Bimoo

anyone working on reverse merger for shitcoins so that the meme coin cycle can go on for another season?

no channels not asking for memberships just posting into the void

wonder what being an average, not super rich prepper feels like these days ? It seems like something people were enthusiastic about when the unknowns were known and must be kind of demoralizing since everything is a crapshoot

I love Cory Doctrow but a book about Enshittification published by a major press owned by Macmillan publishers is as enshittified as a book can get

the store experience of HEBs have been going down ever since people started making HEB sound like a cult brand. Now everyone in there looks as miserable as someone at a Krogers

interesting how military movies from south korea and US don’t show the other partner in the war, same with Indian participation in second world war with Britain, makes me wonder - would the nation state have been possible without mass media ?

TIL that south korea sent 350K soldiers to vietnam war

my quota of going to one big party a year has been fulfilled not doing that for another year

Reading The Vegetarian by Han Kang and I get it now - South Korea is the more accelerationist version of the US

Byung Chul Han having a moment, Han Kang winning nobel, Bong Joon-ho's biggest movie coming up - whats up with South Korean auteur types these days https://substack.com/home/post/p-150061327

In terms of interesting stimuli for someone who writes, San Antonio and Houston are the only real cities in Texas. Austin and Dallas are just two sides of the same coin, full of people channeling middle class ennui into various dead ends

There’s an outdoor cat near my home that lives inside an auto shop. She’s called Hurricane and shows up right next to my car when I pull into the driveway. I am beginning to feel that she thinks cars are big cats

good news is that once the NOAA is defunded hurricanes will cease to exist

broke: users should be able to find anything on website with just three clicks
bespoke (twitter) : users should be able to see something insane within three scrolls

Interesting case study of a great man archetype

"By the sound of things, the shoot became a clash between Coppola’s old-school approach, privileging spontaneity and “finding magic in the moment”, and newer digital film-making methods, such as filming actors in front of virtual CGI landscapes in a “volume” – effectively a giant wall of LED screens. Today’s technology enables directors to realise anything they can dream up – including utopian cities of the future – but working this way demands preparation and collaboration. “I think Coppola still lives in this world where, as an auteur, you’re the only one who knows what’s happening, and everybody else is there just to do what he asks them to do,”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/14/has-this-guy-ever-made-a-movie-before-francis-ford-coppola-40-year-battle-megalopolis

I dont know if this is how it is around the country now but Austin has a particular loser energy about it these days

DOOM.gif https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-helene-florida-557c5c512135e0a8661b298e45e17c92

Note taking is a peace time activity and journaling is a war time activity

lot of pickaxes and no gold mines these days

after being part of several cozy online communities over the last 5 years I’m impressed by how fast people leave a space if there is no immediate clout chasing potential

It’s cool to be a 2010 hipster again cause you can’t trust anything on the internet so it’s better to trust that one person you know who has specific tastes

Watched a couple of Aki Kaurismaki movies this week. Small movies with tragically funny working class heroes that seem to be in the same universe

Kind of get the feeling that everyone has become gradually more incompetent in the last five years because there is no longer a stable equilibrium to develop competence of any kind.

each E2E encrypted chat app gets closer and closer to re-inventing the carrier pigeon