Old-timey typewriters about to make a huge comeback

If Disney suddenly pulling out of a billion dollar AI deal is the first domino that leads to the insolvency of Oracle (which is precariously over-leveraged at this exact moment in time), I will laugh my ass off

[SPOILER] In the novel, there’s a scene where all the people who’re serendipitously quarantined at the airport eventually decide to risk the fuel & send multiple jets in opposite directions to see if they can find any survivors... none of the aircraft return. i’ve been thinking about it all day.

"Matt Diserio, co-founder and president of Water Asset Management, a hedge fund that has spent millions buying land in the area (principally for the attached water rights)" please, I'm begging y'all to read CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner; it will be so much worse than you think.

the "super-fast hack for grindset looksmaxxing" side of the force

all my THAADs, gone.

how much do you want to bet the distributor's logistics software now has AI

i'm old enough to remember news stories phrased almost exactly like this hitting around 2008

is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is Max Peltier (Tom Sizemore) in STRANGE DAYS...?

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new

Turns out there actually *is* enough time in the day to get things done, lmao, and then some! Chores, art, mutual aid, volunteering, the gym, and so on and so on It’s been good to have that reminder that the world and the work is there waiting for us when we shun the infinite scroll

It feels silly sometimes, and certainly I’m finding my days to be a bit more solitary than I’m used to, but also—my memory retention is better, my emotional regulation is also better. Intellectually those borders that I felt enclosed by not even two weeks ago are dissolving. It’s good, very good

More broadly, I’ve been really working on turning back toward creating intentional ‘analog‘ spaces: terrestrial radio over streaming, physical books over the doom scroll, reducing app-based social media use almost completely and keeping it housed on my laptop, which never leaves my desk.

Best thing I did for myself in this new year was dig out the old FM radio and turn that baby on each morning The progressive station I’ve set the dial to is full of news, music, and really edifying political and cultural conversation—it’s given me a sense of place and inspiration in this moment

i'm literally begging some of y'all to read 'The Water Knife' by Paolo Bacigalupi

he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut

“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Relatable Corvid

The trailer for the new film from the director of The Green Knight, Mother Mary, is out. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY FUCK, it looks so fucking bonkers and the typical A24 film, but for the first time in a while for me, absolutely enticing.

had a couple of copper fish figurines in my bird bath to keep the water from accumulating too much algae buildup. this morning, a neighborhood crow picked one of them up and flew away with it. they definitely love their little shiny trinkets.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

A Limerick for Leibowitz

i got blocked by someone for suggesting that the tech bros/oligarchs think that losing trillions in an AI bubble is ultimately worth it as a means to an end (top-to-bottom societal control).

Anyone read the Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi? America isn't immune to stuff like this either.

if the meteor that killed the dinosaurs had hit the earth just 16 minutes earlier (or later) in its rotation, the event likely wouldn't have been catastrophic enough to annihilate them. they were the unwitting victims of a cosmically unlucky lottery.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

thinking of how the ending of this film contrasts with the ending of Frankenstein 👀👀👀

new fave image of the creature just dropped

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

It occurs to me that as everything continues to become increasingly siloed, sports remains one of our last bastions of a shared monoculture that still can be experienced communally

#TOcellus #AlienEarth #Halloween2025 #HalloweenCostume

And here is the Little Free Library World Map: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Jacob Elordi has been nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Performance category at the Gotham Film Awards for his work in ‘FRANKENSTEIN’

this is objectively hilarious

Dan Trachtenberg's 2022 sci-fi horror hit PREY will hit theaters for the very first time this November as part of a double bill with PREDATOR: BADLANDS.

Research has shown us repeatedly that reading is a key to longevity.

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. The rest is wainscoting.

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

found two baby house geckos huddling together between my houseplants when I was watering this morning; I couldn't see any egg shells in the planters, so I gently moved them outside together. One stopped to look at me after...

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky