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fascinated by this talk — on frank herbert’s indigenous politics and demagoguery in #dune
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Absolutely no one will be pleased to know that I have fixed the butterfly switch on a 10mo laptop with saran wrap, Copper, and a knife
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Burial's records registered the dejection that capitalist realism produced, whilst also recalling the collective ecstasies that it eroded. Ghost Box offers a re-dreaming of postwar public space, not as a nostalgic throwback, but as a call to rediscover all kinds of lost futures.
There’s a good reason we don’t all live in communities filled with kin and friends and that reason is *checks notes* medieval catholic incest panic science.sciencemag.org/conte…
I saw the greatest minds of my generation on instructables dot com, heating toaster coils to 2500°F with car batteries and shoving their fingers inside in order to cut plastic pieces for their DIY anime figurine
i got pregnant a couple weeks after my last relationship fell apart, at age 25. i’d stopped taking the pill because, what was the point — I could barely maintain my existence, much less meet someone and have sex (turns out, there is ABSOLUTELY a Point)
if you know 4 women, it is likely someone you know has had an abortion. support teams on the ground fighting to save entire communities thecut.com/2019/05/how-to-he…
if California hadn’t signed to liberalize abortion (ironically by governor reagan), i would’ve been forced to live inside the lowest point of my life - financially and emotionally - without hope to advance or move on.
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Inlaid flowers across the 17,000 square m. marble courtyard of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi. Photograph by Dave Yoder
AI needs artists: @josephreisinger explores visual creation post-deepfake, toward the future of “electrobricolage”
Algorithms are increasingly able to understand the *semantics* of human experience, and this is ushering in a new artistic renaissance medium.com/@josephreisinger/…
