there is hope yet

just saw a dude wearing a shirt that says “never not running,” sitting down, can’t trust anyone these days

PAPYRUS SEQUEL

i recall people stopped talking about NFTs around the same time reese witherspoon jumped on the bandwagon, so this is a good sign

it’s like when brands post memes, and that’s your signal that the meme is dead

doing data migration for an online classics bookstore and the birth/death dates are such a fascinating rabbit hole because you’ve got authors who were born poor and have very vague birth records, and then ones who were born rich but became hermits and have super vague death dates

the bells in dua lipa’s ‘illusion’ are giving futurama-coded ‘psyché rock by pierre henry (1967)’-core ‘on melancholy hill’ vibes

painful to see someone else living your dream

i'd rather be told the cruel truth than be fed gentle lies (grrah)

th-the boy's a liar

is there an LLM which can reverse-engineer GPT training data and figure out why certain patterns of words became so common, i.e. a map or tree showing the spread of idiolects through viral content, big breaking news stories, and memes

one day we all posted our last black and white photo with tightly-spaced helvetica to tumblr, and we didn’t even know it was the end of a chapter

Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon-ho at #CinemaCon

love the excitement of waking up every morning not knowing where instagram have moved the ‘add to story’ button to

putting your camera against your hand to make black backgrounds for your insta stories is actually really risky because people could brighten them to recreate your handprints and then bypass the security of your secret lair

i love experiencing history as it happens

in an alterate universe, this was done as a ‘mad men’ movie

the first omen / monkey man

the graphics on that eclipse viewer in the first pic are lovely

watching the eclipse in méxico and seeing it this dark at noon makes me homesick for the UK

i’m an empath (sharing my eclipse sunglasses with elderly strangers because it’s probably their last one)