Doing some maintenance. -steele
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Friday, 18 July 2025
quote [ a careless smear of stylistic averages ]
Ian Bogost tries to review artifical music in the "Who Cares?" era, recommended via most recent Hype Machine edition.
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quote [ ‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology ]
Who cares bitch i'm blowed where the crab people
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Thursday, 17 July 2025
quote [ The East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art.” ]
Talkin' strippers and models that try to gain attention
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Wednesday, 16 July 2025
quote [ A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal. ]
There was a wizard at polo was a socialized bee,
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Tuesday, 15 July 2025
quote [ The evolution of drone shows, a concept that went from an art collective experiment in de-fanging warfare tech to a municipal favorite in record time. ]
Going higher than an drone
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Monday, 14 July 2025
quote [ Metoposcopy is the early modern divinatory practice that reads the pattern of lines on a person's forehead for their signification ]
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
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Sunday, 13 July 2025
quote [ On July 13, 2019, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while
attacking transportation infrastructure for the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. The Northwest Detention Center can hold over 1,500 people, making it the largest immigration prison on the west coast, and one of the largest immigrant detention facilities in the country. ] “I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”
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quote [ Rapid urbanization, industrial growth, and excessive groundwater extraction are just some of the reasons why Chinese cities are sinking. ]
Read about the whole water management situation in China and found many shorter articles on current studies.. this one seems to paint a bigger picture on the history of industrialization and water management. Was reminded of Californian wells.
One of the linked studies in my newspaper article was about uneven urban infrastructure heights. What's also not mentioned is the side effects of the heavy dam building and the successive regulation by opening and closing them, partly to destructive consequences.
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quote [ Sixty-five years after it first hit store shelves, the iconic, red-framed drawing toy continues to enchant kids, artists, and collectors alike ]
They let you keep your etch-a-sketch
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Saturday, 12 July 2025
quote [ In the glittering world of 19th-century theatre, where talent was prized and ridicule could end a career, one man defied convention and became a legend—not for brilliance, but for flamboyant failure. His name was Robert Coates, a wealthy amateur who believed that he was destined for the stage. ]
One bad actor versus the rest of the world
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