I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

search result for a dot gov URL for the City of Newport, Rhode Island that has been hijacked to read: AI Girlfriend 2026, Best Tools, How It Works and Real

the city of newport, rhode island has implemented some novel governmental initiatives

pack it up, it's sentient

hate how artists pad album tracklists to boost streaming numbers these days. this is just ridiculous

I love how bitchy the lunar flyby commentary sounds out of context; "the team has requested an attitude change, but needs to discuss it internally first"

You're Absolutely Right—Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

onlineclock dot net got the zombocom treatment (having its domain grabbed and replaced with some vibe-coded site ), nothing gold can stay

A hand-draw diagram meant to explain the concept that "DIFFERENT systems map onto the SAME model by sacrificing whatever variety is not needed for the purpose at hand." The diagram shows four people of different shapes at the top below these four there's a skeleton with arrows from all four people pointing at it and then finally at the bottom there's a picture of a baby on the left and an old man on the right with arrows point from them to the skeleton too.

reading old cybernetics books and i love how goofy their illustrations are

This is a truly unhinged lineup. Every time I look at it I notice something wilder. Silversun Pickups? The Sounds? Soft Cell? Bad Religion???

no kings, no dukes

A page on The New Yorker with a spectacularly cheesy animated ad for the game, HERO WARS, big green arrow reading TRY, YOU HAVE ONLY 2 MOVES IQ 155 Cartoon of a desert, there is a well, thirsty anime character and horse, I guess!

Here's a bit of Hilton Als's @newyorker.com review of the Whitney Biennial on my laptop.

Putting this ad spang in the middle of a veteran art critic's work is very disorienting for someone who grew up with the paper New Yorker and its beautiful layouts and ad designs

"I'm a music critic." "Cool!" I love sci-fi

it should be this and it never is 😤

rebranding my 20s as “the barbie ferreira music critic romcom era”

good counterpoint to my last repost

as someone who's been on the receiving end of a person at work abruptly starting to answer messages with AI when they hadn't before, it's a very unsettling experience. you are immediately aware that, definitionally, something has gone unsaid

Leftfield remains one of the best places to show weird or noncommercial or is-this-even-a-game games

When you want the zing of "secretly" but don't have the reporting

Sean Connery sneaking about in You Only Live Twice

Connery in disguise with a hat and face mask awkwardly over his chin

So, you’re telling me 007 couldn’t wear a COVID mask correctly either?

Tsuga, by Maelstrom from the album Rhizome

and here I thought you meant the musician

maelstromraar.bandcamp.com/track/tsuga

Every time I’m in Union Square I think about how Tammany Hall, the seat of power for New York for decades, is now a Petco

Seems enshittification is the word we’ve settled on for this (which is a shame because it doesn’t necessarily imply ill intent).

But whatever we call it, the fencing of the digital commons is one of the most significant developments of my lifetime. I’d go as far as to call it a catastrophe.

a normal-seeming turkey sandwich, except the turkey revealed itself partway through to have a concerningly slimy onion crust

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ETHICAL CONSUMPTION IN THE PRETA-LOKA — THE MYRMECOLEON CLUB On Pac-Man, the Bardo Thodol, and Borges.

got reminded of this piece today, one of the great intersections between games and weird fiction

the oracle zendaya will put your words on replay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLE...

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

Opening of I LAUGHED AT THE GREAT GOD PAN by Jack Kirby - a guy is taking a date to the art museum "It happened the time I took Diane to the art museum! I'd only known her a short while and I wanted to impress her! So I used my most effective method - posed as an art critic!" GUY: Most works of art live through the ages only because people are simple -- and easily impressed! DIANE: Do you really think so? GUY: I certainly do! And here's a good example of it! The guy in this painting looks like the village idiot! And yet, the people admire it -- because they don't know better!

"I used my most effective method - I posed as an art critic!"

good time to repost one of the best pieces of journalism from the 2020s nymag.com/intelligence...

ladies of the mushroom kingdom?

it only shows up for the rare ones, nothing else has flavor text