what is a truck and what is this nonsense award

"I have a joke about brands creating content that starts by explaining that Red Bull is actually one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of action sports content in the world. That fact is quickly followed by the punchline: Turns out it's a lot easier to be a publisher that sells highly-caffeinated soda instead of ads."

ny senator proposes law against call girl business cards because kids are using them as trading cards in school

lecture: algorithms in use, real world consequences, ways around algorithms

this is the placeholder for demo mode in consumer electronics (shelf speaker sets) pending further personal research

default data choices by the services industry; useful metaphor "to say that twitter isn't for anything is also to say that it offers us far more technical communicative capacity than we could possibly need. We are only able to say that water 'isn't for anything', because we have more than we need; if we didn't, it would be for drinking, cleaning and farming."

o.g. chicago dj lil louis wrote a book, this is next level
"A MAN'S DIARY" A TRUE STORY OF A GOOD MAN'S SEARCH FOR A GOOD WOMAN

the economics of wikipedia participation / shaping editorial policy / the kinds of resultant content

THE ACTUAL, THE POSSIBLE, AND THE UNIMAGINABLE indirectly via jww

pick one

modern / semi-practical rube goldberg

describes a "phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other character, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection"

aka hammerspace, a bag that can carry unlimited things

"People in international dress and people suggesting alternative lifestyles also on this fresh & original collection." other great images on the rest of the site, too--it's a goldmine