The ad industry wanted to reward the most “impactful” and “disruptive” campaigns of the year; who else had had a more disruptive impact? These trolls didn’t have huge budgets, and, frankly, a lot of them are pretty shitty at Photoshop. But you can’t deny the effectiveness.
Month: February 2018
Family chat circle of hell
older generations trying to indoctrinate their family members with xenophobic chat messages. each new technology creates its own new hell.
“I’m really close to my parents, but I only have a tenuous connection with my relatives. A family WhatsApp group, in my opinion, is just a conduit to get into each other’s lives and decision-making, and I don’t like that.”
“There is certainly some charm in knowing that every single family member and extended relative is, well, alive. But it quickly fades away in the barrage of sexist jokes, casual xenophobia, and unverified facts.”
Vast Mayan civilization
Researchers using LiDAR have found evidence of large public buildings, homes, royal palaces, roads and other structures far more extensive than anyone had any idea existed. More than 60K man-made features invisible to the naked eye under the thick jungle canopy have been identified.
Electric Dreams
recommended.
Amazon’s Electric Dreams is more optimistic about the future than Black Mirror. These adaptations of Philip K. Dick’s short stories can still be brutal and unnerving, but they take a less cynical view of humanity
Loneliest bird
In the absence of a living love interest, Nigel became enamored with 1 of the 80 faux birds. He built her — it? — a nest. He groomed her “chilly, concrete feathers . . . year after year after year
Instagram ruins everything
the urge to always be in your vacation photos speaks of fundamental insecurity.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 