A Funkaoshi Production

There is some so compelling about Mick Foley, Mankind from WWF. I love seeing him in interviews. He’s so different than his WWF persona, so humble and mild mannered.

Both leads from Top Boy are famous UK rappers. Kano is foundational in the creation of UK Grime. This video was done by the person who directed The Long Goodbye and is great.

It’s always amazing watching people playing the elite version of anything. (For example, this video about the greatest game of classic Tetris.)

Paul Ford uploaded his father’s writing to the Internet Archive, and writes a little bit about the process, and death.

It’s been over a decade since we’ve heard from the elusive White Stripes drummer. Could renewed attention over a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination coax her back into the spotlight?

A very sad end to one of the true pioneers of blogging. She was only 47 years old.

These people are life’s losers. Not because they have money or because they’re sending kids to private school. Lots of people with money know how to enjoy it. But because, by orienting themselves entirely around acquiring things they feel they should want, they seem to have rendered themselves terminally incapable of enjoying themselves. The most distinctive thing about them is that they seem actually incapable of having fun.

An interesting article on the discourse around ‘rich people problems’.

My cousin passed along this podcast where a British comedian Cariad Lloyd interviews other comedians (mostly) about how they deal with death and grief in their lives. This episode features Romesh Ranganathan talking about his father. Interesting to me because I’m always interested in the lives of family Tamil people, but also because his dad sounds unlike any Tamil dad’s I know.

Is there nothing anybody would say that would cause you to cease your association with them? If so, then what you are is not a proponent of free speech, but lazy amorality.

This article is very quotable, but i’ll go with that, because it feels like it gets to the heart of it. People like Scott Adams will immolate themselves, and then talk about the consequences of their actions in terms of free speech, all the while ignoring the actual attacks on free speech happening all around us.

Hutchins was the fellow who stopped the WannaCry malware, later arrested by the FBI for unethical hacking during his youth.

I really want to play this game now.

An essay about the photographic series Glendalis, by Angela Cappetta.

A long read on the state of twitter 3 months after it’s purchase by Elon Musk. What a train wreck.

The online neighbourhood group is akin to a gated community within a community: an enclave for those with the time, means, and know-how to keep an area pure. There is an obvious logic to it. If you ­cannot put up literal gates, put up virtual ones.