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Creative director Douggy Pledger and musician Osymyso hilariously reimagined the original Star Wars movie as silent film from 1923 using Midjourney. The combination of awkward poses, monochrome footage, stuttering camera, and old timey soundtrack truly gave the the iconic opening credit of “long ago, in a galaxy far away” new meaning.

posted by kirkaracha at 4:46 PM PST - 53 comments

On the one hand, a universal nostalgic dream of America (even for Americans with no such memories to be nostalgic for; even for people who have never been to America, have seen it only in pictures); on the other, a bloody nightmare then without precedent, the predatory logic of war breaking out in the absence of war, devoid of politics, without warning, utterly irrational and random. DeLillo recognized in these transmissions, these sense impulses, the poles of an emergent reality. from Shocks to the System
posted by chavenet at 3:49 PM PST - 7 comments

How to Fix The Internet "We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change. For the first time in years, it feels as though something truly new and different might be happening with the way we communicate online. The stranglehold that the big social platforms have had on us for the last decade is weakening. The question is: What do we want to come next?" [more inside]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:42 PM PST - 65 comments

Every October Matthew Meyer shares and illustrates^* A Yokai A Day. [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:18 AM PST - 3 comments

Biking the Goods - A recent & approachable white paper out of the University of Washington's Urban Freight Lab, looking at the potential for cargo e-bikes to improve urban logistics systems & recommended policies to encourage their use. It looks at five case studies & six types of cargo e-bike to make the case for making them a part of city infrastructure in North America.
posted by CrystalDave at 10:29 AM PST - 63 comments

Personalized Temperature Ranges. A simple tool designed to help you know whether your current body temperature is normal based on your age, height, weight, sex (M/F only, sorry) and time of day. Brought to you by Stanford University's Department of Medicine.
posted by gentlyepigrams at 9:42 AM PST - 36 comments

In accordance with ancient tradition (and the Port of London Thames Byelaws) a bundle of straw is dangled from Millennium Bridge to warn shipping of work under the bridge (SLGuardian)
posted by atlantica at 8:17 AM PST - 18 comments

If unchecked markets worked as well as Andreessen insists, we wouldn't be in this mess. The most powerful people in the world are technological optimists. They asked for our trust in the 90s, the 00s, and the 10s. They insisted that all we needed to do was clap louder. We clapped. They failed. We grew less trustful. - On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"
posted by Artw at 7:58 AM PST - 69 comments

Hands.
posted by Literaryhero at 2:43 AM PST - 17 comments

The girl who gets gifts from birds. Lots of people love the birds in their garden, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young girl in Seattle is luckier than most. She feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts in return.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:41 AM PST - 26 comments