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@hugh @platypus yeah it doesn't strike me as a heavily reported out story, more of a "hey we saw this in a public disclosure document"

eldiarioar.com/politica/duenos en español, a new overview of the corporate ownership of Argentina's lithium industry. The fact that most of the big US financial players involved in these mines also own Argentinian sovereign debt bonds is I guess unsurprising but seems kind of important?

look, AA is not perfect and there's plenty of antiquated vibes to it depending on where you do recovery but it's pretty hard for an AA meeting to collect and sell participants' personal information is all I am saying

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I don't think we talk about Orthocera enough. Everyone is like "Yeah and then for awhile there were 30ft long squid-like creatures in dunce caps... anyways moving right along..."

And I just want to say "Hold up... HOW long?"

I bet deep in the ancestral memory of the octopus and the deep sea squid they remember... Ancestors. The Pointy Ones.

We need to shut down all evolution until we can find out what's going on!

Trevor Paglen's New Big Art Project being basically an unholy mashup of ARG and NFT somehow tracks

did everyone know that the New Jersey governor's mansion is nicknamed "Drumthwacket"

still thinking about a project set during the 1956 Dartmouth workshop; the fact that they never submitted a report to the Rockefeller Foundation provides a lot of leeway for scenarios like, idk, John McCarthy being visited by three ghosts

@shannonmattern this was how I felt when I watched every researcher at D&S get thrown onto disinformation stuff in like 2017

The Meta datacenter in Zeewolde applied to receive drinking water for use in cooling (presumably because it is well filtered). The municipal water company rejected the application.

Context is an article on the national institute for public health in NL issuing a warning there might be a shortage of potable water in 2030. Overuse, pollution and increasing droughts (climate heating) are listed as the main reasons. For a country which is essentially a river delta that is pretty intense.

buttondown.email/perfectsenten today in sentences: a fart in the wind, a duck engendered, from id to super-ego, other people's parents, poppets

BREAKING: "This is not a place of honour? No esteemed deed is commemorated here? Not so fast, says archaeologist Erik Jones, digsite lead

happy new The Hold Steady and new boygenius albums day to all who celebrate

me: talks about how recent financial precariousness has been really stressful for most of therapy

also me: goes to a bookstore and buys a novel after therapy

@xor @ryan this is the best use of the name Ingrid for software I love it

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.