Data, words, code
Alejandro Joderowsky s movie about psychomagic his practice of tailor-made quasi-shamanic rituals, is much more sane than I expected. This documentary made both by and about Jodorowsky, who is clearly his own favorite subject shows us a series of Jodorowsky s ritual treatments, interspersed by clips from his older movies. Each time, we see somebody Continue reading Psychomagic
The Halbstarke were a German subculture in the 50s: rockers with leather jackets, an affection for James Dean, and a grudge against polite society. photo: Karlheiz Weinberger The term literally half-strong fascinates me. It suggests not only the half-grown adolescents who were the bulk of the movement, but also their combination of force Continue reading Halbstarke
What I ve been reading: A bleak Twitter thread by Kamil Galeev, taking gangsterism as the natural state of entrepreneurship. With US/European norms as a rare and fragile anomoly: Hunting for cryptobros sounds like a great hustle for a violent entrepreneur. Still, we don t see it happening: outspoken cryptobros are alive (=not selected out). Ergo, the Continue reading Links and Snippets
¶ Horses used to eat bread Horse bread, typically a flat, brown bread baked alongside human bread, fueled England’s equine transport system from the Middle Ages up until the early 1800s. Bread is easier to move and faster to eat than hay, making it ideal for hard-working horses on the move. ¶ Housebuilding in West Continue reading Links and Snippets
For the past year I ve been working at AdAstra, calculating the climate change impact of food. Today, we re releasing most of that work into the world for free. Cocoa production, for example, generates over 20 times as much carbon dioxide as it does cocoa powder mainly because forests are being cut down for cocoa Continue reading My recent work as open data
For the past year I ve been working at AdAstra, calculating the climate change impact of food. Today, we re releasing most of that work into the world for free. Cocoa production, for example, generates over 20 times as much carbon dioxide as it does cocoa powder mainly because forests are being cut down for cocoa Continue reading My recent work as open data
Back in the days when Stephen Pinker wrote books about language, he had a nice section about Latin and Greek plurals in English. Alumnus becomes alumni, cactus becomes cacti, and so on. But it doesn t always work. Sometimes we gave up pretending English is Latin (circus, museum). Sometimes it was never a Latin word to Continue reading The Flying Elvi
Back in the days when Stephen Pinker wrote books about language, he had a nice section about Latin and Greek plurals in English. Alumnus becomes alumni, cactus becomes cacti, and so on. But it doesn t always work. Sometimes we gave up pretending English is Latin (circus, museum). Sometimes it was never a Latin word to Continue reading The Flying Elvi
Halloween is almost here, and so is NaNoWriMo. So it s the perfect time to share Edgar Allen Poe s essay on his process for writing The Raven. Poe s attitude is that composition is a mathematical problem . He starts from the big-picture a poem short enough to read in one sitting, suffused with melancholy ( the most Continue reading The Raven
Halloween is almost here, and so is NaNoWriMo. So it s the perfect time to share Edgar Allen Poe s essay on his process for writing The Raven. Poe s attitude is that composition is a mathematical problem . He starts from the big-picture a poem short enough to read in one sitting, suffused with melancholy ( the most Continue reading The Raven