Bits

interactive way to see how email servers work https://www.learndmarc.com/

Sound & Music

Bravo #canadaland #pretendians podcast https://www.canadaland.com/shows/pretendians/ – excellent podcast, hope to hear another season .. also, love how they used #genai songs for episode bumpers

The writing was subversive and experimental, characters and voices at the edge of the law, free with their sexuality, experimenting with drugs—and cut-up/collage writing techniques—feeling the sensual and emotional thrills of the Romantic poets and Rimbaud, and deeply into jazz https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/the-beat-generation-list

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Politics & Economics

who killed the world? #scifi #futurism https://pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/

The saddest creatures in late-stage capitalism are cheerleaders who own little equity but root for mega-cap companies like sports teams. With 54% of total US market cap held by 1% of the population, it’s a given that these confused devotees far outnumber the real beneficiaries. #economics https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/chinas-subsidies-create-not-destroy-value/

The Utah anthropologist Joseph Tainter has argued that civilizations tend to collapse when they can no longer afford the social and energy costs of maintaining their complexity or, for that matter, their appliances. In other words, societies die when they can’t fix things in an affordable way. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/07/15/Enshittification-Everything/