Curated chaos - vol.3 🛸🌍🌐🧠👁️⚡
Transmissions from the global brain
You may touch the artefacts
Neal Argawal’s museum of Internet Artifacts is a beautifully nostalgic compendium of key moments in cyber-history. Featuring the earliest recorded “LOL”, the first Amazon order, and a fully-playable Impossible Quiz. If you’re not familiar with Neal’s work, there’s a whole bunch of other brilliant stuff at neal.fun.
The library of consciousness
Enjoy this curated library of texts and talks from thinkers like Alan Watts, Donella Meadows, and David Bohm. I’ve been enjoying this 5hr+ recording of Terrence McKenna talking about embracing imagination as a soothing sonic backdrop to my work. Here’s some advice from the curator:
“Consume the information as you would music, not gospel; as a neo-Buddhist sci-fi romp through the embryonic Gaian hive mind as it awakens and comes to terms with its own existence.”
Clear? Cool.
What makes us human?
I’ve dipped into this BBC Radio 2 series a few times, most recently the episode with Stephen Fry, which is a glorious celebration of language from someone who loves playing with words. If you can’t access this on the BBC site where you are, it’s also on Spotify (and probably elsewhere).
A catchy name gives us something to fight
Martha Gill makes the case for neologisms like “doomscrolling” being far more powerful than we acknowledge. I think she’s onto something here. I coined one myself recently, as it happens.
Yankee Candle's stages of abstraction
Old but gold, Alex McMillan’s thread analysing Yankee Candle scent names is a reminder of what I used to love about Twitter.
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