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The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire [one that changes you in the process of pursuing it], find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package.
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don'...
www.joanwestenberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire [one that changes you in the process of pursuing it], find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package.
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
I opened an old copy of Omni MAGAZINE to find the story Rent Control by Walter Tevis, which is still a banger of a short story. Tevis FTW! It’s kind of amazing that such a thing as Omni magazine ever existed: thick glossy pages, tons of ads, the Oct. 1979 issue cost $2 and has 178 pages.
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I opened an old copy of Omni MAGAZINE to find the story Rent Control by Walter Tevis, which is still a banger of a short story. Tevis FTW! It’s kind of amazing that such a thing as Omni magazine ever existed: thick glossy pages, tons of ads, the Oct. 1979 issue cost $2 and has 178 pages.
Even Pantone is kissing up to Trump and shadow president Steven Miller: The 2026 Color of the Year is White.
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Even Pantone is kissing up to Trump and shadow president Steven Miller: The 2026 Color of the Year is White.
Great stuff here. Surprises like Heaven On Their Minds from Jesus Christ Superstar, and Gypsy by Uriah Heep, my favorite proto-metal band. Matthew Perpetua at Fluxblog dives deep.
Fluxblog 565: the early history of heavy metal
open.substack.com/pub/fluxblog...
Fluxblog 565: the early history of heavy metal
open.substack.com/pub/fluxblog...
Fluxblog 565: the early history of heavy metal
Plus new songs by veteran artists Neko Case, Sloan, and Garbage.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great stuff here. Surprises like Heaven On Their Minds from Jesus Christ Superstar, and Gypsy by Uriah Heep, my favorite proto-metal band. Matthew Perpetua at Fluxblog dives deep.
Fluxblog 565: the early history of heavy metal
open.substack.com/pub/fluxblog...
Fluxblog 565: the early history of heavy metal
open.substack.com/pub/fluxblog...
Delicate and elaborate and mysterious.
July 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Delicate and elaborate and mysterious.
Neighbors drop in?!? The 1960s were a different time.
July 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Neighbors drop in?!? The 1960s were a different time.
Moon. Computational iPhone photography via Adobe Indigo
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Moon. Computational iPhone photography via Adobe Indigo
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Happy #Juneteenth from AuthenticFlorida.com. ❤️🤍💙
Today we honor freedom, reflect on history, celebrate resilience & moving forward.
Wishing everyone a meaningful and hopeful Juneteenth.
#AuthenticFlorida #FreedomDay #FloridaHistory
Today we honor freedom, reflect on history, celebrate resilience & moving forward.
Wishing everyone a meaningful and hopeful Juneteenth.
#AuthenticFlorida #FreedomDay #FloridaHistory
June 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy #Juneteenth from AuthenticFlorida.com. ❤️🤍💙
Today we honor freedom, reflect on history, celebrate resilience & moving forward.
Wishing everyone a meaningful and hopeful Juneteenth.
#AuthenticFlorida #FreedomDay #FloridaHistory
Today we honor freedom, reflect on history, celebrate resilience & moving forward.
Wishing everyone a meaningful and hopeful Juneteenth.
#AuthenticFlorida #FreedomDay #FloridaHistory
Wall decoration. The newest one up there, The Soft Bulletin, was released in 1999, so almost from this century.
June 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wall decoration. The newest one up there, The Soft Bulletin, was released in 1999, so almost from this century.
This is just aggressively unpleasant through and through. Are there jokes in there? I can’t tell. Sounds like there was plenty to complain about in 1960.
youtu.be/lMW--90oe-Q?...
youtu.be/lMW--90oe-Q?...
Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It
YouTube video by Walter Brennan - Topic
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is just aggressively unpleasant through and through. Are there jokes in there? I can’t tell. Sounds like there was plenty to complain about in 1960.
youtu.be/lMW--90oe-Q?...
youtu.be/lMW--90oe-Q?...
Beach radiation.
May 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Beach radiation.
Love your pet day
February 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Love your pet day
Friend at dog park.
February 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Friend at dog park.
RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
RIP David Lynch
Christmas in Florida
November 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Christmas in Florida
Did they have AI image generation back in 1947? This looks as creepy and weird as anything I’ve seen made by Midjourney.
November 23, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Did they have AI image generation back in 1947? This looks as creepy and weird as anything I’ve seen made by Midjourney.