To celebrate the 30th birthday of DOOM, here's a thread of everything that I've found that DOOM can run on. Some are real, some... maybe not. It's up to you to figure out which π
Let's begin with:
DOOM... on an ultrasound scanner. Full thread here on X/Twitter https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1733921349356146787
HAHAHAHAH I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I'M SURPRISED.
In this fragile, pathetic, censored to hell and back world, the UI on #Instagram is now modified to disallow even FOLLOWING the #horror hashtag.
Damn, y'all really woulda been really shocked at the shit on LiveJournal, Tumblr, et. al. back in the day.
There's a reason I know what eating cereal out of an asshole looks like. Fuck you.
Sidney is beyond fucking Bored to Death with this one.
Red alert! An amazing trans woman in the bay area (whom I've met and admire) has had a health crisis and is facing eviction. She needs to raise money by Oct. 31 to avoid being out on the street
Please give if you can!
New in the Vault: Control, an irreverent interpretation of Walter KΓ€ch's sans serif lettering examples with no "correct" version: adjust weight, contrast, apertures, and tracking to your liking, and choose between an oblique and a cursive. Make a politely legible mid-century grotesk or a 70s nightmareβ¦
Control was drawn by Christian Schwartz and Miguel Reyes and first used by Interview magazine (who commissioned the Cursive and the TNT tracking).
"Let's Stop Calling It 'Content''
I first starting noticing the word "content" in the late 90s
Companies looking to put writing, animation, video or art on their web sites would call it "content"
It flattened innumerable forms of culture into a sort of *goo*, extruded from a tube
25 years on, the term "content" has metastasized, eating whole the way many people talk about -- *think* about -- culture.
Let's stop now
My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9
A free link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9?sk=7a2668c44c31a4359876cfcd25a5f2d0