Cities and the Balance of Power: “Cities are like massive information-processing units, with real-estate markets revealing the value of being able to access the networks involved. People put a dollar value on physical colocation and proximity to others who have similarly paid a high price to access density. This implicit sorting lies at the heart of…
Month: May 2020
Sky Worlds
Spent part of the weekend in a Cessna, high up in the sky. Accompanying music tracks by Brett Van Donsel. pic.twitter.com/Th2mXwJVHL — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) May 26, 2020
𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕜𝕤
A weekly compendium of links. An Interface Theory of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon: “Interface Theory’s creator, Dr. Donald Hoffman has suggested that phenomenon like synaesthesia may be instances of evolution at work, a kind of real time tinkering of the interface to see what works and what doesn’t via mutation. In that light, it’s not hard…
Totemcraft
monkeying around with some fun apps pic.twitter.com/Z34PkfP9vP — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) May 23, 2020
SEXY BEAST: A Love Story
A blogger asks: “Does Sexy Beast contain cinema’s best description of love?” “‘Don’t be fooled by the genre trappings, this film is about how love can steer you away from harm.” https://t.co/eICzZ4x6yx — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) May 13, 2020 SOURCE: Little White Lies
“…remember to die”
Simon Sellars on pandemic paranoia, self-eradication, and a taxonomy of writers: Propped inside the plague’s dimensions, Twitter is a sinkhole. Nothing escapes. Under isolation pressure, the mirror is polished and archetypes revealed. Older writers with ailing, vulnerable bodies set fire to their life’s work in the service of staring at death. Younger writers lament their…
Where Am I, and How Can I Leave?
FIRE WALK WITH ME, deleted scenes
Pandemic Inventory
Seems like a lot of people are taking inventory of their pandemic experiences, so I will too. (As someone on Twitter recently joked, citing Garrison Keillor: Nothing happened to me, and now I’m going to tell you about it.) Like millions of others, I spend a lot of time alone these days. Don’t my lonely…