rather enjoyed this. via @austinkleon

"Trolls set a cunning trap. By ignoring their provocations, you risk seeming complicit. By responding, you amplify their message."

Really loving the combination of handdrawn styles, pro half-toning and subtle animations in the portfolio of Matthew Sharer, aka Shurrrr. His instagram has a bunch of additional work and he runs a shop called Temporary Enterprises.

Lots to take in but be sure not to miss the Grand Palace Leopard or the Stairs print.

I often scour Bandcamp looking for new Nashville releases for the WOTT Music podcast I curate. I recently came across a collection of beats from an artist named Bloopr and the cover art really caught my eye. While there's a lot going on, the combination of aesthetics really works for me - hand scrawled but meticulous, chaotic layout but patterned and repetitive. I don't know what all is going on but I like it.

That artwork stems from Nate Bard. His Instagram and Behance are a solid offering of work from unique type to collage paintings to something else entirely.

Outtake from my analog(oblivion) series. #GlitchArt https://t.co/21iYQD1VyH

Not to get all Black Mirror/your dad about it but wild how there was a time when 'brb' was necessary because you weren't just constantly mainlining the internet in the background of the rest of your life

This is a thread from last year that I’m sending out again due to all the Facebook stuff. Ethics in tech is going to continue to be a major challenge for civilization going forward. https://t.co/NldVe9ZqDw

Werner Herzog on aesthetic intent, yo. https://t.co/NcBax0yVQU

a short story. https://t.co/9dILqhPYlQ

I've got this weird mashup in my mind of Jane's Addiction and Lisa Loeb: Jaaaane Saaaays/ I only hear what I want to

having a hard time unseeing this https://t.co/4vWnulMDTD

You think you know stress? When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it. Forever.

Adulthood is just clicking this button everyday until you eventually die https://t.co/KQ0ur7DnkM

I just watched a gender reveal video on Facebook where a guy puts a watermelon full of blue jello in a live alligator's mouth and then after the "reveal" the man has to wrestle the alligator to stop it from attacking his family https://t.co/jJ1PSLCSQ0

The best thing I've seen all day: @TodaysBestest is a new bot that tweets the best things people have seen all day. https://t.co/DrzD15D43E

Did you know that there is no correct spelling for “Mediterranean”? It just appreciates it if you give it your best shot.

This is genius: Leaving Facebook isn't an option for everyone, so Firefox's new Facebook Container Extension lets you continue using Facebook, but quarantines your identity into a container that third-party cookies and trackers can't touch. https://t.co/8uvZzc3lBy

took them a long time to make it (understandably) but Protomen have pop-up book style vinyl. unbelievable.

Before you immediately close your browser, know that this post isn't some screed against Facebook or a call to arms in the forthcoming Privacy Revolution! I'm not eloquent enough for any of that. However, I do want to post some articles that I found interesting as of late in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. So, here they are:

• ReCode transcript with Zuckerberg - a quality interview with Mark Zuckerberg in which the journalists ask some decently hard questions. The answers are disappointing at best and bafflingly ignorant at worst.
• What the F*** was Facebook thinking? - a good read on the historical context of the data share and what else was going on at the time; lest you forget other data breaches like the huge one at Target. Moreso, it gives some insight on how far reaching and pervasive the data scraping could be from any company at that time.
• Facebook scraped call, text messages for years from Android phones - Facebook denies this one but I'm not really prone to fully believe them, given that in several other interviews they've openly stated that they don't know where all their data went. This collection was clearly happening and shows the depth of information that was gathered.
• The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse was Predicted in 2007 - going back eleven years, MIT Media Lab predicted that such a massive data share was imminent unless measures were taken to prevent it. Clearly, an MIT Media Lab study didn't make it to the masses.

As I stated at the top, I'm not going to try and synthesize all that into some grand theory against Facebook. I'm actually shocked that the #DeleteFacebook movement has come up again - as none of this seems the least bit surprising to me. Social media networks make their money off your data. Furthermore, Facebook and Instagram and Google and everywhere else are pieces of code written by humans that are driven by profits and growth (see: "Move Fast and Break Things").

This fallout is a nice eye-opener for a large audience but I can't imagine this will really change anything. As we move into a more AR / VR driven world, even more granular data will be collected and sold. Imagine what happens when your eye movements can be tracked and what sort of re-targeting ads can be served to you simply based on lingering for awhile on a product.

This isn't all doom and gloom but, frankly, just a reality that we need to get more accustomed to. If you are a part of a social network, you are volunteering that information and taking that risk. Do I think there should be some regulation and safe keeping? Of course but I do think we're seeing the definition of "privacy" change extremely quickly and I'm fascinated to see where it will land.

Did you know David Cross wrote a Sky One series called Bliss? It features Stephen Mangan, Heather Graham and Jo Hartley. Here's the synopsis:

Bliss follows the complicated double life of Andrew, a successful travel writer who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets of wives and children whose existences are unknown to each other.

Andrew, in a constant state of moral crisis, must find a way to balance his time and energies between his wife Kim and teenage daughter, while travelling back and forth across Bristol to his other family, wife Denise and their teenage son.

As Andrew's two worlds become ever harder to contain, so does his sanity. And he finds himself going to increasingly drastic lengths to protect the two families he loves.

The trailer summarizes that scenario pretty well. The scope of this show seems a bit more contained than Cross's last one and I'm looking forward to the chaos that lies ahead.