via @waxpancake

!!! found this obscure nintendo VHS from 1989 that i watched so many times as a kid. it's an hour of cheats and strategies explained by the "u.s. national video game team". the sfx and bone-dry voiceover haunt me to this day. i owned none of the games. https://t.co/4aNdsodecy

a track from the RUN EP remixed by a Nashville outfit

Most of the time when I read about VR, it's in the context of videogaming in one way or another. That's all well and good but seems like a fairly limited scope if it's going to be the Next Great Technology (which is another reason AR has always seemed more interesting to me).

However, this Marshall Project piece on A View of Tomorrow that covers how Virtual Reality is being used inside of correctional facilities is a new and compelling implementation of the tech. Imagine being imprisoned for any significant amount of time - 10, 20, 40 years - and how much the world would have changed during that time. The ability to acclimate to the outside world would be jarring, at best, once you've finally earned your freedom.

Correctional facilities in Philadelphia and Colorado are trying out new experimental programs in which they help prisoners ready themselves for that release by immersing them in a virtual world before they experience it. Something as simple as walking around the halfway house they'll be staying in or going to the grocery store with self-checkout kiosks can be a huge help on learning how to simply exist.

There's plenty of discourse to be had around prisons in general that shouldn't be washed over just because some are using some new fangled technology. On the whole, they're inhumane, dangerous and often do nothing to rehabilitate their inhabitants. It's an awful scenario and this experiment shouldn't be thought of as a softening of that experience but at least some are making an effort to help the incarcerated stay away once they are released.

If I could give any advice to my younger self it’d be to take advantage of bread bowls before you grow up and get too in your head about it.

100% emoji running in a macOS terminal, generated by 8kb of code. https://t.co/JJRu238T6M

Even the comments are gold

absolutely gorgeous

Haha nice https://t.co/qelbWd6GAU

The Venture Bros. Season 7 trailer looks nuts! ? https://t.co/cTSUtafhe3 https://t.co/4k3gJi0zss

holy shit this is great

Glad to have that cleared up https://t.co/Brlmuaa4K8

You, dumb: Can I ask you a question? Me, brilliant linguist: That's literally the only type of thing you can ask

here's the cover i designed for CRACKED PLATE, the second single from the forthcoming YOU DRIVE LP. https://t.co/RcRSWZfExA https://t.co/Qu64pbRBWo

.@sadsadbaxter gets comfortable with making you feel uncomfortable on their new EP 'So Happy.' https://t.co/yCvOcM56vH https://t.co/Wi0NlEYgIK

Another week down, another long list of things I didn't get done yet. I really should take some time off of work work to do my other work. Do people do that? Do you vacate from work to do other work or am I infected with a work sickness that others don't feel compelled by? I'm assuming so.

Here ya go!

• Ain't No Lower Class Than TN Trash - great song, perfectly weird 70's commercial and an unbelievable headspin thinking about filming and cleaning this up. via Patrick.
• Better Call Saul, Season 4 Trailer - seems like the world of Better Call Saul is starting to merge a bit more with Breaking Bad. I like this show but will fight anyone that tries to argue it isn't slow paced.
• Jonny Marr is not thinking about Jar Jar Binks - cue this up and immediately jump to 0:37 seconds in. Overall, it's an interesting video but you really just need that one little clip and then move along.
• The Dark Knight v Burton's Batman - pretty interesting essay on the differences on the two films but, more interesting, is the similarities... of which there are surprisingly a lot.
• Majestic Cup - thematically tying it all together with some trash and a Batman reference.

Go enjoy this new podcast or dive into this album.

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a topic worth digging into more

Amazing photos! https://t.co/D7osNHH7hu

Check out @JEFFbrotherhood’s “Parachute,” a track that illustrates some of the changes that mark their forthcoming album ‘Magick Songs.’ https://t.co/pNs6i3m5E9 https://t.co/hcl8e8Rfmp