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My good friend and amazing actor and multi-hyphenate of many talents Dana Omar over in Chicago is putting together a pilot for a powerful passion project of hers called STUCK. She's reached a good 49% of her funding goal and has about 17 days left to raise the rest! Many great rewards ensue.

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I was taken enough by the Ryue Nishizawa-designed Moriyama house enough to see what I can find out about the man who commissioned it. This what my feeble inquiry has turned up:

Yasuo Moriyama is a Japanese individual known for his unique lifestyle and his collaboration with architect Ryue Nishizawa. He is often referred to as an “urban hermit”.

I reckon Moriyama and I would get on quite well.

There's a film about him and his house, logging here for a future watch.

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Henry Miller's “Commandments”:

Point #10 is a tough one, and something I've struggled with since the day I was born. Point #7 and #11 seem to me to be in direct contradiction with one another.

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  • Social media influencers based in India may be required to register with the government and meet with evaluation committees — Arjun Singh Sethi

  • Syd Mead's production design and concept art — Heth Madzo's massive Flickr collection.

  • Berlin’s culture budget for 23/24 is about £840 million. The Creative Scotland annual grant-in-aid from the government, to cover the whole of the country, is only £68.5 million as of 2024 — Heather Parry on how UK politicians are making life shit (wait till she sees America).

  • [Netanyahu] claimed, amid roars of cheers, that the number of civilians who have been killed in Gaza is “practically none,” echoing the genocidal mantra “There are no innocents in Gaza” that Israel has repeated throughout the war. — Seraj Assi for Jacobin

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  • Documentary Area — Free documentaries.

  • MuscleWiki — Click on a muscle, check the equipment you have, and a demonstration of an exercise for that particular muscle pops up.

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“Ditko appeared at the first New York Comicon, held in 1964 with around 100 attendees... He never made an official convention appearance again. ” —Rolling Stone.

If a crowd of 100 was mortifying enough, imagine what might happen to the man if forced to attend a comicon today.

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  • China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of 5 large nuclear power stations per week — GlobalEnergyMonitor.org

  • The Psychological Tactics in Israel's War on Lebanon — TIMEP

As an aside: A close reading of colonial history can help us deduce that a sure way to tell who the aggressor is would be by identifying which side is dropping leaflets (excluding both WWs, which can best be described as the Wars Between Colonizers).

  • Alphabet City Comics — whereby each panel corresponds to a letter in the alphabet. Fun constraint from Matt Madden.

  • “Nobody I know likes capitalism, yet HERE WE ARE.” — Kelly Sue Deconnick

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“AI and the nature of intelligence are hot topics, as is using DNA as information storage, and printing organelles to study how they develop and function. Including brainoids, little self-contained blobs of neuronal tissue which display patterns of regular electrochemical activity, and raise ethical problems about whether or not they are self-aware.”

Paul McAuley interviewed by Simon Morden

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