Aug. 3, 2024, 10 a.m.

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Further Reading

The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town; genuinely horrific.

Iyo Sky going all out is something else.

A beautiful article about aging, change, and working at an independent frame shop.

I'm a sucker for walking through a space that someone's carefully constructed. Nightmare Superhighway is a good space for exploring.

This video of an underground US business park is very Kentucky Route Zero. More info here.

I read Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality this month, and I want everyone to read it. It's one of those books that I've found recontextualising my understanding of the world. A quote:

"It is not the technology itself that is the problem but rather that technology is primarily used in service of capital, and the various systems of domination that capitalism is intertwined with, which leave so many of us constantly fatigued, far beyond the workplace."

So it is nearly 3.5 hrs long, but this video essay on the Drake and Kendrick feud is just really good storytelling. Putting the whole thing into context as a battle for the soul of hip hop.


Okay, I'm going to leave you there. I've been watching the swallows in the sky above the village all week. There's something so reassuring about seeing them, the way they leave for the winter but always return in the spring.

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