Your reminder that you can find or create joy while also feeling fear, rage, despair, and other prickly crap.
(We use em dashes, but never AI)
Hi. The world isn’t all shitty. I brought receipts:
You light up my life: roadside lights
Everything is Amazing why your brain is better than AI
6, 7 & 8 are pretty cool
a 1.3kg mass of tissue inside your head with the consistency of an overcooked blancmange & primarily (75-80%) made of common-as-muck water (!) remains what it’s always been: a largely untapped, poorly-understood miracle of complexity with a capacity to repair and rewire itself on the go, to perform feats of information processing that would send tech marketing departments into totally incoherent meltdowns, and to transform your view of the world around you forever, again and again and again, if only you let it.
Mike Sowden
Oliver Burkeman on the the brilliance of doing less
Maria Popova on Lia Purpura and noticing
Art for the people: Annalisa Iadiciccio & her the Blue Bus project
Lauren Jackson is exploring humans and their belief systems. This is her first installment on on moral accounting.
Alicia Kennedy on Food is Political
OK, that should keep you occupied. See you in a few days!
spread this joy like frosting on a cupcake:
I’m always open to ideas, suggestions, shenanigans, tomfoolery, collaborations, cheese, snacks, and field trips.
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