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posted May 1, 2018 #

@yewknee @LanceCo @fanfictionshow Hott Minute is a GREAT podcast

posted May 1, 2018 #

If you are here in 2018 and you decide that using Facebook as a dating platform is a good idea, it's important to all of us that you do not procreate. Please and thank you.

posted May 1, 2018 #

Nashville: GO VOTE OR ELSE YOU’RE NOT HOT AT ALL ?

Fan/Fiction w/ Andrew/Zach Launch

posted May 1, 2018 #

Over on We Own This Town we've launched a brand new podcast series called fan/fiction w/ andrew/zach. The name is a total mouthful but that's part of its charm. Instead of releasing new episodes every week, the entire first Season has been posted at once, should you want to binge listen. Here's the first episode:
The conceit of the show is that hosts Andrew and Zach explore creativity through the lens of fan fiction. More accurately, they comb through a massive repository of fan made stories, pick their favorites and discuss them. What happens when Prometheus meets My Little Pony? Or Sonic the Hedgehog infiltrates Schindler's List? Or Garfield goes Zero Dark Thirty? They find out.

Streaming on all the platforms now or over on their official site.

posted May 1, 2018 #

OK, so the transit vote is tomorrow. Here's why I'm going to vote for the transit plan. First, the city's current transit system is not good. It needs an overhaul and a large injection of dedicated funding. 1/

Microlino Auto

posted May 1, 2018 #

The Microlino is a new vehicle being manufactured by the guy that brought the world the Micro Scooter and Kickboard. It's tiny, it's electric and it's based on a 1950's vehicle named the Isetta - also known as The Bubble Car. I honestly don't know what to think of it. I'm in favor of smaller cars with a less intense environmental impact but having watched the video of this thing parking between two cars like a complete asshole I can't really fully support it.

Whatever it is, it's worth knowing it exists. It might just be the future we deserve.

posted April 30, 2018 #

The WHCA dinner will be old news by next week’s SNL but a good cold open sketch would be a Kremlin correspondents association dinner, but every few jokes you cut to Putin and then cut back to the podium and the emcee has been replaced by a new increasingly terrified comedian.

posted April 30, 2018 #

I like to play rock music with guitars and I think I’m pretty good at it.

Inspiring Record Label Logos

posted April 30, 2018 #

Good lord, this repository of Inspiring Record Label Logos is overwhelmingly great. I'm not sure on what the criteria were for selecting "The Best" of the thousands of record label logos out there but whatever that subjectivity may have been, it worked. I could never pick a favorite, even from this limited selection, but there's something about the handdrawn type of 20th Century Records, Decca, DANA and Chelsea Records that floors me.

via Daywreckers.

Glitch Capitalism And AI Logic

posted April 30, 2018 #

This Malcolm Harris piece on Glitch Capitalism is right up my alley. Within, he compares the "cheating" nature of machine learning to our own capitalist structures. Most impressively, he does it without being overly heady. It's difficult to pinpoint an exact pull quote that encapsulates my enjoyment completely but here's one worth a read:
If an algorithm generates a bad solution - like face-planting as a mode of ambulation - it's usually something we can fix. That's what tests are for, and engineers learn from their mistakes and oversights. Liberal capitalist democracy, however, isn't great with do-overs. In the political realm, there's a fear that any flexible or dynamic process would be subject to tyrannical abuse, and it's better to just wait until the next election.
There's a lot more context there to make it all the more enjoyable but that should be plenty to convince you to take on the full article. Don't just put it in your Read Later, spend some time with it right now.

via Belong.

posted April 28, 2018 #

I am old. #rbqdp https://t.co/jsjwJQrcbj

posted April 28, 2018 #

THIS HEADLINE? https://t.co/kCcRD90vBt

posted April 27, 2018 #

Stacks on Stacks on Stacks! Thank you to everyone for ordering!!!! I’m a happy lady rn ? https://t.co/LwsyaFrBky

Friday Videos - April 27th, 2018

posted April 27, 2018 #

Anyone else suffering from extreme FOMO when the weather gets slightly nicer outside and you feel chained to a laptop and can just stare listlessly out the window yearning for some non-Internet time? No? Just Me? Great.

Take a moment this weekend to listen to the first teaser for the new We Own This Town show, fan/fiction w/ andrew/zach. If you're into nerdy talk about all kinds of sci-fi / fantasy / whatever crossover, you're gonna love it.
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