I took MDMA to save our midlife marriage | The Times
archived 1 Aug 2022 01:26:03 UTC
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Julien Baker on Audiotree Live (Full Session)
well the guy is annoying as shit but ok
1. Sprained Ankle
2. Rejoice
3. Something
4. Go Home
Recorded on January 16, 2016, in Chicago, IL.
Nee Heb Je
Renate Rubinstein leest het voor
Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke drew on a shared philosophy about creative risk in collaborating on “Boyhood,” shot over 12 years as its young star grew up...
... and it's totally heartbreaking
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Supermooi interview met Vrouwkje Tuinman over de dood van F.Starik
‘Hij wilde zo graag zijn oude leven terug.’
Tacita Dean on David Warner: ‘Hummingbirds were his angels – he had an altar to them in his flat’
The artist remembers filming the actor, who died this week,.
I hate myself – because I'm worth it.
Keith Kahn-Harris: A measured dose of self-hate helps transform us into better people
The big idea: should we be using data to make life’s big decisions?
omfg kill me now
This is a very annoying man
... and a bad writer. But it’s still worth reading because it's so ... ah well read it. Or not.
24 Jul 2022
Housewitz
Vijftien jaar lang filmde Oeke Hoogendijk haar moeder die tientallen jaren haar huis niet uit durfde en wordt geteisterd door terugkerende nachtmerries uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Als meisje werd ze, net als haar ouders en haar broer, gedeporteerd naar verschillende concentratiekampen. Als enige kwam ze terug, getraumatiseerd en niet in staat het verleden los te laten.
The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God
Bataille believed that God is revealed through obscenity or destruction, a “deadly, or simply painful and abject medium.”
archived 27 Aug 2019
Alan Blaikley obituary | The Times
The man who suggested Dave Dee and the Bostons change their name to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and composed the music for RD Laing's record Life and Death is dead.
archived 23 Jul 2022
Past Lives of the Paragraph
Making a new paragraph is as easy as drawing a thin line in the margin.
ROEE ROSEN
woa! who said art is dead?
Flowful
i think 'Drive' for when i am cleaning which is not often enough.
Why deleting either the System or Data volume, but not the whole Volume Group, could get your Mac into trouble in macOS 11 or 12.
or, why i am so stupid. but now i understand why i am stupid, or one of the reasons, so that is something.
Gelukkig had Lieke Martens veel steun aan haar hond Iki, een toller retriever.
O gelukkig maar. Wel jammer dat Iki niet werd geinterviewd voor dit stuk.
Antidepressants study casts doubt on drugs taken by 8m people | The Times
Between 85 and 90 per cent of the public believe depression is caused by low serotonin or a chemical imbalance but artificially lowering serotonin levels does not lead to depression while external events such as grief can.
archived 19 Jul 2022
Ann Shulgin obituary | The Times
Researcher and author who with her husband explored the uses of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental health disorders
archived 18 Jul 2022
Bestaat God en is er een hemel? Dit zegt de wetenschap | De Volkskrant 16-7-22
Why is God a man? The woman who searched the world for a feminist religion
Disillusioned with Pentecostalism, Louise Omer decided to find a religion where women were not subordinate
Visdeurbel bij Utrechtse sluis gaat uit, komt volgend seizoen weer terug
Er is ruim 10.000 keer aangebeld door mensen die vissen voor de sluis zagen wachten.
Zhemao invented an alternative version of medieval Russia on wikipedia
Such a wonderful story. This person is a genius. A prank artist. Give them some kind of prize!
The Power of Talking to Yourself
nytimes.com
Motivated delusions
About the protective power of delusions
Emmanuel Carrère Writes His Way Through a Breakdown
it doesn't make me any more inclined to read his book but it is a fascinating article neverthless especially in the light of well you know
his usual instinct as a writer had been to seek narrative orderliness—to “always connect one sentence with the next, always look for a smooth transition.” Now he tried to take some encouragement from the novelist Georges Perec’s formal experiments with narrative gaps and omissions. “I never experienced such an uncomfortable situation,” Carrère told me. “Honestly, it’s a flaw of the book. Well—this flaw, it’s part of its identity.” He mimed a limp.
One in seven people in England now takes an antidepressant
Twenty-one million prescriptions for the drugs were issued in the first quarter of this year, a million more than for the same period in 2021, and double the number that were prescribed in 2009.
archived 12 Jul 2022 01:30:02 UTC
Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans
About 'The Dawn of Everything' by David Graeber and David Wengrow — archived version : https://everythingness.github.io/net/the-dawn-of-everything-wired-july-2022.html
The cult of confidence: could positive thinking be making us feel less secure?
The past decade has seen a boom in ‘confidence culture’. But behind all the positive thinking, are more cynical forces at work?
Buried : Is het werkelijk mogelijk dat een verdrongen herinnering twintig jaar later ineens terugkeert?
In januari 1989 herinnerde Eileen Franklin zich in een flits dat ze als achtjarig meisje de moord op haar vriendinnetje, Susan Nason, had gezien. Ze herinnerde zich ook de moordenaar: haar eigen vader.