A walk-and-talk; Crumb; running and tangping; Knausgaard; Elon as Palmer Eldritch; memelords; Chicago as a megacity; Norton; and a pause.

Discover how designers for films like “Her” and TV shows like “Black Mirror” create realistic fantasy apps and tech for the narrative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEmBmGK5kM&t=324s这一场讲座是2016年12月进行的，讲座的题目是"What Can European History Teach Us About Trump’s America?"，主讲人是耶鲁大学教授，东欧史专家Timothy Snyder，这一讲虽然是拿着欧洲历史来批评当年的美国，, 视频播放量 12892、弹幕量 15、点赞数 347、投硬币枚数 77、收藏人数 639、转发人数 85, 视频作者 Not小月月二转神童…

Woven into the fabric of language, metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we try using new ones?

Escape the ills of late-stage capitalism by submitting to your man

我们的大脑是在和身体一起应对生活中的酸甜苦辣的过程中共同成长起来的，这其中每一个微小的差异都会对我们的自我意识带来不可忽视的影响。

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 5

At a dinner party recently, I got chatting to the twentysomething children of some acquaintances. I asked them what they thought about a range of subjects and was intrigued, and slightly startled by their opinions, which ranged from a total disrespect for…

Last week was Ban TikTok Week, but in writing up my final post, I found I had too much to say. Surprise, surprise. Rather than try to fit everything into a single post, it felt like a good opportunity to weave together various threads I’ve been blogging with…

This past August (2023), a new urban project called “California Forever” was announced, promising a walkable city for 400,000 in Solano County, not far from the Bay area. Critics soon pointed out several flaws in the renderings the company distributed. First…

In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of social surveillance.

It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.

由于孤独和对计算机的热爱，Gummo开始了他的黑客生涯，他通过入侵安全网络来考验自己的技能，很快从小型网络犯罪发展到大型企业间谍活动。当局抓获Gummo出售价值高达 2000 多万美元的卫星软件技术时，他的犯罪生涯宣告结束。他有两个选择：入狱或利用自己的黑客技术造福人类。他选择了后者，努力成为一名 "白帽"黑客--站在好人一边的黑客。事实证明，古莫的技能不仅对他自己有帮助，而且, 视频播放量 190878、弹幕量 548、点赞数 7262、投硬币枚数 1294、收藏人数 10175、转发人数 1037,…

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy.

The ordinal society and the oversharing economy

We all have them. We all love to express them. We all wish that everyone else would stop giving them to us because we didn’t ask for them. Some are held strongly, others weakly, and still others weekly, in the form of a column. I’m referring of course to…

上个月宾大补发了林徽因的建筑学学位，纠正了因性别而起的历史错误，但是面对中国文化史上这位重要女性，还有多少历史错误需要纠正？徐志摩来听林徽因演讲的路上坠机，那场演讲是林徽因的第一次学术亮相，她讲了什么？冰心《我们太太的客厅》连载时林徽因送了一瓶山西醋，她在这次山西考察后写出了建筑史上的里程碑之作，她写了什么？林徽因与梁思成共同创建清华营建系，为什么教师名单中没有她的名字？1949年为什么林徽因会对计划经济充满好感？她为何在重病时指着吴晗鼻子疾言厉色

林徽因在世时没有学位，没有建筑专著，没有出版诗集，没…