This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day … Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?

The fact that Cabaret Voltaire, My Bloody Valentine and Radiohead are all touring (Europe) right now is kind of mind-blowing.

Um, is he using Violent Femmes’ “Add it Up” in the background?!

JAMC's Psychocandy and Calvin & Hobbes both came out on this day *40 years ago*?!

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

I love this. My boundary is at hue 175, apparently.

Got to see Exit 8 (based on the video game of the same name) and it was a lot of fun. Kafka-esque thriller. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_DJ...

A friend posted about this new Rosalía album (Lux) and I’m really enjoying it. London Symphony orchestration, beats by Venetian Snares, produced by Pharrell (et al.) and featuring a bunch of folks. (Björk!) And, of course, Rosalía singing in like a dozen languages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_(Ro...

Pluribus looks like it was shot on film but alas it’s just digital made to look like film. Sigh. www.panavision.com/highlights/c...

For the record, I am vehemently opposed to The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Just admitted to a friend that I once had to step outside of a Swans show about halfway through because it was so loud it had produced an uncomfortable pain in my chest. His response: "They'd be happy to hear that." 😂

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

This is about Britain but could apply to so many countries these days. (And not just about literature)

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

I really love this bit: “How people handle hard things says a lot.”

This John Cale / Charli xcx collab is great. More, please. youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...

Jack White using his acceptance speech to shout out awesome bands is deeply relatable behavior.

Cactus bloomed.

Humanity.

Not sure where I came across this Brooklyn band (Lathe of Heaven) but I’m kinda digging this album of post-punk inspired and alt-80s influenced jams. (Recommended if you remember The Cult’s hit She Sells Sanctuary) latheofheaven.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

Two Minute Papers episodes on YT often run closer to 10 minutes but I'd happily watch 30 minutes or more. Instead of empty hype it shines a light on and *explains* (recently published) advances in computer science. It's always fascinating. www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!* www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

You try to get off social media then one of the world's most evil men dies, a socialist Muslim gets elected NYC Mayor, and a cop is grilled about his assault by sandwich, all in one day.

hadn't twigged you can now run SuperCollider in the browser sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

This bsky labeler is possibly the best tool I’ve ever encountered for social media. Highly recommended. It’s bonkers to see accounts that post 50 or even 100 times a day. @stechlab-labels.bsky.social

Really enjoyed Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Perfect end to this year’s spooky season cinema.

The Fela Kuti podcast from Jad of Radiolab fame is unsurprisingly quite good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Interesting. “Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era” www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Nothing makes me feel as old as joining a very active Discord channel.

I really enjoyed the weird little film “Rabbit Trap.” It’s a shame that the very well done trailer sells it as a horror film. Reader, it isn’t scary. Not at all. Not even a little. A little creepy? Yes. Scary? No. youtu.be/Vj7UAYV6ihs?...

TIL: Tove Jansson’s beautiful classic “The Summer Book” recently was adapted into a movie with Glenn Close. Was not expecting that! If you haven’t already, read the book. It’s a treasure. tovejansson.com/summer-book-...

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Sandro Dias dropping in from 70m up on this building's facade is seriously insane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqfl...

The new Lomo MC-A has serious "modernized" Ricoh GR1 vibes. shop.lomography.com/eu/lomo-mc-a...

I’m old enough to have experienced at least a handful of significant AWS outages and every time it has happened people have said “maybe we shouldn’t host everything on AWS…” and yet here we are. I worry about over-reliance on cloudflare, as well. 🤷‍♂️

Normalize apologizing. Period.

This goes rather hard but I don’t disagree.

First thought: Sign Language! Second thought: Thing T. Thing? (Addams Family) Third thought: I think I'm kind of getting afraid of the future?

This is a great read if you're a fan of Galaxie 500. It's interesting to see them being being somewhat deferential and a little kind to each other despite the decades of acrimony.

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

This site is beautiful and well executed. I love so much about it.

The score for One Battle After Another is pretty incredible. (Of course, it’s by Jonny Greenwood)

Hell yeah!

I know there's a lot of folks who complain about people who take videos/photos on their phone at concerts but I just came across a video I took in 2012 at a Chromatics show I had until moments ago absolutely no recollection of attending. 😂

“The only way I have found to make good pictures is to make pictures. Many, many pictures. Most of them not very good.” Sally Mann

A weird thing about getting old is that (some) people you knew in your twenties or thirties are now middle aged (or older) and are kind of assholes. WTF happens to (some) people after 40?

@romanmars.bsky.social Have you seen this "Save Our Signs" National Park project? Seems like something you'd appreciate/support. sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

The new Running Man trailer is too long and shows far too much. Why do they do that? Edgar Wright should know better.

Interesting thread on Threads about baking that evolves into a list of all sorts of things that have changed in the last 20 years. www.threads.com/@thezoehyde/...