Tagged “culture”
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
Viral video of pig balancing on a ball is CGI
what a time to be alive
How To Be Influenced
Scientists warning on affluence
Can we reduce resource use and emissions more rapidly than increases caused by growing affluence? History does not think so.
Why so much drug use in the United States?
I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for VCs
What You Can't Say
TIL about Nasubi
from thread on Mr Beast
The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be
the downsides of places optimising for tourism and photography, rather than for being lived in. The problem of everyone wanting a particular special experience.
City of Inequality - The Dystopia of São Paulo
The Microwave Economy
Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
Not everything needs to be part of your 2-party political melodrama
Our Friend the Atom — Real Life
The continuing value of the little solar system model.
Little planets are easier to comprehend than a probalistic cloud of electrons
From Dry January to Fake Cocktails, Inside the New Temperance Movement
‘Blade Runner’ at 40
Great movie. The music, the androids, the city, the aesthetic.
Nico Muhly tells how to listen to a piece of Contemporary music for the first time
On length and style and cycles and narrative.
If you need to know anything about a piece before hearing he (he thinks not).
On the high/low division people make about pop music being silly.
Example of Vespertine by Björk, music that can exist in many different contexts and not seem out of place.
Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug
The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
Buy Things, Not Experiences
No One Wants to Claim Lofi Hip-Hop. So Why Is It Still so Popular?
Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
Long-time nuclear waste warning messages
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
Had kinda sensed this trend, though some wild stats in there. There was also the turn to comfort music early in the pandemic.
old songs now represent 70% of the US music market.
The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs.
the 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams. It was twice that rate just three years ago
Never before in history have new tracks attained hit status while generating so little cultural impact.
Have often wondered what the endpoint of this is. Or how much in impacted/unfluenced by sampling.
The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’
The New Puritans
Some discussions and interviews on justice by twitter-mob.
By contrast, the modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms, and arguments of 280 characters, favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. Yet the values of that online sphere have come to dominate many American cultural institutions: universities, newspapers, foundations, museums. Heeding public demands for rapid retribution, they sometimes impose the equivalent of lifetime scarlet letters on people who have not been accused of anything remotely resembling a crime. Instead of courts, they use secretive bureaucracies. Instead of hearing evidence and witnesses, they make judgments behind closed doors.
Culture as counterculture by Adam Kirsch
The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made
Added to watchlist
The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?
Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe
Always interesting, and very clever. Talks about upcoming technology (real and expected), cultural and institutional changes, government as buyer to incentivise development, a bunch on companies and employees.
Armada reviewed
Do u even DIY, bro?
A look at the music industry. You can't make money from album sales, or from touring. Either have to do it as a hobby or get into the merchandice game.
The Whitewashing of “#WhitePeopleDoingYoga” – Mother Jones
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