Owl City has been an interesting recurring character for a long time. He fundamentally makes kinkade music, but in many instances there's something unintentionally captivating about watching a sheltered autistic christian man trying and failing to emulate the sterile neurotypical inhumanity of late 00s commercials, attempts at sincerely becoming what the squeakiest cleanest presenting factions want giving birth to an entirely different surreal alternate reality from the one he professes …
Venice, which develops identity security software, emerges from stealth after raising a $25M Series A led by IVP, following an $8M seed round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sk5qcux00we
The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic"
that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone,
give it away, and move on with your life.
I've been feeling this for a while now, and I suspect a lot of folks who have the itch to build feel it too, even if they haven't articulated it.
I would love it if we all took note of (and remembered) the following: the guy everyone knows is a sociopathic, purely self-interested, unrepentantly gleeful liar who is also visibly going through serious mental decline makes a long and incoherent speech without any indication that much of what he said is true in even the most cursory sense and traders say "yeah, good enough." Entrusting society's material future to the stock market is rational, ennit?
❝If I continue to perform and shout/scream as I do with Godflesh, then I am at high risk for more hernias, and blowing out my abdominal wall entirely.❞ https://www.treblezine.com/justin-k-broadrick-says-godflesh-is-ending-following-recent-surgery/
“During Friday’s Artemis II re-entry,
we will be deploying seismic and acoustic instrumentation at sea across the Southern California Bight
to record the sonic boom produced by the capsule’s re-entry,”
the USGS wrote in an email shared by a user on Reddit.
“Modelling indicates that the acoustic signal may be audible on land in some areas of Santa Barbara County and Baja California, including the Channel Islands.”
On its Facebook, the USGS states the sonic booms…
The nonstop parade of luxury that is
La Première, Air France’s first-class trans-Atlantic service,
begins when a Mercedes limousine collects you from your hotel and whisks you to an exclusive entrance at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
It ends at J.F.K., when an Air France employee personally escorts you from your seat through a special customs line.
Each new indulgence seems more lavish than the one before.
The bespoke departure lounge, where you can or…
Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked
three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration.
An agent told Cleland that he used facial recognition technology to identify her, she wrote in a declaration filed in US District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Cleland, a 56-year-old resident of Richfield and a director at Target Corporation,
voluntee…
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
a former fracking executive,
was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets
after he posted a striking claim on social media:
The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.”
The post on X was deleted minutes later,
after “oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years,” according to the Wall StreetJournal.
The White House pres…