Orbifold notation
Substrate
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Matt’s Now page
This now page covers the things I’m thinking, feeling, and working on, well, right now.
on three (3) years of community engineering and beyond
but then life happened as it tends to do but not quite in the way that any of us could expect–except bill gates? now it’s a company that you can still enumerate with 2 hands but then have to reuse those same hands about 30 times.
“Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale” by Dan Albergotti
W.S. Merwin’s “Early One Summer”
a layer of birds when the beetles hurry through dry grass hiding pieces of light they have stolen
Americans Love Poetry, But Not Poetry Books
may also be because of the nature of poetry itself: since each poem is its own complete aesthetic experience, maybe readers feel less inclined to engage with poetry books, no matter how much they’ve enjoyed individual poems. Our hope is that readers who like the prose we publish may discover, as they poke around our catalog, that they like the poetry too
How Will the Coronavirus End?
People whose privilege and power would normally shield them from a crisis are facing quarantines, testing positive, and losing loved ones. Senators are falling sick. Perhaps it will appreciate that health-care workers and public-health specialists compose America’s social immune system, Group B includes everyone else, and their job is to buy Group A more time. We realized that her child might be one of the first of a new cohort who are born into a society profoundly altered by COVID-19. We decided to call them Generation C.
É. Urcades’ homepage
More often than not, the most meaningful human activity boils down to providing support structure for one another. In turn, the most meaningful “designed” output is the infrastructural.
Premonition
The pandemic has fractured the discourse, exposing how many layers of assumptions formed the bedrock. Under quarantine conditions, there is less opportunity to physically signal one’s participation in a culture, so clothing and conspicuous consumption matter less. Knowledge tooling will be extremely important to this new set of online cultural formation. We’ll see a dramatic acceleration of the exodus from clearnet that began a few years ago. Cities will need to put incentives in place for small businesses to take over these spaces, and stem the blight of banks and pharmacies that have eaten ground floor retail, have genericized walkable cities in the last decade. People who left the city due to safety concerns or simply for affordability reasons may not return. Combined with the increasing viability of remote work and zero-hour contracting, we may see further evacuation of the city and a new wave of suburbanization. The increased availability of urban space relative to demand that results from this will create new opportunities for communities and cultural production to manifest themselves in the physical world. in the second, that same realm is reinvigorated and returned to its true stakeholders, the people who live there. Breathe. Read the air. The real knowledge work begins
A few fragments of my grief
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
The thing about blogging is
how they escape their old loops, how they become more themselves, and where they end up. This is the kind of artistic X-ray that makes you want to seek out the subject, put the flesh back on the bones. Which is what I did, and: I loved it. A blogger can simply love a thing, and write about it. an encyclopedia of appreciations.
SwiftDocOrg/GraphViz
A Swift package for working with GraphViz. Contribute to SwiftDocOrg/GraphViz development by creating an account on GitHub.
Every day that’s boring is good
At least that's what I try to keep telling myself: If nothing is happening then you're lucky. If a day isn't dramatic, if your main problem is what to cook or watch or play, then that's amazing. Boredom and mundanity are blessings. If tomorrow is the same as today, even better.
Videos from Daniel Litt’s arithmetic geometry mini conference
The Double Desk
I’m old enough to know my faults, if not yet old enough to fix them: I know that I have a tendency to compartmentalize, and to deal with things outside of my control by tunnel-visioning on the things I do. I’m saying that in times where you find yourself enchanted and disgusted by the spiral of things, you get to do whatever you can to grant yourself a bit of sanity.
“Bird Prelude” by Zaina Alsous
Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals, disappointed male lovers, scientists, Inside the lake a volcano of whale songs, Inside the volcano a language of naming, Inside the language an algorithm for de-extinction, Inside the algorithm blued dynamite to dissolve the colony's Sun, twinkle twinkle, I didn't mean to fall in love with failure, its molting rapture, I didn't mean to name myself from a necklace of silent vowels, I didn't go looking for the bird, I entered through the empty cage, hips first --- a lake of funerals to name myself from a necklace of silent vowels
Four poems by Molly Brodak
To uncoil the wild little everything inside lungs throbbed by its own wings
“Also, hello, I'm temporarily pausing book leave, and back to working full-time at the Atlantic to do pandemic reporting for the foreseeable.”
Also, hello, I'm temporarily pausing book leave, and back to working full-time at the Atlantic to do pandemic reporting for the foreseeable.— Ed Yong is on sabbatical (@edyong209) March 16, 2020
Krazam’s “Microservices” sketch
it's because of the way our backend works
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Make good art
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art.
Mary Ruefle on blackout poetry
I don’t actually read the page. I read the words, “Why do you waste your time doing that?” Because it’s fun and I love it. That’s why.
guilt, shame, and the productivity trap
all i can say is try, when you can, to be easy on yourself, and if that’s hard, think about what you would say to a friend. try to be your own friend right now.
Remains of the Day: Issue 06
It feels almost insensitive to focus on anything else right now, like bringing up celebrity gossip at a funeral. This is that emergency episode that falls outside the overarching narrative continuity of our lives. Living in a house where adults are screaming at each other in the next room from dusk until dawn chips away at the membrane of one’s inner peace. More and more of the information is simply adding to the fog of war, and some shoddy graphs of all sorts of really varied data sets and cohorts aren’t helping. For all the chaos on Twitter, some of the smarter voices there still strike me as the most sensible ones.
COVID-19 and Managing Risk
This is where we have no choice other than to trust the people whose job is to help with this stuff. The only thing we can do is stay inside, stay sane and be patient. There are no quick fixes to this. No amount of shady scientific papers or tweet threads will change any of this. We can find something new every minute of every one of these days, yet, none of it really makes a difference.
Putting the Economy in Suspended Animation
At present course these would decimate small businesses and further exacerbate the income and wealth inequality.
Öona Dahl’s Printworks London ‘19 set
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Watch Öona Dahl’s set from Anjunadeep’s sold-out takeover of Printworks London.
With over 5000 attendees and a staggering 1.1 million unique viewers tuning in online during the live-stream via Twitch, the event featured sets from James Grant & Jody Wisternoff, Ben Böhmer, 16BL, Luttrell, Moon Boots, Edu Imbernon, CRi and more.
Printworks continues to firmly establish its place as one of the world’s most exciting music venues, and this summer Anjunadeep join forces with the team behind Printworks for a special summer event at sister venue Magazine London. On July 25 an all-star lineup, including label favourite Lane 8, head to the outdoor riverside space for a day to night takeover showcasing some of the label’s finest talent.
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#120: All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Kneeling Bus
I’d put my money on the opposite outcome—once we return to a semblance of normality, we’ll crave in-person interaction like never before
The Great Slowdown
I don’t need to release this before WWDC. I don’t need to release it until it’s done. One thing I’ve learned from all of this is that a lot of things can just. freaking. wait.