Linking the Underground | 005
Now I’m not going to do this every time, but once in a while we have to throw in a little something extra. If you’ve been wondering what you’re missing behind the scenes, this is the week for you. A double-size Linking cache for everyone.
But let’s be fair. Take a link, drop a link. The comments are open. Fill the bazaar with your choicest and weirdest futuristic finds before I pack the stall up for the week. Good to see you again, friends.
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A Bewildering One: Among the Reality Entrepreneurs
Hazy parallel worlds of fevered maybe-futurists? Possible revolutions in how we interact with computers? Definite probability of vaporware and vaporculture? Sounds like Our Kind of Thing. Dig into this one carefully, but enjoy the chaos. It might be important later. Maybe not.
A Work One:
"…the primary benefit for remote work for a lot people, if not most of them eventually, is that it makes balancing career with family much easier.”
Eric Hoel is a gifted expositor of current and near-future things that you should definitely be following. This short piece shouts truths that many of us are quietly murmuring or have been trying to assemble in our minds. It turns out, being free to order your day is really good for families. Pretty simple.
A Very, Very Strange One: Owen Cyclops re: Drugs
This is an insanely long rambling thread by a self-admitted conspiracy theorist/esotericist, a profane diatribe about his experiences with highly varied psychoactives. Owen is also a Christian, has the scars to prove his stories, and for the record…
My beliefs are much closer to his than you think.
A Fantastical One:
Brendan is a curator himself and drops this…collection of imaginary cities? I honestly don’t really know what this is but I love it. It’s yours if you want to take it home.
In the Headphones: Conflicted, “The West and the Rest”
An excellent episode of an essential podcast. If you have ever struggled to understand why people who hold intense religious belief act as they do, allow Thomas Small and Aimen Dean to explain. As a Christian Maximalist I recognize much of the uneasy relationship with modernity described here. Highly recommended.
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If you haven't read Invisible Cities, I highly recommend it. It's like the inverse of NFTs: abstractions of familiar internal geographies shared in open public domain.
That Owen Cyclops thread is the best internet thing I've read all week.
I'm halfway through Mark Stavish's book on egregores and they're talking the same language (minus the psychoactive pharmacopoeia)
Believing in demons and the spirit world isn't any crazier than believing in the materialist universe, if you don't assume our cultural baggage around technology and science is a default setting.