Charcuterie - a visual explorer for unicode.
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat - “When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark”
Want: The Elko. I have the previous version and use the little pry bar as much as the knife.
Sites I like: Maxwell Ito.
Read: The practice economy.
some things:
A hippo by Roger Duvoisin.
Drone video of polygon ice waves.
Drone inspired art by Francisco Fonseca.
compounders of joy:
I find myself and my family opting out more and more. Going after fewer, better things. Impromptu meals with friends. Making memories with my family. Going to bed early instead of watching another episode. Amazingly waking up (earlier!) feeling rested. Walking in the woods. Making more room to eat, drink, and be merry. (And play Magic: the Gathering.) All of those things are, by nature, slow, unproductive (depending on who you ask), and, perhaps because of their inherent slowness, compounders of joy over time.
Haunted Words, Part 5
The J-Card generator is too fun. Like, I want to make some mixtapes fun (yes, I have an unopened blank tape and a tape player). I even made my own J-Card (and related mix).
Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information:
Across a range of formats, from merchandise and the sign on NPR’s headquarters to billboards and ad screens on the New York City subway, the recognizable block letters transform into urgent and timely questions—many that listeners around the country are asking. “How does AI affect my electric bill?” “Why are groceries still so expensive?” “How is my farm going to survive?”
Clever.
The Four Rules for a Good Walk:
useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
“We are all product managers now, pleading with obtuse underlings to go back and try again and to get it right this time.” eod.com
By Laura Makabresku instagram.com
Shiori is a “simple read-it-later app.” shiori.sh
“Percentage of U.S. employees who say they regularly feign working while at their desks : 58” harpers.org
[I was] “… at a tech conference where a robot was making and serving drinks, and me and a few friends followed a power cord to a curtained area, behind which was a human in VR controlling the robot manually.” hughhowey.com
Gravity Notes is a quick capture notepad with “No accounts, no folders, no noise.” gravitynotes.app
“The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content.” garbageday.email
“Is this how it all ends: each of us alone at home, messaging with increasing levels of desperation and punctuation?” walknotes.com
“[The Great Stay] is driven by fear. [Workers] are staying not because they love their role but because they’ve looked at the alternatives and concluded that the risk of leaving exceeds the pain of staying. thedrum.com
Molly Guard: the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance. unsung.aresluna.org
Source: nemfrog.tumblr.com
The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade. (lithub.com)