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LibreSprite or Pixelorama

Matrix by Emigre – definitely not the original font, Matrix wasn’t created until 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI (I think qualifies more as brown noise than white noise)

Jungfrau Railway – traverse a long tunnel to reach new heights

(at one point, Apple made a couple of the best keyboards)

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

“A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.”

“Europeans pay for health care. Americans pay for health insurance.”

escapism is a perfectly valid coping method

Anthony Bourdain

Quarantine: when food service workers weren’t allowed to call in sick because they were “essential” …

• it gave them an excuse to kill Skype
• they weren’t willing to let Zoom hog the spotlight

• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

unpaid

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

the not ELI5 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

AI slop is the fifth fascist hat