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He’s giving Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element without the cute.
February 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
He’s giving Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element without the cute.
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The tech right of the 1930s offered "not a rejection of modernity so much as the search for an alternative modernity: a vision of high technics and industrial productivity without liberalism, democracy, and egalitarianism."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/blood-and-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/blood-and-...
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
The tech right of the 1930s offered "not a rejection of modernity so much as the search for an alternative modernity: a vision of high technics and industrial productivity without liberalism, democracy, and egalitarianism."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/blood-and-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/blood-and-...
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Today I learned that this 1837 photo by Louis Daguerre is actually a photo of a busy street. But because the exposure time is so long, everything that is moving disappears and only what is still can be seen. This is unspeakably beautiful. #photography
January 22, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Today I learned that this 1837 photo by Louis Daguerre is actually a photo of a busy street. But because the exposure time is so long, everything that is moving disappears and only what is still can be seen. This is unspeakably beautiful. #photography
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Biomimicry: Australian #spies (ASIO) can hide underwater and breathe through a river reed planted in their bottom—a technique modelled on this endangered Mary River turtle.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
Procrastinating, endangered bum-breathing punk turtles thrill rescuers with late hatching
A precious clutch of Mary River turtle babies has defied the odds by surviving huge floodwaters and hatching long after rescuers feared they may have died.
www.abc.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Biomimicry: Australian #spies (ASIO) can hide underwater and breathe through a river reed planted in their bottom—a technique modelled on this endangered Mary River turtle.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
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First season of Rival Image unlocked & free. Struggling to describe it: Probably eccentric, exorbitant (off orbit), ectopic, tangential. Where to listen? Cleaning on a Sunday, but not in the bathtub because you might slip trying to switch it off.
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Rival Image | Series 1 | Ep 1 | Rival Image Podcast
Get more from Rival Image Podcast on Patreon
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January 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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Well, those boots were not made for walking
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Well, those boots were not made for walking
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This is a homage to the channel-billed cuckoo.
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
This is a homage to the channel-billed cuckoo.
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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1970s field recordings of musicians in their natural valley habitat—The Nimbin Folk Club. Nimbin is Australia’s Woodstock or Yellow Springs or Eugene. The influence of the US can be heard but there are other, older, strands.
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
George at Nimbin Town Hall and Pruul's Party
nwt.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
1970s field recordings of musicians in their natural valley habitat—The Nimbin Folk Club. Nimbin is Australia’s Woodstock or Yellow Springs or Eugene. The influence of the US can be heard but there are other, older, strands.
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
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Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The end of optimization
Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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New substack post. George Henderson. New Zealand voice and mind. The New Existentialists. New album, Bad Astrology. open.substack.com/pub/davegran...
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New substack post. George Henderson. New Zealand voice and mind. The New Existentialists. New album, Bad Astrology. open.substack.com/pub/davegran...
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Took the solar powered ultra light from ‘just west of Easter Island’ to see #DaveGraney. Great gig! Voice in splendid form. Watching band stick to album track listing was Lars Von Trier’s ‘Five Obstructions’ Goes on Aussie Pub Crawl. He signed me merch. Dates below. Worth it! #auspol #livemusic
Tomorrow night - Friday 24th October, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary Soft n Sexy Sound tour is happening at Freo Social in Fremantle WA www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dav...
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Took the solar powered ultra light from ‘just west of Easter Island’ to see #DaveGraney. Great gig! Voice in splendid form. Watching band stick to album track listing was Lars Von Trier’s ‘Five Obstructions’ Goes on Aussie Pub Crawl. He signed me merch. Dates below. Worth it! #auspol #livemusic
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With libraries, proper search engines, encyclopedias and the like, if they didn't have the answer, you would get a blank in return. You knew they didn't have the answer.
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
With libraries, proper search engines, encyclopedias and the like, if they didn't have the answer, you would get a blank in return. You knew they didn't have the answer.
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
www.lighthousereports.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de
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Marmalade Kerfuffle rules.
October 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Marmalade Kerfuffle rules.
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A hard-biting, standout film about ‘nice guys’. #PromisingYoungWoman #EmeraldFennell
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A hard-biting, standout film about ‘nice guys’. #PromisingYoungWoman #EmeraldFennell
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very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Robert Glasper’s Blue Note debut “Canvas” was released 20 years ago today in 2005! The album proved the pianist had jazz chops in abundance while a hip-hop sub-context lay just beneath the surface hinting at future directions he would take. Listen or get the Classic Vinyl robertglasper.lnk.to/Canvas
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robert Glasper’s Blue Note debut “Canvas” was released 20 years ago today in 2005! The album proved the pianist had jazz chops in abundance while a hip-hop sub-context lay just beneath the surface hinting at future directions he would take. Listen or get the Classic Vinyl robertglasper.lnk.to/Canvas
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On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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Douglas Fairbanks makes his leap as a duels Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO. The slightly lowered table adds pizzaz to Doug's already graceful jump.
September 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Douglas Fairbanks makes his leap as a duels Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO. The slightly lowered table adds pizzaz to Doug's already graceful jump.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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tomcannonphotography
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
tomcannonphotography
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
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#TheGuardian is zeroing in on ‘performative males’, but only here do you really experience one of them perform manhood. Give it a minute.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#TheGuardian is zeroing in on ‘performative males’, but only here do you really experience one of them perform manhood. Give it a minute.
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...