This is where I save interesting links.
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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.
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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 can see this with the riots in France. I would imagine that the youth looting these stores, burning town halls that are centuries old, etc., don’t actually think of themselves as destroyers of property or thieves. I would imagine – tied to this essay – that there is a feeling among them that this is just another thing that doesn’t matter. That if our elders and our politicians and our elites act with a certain air of nihilism in their politics, their finances (their pillaging of the treasury), and their corruption then what is it for us to come out from the margins and burn the center?
It is all quite sad. I am motivated to teach the kids that effort, trying hard, and caring deeply about how you are in the world and what you do is (i.e., integrity), even in the face of your elders forgetting about you and pulling up the ladder, so important.
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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” – of course, now that they are labeled authentic they no longer are – compared to the commercial breaks of cable TV news in the past.
It used to be:
Story about Clinton Impeachment or whatever > “We’ll be right back after these messages” > cuts to commercial on ordered special gold coins > cuts back to news
Now it is:
Impassioned commentary about sudden death of sitting U.S. Senator > blending perfectly into an ad for a tech hiring platform.
Baudrillard would be proud.
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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 capex.
So, the inverse signal to that is probably something like: set your targets lower than $1 trillion but higher than where you are not and move towards it by using the exciting realities available to you to get there.
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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.
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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 dancing to Future.
Sadly, one needs to be incredibly skilled to ignore, or better yet to never see, the 99% that is a waste.