Thurston’s thirsty thought traps: Utopian Cafeteria Style Eating

In a true communist state, I would imagine, there would be great little state run cafeteria’s in every city and town. Modestly delicious nourishments served up cafeteria style for the masses at low to no cost, with the efficiency that only centralized planning could deliver. Owned and run by the community and workers, these hubs … Read more

M Vave FM-1 Synthesizer: an open source firmware revolution?

The FM-1 is a dream come true for working class musicians everywhere. A cheap digital synth, with a simple and straightforward design, midi, bluetooth, headphone jack, speaker, 4cm colour display and a rechargeable battery all for around $80? The 27 squishy silicone keyboard is decent and very serviceable for such an ultra portable synth. You … Read more

Raw Hypothesis

I wonder if google is purposely re-engineering their search results to be shittier (ie making top results less relevant) in an effort to push people to favour their AI search instead? Or is AI SEO-ing their way into the top results, filling it up with irrelevant slop? It’s seeming harder for me to get past … Read more

Stop Fetishizing Commodities

Hey, you! Enough with all the fetishizing commodities already. It’s fucking gross and weird. Think about what you could do for someone else, the earth, yourself, or just not do anything at all. Please, just do everyone a favour and stop constantly fetishizing commodities.

Liminal Greg

You’ve got my Greg in a liminal state, ya He’s in a liminal state of Greg Sublimating consciousnesses Subliminal, liminal Greg! Greg ran up the ayahuasca tree, man. Lovable, liminal Greg! “Greg stole the sausages, Dad!” Impossibly, criminal Greg! Liminal Greg, he’s in a liminal state of Greg! Liminal Greg, and he’s living inside of … Read more

Breaking: Strange pattern in youtube autoplay recommendation grid, requires further investigation, and could reveal a huge secret

If nothing else, a societal snapshot, but I immediately noticed an interesting pattern in this screenshot of one user’s youtube.com end screen video recommendation grid: Something about the ratios and placement of mustaches, glasses, bald heads, beards, smiles and stern glances, women and men, salt and pepper hair. It’s like it’s a perfect balance of … Read more

You seriously must listen to the SRSLY WRONG podcast.

Shawn and Aaron are serving up the most reasonable takes on society from a well read, radically utopian lens. If you fancy yourself a critical thinker with hopeful tendencies constantly being crushed under the weight of neoliberal violence, then you may find SRSLY WRONG podcast a welcome reprieve from the pervading disorder. These lovely gentlemen … Read more

Letters to the editor: New ADHD Torture SIM just Dropped.

Be me, your friendly dipteran reporter, awakened within a peculiar sanctum after a violent and relentless dogfight through some gnarly Manitoban wildfires. Last I recall, I was spiralling through a liminal state between death and fevered consciousness. Therefore, I cannot be certain which realm I presently find myself. Bright beams of sunlight crash through a … Read more