Hailu's unique blending of jazz and Ethiopian folk music somehow completely collapses joy and sorrow into a singular experience that the soul integrates without effort.

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"The Arrest"; Anarchist Fictions, February 2025

They do it alone and together. There are strandings and mass strandings. Very likely, the causes are many. To say that Cetacea are spiritual beings with memory and society is an understatement.

Still, as our sympathies fade, a being does become a body. Is force of argument the solve, the syndrome?

Try your hand at Colonist Corpse, the text-based colony sim that's all about corpse management. Experience an unforgiving UI and opaque mechanics. Click around and watch the bodies pile up. Enjoy a life of struggle in The Wilds. colonistcorpse.com

Head over to www.mydarkporpoise.com and discover your dark porpoise. This was the first of several JavaScript games I designed as a justification for squatting novelty domain names.

Remembering fondly Act II, Scene 4 of Macbeth, where a Scottish thane and a random old man confirm that horses are indeed now eating each other.

Studies have shown that the opinion-forming regions of the brain are enriched while the following plays on repeat in your earbuds. Subjects report additional benefits from pacing in a tight circle while wearing a tuna can as a hat: youtu.be/mB8lAl8P6G4?...

The greatest living North American director is now dead, leaving behind a body of work instructive on matters of creativity, dreams, the self, and consciousness. The porthole doesn't stay open on its own. You have to do it for yourself, and, perhaps now, a little for him. youtu.be/LYXJXQPneLM?...

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incredible work of book restoration/preservation on the very first book where anyone ever applied the identifier "hermetic" to themselves

National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night, 2017

Merciless festivities are balanced here with outrageously funny character performances set to a mod gothic aesthetic. Tamsin Greig as "Malvolia" outshines her castmates and nails Malvolio harder than I've ever seen before.

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"Citizen Kane for smart people."

Shūji Terayama's Pastoral: To Die in the Country, 1974

An on-screen filmmaker travels back 20 years in time. The viewer sits with the unfolding complexity of his meeting his childhood self. This is an easy rec for fans of Japanese cinema and the avant-garde in general.

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In Consciousness Live! interview, American professor and public intellectual Noam Chomsky refutes all knowledge of matter, saying simply, "I can tell you nothing about what it's like to see the sun set."

I can tell you nothing about how happy that made me.

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