These days I just read the back catalogues of New Left Review, October, and Jacket2. Fully covered.

a good poem takes years: five playing ball, five more learning Sanskrit, six lugging rocks, nine flirting with the neighbor, seven taking a beating, four going at it alone, three fleeing to new cities, ten changing the subject, an eternity, me and you, walking together — Leminski

I think non-tech people under appreciate how fragile computer systems are, how many layers of redundancy and retries and idempotent restarts are sustaining the garden they romp around in.

this guy, the best covers

"Want my advice: hijack the hearse"

You can either do the {Marx, Hegel, Lacan, Derrida} path towards an understanding of media, or you can read {Latour, Ong, McLuhan, Pound}. If you want to write edgy critique, the former will serve you well, but if you have a constructive impulse, go for the latter.

Lars Schönander DICHTEN = CONDENSARE!

pandoc \ --pdf-engine=xelatex \ --bibliography=references.bib \ --csl=abnt.csl glória ao pandoc e latex, morte à ABNT

Seeing the shape of the published artifact is very motivating to me. If I'm writing a blogpost, it's often in straight HTML with the browser side-by-side the text editor. If I'm writing for my thesis, it's in markdown with a live render going through latex+pandoc.

This is all I cared about from the ages of 18-21 youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN…

TENES 15 AÑOS, SOS UN ESTUPIDO, NO LABURÁS, NO SABES NADA, NO SABÉS NI CAMINAR Y ESTÁS OPINANDO COMO MEJORAR EL PAÍS O POR QUÉ BAJA LA TASA DE NATALIDAD , IDIOTA.

this is the product roadmap

the possibilities for the computer are infinite

um poema—

Don Ihde's lectures on post-phenomenology clearly and concisely synthesize most of the intuitions I've scavenged for the past decade from media ecology, formalist art theory, gestalt psychology, embodied cognition, etc, in about 80 pages—