Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files A picture is worth a thousand pads™

Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files A picture is worth a thousand pads™

went deeper on Berryman and ended up in a sort of ambivalent malaise cyberb.space/shelf/john-b...

Born #onthisday in Berlin in 1892, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin. Read an essay by Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age, and the implications of his work entering the public domain. publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd

Criterion Closet has become a big enough part of the culture that we as a society are obligated to break the format. Who among us is worthy? Who among us will enter the arena to add films rather than take? Who dares tear down these walls that confine the definition of cultivated cinematic taste?

Welcome @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social !!!!

one thing led to an other: rybitten.space

True joy still exists for those who build their own websites.

It takes serious guts to be this vulnerable, and I hope in exchange for her honesty, my friend Rocio and ALL our friends and colleagues at ProPublica can get the fair contract we need, especially when it comes to wages:

*weeps in Latin, for the vulgars have won*

Garffeld

Monsoon rains finally started up in Mumbai yesterday. Felt like a good excuse to write a blog. cyberb.space/notes/2026/t...

feel free to wear your smart specs in public, just know that I will be reserving the right to shine a laser in your eyes if I think you’re looking at me

Great write up of one of my favorite books so far this year.

These should only be used for bringing outside food and drink into the theaters

"People think... you must ‘pick a cause.’ But this is a myth. It is the illusion of a monstrous future that wants to swallow you whole." Read Mike Corrao on @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social's unionization campaign. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/29/t...

Hell yeah, Mike Corrao! Solidarity with all the brave workers at @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/29/t...

Some are calling it the trillion dollar Markov chain™

Recently watched Robocop for the warm fuzzies over here.

In fact what Frasier Crane demonstrates by the folly of his quotidian existence is that no matter the strict adherence to rationality, no matter the psychological acuity or intellectual rigor we might bring to bear on our own human experience, it remains, inevitably, a realm of total chaos.

man literature in translation is such an easy way to read good books. no one translates the bad ones

They’re calling him the most vindicated person in history

“not to point fingers but-“

Finally found a minute to write up a little something after my recent trip to Bhutan. Lots of stuff left on the cutting room floor: a visit to a traditional paper factory, my personal discover of takins, and learning to play khuru after a traditional stone-heated bath. cyberb.space/notes/2026/b...

This has been bugging me so I need to clarify. I know that "referent" and "thing-in-itself" are synonyms. My original draft used "referent" and "reference," but it sounded too dissertation-y. In a fit of pre-post mania, I swapped out the wrong term. I will live the rest of my life with regret.

a long time ago i followed @sgillies blog and the moment he announced he had left a job we hired him to work at mapbox, a major coup. now is the time for you to do the same thing for your company, i guarantee you will not regret it: https://sgillies.net/2026/04/24/laid-off.html

Were the game dev engine “Godot” true to its namesake every invocation would hang indefinitely yet still imbue us with an uncanny feeling that maybe this time its functions will resolve. Its true purpose would be to cultivate breathless anticipation of a meaning that never materializes.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

In awe of these shots from a TV program where Leonard Berstein introduced his audience to a Bach-playing MOOG synthesizer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sS...

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Now that I’m as old as Dante was when he wrote the Inferno, I can pretty confidently say that one of my circles of hell would be for the able bodied people who live on the 2nd floor of a high rise with +20 floors and still use the elevator.

Love a good piece that connects recent trends in the horror genre to modern cultural anxiety. "As we reconcile our lost spaces and our offices give way to new "lifeforms," [...] liminality will continue to define this threshold moment between physicality and digitality." — @shirachess.bsky.social

Finally saw the Taj Mahal after a year and eight months of living in India. Here are some brief and ill-considered thoughts on the experience. cyberb.space/notes/2026/e...

Finally got around to watching Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. Very good subversion of genre expectations. Also maybe the best final scene of any movie I've seen in the past few years? Bugonia could take some notes.

“The Dream” by F. Brossler, from a 1912 issue of Der Guckkasten. One of 900+ prints in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/the-...

Almost 650 years ago something very interesting happened throughout the kingdom of England. Unfortunately, most of the records that would help us know exactly who and what this was were burned in the process. cyberb.space/shelf/juliet...

Makenna Goodman's novel "Helen of Nowhere" is a sneaky trick pulled on unsuspecting readers — and I loved it. cyberb.space/shelf/makenn...

This Melville guy knew Americans better than anyone else

The Bookworm archive continues to be an incredible resource. This old interview with Chris Ware has so much packed into its short 30 minutes. The term “geometries of perception” is perfect and this is the only place I’ve heard it used. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

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Can’t believe this book is 16 years old already. But Egan’s fragmented examination of angst, ambition, and redemption holds up surprisingly well, all things considered. cyberb.space/shelf/jennif...