Lest this become too morose, I will note that the benefits of having a power grid at all are self-evident.
A third draft of my CS Ethics student's paper on decarbonizing the power grid
You're not really supposed to have favorites when you teach, but some students just really go above and beyond. This student made a working model of a utility pole with a functioning transformer as part of her final presentation!! Teaching engineers is sometimes delightful.
The order they are after is all around us—a Homeowners Association with a S.W.A.T. team at its disposal, a business that grows at a steady rate without making anything anyone could use, a world in which things simply happen and continue to happen, a pristine desolation that is safe precisely because of how empty it is.
"They Are Insecure For a Reason", David Roth for Defector
I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop.
Rachel Corrie, in an email to her mother, Gaza 2003
Oh, just the crimes.
Isaac Chotiner while interviewing Elliott Abrams for The New Yorker
At that point, some of the conglomerations of fleshy matter-energy that made up life underwent a sudden mineralization, and a new material for constructing living creatures emerged: bone.
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manuel De Landa
As quoted in Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter, which I had to read for school this week and while it has some nice moments, I keep feeling like the Julio Torres comedy special My Favorite Shapes articulated some of its core concepts much more effectively.
When the desire for mallow-based confection prevails, I must insist upon Peeps.
Orson Welles in a print ad for Marshmallow Peeps
Via IG.
In a sense, you could say "Unfrosted" is a very faithful adaptation, because the source is a Seinfeld standup routine on Pop-Tarts, and Seinfeld never cares about anything he talks about in his comedy, which is aggressively, at times petulantly trivial.
Matt Zoller Seitz's review of the movie Unfrosted for RogerEbert.com
Submitted by James.
“This is surreal,” I said to the person next to me, who was David Cross.
"My Interview With the President", Jonathan Katz's newsletter The Racket
In the process of the physical exam, ethnicity was materialized and represented as a thing: a palpable quality of the face discernible (and diagnosable) in particular morphological sites (Mirivel, 2008).
"Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment: Interrogating Classification in Facial Feminization Surgery", Eric Plemons
Submitted by Chirag.