deeply consequential psyops to unravel right now

Obvs the music industry is shady, but it’s funny that people are like “horror! this talented & original band that lots of people genuinely enjoy got famous through inauthentic promo” while big tech companies are building demand w/ “our next product is so dangerous we’re considering not releasing it”

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Not many attempts with real actual regolith samples, of course, but tons of research into techniques (3D printing, mud bricks, etc.) with simulants thespringinstitute.com/lunar-regoli...

Downbelow Station is criminally underrated (Merchanter’s Luck, too.)

Exterior of “The Room” from Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (1979). It’s right there, like you could reach out and grab it, but your arms aren’t long enough.

guys will say “I know a place” and take you here

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide.

Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session.

Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

re: people dissociating instead of “reacting with the appropriate level of alarm”

An image of Peggy and Don from Mad Men with the text “You’re not reacting with the appropriate level of alarm” and “that’s what the dissociation is for” superimposed in Impact font.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

What was normalized in Gaza will have lasting effects on the entire world. It was a signal to the worst of humanity that they can get away with even livestreamed genocide. And we see that very genocide expanding today, and Trump joining in not under cover like Biden, but front & center.

You are a senator. You can and must do more than posting from your yard. Get back to D.C.! With your colleagues! Come on.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Screenshot of NASA livestream with chat on the right and an image of Artemis, the far aide of the moon, and the Earth (small, distant) on the left. The truncated caption autogenerated from the live audio reads “and the earth. Everyone in this picture”

“Everyone in this picture”

I can’t tell you why but I woke up this morning thinking “the ending scene from the movie Drive but the soundtrack is Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country” so I made it for us all to have something beautiful

Sequel to Don DeLillo’s Underworld that covers the 21st century starting with this game

on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

copyright to a work automatically transfers if someone mocks it hard enough. only medicines can be patented but the rounded corners on phones count as medicine. trade secret law exists purely on the blockchain but also blockchains are now unconstitutional. the ITC now solely regulates smartwatches

People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this

The other was a student who asked if I thought we could get back to a world where people care about art. I turned that back to the audience and asked "Who here cares about art?" Every single hand went up. Not a random sample of the population to be sure, but the question asker was also not alone.

Personally, I think it's important that children be taught about all the early Saddle Creek bands. Not just Cursive, but Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, and even The Good Life. Hear hear!

Someday there’s going to be a legitimate and diligent investigation of this war and we’re not going to believe how incompetent and insane it truly was. We think we have some idea already but you just wait.

at last we have invented the computer that draws paranoid conspiratorial connections, from Unberto Eco’s classic Do Not Become Addicted To The Computer That Draws Paranoid Conspiratorial Connections