Infrastructure is the imagined materialization of this thing called an economy.
"Infrastructural Time", Hannah Appel in The Promise of Infrastructure
That certain sensation that things can be so different is our long game.
Mary Jirmanus Saba on Instagram
Mary is simply one of the best people I know.
A feral ghoul can't abide a chicken.
The pilot episode of Fallout
Per discussion from Perfect Sentences 68: not sure I would describe Walton Goggins' Ghoul character as "sexy" but the show overall is pretty fun. They kind of overdo it with the "let's put jaunty old-timey music under this dystopic landscape sequence" move, though I think that's a Nolan and Joy signature (Westworld loved a dumbass needle drop).
Previous attempts to regulate nocturnal gelato consumption have proved hard to enforce.
"Brain Freeze" in the Monocle Minute
Submitted by Gavin.
It’s easy to have your scene ruined by annoying rich people (for example, San Francisco) or to make something cool sound uncool by talking about it too much (for example, weed) or to be right and yet still be embarrassing about it (for example, atheism).
"The Polycrisis", Brandy Jensen for the Yale Review
Submitted by Kieffer. Independently, I had been planning already this week to include this gem from the same essay:
I have no interest in going to grad school for relationships, especially when the other students sound so keen to be best in class.
But maybe Taylor Swift has ascended to the level of something more like “Donald Trump” or “climate change,” concepts so ubiquitous and culturally overdetermined that it’s no longer necessary (or possible) to defend a position on them because no one is changing their mind at this point.
"Carcinization and its Discontents", Today in Tabs
100% of the Earth is covered by air...,
"Defense Primer: The United States Air Force, Congressional Research Service Report IF10547
Submitted by Charlie, who encountered it via a listserv initially as a fragment. The full sentence is a contender for perfection:
100% of the Earth is covered by air, and the USAF takes advantage of that to provide strike capability worldwide using bombers, special operations platforms, fighters, other aircraft, and missiles.