Link Log 14
2026-05-03
Pretty sure deadAir - Transmissions is my favorite NTS show now. Jane Remover really is the truth, man. Really, deadAir is absolutely where it's at right now. Quannnic has been a favorite of mine since he released Kenopsia too. The kids are alright. (Midweek update: all the sets have been on repeat this whole week. Shit bangs, skids.)
Okay, so I might've talked about how much I love Ran Prieur before, but since it's on my mind literally right now, I have to give out my thoughts. Peep April 27. I'm not too big a fan of how much Ran is into REDDIT DOT COM, but whatever. These days if you're getting ruthlessly downvoted on Plebbit, you more than likely have something closer to the right opinion. Anyway, I'm not as collapse-pilled as Ran, but generally there is a growing sentiment toward it. However, I think instead of harmful ideological positions like collapse or accelerationism, a more apt word I'd use to describe it is "deflation." Like, yeah, the US will not be a global power anymore and there might be full corpo-backed secession of most likely California and/or Texas and the other states that follow either of those two. Yeah, China and its subsidiary Russia will become the global powers and Israel will flop over to them (because of course they would, come on) and NATO will really and truly become an international laughing stock. Whole nations will cease to exist by 2050, not through violence but good old-fashioned attrition and annexation. This probably won't happen in my lifetime, but there won't be a hundred and something countries in the next hundred years, but probably just about a dozen or so. From peeping January 14, 2014 on Ran's archives, can you guys believe he actually just called it? Can you? PRAY FOR RAN PRIEUR, LOVE GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR, AND NEVER KILL YOURSELF!
I'm gonna be honest with you guys: I never read Infinite Jest in its entirety. I've read bits and pieces here and there, but honestly, if you want a full grasp of the whole thing without having to read 500,000 words of dense DFW prose and footnotes, just read an essay by someone who read it. Here's one for you. A lot of these themes I was more or less familiar with, and honestly if you want the best primer for DFW and his life philosophy, just listen to This is Water and you'll get what he's going for. In a sentence, it's this: everyone devotes their life to something one way or another, but the power you have is in choosing what that is. For me, it's writing and the pursuit of God. I come here to you every day with these words and these little findings because to me, finding Christ is the ultimate pursuit one can have in their life. Any ambition, trade, or craft is a meager byproduct of that pursuit, so while I might have my anxieties like the kids in that tennis school and an approached earnestness like the fuck-ups at the treatment house, all of it is in pursuit not even for any kind of evangelical means, but for my own personal journey in coming to know the Lord and all his love and splendor. Pray for me, skids.
I think I've just found the best video I've seen so far this year. Hong Kong, 1930s, 60 FPS and colorized. Words will barely do this one justice, but I'll try. A culture and time I will never truly know was just given to me in a brief series of snapshots. All the people are human, industrialized in a way that to our standards today makes a hundred years ago feel like a thousand. There's no way I can know what those people were going through, but all I can do is get that little snapshot and have this feeling that I love, ache, laugh, cry, and toil just like they do. I otherwise would never have known this world existed, but God decided to give me that gift today even though I don't deserve it. I'm alive, just like they were, and that won't be the case one day. What will my snapshot be, I wonder? Also, I learned what a palanquin is today. And also that type of vehicle is called a litter. That's cool.
Cool article about the invention of buses. This was where I pulled those last couple of links from. If Pascal wasn't already cool enough, the man also invented buses but got stopped by bureaucracy. Many such cases!
After unsubscribing from MetaFilter's RSS feed, I really don't have as much material for these logs. I might resubscribe to it, and perhaps refrain from clicking on articles that use the words "CIA Asset" in them. But man, too much media consumption really is a problem, and there's an obviously sinister irony to having this project of mine. I mean, we wouldn't have had this problem like 200 years ago, but if those guys had basically infinite access to media, you bet the confederates would've been doomscrolling instead of seceding from the Union. But I digress; more links next week, friends.
Stay loved.
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