The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

ITS THE ANTI PRIME SALE FROM @bookshop.org. You are cordially invited (with a few history and higher ed recs from me and @profgabriele.com).

Also the invite Matt made makes me cackle.

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Learned “high-functioning depression” is a thing and curious if there is a name for the opposite where I don’t feel depressed and days are full of wonder and gratitude, but I can’t seem to function in the way I used to and struggle with routine tasks, especially any that require human interaction.

Recent history seems like bad news overload, but is anyone considering that the “let the tech-bros, crypto, and generative Ai drive all the important decisions” could result in a huge realisation among the masses that those things aren’t great and open their minds to, say, education and knowledge.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?

Sometimes we need reminding that things that seem impossible only seem so until someone achieves them.

And when someone achieves, even in an unfamiliar field, it can intrigue, it can instruct, it can inspire.

Jasmin Paris, thankyou for the reminder.

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One of the few pieces of advice I offer to anyone new or old to any artform is not to conflate suffering for your art, which is not only unnecessary but often counterproductive, with making the sacrifices that are almost always inevitable when striving for any artistic goal.
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Happy St. Dwynwen's Day to all my Welsh friends.

I'm the new minister for ambiguous cognitive concepts.

A Take on the Social Media Landscape in 2023.
 
Twitter is the town square and it’s bustling with bros selling crypto and arguing the merits of DC over Marvel, but you’re visiting the town square amidst an EDL march, and whilst their ire is not aimed directly at you…
 
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