Heavy Rotation October 2024
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Singles
- It Ain't Nuttin' (feat. MF Doom) - The Herbalizer
- Celestial Envoy - Om Unit
- Beat The Devils Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Albums
- Break My <3 - Saaaz
- Operation Doomsday - MF Doom
- Entroducing - DJ Shadow
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Unfortunately, Hopper writes, the Earth isn’t: its rotational speed “is affected by a variety of atmospheric and geologic factors, including the behavior of the planet’s inner layers; the reshaping of its crust, such as through the growth of mountains or bodies of magma; and the friction of the ocean’s tides against the seafloor.” As a result, each year, the planet spins a little more slowly—and this “risks opening a rift between the time as told by atoms and the time as told by astronomy.” Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.
New Yorker wonders if steampunk can save us from the accelerating enshittification.
I am adamantly opposed to the conception of grind culture. I swear to god, if you 💯💯💯 me, I will consider it a hate crime, and will report you to my local self-governance group for a reparative harm process. This isn’t to say that I do not understand that work is often required of us all. I am, quite famously, a bitch with five jobs, after all. My point is more that glamorizing having a side hustle – or side hustles – and positing that said side hustles can lead you from financial precarity is dubious at best and problematic at worst.
...petitioning the royals repeatedly to pay back her husband’s loan, while still running a very successful wool exportation business. This didn’t work out for her, apparently, and she ended up throwing her hands up and instead asking that the crown just subtract the amount owed from her own taxes on her wool business
So, as you can see, royals have always been terrible people who are mostly just good at stealing money.
Some witty writing from Dr Eleanor Janega here.
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Rivendell’s bicycles are marketed as “UNracing” bikes. The frames are made of lugged, brazed steel. They have long wheelbases, luxurious chainstays, and sloping top tubes. “The rear triangle of his bikes, you could fly a plane through there,” Ashton Lambie, a record-breaking American track cyclist, said admiringly. “Nobody is doing that.” The bikes have playful names—Roadini, Atlantis, Hunqapillar, Susie W. Longbolts—and run roughly from two thousand to five thousand dollars, depending on the build. One of Rivendell’s signatures is the country bike: a rig equally suitable for paved roads and, as the company puts it, “the kinds of fire trails a Conestoga wagon could negotiate, but not the kind that would require a jackass.” Rivendell frames are generally outfitted with upright handlebars, leather saddles, manual shifters, platform pedals, and lush, chubby tires. They are designed to accommodate racks, baskets, fenders, and bags—whatever is useful for cross-country touring, local bike camping, and running errands. “Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen recently wrote. “I personally have more respect, tons of respect, for somebody who rides around town, to work, for shopping, and for fun, than somebody who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one side.” He is an advocate of pleasurable, unhurried riding—alone, or with family and friends—and is obsessive about comfort. Through the years, Rivendell bicycles have amassed a devoted following...
Recently, out at a bar with friends, I struck up a conversation with a man in his late thirties, a climate-impact investor named Peter, who was sitting alone at a sidewalk table, drinking a beer. Across from him was a Rivendell: an A. Homer Hilsen frame, with thick tires, side-pull brakes, saddlebags, and built-in lights, which ran on wheel-generated electricity. Peter said that he had wanted it to be an “apocalypse bike”: good for commuting, running errands, and bike camping, but also something he could “hop on after an earthquake and get anywhere, dependent on no one.”
Beautiful pieces of engineering, I want one.
We were greeted in the showroom by Will Keating, Rivendell’s general manager, a tall lapsed skateboarder in his mid-thirties. He was wearing Vans, Dickies, and a baseball cap embroidered with the Calling in Sick logo. Rivendell has twelve employees, a disproportionate number of whom are into vintage cameras; for a while, the shop had a darkroom. (“Skateboarders tend to follow a trajectory,” Keating told me. “They skate, then they get into photography, then they get into bicycles, and then they get into birding.”) On the wall, there were monochrome photos of Petersen’s employees and their friends: well-dressed, tattooed, and helmetless, they rolled through groves of oak and eucalyptus, and pedalled along sun-dappled ridges.
Probably because of the above.
They have worked for the likes of Nike, Vodafone, Sky, Disney and Pearsons, won awards from Promax, BAFTAs, the Appys and The Drum. Spoken at The Waldorf and Southampton University - despite swearing like a sailor. Available for hire to draw pretty curves and code clever things.
Supreme Commander - Graphics Study
Vim - Inserting inline dates shortcut
Crypto and ‘TradFi’: a friendship of convenience
The mysterious rise of the Chinese e-commerce giant behind Temu
Oumuamua, Our first interstellar visitor
How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity
The future is probably federated
Integrated Tech Solutions: Aesop Rock
No, we didn't forget any zeros
Tupac Shakur murder: video released of suspect’s arrest for 1996 murder
"How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes"
Saving the sounds of Afghanistan
Fuck around and find out award: Antoinette Sandbach
The long drawn out implosion of NFTs
How palette and lighting works in The Settlers II
Hidari: The Stop-Motion Samurai Film
Babylon 5: The Road Home. Official Trailer
The secret Babylon 5 project is...an animated movie
Panic enters the Mastodon arena
Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.
UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse
Another recruit joins the Walkman ranks
ProleteR: Curses from Past Times
Financial Times's Gideon Rachman on the Ukraine Conflict
Why African fashion is having its moment
DJ Cable: Throw Back Thursdays
Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia
Edited latecomer's guide to crypto
Aesop Rock x Blockhead. Garbology
Moving files around for Crayon Munchers
One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
The Oral History of the Chelsea Hotel
Good developers know how, great ones know why
"Fuck the bread, the bread is over"
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
Why bumblebees love cats, or, why everything is a system.
"This time, damn it, we’re going to get to the surface"
Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry
Bad launch leads to real world relativistic math
Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle
Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments
Unreleased De La Soul Acapellas
You're designing for the web wrong: Part 1
A newspaper made from RSS feeds
Swift: Google's bet on differentiable programming
Two up, Two down in London Town