It’s kinda dumb in retrospect but these two books brought significance to the past. They’re both kinda fake, sort of like 18th century reality tv. They’re salacious, they’re not wholesome, they made me love the past because they made me see that not much has changed, we’re still selfish and Horny and awful.
I’m not sure if Tik tok drastically changed their algorithm or if the people generating content changed from the height of the pandemic into this phase but I really can’t think of another app that I found so great and useful becoming so fundamentally boring to me that I deleted it. When I started using it the content it served up was so weirdly specific to my needs and when I lost interest earlier this year it was like half text to speech nonsense over found tv footage that was occasionally salacious
Start walking and handing out larger sums and asking each person to help carry your one dollar idea to reach every person? For a decent amount of countries that would probably be the best method, just walk for the next 40 years
In the past 6 months I accidentally transitioned to only using BeReal, the finiteness of the app is really comfortable, in its current state you get a quick little update, send yours and the whole thing is over in 2 minutes. I hope it doesn't get ruined, but I also have no idea how they are keeping the lights on.
I think a prime is essential and I love that this thread has all the crop factor information already but I think finding the right prime for you is very important. You might want something higher if your shooting style is being more detached from what you’re sitting. I shoot with a 22 because I like being very close to the people I’m shooting but like a wider shot. Some people switch lenses and Whole cameras during a shoot. Experiment with what works with your style
I completely agree, My mom has been concerned that my teenage step sister and her peers almost all identify as non binary, but it seems like they’ve built a happy high school experience around sharing that. Whether or not they identify as non binary for life seems inconsequential if it serves them now, but I’m kinda excited by the younger generation just being like nah to gender
I like that this article bookends with the young person finding that the real cause of their symptoms was isolation from their peers. Not that it’s always the case, but, I hope it’s a common cure that more people seek out first
In art school I had a professor tell us something like,” when you’re sick you say you’re going to appreciate all these small things, like smelling the flowers after you had no sense of smell, and make all these changes but by the time you’re better you never do “, it’s something I think about pretty regularly two decades later. I think that telling a bunch of young people they would never do something made it a really great thing to “Rebel against”. Like, at some of my lowest points it’s been the thing that always replays first. How am I going to learn from this crap and find more enjoyment and humility from it.
I'm curious to see if this change in the urban landscape is going to lead to a modern office loft type situation like NYC saw in the 60-70s with former commercial spaces being available under specific tenant laws to artists.
I understand this sentiment, and my only concern is Kanye's acquisition legitimizing anti-semitism and pushing vulnerable fans into radicalization via that platform.
The first time I remember hearing about Kanye was on Jay-Z's Black Album, "Kanyeezy you do it again, you a genius", the criticism lobbed against him in the early aughts was that he was a brilliant producer, but not a rapper, and then College Dropout came out, and changed that. It's really a shame to see all of this, Kanye is one of my favorite musicians of all time.
I’m a third generation programmer which is a bit of an odd thing, but a bit lovely. My brother is also a programmer. The bits in this About just just being “wired “ ring so true to me. There are things that to me seem biological as to how you view punch cards, fortan, whatever video games are made in, and JavaScript
This deal feels very bizarre to me, albeit for completely different reasons. I frequently, even within one project with multiple designers will get figma, sketch, xd, photoshop and illustrator designs and it makes almost no difference for me. Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but when a creative asks what format to do something in I always tell them whatever they are most efficient and comfortable in. And when I do designs, out of years of Adobe dominance, I reach for xd, but feel comfortable in any of the other ones.
Godard was bigger than cinema, he was YouTube and art. He made the movies that made you say, oh I can do that, my kid could do that, but he did it first
For me, syncing my Apple accounts on my mobile while keeping them separate on my work and personal computer has been a game changer because it was easy to do, it requires no thought or maintaining
I don’t understand why he doesn’t directly name the organizations he supports or in what way he benefits the communities he’s working in, outside of this video I had a vague awareness of the channel but that lack of transparency outside of “I give a 100%back to the community” sounds like it could be just spending money in those communities?
If by safe you mean recession proof, whatever that means to you, I think whether or not you switch comes down to what is going to make you happier and if you perceive risk, in your worst case situation can You afford to be without work for a while. Best of luck
I'm a very casual gamer, but I do spend a non trivial amount of time on phone games and for me I share in two ways :
1. Once or maybe twice on social media or group chat when a game goes viral, ie. pasting wordle results 2 or 3 times before completely forgetting the game ever existed
2. Playing the game in front of people I know and them realizing I'm ignoring them because of Bloonz or Two Dots.
I will be sharing your game via the second method immediately, this is exactly what I want in a casual game.
Maybe to make the game more shareable in a viral way, do some kind of data driven way to set up blocks, like the tiles are based on happy news stories pictures instead of colors, with a link and the headline under the selection for each item and you accidentally read six headlines a day, while getting to play a fun puzzle? Not a game designer here, but that seems pretty fun in my head.
If your primary anxiety is related to providing for the people around you and the potential that it all comes crashing down maybe start figuring a way to start a business that incorporates your concern for science and people while helping the planet, helping the poor, without political extremity and not alienating the youth. Maybe that’s something far more boring than your full stack work. A hydroponic organic farm that you hire your family to run that in the worst of times is self sufficient, if it’s a possibility where you live, a franchise of a restaurant you enjoy and don’t find objectionable. Nice things, hobbies, vacations and the like might feel empty for you without meaningful work, 45 hours a week is a lot of billable time, plus the additional career development. Maybe cut out the professional development, work half as much as a dev and devote that new free time to the things you really care about and Give yourself the time to let an idea blossom.
I’m here to be surprised. I love the things I find here that would have never crossed my path just reading the news, and the news I see elsewhere, I’m elated by informed discussion of it here.
This has been my norm for most of adult life, and I recently discovered Chaclas which kinda feel like a cross between Birkenstocks and Teva and are a breeze to walk 15 to 20 miles in. Highly recommend checking out their sandals
I used the app briefly during the Gamestop hype, and am not a savvy investor by any means. But the press circus surrounding it in the aftermath made me feel like I had used an online slot machine not an investing application.
I remember friends squatting in foreign bought apartments in downtown Vancouver 15 or so years ago. Like, floors of luxury buildings empty because it was all a parking space for cash. I have no idea if this will have a significant effect, but, it was so bizarre for me (I'm originally from Detroit) to see these basically empty luxury buildings. It was such a topic when I started University in Vancouver, I can't count the number of times it came up. I personally think the city looks depressing, and Toronto isn't far behind. This is just a personal opinion based on my experiences, but it's so strange when a "dense" area is empty, it feels like a ghost town, like the amount of residential space in Vancouver and the way the streets felt was just so bizarre to me.
I am so much a product of this generation, I had forgotten so much of what this article mentions, but damn, this brought it back. I remember doing the exact punting scam, along with my first and only script kiddie DDOS back then (I was maybe 8 years old, and thought Bill Gates was my bully and that Linux was going to take over the world)
Tangent, I started work on remaking "You've Got Mail" a few months ago, with an updated ethos, focusing on decentralized web.
It's weird to cry over an article so unemotional, but, that era made me into who I am today.