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git and github are for narcs and employees. Version control should be a thousand folders of the same project in your downloads folder or on your desktop

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Who is going to keep producing and putting work up on the web if it's just going to be eaten up and regurgitated with a small citation that many won't bother to look at? What does this do to the incentive for sharing knowledge? Has anyone written interesting ideas about this?

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This, right here, is the only reason I've survived as a writer at all. There's a school of thought out there (that a lot of beloved colleagues of mine ascribe to) that you should finish what you start. I cannot do that. I cannot because most of my ideas are fucking terrible and deserve abandonment

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Trying to wrap my head the dynamic cultural institutions are actually more competitive and popular than mainstream or market-driven discourse acknowledges. MoMA's annual attendance is more than the NY Giants and Jets combined. The Met is over 5.3 million a year! NYPL is at 16 million visits a year!

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The Pickle Ball Court Oath

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sad to hear about the passing of Rutherford Chang. His White Album project was one of the coolest things I've seen an artist do involving the concept of collecting. Visiting in 2013 was awesome. The only time I ever felt like I understood how physical media functions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/a...

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Seven Years War belligerents list to the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire

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It honestly feels like there is not a single democratic politician or strategist or even journalist who has read John Boyd

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in search of a musicologist friend that I can text questions to between 11pm and 5am ET

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Update I now own a copy of Debussy's music criticism ("The Dilettante Hater") where he invented an alter ego to spend a year being catty about his peers

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from the Times obit of Cunningham dancer Carolyn Brown www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/a...

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Today I learned that Debussy spent a few years as an extremely spicy music critic where he invented an alter ego named "Monsieur Croche" who would say shit like "I hate sentimentality – his name is Camille Saint-Saëns"

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ok goodreads is pretty funny

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1. Browsers don’t really load websites; they perform them. A website's code, like a Bach cantata's sheet music, instructs the browser on which notes to play. The website doesn’t appear until a browser has displayed it to a user, interpreted the code in all its complex harmonies and rhythms.

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1. I just got around to @maxy.bsky.social's fantastic opus, "Century-Scale Storage" (thanks to @elan.place's newsletter, ESCAPE THE ALGORITHM, which I think recommended it). - "Century-Scale Storage": lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal... - ESCAPE THE ALGORITHM: escapethealgorithm.substack.com

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

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Joan Miró’s costume design for Léonide Massine's Jeux d’Enfants 1932

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FKA Twigs - Magdalene is a christmas album

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websites should look like this

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this is very important from @gracespelman.bsky.social gracespelmanmusicproject.substack.com/p/the-cooles...

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"If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it? // Century-Scale Storage" by @maxy.bsky.social for Harvard's Library Innovation Lab---> lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

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"We picked a century scale because most physical objects can survive 100 years in good care. It is attainable, and yet we selected it because the design of mainstream digital storage mediums are nowhere close to even considering this mark." lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage

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Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

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This article was a lot of fun. It reminded me of this series of blog posts on how to build a building to last for 1000 years: www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-des... Part of the problem is a physical engineering challenge, the other part is social engineering.

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This is an essential read if you create anything that ends up in a digital format.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a cool piece and presented in a beautiful format

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