Reading
This really sucks…Gawker is shutting down (again)
The new novel by Brett Easton Ellis, The Shards seems to be getting a ton of good press
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok…Or how, exactly, platforms die.
HERE IS HOW platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Listening
“Star Sign” // Teenage Fanclub (1991)
We got our first great album of 2023 all the way from Korea nonetheless….
UK producer SBTRKT’s monthly show on NTS radio always delivers
Wearing
If you’ve subscribed to the links since the beginning you’ve seen this pop up a few times…the most wonderful time of the year….the Adsum Sale
This is one hell of a graphic tee…
A hall of fame garment from Evan Kinori - The Big Shirt
Everything Else
This Wobbly Clock is a nice little desktop screen accessory discovered from Public Announcement
An Improbable Future is a project that uses AI to render industrial design and transportation design of the future, influenced by the past. Interesting to see how being influenced by the past feels Mad Maxy or dystopian