Updated: January 30, 2023

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Mark Anderson is the proprietor of Aethervision, which has a simple premise: “Each week, I release a weekly news recap which covers 5 news items using nothing but footage from pre-1924 footage.” These are spectacular and mesmerizing.
The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s
Since2013, Richard Littler has been publishingScarfolk, a darkly comic series of brilliantly photoshopped artifacts from a dark and brutal English town trapped in a loop between 1969 and 1979; Littlerpublished his first Scarfolk book in 2014, a pretty straight-ahead best-of anthology that was a sheer delight, and since then, he’s taken abrilliant detour into animation, while still keeping up on Scarfolk, which has now spawned its second — and even better — book:The Scarfolk Annual.
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Primary Sludge: “close fiction” from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann
[Last spring, I ran into Nikola Richter at the Republica Festival in Berlin; she told me about Sina Kamala Kaufmann, a celebrated German climate activist and sf writer whose debut short story collection, Bright Matter, had been published by Richter’s independent publisher Mikrotext to great critical and public success. I offered to run one of […]READ THE REST
Millennials are killing Poe’s Raven
From Ross Wolinsky’s “The Millennial Raven” in McSweeney’s: Once upon a midnight dreary, Tinder swiping, buzzed and weary/I asked Siri about my sushi ordered one hour before/ While I chewed some pretzels, snacking, suddenly there came a tapping/As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my apartment door/“’Tis my roommate,” I muttered, “walking ‘cross the […]
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Get 8 online courses in Machine Learning & AI for just $3.62 a piece
Big things are happening in tech with AI and deep learning. That’s not exactly a news flash when you look at how often companies use algorithms to manage everything from online advertising to the songs, videos, posts, and other digital content platforms recommend for their users. Getting into the field requires a pretty broad range […]
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Every tech brand should be using a .tech domain
In the early days of the web, everyone wanted a .com domain for their site. As a results, all the good ones got snapped up. But .com no longer has the cachet it once did. In fact, many new business and individuals are opting for other top-level domain extensions. One of the most memorable is […]
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These wireless charging pads give you the juice that AirPower couldn’t
Wireless charging is increasingly the way to go for busy professionals. It’s quick, portable, and won’t clutter up your desk or countertop with a maze of cables. Still, there are kinks in the Qi technology that drives these chargers. And apparently, some companies are working out those kinks faster than others. Meet the iPM Wireless […]
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