If you ever doubt the power of social media, remember that hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at influencers were enough to somehow turn a grotesque and vulgar place like Dubai into one of glamour and sophistication on the minds of large sections of the global middle classes.

Muhammad Shehada Some of us knew the US-UK-EU-Israeli genocide of Gaza and wars in Lebanon and Syria were aimed at exploitation of the Levantine Basin gas reserves from the first horrors of October 2023 - when IOF killed enough Israelis to ‘justify’ mass murder.

AI Startup ‘BuilderAI’ has collapsed after it was found to be powered by 700 engineers in India, not AI

Dexerto AI = ACTUALLY INDIAN WHO WOULDVE THOUGHT

⚡️⭕️ Once in a lifetime : Passenger inside a plane over Saudi Arabia records yesterday's Iranian missile strike as the missile enter the second stage ascends to space

maybe its not too late

truly captivated by Virginia Woolf’s bedroom at Monk House

Sheffield under orange sodium light. Effingham Street, early 1980s. Photo, Pete Hill

Just a reminder that Bernhard Lang's 'Stahlwerk' series is one of the most astounding aerial photography projects I have ever seen

most of the time i have nothing to say but i just have a desire to say

Knowledge is power

This 2002 Salon article might be the craziest thing I’ve ever read. Think of the power these people hold when they can shut a story this big down and relegate it to the ‘conspiracy theory’ dustbins of history within months of it breaking.

noah kulwin Cancellation has always seemed to me to be the opposite of "going viral", stuff virally getting popular and being added to more places online is one direction and virally getting unpopular and removed from places is the other. The "getting unpopular" direction isnt special

i just got this odd little book, it's roughly the size of a passport this photographer went around calling the biggest european companies, asking to show up at their office and shoot their boardroom this is unilever in 1993

I can't seem to assemble four pictures that express the breadth of the project, but I really encourage everyone to look at August Sander's 'People of the 20th Century'. They are so clear. They make you feel the world endlessly draining and forgetting itself.