My dad just called from the car to tell me theres a conspiracy theory at IKEA where the showroom furniture are bigger than the ones you buy. He said its just by an inch or so but its enough to make you feel crazy. Its the most ive heard him say in years

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This is just too spot-on, not to read: ‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war' theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This tool removes all words from your text, for 'literary x-ray vision'. medium.com/creators-hub/w… Also, very attractive. By Clive Thompson

Wu- Tang is forever. ~ Stanley Kubrick

The Wire's 2021 Rewind issue is out now! Where we are now: Releases Of The Year | Reflections | Analysis Plus: Loré Lixenberg × Elaine Mitchener, Giant Claw, Saadet Türköz, Circuit Des Yeux, Reiko & Tori Kudo +++ Get your copy: thewire.co.uk/issues/455

The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wrote, in 2016. “Reading Tate, I was drawn to his sense of otherness; he wrote from a perspective that felt both inside and outside.” nyer.cm/isvdn3y

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞 𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗞 a collab between the awesome Daniel Rourke 🙃 and the OpenAI GPT-3 language model, written for our exhibition 'All of Your Base' - currently at aksioma until 14 January 2022. shorturl.at/vwAHO

The blorkchain apocalypse is made up of three distinct groups of people: the tech utopians, who are unfortunately wrong; the trader bros, who are unfortunately right; and the suckers, who are unfortunate.

Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick on the set of 'The Shining' (1980)

Verachtung für alles verstehst du Das Gegenüber immer in jedem Fall ein Idiot

Hope you've had your dinner...now how much do you think your old pants would sell for then? Apparently Elvis Presley's soiled underwear could be sold for $15k at Omega Auctions. I don't know, they'd drive me nuts!

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Today in IP law: someone registered a trademark for CUGGL as a clothing brand in Japan, and sells shirts with the logo partially obscured. GUCCI sued, JP trademark office states that CUGGL is not similar enough to GUCCI to warrant enforcement.

Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, which is THE American novel of the 20th century, turns fifty this month. for WIRED, I wrote about the book’s significance, its brilliance, and how our world has—finally, absurdly, despairingly—caught up with it. wired.com/story/living-u…

Meanwhile in messages from abandoned movie theatre marquees TURN SOFT AND LOVELY ANY TIME YOU HAVE A CHANCE Jenny Holzer, New Amsterdam Theatre, Times Square, 1993

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Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960).