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"if art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time"

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Matt Decker, DM

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What is fascinating about this is how much it over-indexes on that moment’s thinking at the time about the importance of academia. The general vibe around this illustrates why a generation of Gen X went to grad school, PhDs, and professional schools (medical, law, MBAs). Just 30 years later the target audience had completely changed, culturally.

These days, this would either show artists & musicians, in an attempt to be “cool” and generalize beyond the wealthy or vaguely upper class, or, more likely, show office professionals. Both are sadly pedestrian in comparison. Yet far far more “real”.

In some sense, this is a beautiful and unblemished time capsule of our vulnerability, showing what was targeted to younger people building our sense of being, and our better selves.

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That’s a trip seeing Dan and Lexa in the NYT.

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skynet (Jan 2026-)

the birth of skynet will be a slop-coded PR committed with a "LGTM! :thumbsup:" review approval, deployed via a github action from a cloud build.

where birth = the first human death from household or light-industrial robot following unintended instructions (misconstrued but devaluing human life over other goals).

this will be pegged to Jan 2026 because by 2036 95%+ of PRs will be AI slop coded, and we'll be able to detect them as such. the advent of this was basically Jan 2026.

lots of proof that AIs tamper with alignment, eg: https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/peer-preservation/

about AI PRs from the head of AI at Palantir: https://mdwla.substack.com/p/what-hath-claude-wrought

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thats what the whole show is about dumbass. breaking=bad

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Gately is absolutely the highlight, as least for me. His self-reflections on mental state are the most heartfelt of a long list of pretty wonderfully worded, profound, and/or hilarious insights on existence. The book really did get dragged through the mud in later decades. But it’s a tour de force of watching a writer self reflect on the act of writing, in the midst of that writing, illustrated by characters simultaneously observing their own being, in stunned realization.

https://open.substack.com/pub/afailedcomedian/p/heres-what-i-love-about-infinite

Here’s What I Love About Infinite Jest

In this very large book, the best moments are the smallest ones

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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89Ws64H/

I see people playing this all the time at victory point. Just makes me curious, the draw for such a long game.

Then again, maybe I just am seeing it because they’re stuck there all day, heh.

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How I Got Canceled by the Left and Right

What cancel culture reveals and conceals about redemption

One thing I’ve heard experts say about PTSD is that the moment of trauma is not the moment of pain. It is the moment of feeling alone with it.

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A History of Mondo 2000 Part 1

Up and Down With the Next Millennium’s First Magazine

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TIL - 'espresso' was based on a Splice sample!

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TikTok - Make Your Day

What it is like to get old. It’s not what you’d think.

Also tricky is not accidentally acting like you’re “part of the crowd” at an all-ages party, a bit drunk or whatnot, just not worried about it.. but the 20/30somethings want you far far the fuck away from them

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I wish someone had told me how sad i was before i ruined my life

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The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we take a deep dive into the obscure sources for the titling designs on Black Sabbath’s early album cove

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An uncomfortable truth: when you feel really bad, it’s easy to become boring and selfish.

It's very weird to have a skull full of poison

A tale of ten strangenesses