Category: Link Library
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Black October, 2026
As a lay-man, I know not the weight of this, but I do pick up the signal from someone like this that it’s not good. Brave New World. https://mili.dev/writing/black-october
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Why Gen Z Media is so Meaningless
Beautiful essay on the media environment that Gen Z faces, a lack of shared culture and language, and why this creates a level of nihilism and apathy among their generation. I will admit, faced with the news of the day any given day, it is not hard to understand why apathy is setting in. You…
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Hitler in the Bunker Meme: Iran
“Iran’s all mountains and 90 million scientists! I thought they were dumb like us!”
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A pure example of brilliance
To be topical for a moment, and therefore risk being boring, AI could never find the motivation to summon “intelligence” to produce something like this.
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Modernity Amplified
I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always. This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so “authentic” –…
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Patriotism in Sport
This tweet says it. I feel infinitely more patriotic than one would reasonable expect to when we have just, sort of, embarrassed ourselves instigated, and seemingly loosing, a war.
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You Are Not Late
A good day to re-read this Kevin Kelly essay from 2014. I think I believe he’s right. The internal disagreement (cope, perhaps) I felt reading it is that the big things we’re inventing right now, the things exciting everyone and causing $1 trillion IPOs, are created by a few big companies with a ton of…
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Traditional Georgian Dance to Future
Today’s my birthday. 33rd year – the Jesus year – is nigh! I think I’ll live this year with the attitude of this video. It’s simply wonderful. —— Also, there is an infinite amount of content (signs h/t Baudrillard) to be created. Many, many of them of unbelievably imaginative and interesting; such as these Georgians…