Such an interesting story of the eccentric nanny who was a street photographer.
We’ll hit 1700000000 in 2023. (I could schedule a post for that right now.)
Even as we’re looking at the failures of the status quo, we’ve also seen the possibilities of a better kind of normal: Birdsong has become the predominant city soundscape. People are reclaiming streets and sidewalks for sociability and to demand social change through protests. Unheralded public servants are opening data and standing up user-friendly dashboards to make government more transparent and deliver critical information to residents with remarkable speed. Mayors across the country are experimenting with guaranteed income projects as a means of advancing racial and economic justice.
Bloomberg: Let’s Not Go Back to ‘Normal’
If you do your thing, and if your thing has any merit, you can get better and develop that. I wanted to do what I was doing. I know that nobody else is going to write like I write, or look at the world how I look at the world. That’s just not possible.
billy woods / Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Art Rap
Travelling the world through pictures.
The world’s economies are moving away from fossil fuels. Oversupply and the increasing competitiveness of cleaner energy sources mean that oil may stay cheap for the foreseeable future. The recent turmoil in oil markets is not an aberration; it is a glimpse of the future. The world has entered an era of low prices—and no region will be more affected than the Middle East and north Africa.
The Economist: The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh
True Landfill is a family caravan holiday in August: kind of shit, kind of a laugh, largely unremarkable. At both its zenith and nadir, it’s “Dry Your Eyes” for couples who have fights at Tiger Tiger; ska for men who drink bottled lager in polo shirts. It’s observational comedy about funerals, a viral video of a fight in a kebab shop, a wooden sign on a mantlepiece that says “Today is a perfect day to start living your dreams.” We have no choice but to embrace it, because it’s always there, floundering between waves of nostalgia and indifference: The Great British High Street of chart music.
VICE: The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time
That was a funny moment in an otherwise unfunny short video where the AdTech house of cards is explained pretty clearly. Also worth reading is Augustine Fou’s analysis on digital marketing costs.
Guerilla posters mocking Facebook spotted in the wild.
