June 18, 2021
Message of hope, or the possibility of hope
From the Los Angeles Review Of Books comes a long read in three parts by Michael Nava: Creating A Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing. Part I - Out from the Shadows: Beginning, 1940–1980, Part II - The Golden Age (1980–1995), Part III - Picking Up the Pieces: Queer Publishing Now [more inside]
Noctilucently Yours
100 x 3 second 3D Renders
Based on the same 3 second model, 2400 CGI artists submitted their own interpretation. These are the 100 best. (SLYT)
RSA, Canada's RBG
Rosalie Abella is set to retire from the Supreme Court of Canada on July 1. Rosalie Abella was the architect of a number of advances in Canadian jurisprudence, including an influential report on employment equity and extending pension benefits to same-sex spouses. Previously
Journeyesque
A browser-based 'game' with a cool vibe Not so sure about the AI-generated haikus, but the aesthetic and mood are peaceful.
The 2021 WKC Masters Champion honors goes to Verb the border collie
Verb is a very good boy and goes heckin' fast to win the 2021 20-inch class and Masters Champions title (SLYT).
This Titillation of Power, This Illusion of Freedom
Like the rational reorganization of bureaucracies in the second half of the nineteenth century, computers began as an implementation of the power to abstract away means and uniformly apply a mindless, rule-based order on unruly reality ... and this power has only grown greater, thanks to both an unprecedented capacity for data gathering and analysis and the increased propagation of digital tools in every facet of human life. Mobile applications, whatever their purpose, are little bureaucrats with a checklist or a punch card in our pockets. Whether they are centralized or distributed, deployed by the government or peddled by a small startup, the applications have the same effect: an increasing perfection of the totalitarian vision of nineteenth-century administration. from Paul Valéry and the Mechanisms of Modern Tyranny [Hedgehog Review] [more inside]
if snorted, would you get a sugar high?
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