A Funkaoshi Production

This is some serious business.

Fuck yes! “In his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.”

there’s a Muslim kid in Kansas who has already written the schematic
for the robot that will steal your job in manufacturing,
and that robot? Will also be gay, so get used to it

This poem is good.

Anil Dash’s advice for Twitter is pretty much perfect—except he doesn’t mention adding me to their board of directors.

Today I learned a lot of iconic photographs I know of Wong Kar Wai films were shot by photography Wing Shya. I don’t know why I assumed they by his cinematography Christopher Doyle as well.

Because it’s a bad idea? Yes. Zappos used to be ranked as one of the best places to work. In 2015 it lost a third of it’s work force.

Shima sponsored a Syrian family with some people in our area, and they are still stuck in Jordan, like several of the families mentioned in this article. The process feels a bit glacial. This story is super heart warming, though.

“Intellectual” has two common definitions—the first is the kind of person you hear getting interviewed on NPR about a Big Idea, the second, used by people like Marx, is any kind of economic actor who gets paid to do brainstuff rather than hard labor, like a plumbing engineer. The point of “Nerd” is to keep these two kinds of intellectuals separate, because together they are fucking dangerous. When Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing Black Panther comics and demanding reparations after documenting decades of housing discrimination?—capitalism does not want that shit.

LOL WAT.

I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa’s Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death. What I experienced in the Philippines felt like a new level of ruthlessness: police officers’ summarily shooting anyone suspected of dealing or even using drugs, vigilantes’ taking seriously Mr. Duterte’s call to “slaughter them all.”

Plot twist! I honestly didn’t see this coming from Tory.

I know we’ve been calling people nazis for like the last 60-70 years, but this is some full on nazi shit.

If you love Kottke.org then you can support his site financially once again. 11 years ago (!!) he ran a membership drive that was pretty forward thinking and met with a lot of people calling him crazy and lazy.

These commercials from Egypt are amazing.

Camilo José Vergara has spent more than forty years photographing and rephotographing the same forgotten corners of American cities. From crumbling housing blocks in the Bronx and an abandoned Detroit mansion, to dwindling row houses in Camden and the many lives of a Los Angeles baptist church. In all cases Vergara eschews the monumental to focus on a city’s discreet pockets. Returning year after year to the same positions, he regenerates images even as the structures in front of his lens decompose and are reborn in a cycle of photographic renewal. Architecture given shape by time and neglect takes on an organic quality—a reminder that edifices are as temporary as the lives they shelter. Vergara’s urban generation loss depicts fluid cities as a mirror of the present aging into obsolescence. Ultimately his images force a reckoning with death, confronting our inability to grasp the undercurrents relegating urban space and time.

For Scarborough residents, this isn’t just a mall —it’s where one most likely had either their first date, first fight, or perhaps both at the same time (we call this an Ellesmere special).

In an extract from his memoir, A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka, Commodore Ajith Boyagoda recalls senseless destruction by soldiers.

I need to check out this book.

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In time I came to understand the nature of my job as the father of this sartorial wild child: I didn’t need to fathom Abe or his stylistic impulses; I needed only to let him go where they took him and, for as long as he needed me, to follow along behind.