I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

really highlights the fact that silicon valley is nothing more than a perpetual 'venture capitalism machine' that serves no real purpose other than building obscene wealth for small circle of technocrats

we've been staring at our phones for so long, we forgot what it felt like to look upward and outward

Shoutout to science that isn't co opted into a vanity project for the worst person on Earth

silicon valley bro tech has done nothing but isolate us and has never looked so failed & feeble than in this moment. humanity IS capable of communal goals and grand, scientific curiosity; being united in a monoculture moment like this is like breathing oxygen after years of asphyxiation #ArtemisII

Old-timey typewriters about to make a huge comeback

If Disney suddenly pulling out of a billion dollar AI deal is the first domino that leads to the insolvency of Oracle (which is precariously over-leveraged at this exact moment in time), I will laugh my ass off

also: THE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi

"Matt Diserio, co-founder and president of Water Asset Management, a hedge fund that has spent millions buying land in the area (principally for the attached water rights)"

please, I'm begging y'all to read CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner; it will be so much worse than you think.

the "super-fast hack for grindset looksmaxxing" side of the force

👇👇👇

all my THAADs, gone.

aaaaaaand there it is 👇

how much do you want to bet the distributor's logistics software now has AI

Mountainhead (2025)

i'm old enough to remember news stories phrased almost exactly like this hitting around 2008

is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is Max Peltier (Tom Sizemore) in STRANGE DAYS...?

i hate to say it but they keep losing faceoffs and Marchand is having a stinker of a game; they need to shake up the lines a bit, idk

at this point I’m almost more apprehensive about the entire bench having norovirus

oh lord, this is to hide the inevitable rust spots, isn't it

imagine how people would react if their device actually became self-aware; as in, asking questions about human existence completely UNprompted... exhibiting the genuine, insatiable curiosity of a child (in reality, the average person would be *terrified* by any kind of true autonomous intelligence).

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new

Turns out there actually *is* enough time in the day to get things done, lmao, and then some! Chores, art, mutual aid, volunteering, the gym, and so on and so on

It’s been good to have that reminder that the world and the work is there waiting for us when we shun the infinite scroll

It feels silly sometimes, and certainly I’m finding my days to be a bit more solitary than I’m used to, but also—my memory retention is better, my emotional regulation is also better. Intellectually those borders that I felt enclosed by not even two weeks ago are dissolving. It’s good, very good

More broadly, I’ve been really working on turning back toward creating intentional ‘analog‘ spaces: terrestrial radio over streaming, physical books over the doom scroll, reducing app-based social media use almost completely and keeping it housed on my laptop, which never leaves my desk.

Best thing I did for myself in this new year was dig out the old FM radio and turn that baby on each morning

The progressive station I’ve set the dial to is full of news, music, and really edifying political and cultural conversation—it’s given me a sense of place and inspiration in this moment