quote [ “Look,” he shouts above the howling wind whipping our faces, pointing at one salmon. “It’s an intruder.” ]

quote [ The other night, I was lying in bed thinking about the “bias sorter” going around Tumblr in 2018. It originated, I believe, as a way for people to rank their favorite K-pop bands. I’d been using it for the past few years to start my end of the year album rankings. It’s an excellent way to review a list and decide what you like more: A or B. ]

quote [ On the third day of rioting, the government gets tired of waiting and blocks access to Facebook in Mandalay. The block works—the riots died down. And the Deloitte guy’s inbox suddenly fills with emails from Meta staffers wanting to know why Facebook has been blocked.
[…]
in 2016, it was time to get way more people in Myanmar onto Facebook. ]

quote [ Send me more if you find 'em! ]

quote [ Yeah, Alec Baldwin is amazing in this scene, but he’s also giving Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin amazing stuff to react to. Imagine you’re Alec Baldwin, you’re still a relatively young actor, and you’re in a scene with Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, and Alan fucking Arkin, and you’ve got to scream at them and make them quail and quiver. That’s insane! ]

quote [ You can see from this conversation that I’m not exactly a person with great vision. I just follow what our customers want us to do. When people ask me: “Why are you into floppy disks today?” the answer is: “Because I forgot to get out of the business.” ]

quote [ “This is a severe public health crisis,” said Roel Vermeulen, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Utrecht University who led the team of researchers across the continent that compiled the data.
[…]
Traffic, industry, domestic heating and agriculture are the main sources of PM2.5 and the impact is often felt disproportionately by the poorest communities. ]

quote [ What was it like seeking therapy in the seventies, especially as a part of that scene? Did your therapist understand what you were a part of? ]

quote [ It drove its competition to madness. The big social apps now feel increasingly the same because they’re filled with the same stuff: content their users didn’t ask for made by people they don’t know on platforms they may not even use. Where they used to see posts from people they know, now there are algorithmically suggested videos from somebody made for nobody. ]

quote [ We Are the Contraband Preservation Society ]