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  • Vintage Tech Logos

    “Collection of found vintage tech logos circa 1985 (USA)”

    20 November 2024
  • Don't call it a Substack

    “We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons.”

    19 November 2024
  • Words like this presents beautiful passages of poetry in a beautiful, contemporary way.

    19 November 2024
  • Historical travel times from New York City to the rest of the...



    Historical travel times from New York City to the rest of the U.S.

    18 November 2024
  • Salt Architecture + Interiors

    18 November 2024
  • Gallery of Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will...



    Gallery of Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will Co-Exist in the Albanian Capital

    18 November 2024


  • Rhenen – Product — The Public Domain Review

    18 November 2024
  • "How often is it acknowledged that people thrive better in lower stimulus environments?"

    “How often is it acknowledged that people thrive better in lower stimulus environments?”

    - Lower stimulus environments | A Working Library

    18 November 2024
  • Akiya (vacant houses in Japan) “are becoming less like financial assets and more akin to natural resources, available to be harvested by those who wish put in the time and substantial effort to reclaim one from natural decay.”

    15 November 2024
  • A far-right attack on a community college reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed

    The problem goes far beyond a three-person majority on the trustee board of a small community college. NIC and many other institutions are in danger because, over the last decade and a half, a core group of extremists has slowly taken over the Idaho Republican Party in the same way that a parasitic wasp slowly takes over its host. This required no astroturfing or Koch-fueled cash infusions, just a regular, everyday indifference to hyperlocal politics. The tactic is underway elsewhere, but Idaho got a head start. This crisis is what happens when insurgency bears fruit.

    Emphasis mine. Currently looking for more ways to be involved in my community.

    14 November 2024
  • Remind me later is a comic about “technological problems.”

    14 November 2024
  • it’s okay if you just pick one thing you really care about, and it’s okay if that thing is “being a good friend” instead of “maximizing your potential”

    On what it means to not have time

    13 November 2024
  • Walkcast is an ever-changing podcast generated as you walk, revealing the hidden layers that surround you.

    13 November 2024
  • I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore:

    “The closest thing to a political point I want to make is that I’ve dedicated far too much brain-space, in recent years, to marinating in the psyches of the angry, cynical and damaged men currently ascendant in our politics – which is basically what you’re doing when you spend time on Twitter, idly surf online media, or consume most TV news.”

    11 November 2024
  • I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore

    “The closest thing to a political point I want to make is that I’ve dedicated far too much brain-space, in recent years, to marinating in the psyches of the angry, cynical and damaged men currently ascendant in our politics – which is basically what you’re doing when you spend time on Twitter, idly surf online media, or consume most TV news.”

    11 November 2024
  • Mornings spent offline:

    This is a recent development in the history of human civilization: To wake up with the whole world in your bed

    5 November 2024
  • Private “homemade” docs > AI slop:

    While Google Docs and Maps are easily shareable, some creators keep them close to their chests. “The docs I make are usually a curation of my friends’, lovers’, and personal recommendations of the cities I’ve been to,” Held says. “For this reason, they’re kinda sacred to me.” She appreciates the time, effort, and gesture of a good city doc, and tries to repay the favor: If anyone shares a doc with her, she’ll offer one of hers in return.

    5 November 2024
  • Re-buttonization:

    There seems to be this kind of richness of the tactile experience that’s afforded by pushing buttons. They’re not perfect for every situation, but I think increasingly, we’re realizing the merit that the interface offers.

    5 November 2024
  • Links for Week 45, 2024

    • An illustrated guide to science-backed mood boosters.
    • A zine about reclaiming your life from digital technology.
    • A tool for searching independent websites.
    • A collection of the “best” marketing headlines on the internet.
    • Over the Garden Wall’s 10th anniversary stop motion short.
    • Max Vogel Gonzalez’s illustrations.
    • An experiment with giving out potatoes to trick or treaters.
    • A concept to break procrastination.
    • Some objects I covet: Nike C1TY “Surplus” shoes, El Oso Bear Tee, the Kobo Clara Colour, and the book Assembling Tomorrow.
    4 November 2024
  • In 1976, a television crew filming an episode of the show “The Six Million Dollar Man” descended on a rundown funhouse in Long Beach, California. While filming, they accidentally broke the arm off a wax dummy. Except it wasn’t a wax dummy. It was a real body. The body of a notorious train robber from the early 1900s, named Elmer McCurdy

    What a wild story from The Atlas Obscura Podcast!

    31 October 2024
  • photo of a computer science themed playground

    Any code I’ve written, any glib digital creation, disappears into the infinite feed. But a playground will stubbornly stand for the next twenty years, pointing to big ideas in computer science. It’s something I think about often.

    A playground to outlast the feed

    23 October 2024
  • De La Soul opened a donut shop for their latest video “Oodles of O’s”. The video features cameos by artists, actors and personalities, all to honor the legacy of Dave, aka Trugoy the Dove.

    18 October 2024
  • IKEA Catalog from a Near Future

    Some design fiction on the " …possible evolutions of home life, consumer trends and needs, and related topics in the categories of domestic life, food, urban life, travel, leisure, and entertainment."

    17 October 2024
  • Halloween by Bo Bartlett /via MLTSHP.

    More things of the spooky variety if you are interested.

    15 October 2024


  • You Only Have One Life : r/LiminalSpace

    14 October 2024

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