[Product Manager]: These notifications go to 11
MFW Chromium pushes an update and half my desktop "apps" want to update.
This is one my best lifelong friends. We don't get to talk much since I moved from SoFL and then he moved to PDX. Discovering this brought me great joy.
The short story referenced there is one of the oldest I've kept published on my site, and it could use a lot of work, but I just read the first bit and I'm pretty happy with my 2002 self for this line:
"Don’t live a lie is so cliché. Try not to live a lie and see what happens. Lost. Forgotten. Truth escapes the physics of economy: it is in sparse supply, and yet it has no value."
Men's Giro d'Italia Stage 15 Race Highlights ...
youtube.com/watch?v=qJ58T-9EAY4
Discovered the art of Hank Willis this morning by way of my UofA alumni magazine
hankwillisthomas.com/works/from-caint-see-in-the-mornin-til-caint-see-at-night
"...we are in an epoch in life where we largely via institutionalizations and habituation and just the patterns of the late stage distraction economy in modernity, we largely do not think for ourselves. We also have politicians and media that can perpetuate propaganda that we don't have...journalistic integrity...because a myriad factors include including perverse incentivization. So just we more than ever people need to develop the capacity to think for themselves"
"We’re not just in the era of the billionaire. We’re in the era of billionaire moral cosplay, where obscene wealth and performative wokeness coexist without contradiction. One minute you’re flying to space “to see Earth’s fragility,” the next you’re launching rockets, torching oceans, and parking your teak-lined guilt barge off the coast of Cannes to go applaud your fiancé for saving the planet."
The thing that astonishes me is somehow Bezos and Sánchez are aesthetically the personification of every warning from every wise thinker and prophet of all of recorded history. You don't have to know the details, you can just look at them and go, "Yep, this is what Jesus warned us about!"