posted October 4, 2017 #
Google's just-announced wireless Pixel earbuds do real-time translation in 40 languages. The Babel Fish is real. https://t.co/OchpXPoj4i
what is going on here? read more to find out
The Norwood Suite is out now from Off-Peak creator
posted October 4, 2017 #
Want to play
posted October 4, 2017 #
Here's a kitten dressed as a bat to brighten up your day https://t.co/9ss4mYgFQG
posted October 4, 2017 #
watching twitter employees realize how bad twitter is is like the scene from 2001 where the apes learn how to use t… https://t.co/68oZhZdWKe
posted October 4, 2017 #
Optimism without works is meaningless, but what drives works if not the belief that we can and will make things better?
We Own This Town: Volume 94
posted October 4, 2017 #
- Southern by the Grace of Location - “Half Mast”
- Southern by the Grace of Location - “Bake A Cake”
- This Is All We’ve Learned About Living - “West Liberty”
- This Is All We’ve Learned About Living - “Fast Walkin’ Shit Talkin’”
- How We Handle Our Midnights - “When Easy Street Gets Hard To Find”
- How We Handle Our Midnights - “At Midnight”
- For What I Don’t Become - “Headstones And Dead Leaves”
- For What I Don’t Become - “Poor Boy”
- The Better Angels Of Our Nature - “Almsgiver”
- The Better Angels Of Our Nature - “Bitter Branch”
- Feral Fire - “Lonely Is A Town”
- Feral Fire - “ No Guarantee”
- Long Live All Of Us - “Trouble Won’t Last Always”
- Long Live All Of Us - “Ghosts In The Vapor
Arrival: OST Promo
posted October 4, 2017 #
If you haven't heard "1,000 MPH" yet, put that on repeat for a solid half hour and see how you feel. I'm going to bet on "refreshed."
Picture Disc pre-order available here.
Incredible Doom
posted October 4, 2017 #
HT to Andy Baio on the Matthew Bogart novel Incredible Doom, a print and web comic series "about '90s kids making life-threatening decisions over the early internet." The trailer is an engaging talking heads piece about the impact of discovering the Internet on many notable faces - Baio included and the first issue is available to read online.
I talk about nostalgia pretty frequently on here but this isn't exploiting things we did in our youth for the sake of hanging on to them at all costs, this is the stories of our youth for the sake of sharing them. It's consistently impressive to me to see how many people found their crowd via dial-up modem, message boards and chat rooms. Even games like L.O.R.D. formed friendships and experiences that carry through.
The print edition looks delightful and I may actually subscribe to get these in hand.
I talk about nostalgia pretty frequently on here but this isn't exploiting things we did in our youth for the sake of hanging on to them at all costs, this is the stories of our youth for the sake of sharing them. It's consistently impressive to me to see how many people found their crowd via dial-up modem, message boards and chat rooms. Even games like L.O.R.D. formed friendships and experiences that carry through.
The print edition looks delightful and I may actually subscribe to get these in hand.
posted October 4, 2017 #
The problem with Twitter in 2017 is that micro-observations are all inherently bourgeois. https://t.co/Fku62iqZAz
@biz frustrated
posted October 4, 2017 #
Interesting response and even better thread
posted October 3, 2017 #
One shoe bomber tried to blow up a plane and now we take off our shoes.
1518 mass shootings since Sandy Hook and Congress has done NOTHING.
posted October 3, 2017 #
*sees Casper the Friendly Ghost already exists*
*quietly rips up my Digroy the Dead Kid comic*
posted October 3, 2017 #
my version of “read it later”: open it in a new tab and NEVER READ OR CLOSE IT EVER
posted October 3, 2017 #
if you've used FB custom auds, you know how powerful it would be seeded with names from, say, a hacked voter roll... https://t.co/Wf618NxPcH
posted October 3, 2017 #
I want to live in a society where Rage Against the Machine lyrics feel antiquated and irrelevant.
posted October 3, 2017 #
The 2nd Amendment was written 226 years ago.
Imagine trying to write laws today that govern weapons in the year 2243.
posted October 3, 2017 #
New interview up today w/ Brooklyn-based artist/illustrator @beeteeth + photography by @ryanessmaker
The United States Of Guns
posted October 3, 2017 #
But this isn't about my social media Do's or Don'ts, this is about a great post about Jason Kottke on The United States of Guns containing a series of worthwhile quotes reflecting on our entropic system of inaction in regards to gun control and gun violence.
America is a stuck in a Groundhog Day loop of gun violence. We'll keep waking up, stuck in the same reality of oppression, carnage, and ruined lives until we can figure out how to effect meaningful change. I've collected some articles here about America's dysfunctional relationship with guns, most of which I've shared before. Change is possible - there are good reasons to control the ownership of guns and control has a high likelihood of success - but how will our country find the political will to make it happen?Aside from reading the above series of quotes from Kottke's site, please read the Teen Vogue piece We Have to Stop Pretending We Can't Do Anything About Gun Violence, as it's as on point as any piece could be.
I am angry about the Las Vegas shooter (killing 59, injuring 515) for so many reasons but, mostly, because we do nothing about it. I feel fearful. I feel despondent that there are people that would lash out at me for feeling that way, saying that guns aren't a danger, despite the evidence. Mostly I feel powerless because, as Kottke says, we are stuck in a loop. Thoughts and prayers go out, divisions continue to widen and nothing changes. Even a blog post feels embarrassingly, miserably, inadequate but I'm hopeful a movement somehow arises to finally break the chain.
posted October 3, 2017 #
This thread takes a truly wild turn at the end https://t.co/xs3XWJrFPF
posted October 2, 2017 #
You're right, 'thunderonthebeach.' You got us... https://t.co/1YhDCJ5tKK