ProPublica IRS Files: The Ultrawealthy Get Huge Tax Breaks For Their Private Planes And Luxury Yachts
Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift (Ep. 175)Conversations with Tyler. Anthony L: “Dear God, imagine Swift’s reply!”
A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America Vice
Fantastic discussion with Paul Morland on the consequences of low birth rates. We really are facing down a demographic nuclear winter, inability to form families is clearly one of the worst problems for young people and yet we remain oblivious.https://t.co/QB6sBbZVwP
— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) April 14, 2023
Here’s to reviving the ancient practice of silvopasture aeon
How did solar power get cheap? Part I Brian Potter
Colloquium On Taxing Income And ConsumptionToday At Queensland (Australia)
For Nietzsche, nihilism goes deeper than ‘life is pointless’ Psyche Ideas. Anthony L: “My view is that nihilism is
onticidalism.”
Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says WaPo. Today’s must-read. Every so often I mutter than we have an enormous population of gamers, but gamers + games (as opposed to gaming (in both senses)) don’t show up in the broader culture or the zeitgeist. Well, now they have. Yves and I discussed this piece; it seems to us remarkably “shiny”; perhaps written, from clues in tone and structure, by an entity other than the bylined “reporter.”
The central character in the excessively tight narrative, “OG,” the leaker, is putatively a Christian, a gun enthusiast, and something akin to a cult leader of a group of disaffected teenagers on the Discord server where the documents were found; his motive in placing the documents there seems to have been to consolidate his authority and moral ascendancy over his group. Meanwhile, “OG” seems almost perfectly calcuated to fit neatly into the “fascist traitor” hole in liberal heads. I wonder if we’ll ever find him? One can see “The Hunt for OG” storyline persisting for many weeks, good job. But perhaps he’s already left for Venezuela? As far as cui bono, Yves points out that obvious next steps are to pass the pernicious Restrict Act and exert authority over yet another platform, Discord.
European felines
How cats came to Europe, part of Frank Jacobs’ Strange Maps series. See also Mummy of an Egyptian Cat / Gaming Like It’s 1927, (via MeFi), the latest ‘annual public domain game jam’ that uses well-known IP that has now expired / Manic Destruction takes the 1983 original and adds physics (via b3ta) / the Tokyo Toilet project / Wainwright continues to find diamonds in the rough and tumble of contemporary architectural discourse: building high in timber, looking at Waugh Thistleton’s Black & White Building / Blueprints for a dream: the new age of virtual architecture, a timely look at the role of drawing in architecture and the work and curation of Hamza Shaikh.
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The late Paco Rabanne’s eccentric beliefs are explored in this uncredited and extremely off-brand Guardian piece from 1999 / speaking of far-fetched beliefs, Why Not Mars? Because, that’s why: ‘SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets’ / poetry by Gerry Mitchell / Jan Hammer’s Miami Vice video / music by Black Bordello / ephemera and stories from independent venues / the Kraftwerk FAQ / graphic design by My Name is Wendy/ the story of the Bal des Ifs, the ‘Yew Tree Ball‘ of 1745 / what implications will the Tate privacy ruling have on cities? / a one page, one year calendar / Aasgaardstrand, a tumblr.
