There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies.
Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy
Anyone clothed by the US is literally NAKED!
Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf on Twitter
Submitted by R.
This brain-fart-to-built-UI pipeline is so fast that it might actually begin to convince people that their lightly-sautéed neuron-events are actually really well-thought-out, mature concepts like slapping sheepskin on a lamb.
"On genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck?", Frank Elavsky on his blog
Submitted by Evan.
And sometimes you can’t, and it flows within the dollars of our retirement accounts and municipal bonds, like invisible particulate matter, intermixed in our very means of living.
"Unpaid Debts", Megan Wachspress for the Oakland Review of Books
Also recommend the behind the scenes interview on this essay in Coyote.
Though Adéla was not a product of the Cold War itself but the first generation beyond the shadow of the Curtain, the memory of those times was vivid in her, absorbed through the words of playwrights and the memories of her parents and grandparents, of her country as the small and hapless chew-toy of reckless imperial hounds.
"The Submarine of Czechia", Tal Lavin for Flaming Hydra
Submitted by Ed.
Participation is voluntary for trans men, who might want to go to space for any number of reasons (hanging out with friends, space is cool).
The Shoot Men Into Space proposal
The parenthetical tips this one into perfect for me; I like how "any number of reasons" is...two reasons.
For decades, frustratingly little has been known about the shark, a mottled, baguette-shaped creature that reaches 20ft in length.
"Blind, slow and 500 years old – or are they? How scientists are unravelling the secrets of Greenland sharks", Leyland Cecco for The Guardian
Submitted by Kira.
The devastation in Gaza is not staged or sensationalized; it is the unavoidable environment in which these artists labor.
"The Gaza Biennale", Nate Masso for Public Seminar
Submitted by Natalie.
Punching yourself in your own face anew each morning but your fist is a metaphor and your face is also a metaphor.
"How They Get You", Luke O'Neil for Flaming Hydra
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