The future of performance art
2017-01-10
This Is Not an Interview with Poppy
What do you think people will think of social media in the future?
People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness.What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work?
I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google is the biggest which means it is the best.
completely taking the piss.
Almost all true
2016-12-07
To create software, you need programmers. Unfortunately. They are expensive, lazy, and almost impossible to control. The software they create either works or doesn’t, but you still have to pay them, every month. Of course, it’s always better to pay less. However, sometimes they may figure out they are being underpaid and quit. How do you prevent that? Unfortunately, we can’t use violence any more, but there are some other mechanisms. Let me share.
Drumpf as blunt instrument
2016-10-14
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
i am usually loath to comment on specifics of American politics. As a Canadian, i am conscious that i have no standing in the affairs of another country. Mostly though, i wish for a Canada where those affairs don’t matter to us. More than enough politics that directly affect me and my neighbours, on the federal, provincial and municipal levels, to worry about.
Nonetheless, this article is remarkable to me because i think David Wong has the US situation exactly right.
The level of despair that brings people to support a complete, thorough and utter tool like Donald Drumpf is staggering. This despair is certainly not unique to the USA. (Brexit is a similar situation in some ways…)
What are the differences between rural America and rural Newfoundland, really? Lots of things, i guess, but one comes to mind: in Newfoundland, the desperate were still mobile enough to emigrate; mostly to Alberta, but right now Alberta is stagnant. In the long term, climate change may make the petroleum industry obsolete, and a resource-based economy untenable overall, while manufacturing in Canada has been just as dead as in America.
What irrationality awaits us if things get worse?
Wellbeing ideology
2016-10-13
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
[…] obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life. “Wellness,” they declare, “has become an ideology.”
Chabuduo
2016-10-06
What Chinese corner cutting reveals about modernity
If what you’re making represents a world utterly out of reach to you, why bother to do it well?
via reddit
bad record contracts
2016-08-27
Why Canadian bands (sometimes) can’t make it in the States
“It doesn’t fucking matter that The Hip had limited success in the U.S.,” wrote music journalist and broadcaster Alan Cross in the days after Downie’s diagnosis went public. “There’s only one reason why things didn’t work out: bad record contracts. It had nothing to do with the band being ‘too Canadian’ or the inadequacy of their music.”
“Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
2016-08-23
The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
And to be able to maintain a friendship
Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy
Is enormously difficult
Especially when you take into consideration
What cunts they all were
Therefore, life is unfair
2015-02-05
Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person
Confronted with an atrocity they otherwise can’t explain, people become slightly more likely, on average, to believe that the victims must have brought it on themselves.
Statistical proof: the Leafs stink
2014-04-10
The Maple Leafs’ Collapse Is A Victory For Rationality
This is not me being overdramatic. This was a season with a built-in black-and-white storyline, making it a referendum on who better grasps hockey—those who know how to interpret the numbers, or those actually running a team.
