on the neon side of town
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I said this a year ago: human-made art will become a luxury good, just like local and nutritious food, natural-fiber clothing, and tech-free education for children. Basic human things are increasingly only for the rich.
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It’s sad to think features like these have survived centuries, thousands of years of human history.
Hooded eyes, aquiline noses, strong eyebrows, round cheeks, thinner lips, tall, larger built, square jaws, the very faces our mothers, our grandmothers carried, all of it stretching back to queens and peasants alike.
Features that have survived it all, seen it all, and all for you to be told now — well it’s just not attractive.
Imagine inheriting a face shaped by the entirety of human history, imagine being blessed with a beauty that has survived the many rises and falls of humanity, only to be told you now have to give it all up to the vanities of this generation. What worth is beauty without any history? What worth is beauty without meaning? What worth is beauty when it stops being something we recognize and instead becomes just something we manufacture?
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You all need to understand that there is a well-funded movement to kill Wikipedia as an institution. The dream of an internet that provided universal access to knowledge was a mirage. It threatened too many powerful people, so now we have AI summaries and illiteracy.
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Sir, this is a national park, not a portal to the underworld.
Photo of a bobcat pretending to be a tree demon at Joshua Tree National Park.
ALT Silhouette of a bobcat with glowing eyes is perched on a bare tree branch against a cloudy sky at dusk.
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"we call it field storytellers"
omg enough it's just fucking content creation. everyone has been doing it forever. you send a person with a camera to document a business. it's called making a video to promote your email job.
why does tech twitter feel the need to be so precious and rebrand this job every 20 minutes on here?
i'm sorry you aren't a forward-deployed heart feelings engineer. you're just someone who makes content for a saas business. i feel insane.
We’re building out a new program at @NotionHQ:
We call it field storytellers.
Where Internet filmmakers & creators meet local businesses. All around the world. They travel there to apprentice a business for a day/two, and come back with stories, documented and published.
Field storytelling is a bet that stories are best told and relationships are best built when it’s done out on the field.
If you’re great with a camera, love traveling to meet local businesses, and Internet savvy with an audience, reach out 🖤
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Happy National Black Cat Day! 🐈⬛
Black cats are amazing and, as Welsh folklore tells us, bring good luck to the home:
"A black cat, I’ve heard it said,
Can charm all ill away,
And keep the house wherein she dwells
From fever’s deadly sway"
#NationalBlackCatDay #BlackCatDay #Wales
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when i say i love cheesecake factory, this is what i mean
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me only liking animal and tailoring posts on instagram has led the algorithm to show me videos of animals interrupting tailors
IG pepperjaq, sarah.doggrooms, by_olga_ten, patterncuttingcraft.by.stan
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All this shit—minus Conan O’Brien—sucks. I can’t believe this is the stuff that people are spending their lives listening to. Even as entertainment, this is as stupid as you can possibly get.
