Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda” and “the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like…Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet”. 💬 Join the discussion on
"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge."
As mentioned here last week, Scott Galloway argued that Americans have one way to reverse the violent overreach of the federal government: launch a one-month economic strike aimed at major tech and AI companies, with the goal of reducing America’s GDP and making the markets
When horrible people make bad art, the reviews are fun to read. Melania doc review : “Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest” and “it’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.” The CEO of the center: “That reminds me of Anne Frank.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his “Fuck ICE”/”No Kings” pieces available for free, high-res download . Print them out and use them for protest signs. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
On his Filatelia Grafica Instagram account , graphic designer Diego Bucciero shares some of his favorite postage stamps, with an emphasis on “iconography, form, typography and branding”. (via it’s nice that ) Tags: design · Diego Bucciero · stamps 💬 Join the discussion on
This is the hallmark of projects that turn out to be worth doing. The trouble might be a symptom that we’re onto something that others don’t care enough to do. And the things that are obviously worth doing are probably already being done.
"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."
"It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it."
"To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
"The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less."
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
A self is a personal mythos — a story through which we sieve the complexity and contradictions of lived experience for coherence. The cruelest price of success — that affirmation of the self by the world — is the way it can ossify the story of person, ensnare them into