Herbert Bayer, "Diagram of Extended Vision" (1935)

…I typed, leaning against a brick pillar, legs like the Hanged Man.

One of those Reddit-facts that turns out to be true and that since learning it I can’t help but notice everywhere is that we Americans, almost uniquely, lean on things and further cross our legs while standing so that one heel is up in the air. This sounds like bullshit, but now you cannot unsee it.

“…While we’re here, we might as well set up a government…” (from October, by China Miéville)

I miss Periscope terribly and TikTok Live is a poor substitute, but I am currently watching guys play cricket in a Texas shopping center parking lot at 1AM local time.

This is absolutely fascinating

A long time ago I idly wondered “who were the indigenous population of the British Isles?” and answering that question is so maddening, it made me question the entire concept.

Holy Roman imperial banner? Steam it. DPRK flag? Steam it. NATO flag with a doge on it? Steam it.

ITT, actual unalloyed Idealism

…let’s go to the S&P 500 Futures pit at the CME.

Andreas Gursky, Chicago, Board of Trade II (1999)

CKY (1999)

Stamps, Arkansas Population: 1,465 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps,_Arkansas

“True, people help each other in catastrophes. But they don't feel good because they help each other. They help each other because they feel good.”

Putting this out into the world expressly so I don’t do it, but I’ve long been meaning to write up something about “mass shooter music,” because it’s absolutely fascinating, but almost certainly some kind of infohazard.

The Biden administration awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand in Oregon and Colorado, the second CHIPS Act award (Ana Swanson/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Nizami Ganjavi, “Alexander the Great and the Prophet Khidr in Front of the Fountain of Life” (~16th century, Azerbaijan)

The algo has delivered to me Black Israelites livestreaming from what appears to be a classroom, with a bunch of mall ninja weapons taped to the chalkboard.

here's a picture of american president and judo guy ulysses s. grant that goes hard as hell

“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Kevin Kelly, 2011 www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/july...)

To paraphrase Dale Carnagie, personality test results are to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. (image courtesy @kaninchen.bsky.social)

My only position on Harvard.

Courtesy of my YouTube algorithm, in case anybody was wondering, “hey, how’s Peter Gabriel doing these days?” The answer is apparently fantastic.

Cancelling Zizek for self-plagiarism.

First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka and a fan, from the Millennium of the Polish State (Leszek Łożyński, Warsaw, July 22, 1966)

Smoking difficulty: sustained wind >40mph (advanced-intermediate)

It’s a new year, so you know what that means: time to post your results from the CIA’s surprisingly nuanced personality test. www.pasf.org/pasq/ Basic e*f*a* (IcRcAu)

*foghorn* New Years Eve is the American danse macabre. “Woke up at 3 A.M. with the radio on, that Gladys Knight and the Pips song on / About how she'd rather live in his world with him than live in her own world alone…”

Barry Goldwater, “Camelback Mountain from a tethered balloon" (1935)

*foghorn* “…We'll pass around the easy lie / Of absolutely no regrets / And later maybe you could try / To let your losses dangle off / The sharp edge of a century / Talk about the weather, or / How the weather used to be…”

it's suspicious to me that the temperature of underground is perfect for humans and it's the same year round. we are supposed to be down there

"US Navy 35mm presentation slides," slide 17 of 20 [gallery]

“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! / Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; / Star in the east, the horizon adorning, / Guide where our infant Redeemer was laid.”

The earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter the public domain on January 1, as Disney's copyright suits have slowed to a trickle in recent years (Gene Maddaus/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

“‘Oh, being awake does not trouble me now. I do the cubes, and the time flies.’ So I thanked God and blessed the cubes, for which had been found a utilitarian use at a most desperate psychological juncture. Power won cannot be lost, and will some day be utilised.”

Downloaded TikTok for the first time and the algo is fascinating. It quickly cottoned on that I want videos of airplane cockpits and Vietnamese guys unloading bulk cargo ships, but steadfastly refuses to show me the two things I was promised, roughly “thick bitches” and “people arguing.”

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

Cancelling Zizek for self-plagiarism.

“Another difference between Milton [Friedman] and myself is that everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of my papers.” rip robert solow

I didn't see this coming: To placate a war-weary population, #Russia has doled out cheap loans for citizens to buy new homes. That is creating a fast-building housing bubble. via WSJ's Cchelsey Dulaney & Georgi Kantchev www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The Audible audiobook for The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government has a loud and unedited fart sound about 38 and a half minutes into chapter 4

“If you subscribe to my theory that genre and spectacle are the languages art uses to communicate when everyday words are no longer commensurate with the emotions we feel…”

Thought of a (valid) take so madness inducing I had to write it on a little slip of paper and burn it.

*foghorn* “…gems from the mountain and pearls from the ocean / myrrh from the forest and coal from the mine…”

Smoking difficulty: sustained wind >40mph (advanced-intermediate)

My favorite megalith might be Bryn Cader Faner ("the hill with the throne and flag") in Gwynedd, Wales. Royal grenadiers once used it for target practice, but they're gone and it yet remains. (photo by Thingy from @megalithic.bsky.social)

“Ever wonder how it can snow in New Orleans?” (Surface map, December 31, 1963, via Joe Bastardi)