Latest on twitter:
‘dubai is unlike any other city, but imagine a cross between hong kong, las vegas that tries to operate as if it were switzerland, and you begin to get the idea.’ new yorker
this website is terrifying to me. i hate to be all conspiracy theory-y, but: When the first triennium of the Trilateral Commission was launched in 1973, the most immediate purpose was to draw together—at a time of considerable friction among governments—the highest-level unofficial group possible to look together at the key common problems facing our three areas. and look at how low budget, yet still creepily orwellian the site is. if i didn’t already owe chase and citibank money i would pull my money out now.
i just wrote a long note about my life as a leecher, declared ways in which i would like to change and better utilize the networks i exist in, stated my resolve to use technology as an extension of the physical, announced my adherence to the cult of sound and my plans to add to it, and some other quasi witty banter.
then my computer died. i think it was a sign from the electricity gods.
wow. i’m not sure i had actually seen a shirley temple film. but uh, wow. this is terrifying. are they supposed to be cute.
i like how civilization in mini colonial africa has a “weary nipple cafe.” wow.