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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 1d

The Necks return with a new 3 hour long, triple album ‘Disquiet’ - shifting gears between ascendant kosmische blues to knotted late night jams and a widely panoramic ambient sprawl, RIYL Miles Davis, Talk Talk, Bohren, Gruppo, Alice

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 1d

Reading (finally):

#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)

overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g

theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Michael Lentz’s enormous novel Schattenfroh, in its English translation by Max Lawton, edited by Matthias Friedrich, from Deep Vellum in TX

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 2d

Post Office
Oreana, IL

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 2d

Was not expecting a Vollmann … 'review'?

Thomas Pynchon's world of shadows

unherd.com

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 6d

I guarantee Dave Sim owned this ish

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 7d

Had no idea Harvey was on Vertigo! Crazy

Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 8d

The question of whether the tagline was added twice by accident or whether it was duplicated intentionally will haunt me

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Laura Bullard @laurabullard.bsky.social · 9d

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 9d

My test of any new AI video model is whether it can make an otter using wifi on an airplane

Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15d

Imao Keinen - Blue Bird and Spider net, 1890-1900

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Artificial Desire

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

www.lrb.co.uk

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 11d

Bateaux de pêche | Benito Quinquela Martin

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 9d

I'm Jor-El!

No, I'M Jor-El!

I'M JOR-EL

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Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 10d

#TIL that "browser" is an acronym for
"BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval" although acronyms with variable amounts of letters at the start are weird…
blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-...

Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo | The Mozilla Blog

Dr. Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar and a lover of words. She is the host of Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and

blog.mozilla.org

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 10d

Reading:

After rereading Vineland ahead of new PT Anderson, on to prep for #Schattenfroh

From 1810, absolutely hilarious: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020)

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) – lecture: youtu.be/xuB6mNJEjVc

Two books: Michael Koolhaas (Heinrich von Kleist trans. Michael Hofmann, 2020) and Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Lyndal Roper, 2025) resting on a very fetching table

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 11d

That said, I will defend the Hickman reboot of this. Also the black costume continues to be awesome

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 11d

It's wild that this only exists because Mattel focus grouped kids and found out that toys with 'Secret' and 'Wars' in the title would sell like hotcakes and got Marvel on board

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 11d

He did Tenney recently too, which I was not expecting as Tenney is kind of forgotten these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ-A...

The Perceptual Revelations of James Tenney

YouTube video by Classical Nerd

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 12d

Classical Nerd just did a thing on him, reminder to me to see that www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8m...

The Dizzying Math of Conlon Nancarrow

YouTube video by Classical Nerd

www.youtube.com

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 12d

Can we get information on the source? Have looked around but can't find what this is from

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 12d

Why I 🧡 the web.

This #WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet is amazing. Smooth animation. Peaceful vibes (and i didn't even play, I wondered around).

messenger.abeto.co

#JavaScript #chillvibe #game

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13d

Rabbit in Landscape with Clouds, Moon, Two Constellations, Rocks, Bamboo, Flowering Shrubs, Lingzhi Fungus, Pine and Water Plants China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95) Silk on silk

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13d

"In the eyes of most Chinese readers, she is the most important female author to date—a similar stature to, say, Virginia Woolf in the English-speaking world, the difference being that China never had a Jane Austen or an Emily Brontë."

Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang's Little Reunions.

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran

September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

www.theparisreview.org

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 13d

This really needed a Mantlo-Golden Micronauts crossover extravaganza

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