The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New Reality. “We are heading into ‘overshoot’ within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?”
The Bad UX World Cup 2025 . “Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better).” The winning entry used a Tinder-like interface to swipe your desired days, months, and years. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush - by Tristan Moyle Read on Aeon
Of course, a book with a title like this gives us pause–when we think of marketers, we don’t ordinarily think about Jerry, Phil, Bobby and the rest of the crew. But that’s one reason why the insights are so profound. Marketing isn’t hype or hustle or scamming. It’s not spam or
Images courtesy of the Library of Congress. Actor George Takei was once best known as Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu. He still is, of course, but over the last couple decades his friendly, intelligent, and wickedly funny presence on social media has landed him a new popular role as a
New York isn’t the oldest city in the United States of America, and it certainly isn’t the newest. But it is, quite possibly, the American city where more layers of history coexist than any other, a quality that manifests most vividly in its built environment. Even the most
Al Farrow, who created the sculptural rendering in 2018, said the work took on a renewed significance under the Trump administration.
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.