Inadvertently had the most intimate online moment last night on a niche fetish website. Fell asleep to the sounds of a streamer who dozed off still live. I can’t even begin to explain or understand the internet. Not even close.
I miss the digital mother of the early internet, when anonymity was presumed and people connected in this wild third space, fleetingly and with great humanity. Last night felt like that. Connecting because the tether is the single filament of shared experience.
when all is said and done this is easily the one thing Heidecker has produced with any longevity; the parallels to modern AI are fascinating.
this is about the pinnacle of aesthetic sketch comedy. every element is perfect & not a second of it is out of place. Rudd excels here
Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago and him describing Waffle House is still the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.
Belgian visual artist Carole Louis is the creator of "Through Thousands," a sculpture constructed from thousands of plastic straws.
Like fiber optics, basically thousands of tiny “straws” guiding light across huge distances at near-light speed.
folks incredulous about how someone as amazing as meg the stallion could get cheated on are missing that it is because she is great, not in spite of it, that she is being disrespected. when a partner has a big ego but low self esteem, their energy does toward "humbling" the other
there is a type of guy for whom a woman's accomplishment and accolades are received as an ego injury for him. and so he has to dim her light until he can declare himself the winner
we have to stop imagining that cheating and relationship mistreatment is because of the perceived lacking qualities of the partner being mistreated. he's not cheating because she is missing something. he is the one lacking ego strength. that's the missing piece.