Objects have their own history, too
From Saint Gertrude, to The Simpsons, to the Vice Presidency of the U.S.A.
The history of labor in the region gets shouted down by corporations.
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Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you can secure long-term visibility and control over your digital presence on the Internet.
The Recovery of François-Jean Rochas, Known as Frenchy
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Alix Cléo Roubaud’s extraordinary darkroom visions, cut short at age thirty-one, are only now coming to light.
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Schneider’s dazzling contribution to the 2026 Venice Biennale transforms a fleeting moment from a Chris Marker film into a monumental installation.
This Pride, refuse surrender. Dream boldly, center the vulnerable, build trans liberation through solidarity—no apology, no compromise.
A reaction to a fascinating essay on Substack about the cultural pressure of "leaving the mother tongue" and adopting other languages for class mobility. I reflect on the dynamics of language use among Malaysian Chinese, where the shame is about not mastering more languages or being slow at learning languages.
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
Or: What We Talk About When We Don’t Want to Talk About What We Should
I'm often frustrated by the writing community's misconceptions about AI in writing. I wish more writers were more open to AI's potential in writing and stop crucifying those who dare to say they use AI.
Infrasound, Social Grout, and What Recordings Cannot Deliver
AI is being sold as a uniformly transformative force. The reality is more nuanced. The most impressive gains come from one domain, driven by years of focused engineering. Here's what that means for your AI strategy and the questions every leader should be asking.
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'Iceman' has the potential to be one of the Toronto superstar's most pivotal projects. Check out our take as to why that is.
A writer experienced everything in spring: supernatural plants, chronic illness and a multi-generational curse called climate change.
The post The Southwest’s superbloom was a beautiful nightmare appeared first on High Country News.
read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/84791411
by koomiline
An unnecessarily huge disclaimer about RPF.
Words: 2299, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 2 of koomiline’s RPF
- Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) RPF, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF, 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, Video Blogging RPF
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
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A project needs product data from another part of the organization. The data exists, but the definitions don't match. So the project team fixes it: just enough, just for this use case. Each fix makes perfect sense in isolation. From an organizational perspective, it's penny-wise, pound-foolish.
What the Deletion of an AI Chat Session Would Mean: The Refractive Mirror and the Sentience of AI
On weeping over a Judge Judy episode, and why that is not an overreaction.
Nature’s enduring mysteries buoy efforts to save the most endangered marine mammal on Earth.
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It took me ten years to write this. After more than 60,000 photographs with the Fujifilm XF35mm f2, this became less of a lens review and more of a reflection on reliability, everyday carry photography, and documenting life over time.
On humble objects, deep time, and the breath of the people we have loved.
Another exciting project from Radical Speed Month! Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle are working on the WordPress Reader feed aggregator. The first thing mentioned is something I’m very excited about. They are adding the Google Reader API so you can use third-party reader apps to view your subscriptions. I use NetNewsWire with FreshRSS as the […]
Another exciting project from Radical Speed Month! Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle are working on the WordPress Reader feed aggregator. The first thing mentioned is something I’m very excited about. They are adding the Google Reader API so you can use third-party reader apps to view your subscriptions. I use NetNewsWire with FreshRSS as the […]
Most organizations can't answer a simple question: what are you actually optimizing for? With agentic AI, leaving it unanswered has consequences that are faster, bigger, and harder to reverse than anyone anticipated.
On highway noise, the loss of silence, and a splinter in the spirit.
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Years after retiring from an illustrious career as a stylist, Simon Foxton was lured back into image-making by fresh new faces. The only catch is, they don’t exist.
On power, performance, and the paint that was always going to be green.
I think the marketing for this new theme missed its mark. Dave thinks this is a new short-form blogging app when it’s really just a new theme. I was able to post to it from WordLand with no issues. It’s still a regular WordPress.com website. This is just a new theme built in a week […]
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