“I often wonder about the costs of the “digital echo.” What is the psychological cost of knowing that your actions aren’t just your own, but create information that can be observed and analyzed by others? As more aspects of our lives generate digital echoes, they force an ambient awareness of being perpetually witnessed rather than simply existing.”
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Homeownership is a lifelong commitment to discovering what it takes to modernize a legacy system and the lengths to which and compromises you will make in doing so.
Dan Hon
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“Books can be picked up at any time, and an idea that was written down in the past can be released back into the present, and help to influence a future.”
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Source: dezeen.com
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MF DOOM Instrumentals, something to listen to while you work.
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From: cutaway house illustrations appreciation post & fan club by way of Meanwhile.
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“A premonition is growing. I believe large swaths of the internet will be ceded, like it or not, to the creatures of the digital night: ghostly bots, cackling trolls, the baying hounds of attention. I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punctuated by signal towers poking up into the clear air: blogs & shops, beacons of reality & sincerity, nodes of a human overlay network.”
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Words: mundus sine caesaribus
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Look: starlinkmap.org. We are surrounded.
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Sites I like: coffeereceiptstories.com
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“Meanwhile, my little home-cooked apps each do the one thing they are supposed to do, sparkle-free. These apps are substantially finished the day I “launch” them, and, unlike modern commercial software, they are allowed to just: be finished.”
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Look: The illustrations of Evan Choen.
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Look: The illustrations of Kari Modén.
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Standing in the Doorway by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day. My Bandcamp Friday scoop. What you got?
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Sites I like: Walkman.Land.
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“When I was 7 I threw a ring I loved out of a car window as we searched for my dog who had run away, as an act of sacrifice to get her back. Well, guess what? She came back. And I’m still doing little spells to this day.”
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Listen: Welcome to the Jam: The looney story of the decades-old ‘Space Jam’ website. A conversation with the team that built the site, also serves as a look at what making websites used to be like way back in the day.
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Sites I like: 18f.org. “But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.” Fuck yeah ❤️🔥
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Look: The Perception of Doors.
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Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)