It says that the only way to enjoy art is in knowing that it is hurting somebody.

“A.I.: The New Aesthetics of Fascism”, Gareth Watkins for New Socialist

Submitted by Moon.

Theirs is the construction site of hell.

Pope Francis’ Good Friday meditations

This will decrease the volume of PTTs that can be handled during this period and users might get a bonk when trying to key the radio.

City of Columbus, Ohio public safety and communication technology radio upgrade bulletin

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I am walking around my apartment muttering she hormble on my chormble til I disrupt because I am too online but honestly what the hell else am I supposed to do with this information, Mr. Hormble?

"WTF Is a Hormbles Chormbles?", Jaya Saxena for Eater

Submitted by Chris. A runner-up from me:

“Candy never really made sense,” they write, as if they have never eaten it before.

History is not smooth; it doesn't lead out of the cave of early illusions into the mature blaze of enlightenment; it does not exhibit any growing intelligibility; and it cannot be reduced to a fanciful relay of revolutionary subjects.

"Friedrich Kittler: An Introduction", Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Nicholas Gane

A certain strand of technology might be accelerating, but culture is going nowhere in particular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pastiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.

“The Golden Sardine”, Robin Sloan

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At Scott’s memorial service, last October, organizers handed out tote bags with the slogan “Become Ungovernable.”

“James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance”, Nikil Saval for The New Yorker

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Recently I noted that some bot accounts on X were posting links to a pirated version of my next book, which still hasn’t been published.

"Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy", Jacob Silverman for the Financial Times

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