Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.

My approach to running a link blog


In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

Always Go To The Funeral /via SwissMiss


The Death of Music Genres

People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango


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From Eternity! Eternity! by Vincent Glielmi. /via booooooom.com


Haunted Words

A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Artists: “Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.” /via pixel envy Ghost Hotels: “The “ghost hotel” nomenclature refers to an entire apartment building which is functionally a hotel because most or all units are short-term rentals instead of tenant-occupied.

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The art of Silvia Celiberti / Instagram / via booooooom.com


a recurrent theme is a fatigue with the style of self-narration that the platforms encourage — which, whether we realize it or not, has been heavily influenced by brand storytelling logics. We talk about ourselves like we’re products.

Posting Less


the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best preparation you can do at the level of an individual life is to boost your local resilience. To become a person of place. To connect with the people and land where you live. This is what we’re built to do.

How I became ‘collapse aware’. This is not a depressing read (or listen, the author read option was great)! /via Dense Discovery


Al Brydon


Kinopio is such a neat tool.