https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3CovIKJWE The important thing to remember is that this basement isn’t packed with treasure. It’s packed with junk. You have to spend the time to sort through the junk to find the treasure. There is no shortcut. There is no algorithm. There is only time, attention, noticing — digging...I like to try to apply this spirit … Continue reading Scratch: Hip Hop Turntablism Documentary
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Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a [Great Blog Post]
"Finally, try to write the best version of your paper: the one that you like. You can’t please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself. Your paper — you hope — is for posterity. Remember how you first read the papers that inspired you while you enjoy the process of writing … Continue reading Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a [Great Blog Post]
Hour of the Wolf
"[B]ecause I am a romantic, I still believe that we have the potential to be nobler than we know and better than we think. […] So I urge you to keep your heart’s compass on the true north of your dreams. Be free to be romantics, to reject cynicism, to believe that good will prevail … Continue reading Hour of the Wolf
Alternative Influence
"These strategies reveal a tension underlying the content produced by these influencers: while they present themselves as news sources, their content strategies often more accurately consist of marketing and advertising approaches. These approaches are meant to provoke feelings, memories, emotions, and social ties. In this way, the “accuracy” of their messaging can be difficult to … Continue reading Alternative Influence
An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
"Will I be anything? Will I be nothing at all? / The question wastes time. / I focus, get the chores done." —Jenn Pelly interviewing Brontez Purnell, "An Interview with Brontez Purnell." The Believer Magazine. August 1, 2019. Amazing interview throughout. Also liked: “We endorse the use of lies but not at the expense of … Continue reading An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review
"In a psychic context, racial reparations may be less obviously needed, but needed nonetheless, for those of us from white families and communities that practice racial thoughtlessness. We, too, need to study race and racism in order to understand ourselves, because the implicit attitudes about race that we have consciously and unconsciously created and accepted … Continue reading Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review
The Fashion Line Designed to Trick Surveillance Cameras | The Guardian
"But to an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system, the shirt is a collection of license plates, and they will get added to the license plate reader’s database just like any others it sees. The intention is to make deploying that sort of surveillance less effective, more expensive, and harder to use without human oversight, … Continue reading The Fashion Line Designed to Trick Surveillance Cameras | The Guardian
Domestic War on Terror Is Not the Answer to White Supremacy
"At a time when the American system of government is already being sorely tested by a demagogue and would-be autocrat in the White House, it would be disastrous to grant more power to the Justice Department and the nation’s security services."—James Risen, " To Fight White Supremacist Violence, Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of the … Continue reading Domestic War on Terror Is Not the Answer to White Supremacy
Bad Exercise Advice, Exhibit B
"Despite the apparent complexity of modern exercise programs, you really have only two options if you want to get fitter: you can train harder than you’re currently training, or you can train more. Those two variables, intensity and volume, are the basic levers that all training plans fiddle with in various ways. But let’s be … Continue reading Bad Exercise Advice, Exhibit B
The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It
"The mismatch between expectations of a rapidly growing global population (and all the attendant effects on climate, capitalism, and geopolitics) and the reality of both slowing growth rates and absolute contraction is so great that it will pose a considerable threat in the decades ahead. Governments worldwide have evolved to meet the challenge of managing … Continue reading The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It
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