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  • “What are we doing with all these links, anyway? We’re weaving the web tighter. Making introductions. Maintaining provenance. It’s meaningful, especially now, as AI systems work in the opposite direction: denaturing the links, melting down the chains of connection.” Robin Sloan

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  • “I feel really lucky that I had some good role models of people who seemed to be devoted parents and artists at the same time. I don’t think I needed so much to know how they did it — it seems impossible to generalize how one does it, because everyone’s context/family/situation is so wildly different […]

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  • I’ve had a tab open for kening zhu’s post about rituals vs. sprints for nearly a month. It reminds me about something Katherine May once said on a podcast* about the cycle of neurodivergent hyperfocus and recovery. Versus a neurotypical ideal of consistency. It’s something I am still figuring out. Having experienced burn out I […]

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  • “a conscious choice to be happy is a form of resistance…” “You’re allowed to cultivate joy. In fact, you need to, because our job is to build the world that we want.” — AOC via Amelia Greenhall

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  • “I believe in the core of my being is that art can help reach people where political rhetoric and facts can’t. There’s something magical about identifying with a fictional character, or getting swept up in a story, or just being shocked by a piece of weird art into seeing things in a different way.” Charlie […]

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  • “How can queer art help us to survive, and maybe even fight back, during this bloody awful moment in history? I’ve been asking myself some version of this question non-stop for ages, but I still don’t have any clear answers. What I do have is a bone-deep sense that we need to be twice as […]

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  • The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago. The second best time is today! Robin Sloan

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  • From Where You Dream

    From Where You Dream

    “Art does not come from ideas. Art does not come from the mind. Art comes from the place where you dream. Art comes from your unconscious; it comes from the white hot center of you.” Robert Olen Butler

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    I remember the moment I discovered kening zhu’s website.

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    Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

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