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Artist David Bull creates wonderful things. A Canadian wood block carver and printer based in Japan writes in an introduction page: "The prints you see around me in this photograph are from my 'Hyakunin Isshu' series - a set of 100 prints depicting poets of old Japan. The delightful. 'Easter eggs in Japanese woodblock prints' (yt) Previous post on Bull details his journal. Bulls YouTube channel is worth a gander.
posted by clavdivs at 9:56 PM PST - 14 comments

Detroit is the prime example but land speculation has been a blight for a very long time. SLNYT gift link - Detroit is now under 700 thousand people but it was built to handle 2 million so it really sprawls. It's a huge challenge to provide services and several asshole billionaires are sitting on hundreds (nope - many thousands) of empty buildings and vacant land. I don't know that Georgism is the answer but it's certainly interesting.
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Therein lies the overlap between NoFap and neo-Nazism—a hydraulic worldview that combines the self-help semen-retention ethos with the conspiracy theorizing of the Far Right, pushing an age-old “technology of the self” into the realm of the political fringe. This paranoid model of NoFap interlaces two modes of thought with distinct historical origins, combining a vision of self-improvement with infiltration anxiety: “they” are meeting in dimly lit rooms, plotting how to get your “precious bodily fluids” out of you. from No Fap: A Cultural History of Anti-Masturbation [LARB; ungated]
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"Blood flow in the jugular veins of six of the eleven ISS crew members they monitored had either stagnated or reversed direction" and "major surgery could result in the patient’s insides floating out," but, at least, “ there are good indications that erection and lubrication are not inhibited in space.”

The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life (NYT guest link; archive), by Kim Tingley.
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Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC. As Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by the corporation.
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“Bitcoin was always shot through with irony,” Popper said. “Yes, there was something ironic about a bitcoin proponent stealing bitcoin from another bitcoin proponent. But I think that was also in some ways a part of what defined bitcoin.” from The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion [more inside]
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Novelists and poets Bernardine Evaristo, Jeanette Winterson, Adam Roberts, YZ Chin, Harry Josephine Giles, Louisa Hall, Stephen Marche, Will Eaves, Nick Harkaway, Jo Callaghan, Philip Terry and Nathan Filer on how AI could rewrite the future (Guardian)
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