So, it's Monday, and there's no way to say this that doesn't sound stupid, so I'm just going to come out and say it: I've decided to Twitch stream the entire writing of an NIH R01 proposal, and you can follow along at twitch.tv/ColinDoesScience

Hey I put out a book this year!! Rigsby WI is a series about some weird millennial teens growing up in northern Wisconsin! Buy the first book now, the second book comes out in March!!! store.ironcircus.com/products/rig...

‘tis the season!

frustrated about people being rude about foucault without having read enough foucault to be correctly rude

New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard. I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced* www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

LOGGING ON

Fellow HOW ITS MADE heads will know that anything made in relatively small volumes has a janky and handmade workflow even if it's very high tech and if you want to see some real sicko industrial full automation you need to see how they make extremely high volume boring shit like nails.

I keep an OLPC on my desk, because I think Ames' research into them is the most illuminating view into the cultural logic of computation emerging from the Cambridge cluster there could possibly be. It's a music player, and sometimes for movies, just like the kids did with it - and their phones.

aww damn now they're taking my job of acting unacceptably weird at parties

I find being wrong in public is a great way to get people to help figure something out. So here's my first stab at a list of what should be open an ideal government software project (e.g. source code, release history, backlog, uptime, etc.) Improvements strongly encouraged, either here or on GitHub.

TODAY is an EXCELLENT day to submit your talk, workshop, exhibition, art or performance for OHS2026!!!! Have you submitted yet??

around in late august i was out biking saw the widest fuzzy bear caterpillar i have ever seen like a full cm wide with fur, and i thought oh this is a boots year king winter is coming to DC which is insane, provincial, and superstitious but i did buy boots and i do not regret it

this is easily the most fucked up thing i've read all day this rules

shout out to to when I wrote that short story about (amongst other things) celebrity branded finance grifts www.noemamag.com/line-go-up

Very cool and important job for someone in NYC!

every time i read about a new Gambling Partnership jon bois' 17776 screams alive into my head once more www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

NPR's list of games is always like, Yes, I Will Wishlist That

A virtual supermarket of vintage Swedish packaging. 1000s of boxes, tins, cartons and the like. presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/swede-dreams

last fm's listening metrics are fun and good and if I thought they had any budget I'd say they should lean further in on this. 3D representations of any given listener's engagement with Scandinavian jazz. pie charts specifically referencing thrash variants

this problem is appearing in my diss because it turned out "tactical media" just offered tactics, not politics

well, now at least everyone knows what it looks like when a book editor really hates someone

seems like learning to write is really all over every industry this morning

No day that starts like this can be truly bad

at last, canadian house party fashion receives its due recognition

1. CN Tower 2. The Dead 3. Chinatown basement restaurants 4. Bruce Peninsula 5. why the arcade fire personally suck ass 6. Condo sales methods 7. Sarnia 8. Romancing people against winter's background 9. Music rights managem- no im sorry this is just owen pallett again my bad

this is depressing, annoying, and does remind me of how funding works in every large institutional system i've ever been in, where there's somehow always funding and never any _money_

My dissertation is finally published under my real name! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/e28db9...

can you make me a website

Nunsense continues! Bet you didn't see this TWIST coming! Eh? EH? ( ..I see myself out)

this craft fair takes up the whole exhibition hall and is about fifty percent museum-quality objects, which i say having spent a staggering amount of time in museums

alright its the worst stupidest weather of the year, second only to March lets do it lets take my mother to one of a kind

listen it's scary to put your chapbook out for review even if it's only supposed to blow up non-statistic free association systems

@hels.bsky.social As usual your gift guide is a really truly useful and pleasant read! I look forward to it every year and it is so consistently delightful

hockeyyyyyy

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

Today in art crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

🇺🇸 has put the critereon on 🍁: "who stole the kieska" is... now ... is this about polka? 🇺🇸: its by Les Blank 🇺🇸: you could do anything in the seventies

If Steam would develop a more consistent system than we've seen this week with Horses, I do genuinely believe the Steam Cube could provide some of this infrastructure

for reasons i thought were unrelated i've been spending a ton of time with CAE lately, so, here

im doing my part! 🫡

I’ll play, since I just got this picture of my ethnography of music recommender system developers on display in a hifi listening cafe in Long Beach, CA

i write about a lot of weird shit but the first weird shit i wrote about was DDOS as a tool of political activism! www.bloomsbury.com/us/coming-sw... you can buy it or download it for free from my website according to the whims of your heart! oddletters.com/the-coming-s...

Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

My new zine is about pointers. What is the point!? This is another topic I've found confusing when explained to me but easy once its presented differently. Why are people always repeating the same phrases and not explaining them? Lets explore pointers! Drop your fav pointer facts / questions here.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

From www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!

having encountered many times over the past few years large online tech platforms deciding not to let me put my stuff on them for strange and arcane reasons and refusing to elaborate i really feel this--it's nice to read another account of such a Platform Experience.

HOWEVER, i think the common response to this on the internet these days is 'boo gatekeeping' and imo this is a really bad response/take, the issue is the illusion of gatekeeping's removal. there are always gates and if no person is keeping them then some algorithm or accident of physics is.