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A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

i love being called in

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Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.

good morning specifically to Claire Sharpe

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been thinking about how annoying taking estrogen shots every few weeks is and i think i figured out a solution: comically long syringe. just give it to me all at once

reached into my jaws pinball machine yesterday, pulled my hand out and it was bleeding for no apparent reason. fitting

might be my dumbest take yet but: my belief that people are (on average) generally good (despite evidence) used to come easier but it's increasingly feeling like i'm holding onto it desperate with both hands like a fool getting mugged for their empty wallet. still not letting go.

a building with a sign that says "dave's"

the next side of the building, showing a sign with some letters missing. what's left spells "cumee"

had a lovely time
exploring the marvels of the greater detroit area. special shoutout to dave's cumee

a black cat with white paws holding a socked foot in both paws, nibbling on it like a corn on the cob. little fangs are visible

the same cat biting the same foot like a corncob (but the wrong way this time)

i'm being bullied

i miss my friend's cat. he loved bag

saw a person walking a dachshund and a pair of borzois (or greyhounds?) and the dachshund was barking hard at everything but the two gangly dogs. sort of like a big chipmunk protecting two deer with its life. i am jealous of every creature in this story

i think it's nice that some medical centers in nyc will leave lockboxes outside with little stickers on them that say "medical samples only, no drugs or money" while they wait for pickup. goes to show that you can really trust the people of this city with your piss and blood

SONG Is it dirty does it look dirty that's what you think of in the city does it just seem dirty that's what you think of in the city you don't refuse to breathe do you someone comes along with a very bad character he seems attractive. is he really. yes. very he's attractive as his character is bad. is it. yes that's what you think of in the city run your finger along your no-moss mind that's not a thought that's soot and you take a lot of dirt off someone is the character less bad. no. it improves constantly you don't refuse to breathe do you 1959

Frank O’Hara

i'm obsessed with this pair of posts lol

which means i get:
- a neat plaque AND trophy (!)
- the title "Women’s North American Pinball Champion" for the next year (!!)
- a free pinball machine (!!!!)

won the 2024-25 IFPA Women’s North American Pinball Championship tonight 😭

That the Trump White House tweeted out an image of a “Ghiblified” deportation helps us answer the question. But even before they said the quiet part loud it was hard not to think of the final section of Benjamin’s essay when reading enthusiasts talking about how A.I. makes art “become accessible,” or “enables so much creativity”: "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses while leaving intact the property relations which they strive to abolish. It sees its salvation in granting expression to the masses--but on no account granting them rights. The masses have a right to changed property relations; fascism seeks to give them expression in keeping these relations unchanged. The logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticizing of political life. […] 'Fiat ars--pereat mundus [let there be art, though the world perish],' says fascism, expecting from war, as Marinetti admits, the artistic gratification of a sense perception altered by technology. This is evidently the consummation of l’art pour l'art. Humankind, which once, in Homer, was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, has now become one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached the point where it can experience its own annihilation as a supreme aesthetic pleasure. Such is the aestheticizing of politics, as practiced by fascism. Communism replies by politicizing art." Benjamin, of course, is thinking of war-obsessed Italian Futurists, in a different time and a different context. Sam Altman is no Fillippo Marinetti, and Studio Ghibli slop is no Abstract Speed + Sound. But you have to admit: “Fiat ars--pereat mundus” would make a pretty good OpenAI slogan.

is a.i. art fascist? maxread.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...

google ai search results claiming sunrise at 6:36 am, civil twilight beginning at 6:41 am, sunset at 7:03 pm, and twilight at 7pm

so this is just google ai search results are annoying and unhelpful volume 2,848,013, but i love the implication of day-long twilight. like the sun rises, then hides just under the horizon for twelve hours, then i guess pokes back up for three minutes and immediately sets again? good. relatable

every day someone on earth invents something. a strange little delight, an open-handed gift born of their spontaneity. but there are always detractors (just saw a guy at the laundromat getting yelled at by the owner for washing his clothes for free in the sink there)

wild to me that we pay landlords like $25k, $30k a year and they'll still be like "no overnight guests. only one pet. don't go on the roof". for that much money they should be like "we will give you an extra cat if you want one. you get to punch me once whenever you want. i will do your laundry"

"only nba player who also won a heisman? charlie ward" i remember by "heisman = hockey = goalies = the concept of defense = ward". "the celtics won how many championships? 16" by "celtic knot = 4 by 4 = 16". etc etc. god help me

weird thing about competitive pinball is the rules you need to learn for as many games as possible and there's like 5000. fave example is NBA Fastbreak quiz minigame, for which I have permanently memorized a bunch of trivia about the 94–95 NBA season. i don't even like basketball

theory: you know how sometimes you're in the shower and halfway through a coin falls off you? tooth fairy related class action lawsuit just settled

and he goes on to make some other point with this, but i've been wondering what the opposite would look like, a shimmering of excess bad around something perfectly bad. all to say: today i saw a dog piss on a squashed, dead rat

bataille has this one essay i haven't read in a few years where he talks about halos, & it's like, perfect beings are portrayed with halos; if you remove the halo are they less perfect?, and the answer is no, the halo is like a vibration around the edges of perfection, it's surplus, it's excess,

Remember in the early days of the internet how it screamed every time we logged on? We should have paid attention to that.

we could have had a world where pullquotes were never invented & journalists looking to not deliver a solid rectangle would instead insert pictures of their pets

makes sense, but i feel like the grabbiness is b/c it's an exciting line (you wouldn't pullquote filler) but it's a hollow grabbiness because it's missing the context. and by the time i'm reading it again the line is no longer exciting, it's boring, because i just read it like two minutes ago?

i worked with journalists for eight whole years and only now have thought to ask: what's the point of pull quotes, exactly? did journalists see how filmmakers have trailers to spoil their work and get jealous?

not currently but if you shoot a dm i'd be happy to give feedback on your resume, if that'd be helpful