href weekly | Jan 19 – Jan 25 2025

Bits

“When users complain about their app being banned, a lot of them are also decrying the circumstances that make virality their best shot at economic security.” https://archive.ph/CKA5a

a real-time map of passenger in https://trains.fyi/

a speculative of computation https://research.antikythera.org/

Sound & Music

“a slick social climber, three good-time Charlies, and a genius https://www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/music/garth-hudson-the-band-obituary

Politics & Economics

“Movement organizations could fail to provide any real relief for those whose lives are most endangered and leave newly scared and angry people to the most passive and ineffective forms of expressing their opinions.” https://lib.edist.ro/library/gus-breslauer-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism

illionaires are on a mission to make the stories of science fiction a reality: space colonization, human/machine bio organisms, and living forever in a state of unhindered bliss. To most of us, this version of a far future utopia comes off as “billionaire boys and their toys” but critics say such a dismissive attitude is naïve. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16122923-techno-utopia-billionaires-wet-dream

B-Movie

The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia
They want to go back as far as they can–
Even if it’s only as far as last week
Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards

And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes
Riding to the rescue at the last possible moment
The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse
Or the man who always came to save America at the last moment
Someone always came to save America at the last moment
Especially in “B” movies

B-Movie