flunky

lol looks like I'm gonna owe Spotify a twenty seventh of a penny

hell - and I don't say this lightly - yes

is zillow... threatening me?

The Way Back™

torn between making a clever knowing quip and waxing nostalgic about virality before influencers. anyway, old heads know: this rules

ASPIRING TO CULTURE IN EMPIRE: “We just have to keep pressing. Once our memetics take hold, we can subvert the system from within. The nerds will triumph; liberation is nigh!” ACHIEVING CULTURE IN EMPIRE: “…goddammit this is so fucking embarrassing.”

That's what the coffee's for!

Let us exorcise these demons. The power of christ (90% top marginal tax rates) compels you!

The chord change is happening today! The John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's new chord means this 639-year project is about 4% complete. More from the AP here: apnews.com/article/john...

amazing stuff here, drummer holds it together so well

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

Forgot about this video, but it just came across my feed. Amazing song, and also now I need a dark/gritty HP spinoff about Snape's secret life as an illicit drug manufacturer/addict.

Ugh it's a myth, the retelling is the point. The added layers of text and meaning are what make it interesting. Before long, these man babies are going to be going on "historically accurate" bike rides by putting their training wheels back on.

Bonny Doon - Maybe Today music.youtube.com/watch?v=zzGt...

10,000BC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_... but we specifically went to heckle it. We were asked to move, but not to leave...

@longnow.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpdg...

Ten years old and still just monstrous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqu...

For the heavy music enjoyers out there, the new Elder is fucking outrageous. beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

every now and then I see a bit of news about british politics and I know we're not in a place to talk shit over here, but... c'mon, what? is there a country in this world with a more out-of-whack self-seriousness to actual-seriousness ratio?

my mom cried at the end of Armageddon (1998) when we saw it in the theater and I love her for that

Okay, now it’s Republicans’ turn to kick out the most prominent rapist in their party

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

More of Crosby guy myself, so just know: I've been there and I'm here for you

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Is this like when I was in high school and they wanted to make sure Saddam Hussein couldn't get his hands on a PlayStation 2 ?

So good

As a high schooler studying photography, I found David Hockney's photo collages & fell completely in love & spent months emulating & riffing on them. Always ask how you can put more life into something! Didn't even know he was a painter until years later. Rad, curious, brilliant dude. Godspeed

trillionaires or democracy - you really only get one or the other

Had this phrase rattling around in my head vaguely recalled from a documentary I saw decades ago. Glad(?) I didn't imagine it.

In this Ohio diner, the parliamentarian still means George Clinton. But they do know this: if Trump builds his ballroom illegally, Congressional Democrats should just tear the roof off the sucker.

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

I pitched my boy scout troop on opening a booth at a fair and using this app to make and sell people t-shirts with their own distorted faces on them. It did not happen.

this feels important for some reason

The defining challenge of the coming decades is not inventing powerful technologies. It is (re)building societies capable of absorbing them without losing what makes human life worth living.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Shadows of the Empire is arguably one of the most important Star Wars projects of all time. If there was any prediction of where Star Wars would be going in the future as a re-unified movie-TV-gaming-publishing force, it could be found here.