The Values of Work. Excellent talk by Jenny Zhang.
Talk about a nail-biting finish. What a shot in the last second! (Basketball)
The only good thing that has come out of the “Signal-gate” is the increased popularity of Signal.
Trumpism, too, has an aesthetic. Allow me to pretentiously, subjectively, declare it not beautiful. The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl – which had already infected the United States long before the Maga movement metastasised.
What does Maga-land look like?
Whatever you think of David Blaine, he does impressive shit. In a recent TV series for National Geographic, he takes us behind the scenes to see how he trains to take new risks. Watch the video at the end of him kissing the cobra (or does he?)
No wonder my attempts at irony or sarcasm fall short (mostly) with my American colleagues.
“You were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”