Put your timejector in secondary and wade through the bright blue manda grass, because this is \\ ==Friction Fit== a tiny web zine about weird tech, class...
Playing Wordle has left me with the impression that there are still so many word-like combinations of letters to be had in the English language. And these are just the 5 letter words. I'm going to call this feeling "plism". This feeling has no name, and the letter combination p-l-i-s-m seems like a word, and (most importantly) who is going to stop me? I use this language everday, sometimes twice a…
I think hiphop entered, if briefly, into a "post-sampling era" in the late 80s and 1990s. Anecdotally, in the music i listened to, I noticed an effort to avoid the legally grey area of sampling, but maintain an authentic workflow and sound. Examples of this can be heard in "It takes Two" by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock (1988), A Tribe Called Quest's "Midnight Marauders" (1993), and Portishead's…
The web is still here, waiting like a dusty old trail for anyone veering off the pavement. You can plant your feet firmly in place, scribble in the dirt and walk with others.
Göbekli Tepe, the Stone Age mystery basketball court continues to delight the world, but questions remain. Who built these structures? Why were they abandoned? We don't have much to go on, but we do know for certain this was a place to play basketball. What else would motivate people to construct buildings and regurally use them? We see sports practiced throughout history, in every single solitary…
The special treatment they buy is used to further oppress us: "ICE Uses Celebrities’ Loophole to Hide Deportation Flights" is what the finely crafted headline reads at https://jacobin.com/2025/08/ice-uses-celebrities-loophole-to-hide-deportation-flights/ The article states: "ICE’s use of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s private jet blacklist underscores how a growing push for privacy by…
Learning about the world in the 1980s - 1990s, I’ve been witness to the world’s decline. When I was in my teens, textbooks warned us of coming troubles. They mentioned the massive amounts of baby boomers who would be retiring at the same time, they mentioned melting ice and rising tides. The books had diagrams showing belts of underwater currents traveling the globe, with warnings like “disturb…
This America is now run by the kakistocracy, the worst people to be put in charge. The evil, the incompetent, the nogoodnicks, the hangers on, thieves. Thieves & liars. Trump, the cashed up bogan salting the earth, clear cuts a path for them all to waddle down. Fueled by the aristocracy, who are insulated from the diabolical buffoons in charge, this situation is chewing people up and shitting them…
“It's simple but controversial: Computers were more fun when they weren't for everyone . There, I said it.” \ \ It’s not simple, it’s not controversial, and “it” has nothing to do with computers.Let’s be honest, elitism is some complex manifestation of emotional trauma. “There, I tried to vocalize this thing that scares me”.\ \ If you delight in having something simply because others do not have…
Cocktail napkin math is fine for some, but have you seen the shit going down in the paper towel aisle? I need those calculations on my time card. It’s a place where 4 = 6, 8 = 16 and 6 MEGA = 14 split into 3rds, at your discretion. It’s a place where it’s all made up and the points don’t matter, it’s Numberwang. email updates, you say?