A Funkaoshi Production

We haven’t learned a lot, it seems.

Yo, completely accidentally, is about love. Specifically, a magical thing our brains do for those we love; when someone has made enough of an impression, our minds spin up a simulation, a tiny homunculus process that runs in the background so those we love are always with us.

Some solid reaching going on in this excellent ode to Yo.

Thomas Hofeller’s daughter has been sharing his private files that were used to gerrymander districts to help the Republicans win.

This film looks incredible.

A great article about cultural appropriation. (I managed to avoid the rabbit hole of following all of James’s links, but there is a lot to read if you’re so inclined.)

A really interesting about the nature of work, getting things done, and product/project management.

Caroline Haskins reports on how Ring has morphed from a fancy doorbell to a private surveillance network for its new owner, Amazon.

It’s interesting to see the stats on just how prevalent porn was on the site.

While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,” and their productions “spread widely across the whole social graph.” In other words, they weren’t quarantined in some illicit corner of the site—they were woven into its basic fabric: The average Tumblr user in the sample followed 51 blogs, two or three of which tended to be specifically pornographic, and another two of which tended to be “bridge” blogs, run by users who were particularly likely to reblog porn.

A really interesting read on sex work, pornography, feminism, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

This is a fantastic little video. Cuarón is so good.

Such a fantastic little video.

A great overview of just how terrible a business Uber is—from an economic point of view! They can’t even get that right.

It’s weird in the Trump helscape that is America they still have computer nerds doing good work.

Yep.

This is really interesting.

He returned to Viet Nam after a 40 year exile, to live out his dying days in his home country. A choice that is not without some controversy.

Are there other companies that have been such a net-negative for the world?

People don’t want to live next to a factory that’s been there for a million years probably shouldn’t move next a factory that’s been there for a million years. Articles like this are so aggravating. Blansdowne isn’t Bloor West.

He wrote his book, No Friend But the Mountains, one text message at a time.

I am so hooked on Warhammer.