Links: Humans being fun, books, and making things
Fun things, internet things, history things, book things, writing things... link things.
they told me the internet was forever by Sam Sharp about link rot but so much more than that:
It will take collaborative action for us to keep our spaces hand-made & thriving. All of us web users (fringe & mainstream) will need to work harder and care harder than we ever have before in order to protect the things that are worth protecting - namely, the right to control our own digital spaces and to keep our access to the entirety of human knowledge.
On Raptitude: Social Media is the Opposite of Social Life.
Macroraptor's How to Subscribe to Sanlian Lifeweek is all-too relatable.
People like it when other people make things by Dave Rupert.
But not these things... Ross Wintle says Trust me: You donāt want to make little personal appsā¦ especially not like that!
Casting spells for time travel by Julie Falatko. But it's really about drawing on lightbulbs. Anyway, this first line:
Letās assume for a moment that weāre all witches.
This is precisely how I describe my gardening: Molly Tov reviews seeds. Trays of dirt in my living room.
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher from Game File filed under 'humans are actually very cool.'
Someone Else Already Wrote About This by Kai Gulliksen touches on imposter syndrome and introduced me to the Law of Jante.
I find myself thinking: āThere is no point in this. This has been written about hundreds of times before by people a lot smarter and more competent than meā. And then Iāll delete what little Iāve written and move on to something else.
Kwist at Pinewind is thinking about Why are there no art movements anymore? and I love a movement / scene.
Very into these Quality of life improvements from Under the blanket fort. I need to list out some stuff like this.
Gabby at wool gathering has put together some really cool double bills, One ticket for two movies, please.
I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too by Counter Craft is a bit about the state of book reviews generally and also a book review.
Another book review: How to Cultivate an Obsession from The Composted Books Review is about one of Monty Don's early books. I love Monty Don, I love gardening, so I loved this review.
Does reading do us any good? 'Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead.' Including an entry to all of this has happened before - Ruskin, in 1864...
describes his generation as illiterate ā even in a time when education was expanding. He thought his contemporaries had lost any capacity for understanding each other or any important issue because they read superficially, and for the wrong reasons ā chiefly, to get social recognition from a narrow group of peers.
Aragornās Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths from Reactor Mag goes deep on George RR Martin's questions about Tolkien.
Door Monster on how The hero's journey is a cult and the not-follow up When The Adaptation is Better about choosing the right medium for different types of stories.
Those Victorians and their shenanigans: Crafting Illusions: Victorian Deepfakes from Victorian Paris.
Medieval pronouns in The extinct English words for just the two of us via 73pctgeek.
The invention of the soul 'Humans werenāt given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language ā turning sentience into something sacred.' It's not souls in a religious sense, more sentience.
Why do we do astrophysics? by David W. Hogg
Very cool (non-AI) timelapse-type map of Paris since the Celts How Paris became Paris.
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