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Sunday, 30 March 2025

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA

quote [ What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise? ]

This had kind of a creepy fit.
[SFW] [people] [+3 WTF]
[by Paracetamol@6:18amGMT] [2 comments]

Saturday, 29 March 2025

dédédédé

quote [ Good / Bad / Why? ]

This Japanese community atlas allows for voting on photos urban contraptions which are totally not Thomassons. More info on the About page. Main link to English version.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+3]
[by Paracetamol@6:37amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 27 March 2025

Advertisers Don??t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist

quote [ ??advertising industry needs to get over themselves and understand that people want to read about current events and that current events are often not brand safe, according to our current definition of the word.? ]

Uuh, a painful report on actual dumbing down journalism. This is the machine censoring itself.

[edit:] also note how this article is 1.5 years old ..
[SFW] [business] [+5 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@9:25pmGMT] [1 comment]

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Published Doesn??t Mean Paid.

quote [ I want to talk about money.

(Ugh, I know. How crass.) ]

More book biz calculations from Scotland.
[SFW] [business] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@6:24pmGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Move Fast and Break People Part 2: Everyone's Third Place

quote [ I remember the first time I heard the phrase ??third place,? meaning a place humans go to be human at each other which is neither home nor work. The loss of such places has been a subject of great distress, handwringing, and much scapegoating for most of my adult life, even before such places were really lost at all.

I heard the phrase first in 2001, but it was only coined in 1989, by a sociologist named Ray Oldenburg. ]

Everybody should meet more people IRL.
[SFW] [people] [+3 Insightful]
[by Paracetamol@6:14amGMT] [1 comment]



Saturday, 22 March 2025

Amerzone (Benoît Sokal) for free

quote [ Discover the legacy and embark on the journey to Amerzone. ]

Syberia's creator's first game is free on GOG (top link) and Steam till Mar 24th promoting the remake.
[SFW] [games] [+2 Good]
[by Paracetamol@7:15amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 21 March 2025

From Statecraft To Soulcraft

quote [ Like it or not, the central political question of our time may well be about the good life ?? and who gets to define it. ]

For Yunnaf. Think this did a good job of explaining humans craving meaning and belief systems which are provided by all the wrong parties in the agnostic age ?? apart from the class struggle that is. Also: I miss cb361. Also: extended.

[SFW] [politics] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:21amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

PoetiCal

quote [ The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app. To subscribe, select the app you use below and follow the instructions. ]

This seemed like an interesting project.
[SFW] [art] [+1 Original]
[by Paracetamol@7:44pmGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 14 March 2025

Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar

quote [ In this printed example below (C.41.a.28), the tasks for January-April show a labourer sitting by the fire, pruning trees, and ploughing the fields. Opposite these images, circular diagrams in red and black with an orange orb in the centre handily indicate the number of hours of daylight and darkness in each calendar month. ]

From the Medieval manuscripts blog of the British Library .. ingenious designs on small scale to handle complex chronicles.
[SFW] [history] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@11:27amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 13 March 2025

Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now they want to work on war

quote [ Though she was once conflicted about working on defense, Ganesan no longer has as many qualms. ??In great power politics, people die. Often more impulsive, less pragmatic men make those decisions, and as a well-educated woman, I??d rather be in the room,? she said. ]

The hype is where the money is.
[SFW] [business] [+1 WTF]
[by Paracetamol@6:29pmGMT] [1 comment]



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