Friday Ephemera
“Surrender yourself to a poignant experience of body odour.” // Interactive wave simulator. (h/t, Things) // Your virtual reality girlfriend is a swimsuit model. // 3D-printed tissue transplants. //...
View ArticleBut Work Is So Hard And Indignation Is Easy
Lifted from the comments following this and somewhat pertinent, from the pages of the student newspaper of Brown University: “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing...
View ArticleIs Your Bacon Sandwich Oppressing Women?
And so, breathless with anticipation, we return to the pages of Everyday Feminism, where questions of cosmic import are chewed over, and where Celia Edell, a self-described “24-year-old feminist...
View ArticleSweet Sorrows
Ace ruminates on leftist piety as a kind of status signalling: I’ve heard it called “Luxurious Concerns.” That is, your concerns mark your social status. If your concerns are about keeping your job,...
View ArticleUnwise Counsel
In news that will shock no-one, Laurie Penny is once again unhappy. Today we find her telling the world that, “People are not poor because they… made bad choices. People are poor because capital...
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Miracle engineering breakthrough. (h/t, Liz) // This is how the robot uprising starts. // Real estate of note. // House spider embryo. // The Shadow stalks his prey. // Frozen lake ice pile-up. //...
View ArticleNowadays
The Ladybird Guide to Leftwing People. From the chapter Leftwing People Are Funny: Leftwing people have “enlightened comedians” who make jokes on “panel games.” These are broadcast on the television...
View ArticleElsewhere (190)
Further to this, Juan Carlos Hidalgo on the vanity and horror of Venezuelan socialism: A couple of years ago, the then minister of education admitted that the aim of the regime’s policies was “not to...
View ArticleWhite Waiter Privilege
Or, The Politics of Tipping, As Devised By An Idiot: I never tip white waiters. I don’t want to enable their sense of entitlement. I want to break the cycle of them getting what they want. I only tip...
View ArticleFeel My Pain, Now Do As I Say
Janice Fiamengo on complaints of “microaggression” and other recreational outrage: Previously. And before that.
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How cats and dogs differ. // 2,000 ball bearings and one of these. // An en caul birth. // When patience is tested on British roads. // “The laws would allow people to ‘bequeath’ their dead bodies for...
View ArticleA Performance Art Sampler
In which the students of Ms Sandrine Schaefer, a winner of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s Foster Prize, stagger beneath the knee-buckling weight of their own immense talents. From Ms...
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