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Thinking more about it now: Moby Dick is a book about skateboarding
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A great way to start the week: @kylebeachy.bsky.social on being there, Good Medicine, and the branching paths of 1,800 skateboards on the Navajo Nation.
www.simplemagic.ca/being-there/
www.simplemagic.ca/being-there/
Being there
Kyle Beachy on being there, Good Medicine, and the branching paths of 1,800 skateboards on the Navajo Nation.
www.simplemagic.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A great way to start the week: @kylebeachy.bsky.social on being there, Good Medicine, and the branching paths of 1,800 skateboards on the Navajo Nation.
www.simplemagic.ca/being-there/
www.simplemagic.ca/being-there/
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It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator.
Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE.
Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.
Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE.
Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.
remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator.
Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE.
Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.
Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE.
Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.
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I wrote about traveling to the Navajo Nation and helping to distribute 1,800 skateboards, which more or less changed my understanding of what a skateboard is. Also, what the desert is.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I wrote about traveling to the Navajo Nation and helping to distribute 1,800 skateboards, which more or less changed my understanding of what a skateboard is. Also, what the desert is.
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“I want to make music, but I don’t have the talent”
YOU DON’T KNOW THAT until you actually try to do the thing
Don’t give up on yourself and outsource the work to a computer
Plenty of great music has been made by people who “couldn’t sing” or “couldn’t play”
Emphasis on MADE
YOU DON’T KNOW THAT until you actually try to do the thing
Don’t give up on yourself and outsource the work to a computer
Plenty of great music has been made by people who “couldn’t sing” or “couldn’t play”
Emphasis on MADE
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“I want to make music, but I don’t have the talent”
YOU DON’T KNOW THAT until you actually try to do the thing
Don’t give up on yourself and outsource the work to a computer
Plenty of great music has been made by people who “couldn’t sing” or “couldn’t play”
Emphasis on MADE
YOU DON’T KNOW THAT until you actually try to do the thing
Don’t give up on yourself and outsource the work to a computer
Plenty of great music has been made by people who “couldn’t sing” or “couldn’t play”
Emphasis on MADE
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"The female incarceration rate has ballooned by more than 700% since 1980 ... The cycle of incarceration and subjugation is driven by scarcity and by limiting our communities' access to the fundamental building block of an economy: money. We see a basic income guarantee as a key tool for helping."
The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.
This Program Gives Direct Cash Support to Incarcerated Women
The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The female incarceration rate has ballooned by more than 700% since 1980 ... The cycle of incarceration and subjugation is driven by scarcity and by limiting our communities' access to the fundamental building block of an economy: money. We see a basic income guarantee as a key tool for helping."
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
What I’m expecting my wife to say when I finally convince her to watch UHF
The Weird Al movie was better than expected.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What I’m expecting my wife to say when I finally convince her to watch UHF
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If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
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The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
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This week, things are getting stupider, including me, who mispelled Antonio Durao's name twice in this newsletter (since updated).
www.simplemagic.ca/steve-caball...
www.simplemagic.ca/steve-caball...
Steve Caballero and the stupiding of the skateboarder's mind
Antonia Durao plays a sick game of mid-air patty-cake, Cab makes some sickening social media posts, FA goes sicko moto-mode, and more.
www.simplemagic.ca
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This week, things are getting stupider, including me, who mispelled Antonio Durao's name twice in this newsletter (since updated).
www.simplemagic.ca/steve-caball...
www.simplemagic.ca/steve-caball...
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with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
Annual reminder to us all:
We owe them nothing. They have no control.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=obtB...
We owe them nothing. They have no control.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=obtB...
Fugazi live at Asylum (1/4) | "Merchandise"
YouTube video by Greg Mailloux
m.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Annual reminder to us all:
We owe them nothing. They have no control.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=obtB...
We owe them nothing. They have no control.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=obtB...
If you haven’t bought/read The Most Fun Thing, what have you been doing with your time?
I wrote a very serious book about the world's least serious thing and I am more proud of it than anything else I've done. Phenomenology! Performance theory! Anatheism and even some William Gass!
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you haven’t bought/read The Most Fun Thing, what have you been doing with your time?
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Don’t worry! If your Thanksgiving dinner conversation turns from pie to prisons, or from cranberries to crime, we’ve got you covered. 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Don’t worry! If your Thanksgiving dinner conversation turns from pie to prisons, or from cranberries to crime, we’ve got you covered. 🧵
Former goofy boys in 1995
even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Former goofy boys in 1995
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The idea that if you keep teaching the word guessing programme words it will wake up is like if you keep breeding horses to run faster one of them will give birth to a locomotive”
Cory Doctorow on why AI singularity is a stoopid idea
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Cory Doctorow on why AI singularity is a stoopid idea
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Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The idea that if you keep teaching the word guessing programme words it will wake up is like if you keep breeding horses to run faster one of them will give birth to a locomotive”
Cory Doctorow on why AI singularity is a stoopid idea
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Cory Doctorow on why AI singularity is a stoopid idea
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Jeremy Wray in 1997 claiming he never really did pressure flips or impossibles in the early 90s
the archangel cared little or nothing for the captain and mates; and since the epidemic had broken out, he carried a higher hand than ever
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jeremy Wray in 1997 claiming he never really did pressure flips or impossibles in the early 90s
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So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
Old pros who have worn out their welcome
Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people’s noses.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Old pros who have worn out their welcome
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With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
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200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II
200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II
Images courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Actor George Takei was once best known as Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu.
www.openculture.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II
REAL
unflinching earnestness
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
REAL
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@cnkerr.bsky.social is back with another beauty, this time stepping into the gyre of W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming."
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
Waxing Poetic #3: “The Second Coming”
Christian N. Kerr navigates the widening gyre of society and skateboarding through William Butler Yeats' post-war poetry.
www.simplemagic.ca
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@cnkerr.bsky.social is back with another beauty, this time stepping into the gyre of W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming."
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM