The way Peter thiel is fixated on Greta as the biblical antichrist when this man is right here!!

How did this catch the attention of car people??? please stop commenting yes I know the challenges that come with a 35 year old car - I HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW - i am not going to buy this subaru ok

For the past 5 years we've been sadly planning to get rid of our 1991 volvo 240 wagon which is increasingly unreliable but has valiantly served ~350k miles, and get a Prius or Honda Fit or something. But I just saw this mint 91 Subaru on FB with only 114k miles and now I'm like hmmmmmm

so many newsletters so little news

If you would like to read more from the already-existing field of maintenance studies, The Maintainers Study Guide is a great place to start. I am proud to have contributed editing + design labor to this project!! themaintainers.org/study-guide/

hahahahahaha Some might say that the existence and expansion of the billionaire class is antithetical to the maintenance, flourishing, and survival of our planet and people, but NOT STEWART BRAND!

Only 56 years after Mierle Laderman Ukeles (and 10 yrs after the establishment of The Maintainers), Stewart Brand comes out with his own maintenance manifesto, exploring "the insights that can be gleaned from the maintenance of sailboats, vehicles, and weapons" ok🙂 press.stripe.com/maintenance-...

organizing my archives (aka deleting old screenshots) and finding some good stuff. never did figure out if Christo is cool.

Bought tix to a screening of a 1989 American feature film that is not listed on Letterboxed!!! How?? God I’m pumped—can’t wait to log it

Really not enjoying the way various tech-adjacent thinkfluencers are deploying Ozempic as an imaginative tool // futuring technology // rhetorical cudgel.

Good old Woz. Good for him.

I need my esteemed colleagues at the intersection of art and technology to start being more discerning about where they publish. Asterisk? Palladium?? Either you're a credulous rube or you're showing your true colors ... no thanks.

Goo goo Dolls Iris was corny as hell when it came out in 1998 and I never once imagined people would be moved to tears by it 27 years later!! Good for them I guess

the protein-bro-ification of greek yogurt is severely funny to me. why does this look like a barrel of whey protein... is regular yogurt too femme?

Realizing how accustomed I’ve become to modern machines that don’t want you to access their innards, bc I’m trying to troubleshoot this serger and it’s like …what, do they think I’m a mechanic or something???

Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.

Do you want some mail? It's that time of year again: @annapendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 7th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up here and we'll send you a zine + extra object in the post (gratis). We love to send gifts to our friends!! Sign up>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Epstein telling Deepak Chopra "I've felt a kinship with Woody because he is tortured by existential dilemmas as am I" hahahaha ok So many banal-yet-sicko details to dig through

AI is not a climate solution. With #COP30 underway, we stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples and frontline communities in rejecting centralized tech power and the extractive practices of AI — and affirming that technology must serve people. #TheAnswerIsUs greenscreen.network/en/blog/cop30/

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

if the new Dave Eggers art school space thing wants to be taken seriously it is imperative they get a new logo because www.artpluswater.org

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

Anyone know a zeitgeist bouncer who can be enlisted to scare away the tpot meetup dorks?

Who decorated Tucker Carlson's gothic americana mancave and were they purposely channeling the Texas Chainsaw dining room?

📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...

New Guadanino movie has a plot point where a phd philosophy student is suspected by her professors of plagiarizing entire paragraphs of Agamben in her dissertation (in 2020! lol) but no one can prove it for some reason? Bad movie but some dummy catnip details for academics to enjoy/hate

Read my new essay about the shriveled imagination of the life-extension guys!! On Bryan Johnson, communist cybernetics, and the Human Centipede. And if you're in NY, head to the launch party in Brooklyn tonight for Empty Set mag (Dear Friends Books, 7pm🩸) www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...

Tommy Craggs said "this level of millennial quirk chungus cannot go unpunished"

Considering Venkatesh Rao the height of intellectual insight, believing Fredric Jameson secretly admired globalized commodity production, and claiming that postmodernism has a "business model": just another day at the Andreessen Horowitz dipshit factory!! a16z.com/prediction-t...

I have been wanting to write about Bryan Johnson (Don’t Die guy and prolific poster) for years now. And I finally did! Also about communist blood transfusion, fluid potential, and the horror of the segment. Read now in advance of the official release of Empty Set mag Issue 1 next week:

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A problem for me is that Radu Jude and Rudy Jude are almost the same name and it's confusing

i finally listened to GEESE in order to catch up with what the kids are into and idk you guys... it was a very triggering listen as someone who lived through the mid-00s sloppy experimental sincere chamber pop era. unfortunately i'm giving it a score of SLIGHTLY CRINGE and NO THANKS.

Unbelievable cruelty!!

Mini afternoon field trip to Martinez on Amtrak - $8 and they’ve got free snacks and bay views. Two 20somethings just got on with a box of Popeyes and one said to the other “girl if you like BART you’re gonna love the train” SHE’S RIGHT

This @kellypendergrast.bsky.social essay, on Stanley tumblers, TikTok, smartphone aspect ratios, montage + transitional objects is so smart:! "In its mirroring of the video frame, the Stanley became an ideal subject for the age of vertical video... Montage is dead, and the cup stays in the picture."

Cassandra at the Wedding (CatW) is my Stoner (if you know what I mean), and this piece about being a bookseller & recommending it to readers and then wondering if it's wrong to sell everyone a text on the call of the void (CotV) (it's not!), is great: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

Palantir “ontology” merch…??🤪🤪 now I’ve seen everything and can die miserable. Gootbye

News flash I just made the perfect lunch and I am now completely satisfied and ready to proceed with my afternoon with balance poise and concentration … once in a lifetime feeling

Where is the enterprising beauty journalist who will get to the bottom of Peter Thiel's skincare routine? Kinda feels like he is going for glass skin but accidentally hitting salamander

Kind of incredible selection of reading groups about to start up at Oakland's Bathers Library — highly recommend all bay area folks signing up for something. it is time 2 learn + connect! non-bay area folks... sorry!! batherslibrary.cargo.site/current-read...

Nothing new here, really, but Knausgaard really does write about it technology, computing, and the world in such a sweet way. Also now i'm sickeningly jealous of James Brindle's apparently blissful life on a greek island. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Great piece about the "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" meme. However, this further cements my theory that current tech culture exists downstream of 20teens millennial marketing culture. Outdoor Voices' "DOING THINGS" walked so "YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS" could run thebaffler.com/latest/high-...

I really resent the brand-ification // creative agency-ification of outdoorsy-ness. Eg this launch of Usal's presence in northern california, which brings nature cleanups, birdwatching, bikepacking, visible mending, etc etc all into play as elements of a brand aesthetic and lifestyle package.

Still on my mind

The ecstatic reception of the anthropic retail popup merch drop is sooooo funny. people talk about techies “reinventing the bus/library/etc” — this is “reinventing 2018 hipster b2c company marketing aesthetics”. What other ancient trends can we revive and sell to these guys????

Balaji's network state conference was streaming live and I stumbled on to it tonight for a tiny bit.. some of these speakers I've seen in Sf at weird sad events speaking to like 50 transhumanists, if that. Over 400k ppl watching on twitter but only 300 ppl on youtube... thread of clips

Whenever the Menswear guy posts about how you don’t need to be thin or athletic to dress well, and that big guys can look great and sexy, it’s always with a photo of this exact guy