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  • Haunted Words, Part 3

    A collection of ghost words …

    🆕 Ghost Forests: “The haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have died along the shore. These arboreal graveyards are showing up in places where the land slopes gently into the ocean and where salty water increasingly encroaches. Along the United States’ east coast, in pockets of the west coast and elsewhere, saltier soils have killed hundreds of thousands of acres of trees, leaving behind woody skeletons typically surrounded by marsh.”

    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.”

    Ghost Network Healthcare: “…he, like millions of Americans, was trapped in a “ghost network.” As some of those people have discovered, the providers listed in an insurer’s network have either retired or died. Many other providers have stopped accepting insurance — often because the companies made it excessively difficult for them to do so. Some just aren’t taking new patients. Insurers are often slow to remove them from directories, if they do so at all. It adds up to a bait and switch by insurance companies that leads customers to believe there are more options for care than actually exist.”

    Ghost Network Television: “Now MTV is a ghost. Its average prime-time audience of 256,000 people in 2023 was down from 807,000 in 2014, the Nielsen company said. One recent evening MTV aired reruns of “Ridiculousness” from 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.”

    Ghost Kitchen: “A virtual restaurant, also known as a ghost kitchen, cloud kitchen or dark kitchen, is a food service business that serves customers exclusively by delivery and pick-up based on phone and online ordering.[1] Virtual restaurants are stand-alone businesses that either operate out of an existing restaurant’s kitchen or from a separate kitchen set-up away from a restaurant.”

    See also: American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists “That’s how I feel when I walk through the bare, people-less parking lots of my neighborhood to get to the grocery store. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen other pedestrians while making this trip. If not for the moving cars nearby, it would be like walking through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It’s an isolating experience, one that makes me feel very small and vulnerable.”

    → 8:46 AM, Apr 25
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  • What could be a spaceship control room with organic, fungus like beings entering.

    Source: svapicsandmags.com

    → 11:36 AM, Apr 23
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  • An animated gif of an illustration featuring a bird riding a train, the wintry landscape passes by outside the train window, on the bird’s table is a sketchbook and soda can.

    Source: tumblr.com

    → 11:33 AM, Apr 23
  • “In many ways the Light Phone III is a more mellow act of defiance, because it can pass as a regular smartphone, when in the hand. The camera lens peeks out in a recognizable way right above the palm, and the foreshortened size isn’t obvious at first. Whereas the Light Phone II was a clear if meek middle finger stuck up at smartphone addiction, the Light Phone III is more like the bird that you slowly crank up out of your fist—it takes a second to get it.”

    This New “Dumbphone” Is a Lot Smarter Than It Looks

    → 4:51 PM, Apr 18
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  • Source: Spatial Awareness: An are.na channel featuring photos of weird, wondrous, and spooky places.

    → 1:00 PM, Apr 18
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  • Back to a Website!

    → 10:15 AM, Apr 18
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  • “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.”

    Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds

    → 10:25 AM, Apr 11
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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

    → 10:22 AM, Apr 11
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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.”

    How to organize your books

    → 10:19 AM, Apr 11
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  • Source: dezeen.com

    → 10:18 AM, Apr 11
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  • MF DOOM Instrumentals, something to listen to while you work.

    → 11:13 AM, Apr 4
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  • a cutaway illustration of a cave from a children’s book. Includes a mole disco party, caveman slumbering with a mammoth, and tiny submarine exploring a cave lake

    From: cutaway house illustrations appreciation post & fan club by way of Meanwhile.

    → 5:04 PM, Mar 24
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  • A pencil that has been painted to look like a cigarette

    “No Smoking” Mini Pencil

    → 2:11 PM, Mar 24
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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.”

    Shopkeeper

    → 10:46 AM, Mar 18
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  • → 7:14 PM, Mar 15
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  • Words: mundus sine caesaribus

    → 7:30 PM, Mar 13
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  • Look: starlinkmap.org. We are surrounded.

    → 12:01 PM, Mar 7
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  • Sites I like: coffeereceiptstories.com

    → 11:54 AM, Mar 7
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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.”

    Five years of home-cooked apps.

    → 11:53 AM, Mar 7
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  • Look: The illustrations of Evan Choen.

    → 11:51 AM, Mar 7
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  • Look: The illustrations of Kari ModĂ©n.

    → 11:49 AM, Mar 7
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  • Standing in the Doorway by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day. My Bandcamp Friday scoop. What you got?

    → 11:45 AM, Mar 7
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  • Sites I like: Walkman.Land.

    → 3:20 PM, Mar 4
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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.”

    Casting Little Spells.

    → 3:19 PM, Mar 4
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  • Look: Buildings as Isolated Facades.

    → 10:21 AM, Mar 4
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