Links tagged with “via:buckslip”
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On Nighttime
Hanif Abdurraqib’s lovely essay on being awake at night (which I happened to read at 1.20am when I couldn’t sleep). (via Buckslip)
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The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones - Scientific American Blog Network
Clickbaity title, but interesting on sociological vs psychological storytelling. (via Buckslip)
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The Bigger, Badder 2019 Book Tracking Spreadsheet
I can’t decide if this is more or less crazy than all the work I put in to writing my own (less detailed) reading-tracking code. (via Buckslip)
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An Algorithmic Investigation of the Highfalutin ‘Poet Voice’ - Atlas Obscura
Trying to nail down exactly what makes a Poet Voice. (via Buckslip)
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CASH Music - The Secret Lives of Playlists
On how record labels make and influence Spotify playlists. In case you want to feel a little bit used. (via Buckslip)
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Creative Alibis | Daniel Brook
Being critical of Richard Florida’s Creative Class stuff. Impossible to tell when this was published. (via Buckslip)
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Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | World news | The Guardian
I’m ashamed to say that I was barely aware of much of this. How did that happen then? And until now? (via Buckslip)
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Podcast Out – The New Inquiry
“A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism.” I don’t listen to many podcasts but this sounds right to my fact-free prejudices. (via Buckslip)