kottke.org15 books about Appalachia to read instead of Hillbilly Elegy that counter “the stereotypes of [Republican VP pick] J.D. Vance’s version of Appalachia”. https://kottke.org/24/07/15-books-about-appalachia-to-read-instead-of-hillbilly-elegy
Sam Potts
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@overholt A while back I came across an auction that used a can of Campbells soup for scale, and it was as if the can had wondered around the house, photobombing each item. ( https://www.instagram.com/p/CB2JqW7hNyC/?img_index=1 )
Sam Potts on Instagram: "Tonight I spent a lot of time on Auction Ninja and have started to develop a real affection for the can of Campbell’s tomato soup that the photographer *in multiple auctions* uses to show scale. (I mean, sure, anything would do but come ON, a Campbell’s tomorrow [edit: tomato] soup can?!) The more lots I look at, the more it feels like the whole site is just the can’s travelogue as it pokes around people’s houses, posing with favorite items now and then. Sometimes it lies on the floor to rest and stare at the ceiling. Sometimes just as the picture’s being taken, it’s distracted by something behind the bushes. Sometimes it sneaks into someone else’s picture."
94 likes, 22 comments - sampotts on June 24, 2020: "Tonight I spent a lot of time on Auction Ninja and have started to develop a real affection for the can of Campbell’s tomato soup that the photographer *in multiple auctions* uses to show scale. (I mean, sure, anything would do but come ON, a Campbell’s tomorrow [edit: tomato] soup can?!) The more lots I look at, the more it feels like the whole site is just the can’s travelogue as it pokes around people’s houses, posing with favorite items now and then. Sometimes it lies on the floor to rest and stare at the ceiling. Sometimes just as the picture’s being taken, it’s distracted by something behind the bushes. Sometimes it sneaks into someone else’s picture.".
@kottke The complaint that Applachia is underrepresented in culture is ridiculous. Fiction, music (Mumford et al), movies, sheesh even NASCAR touts its hillbilly moonshining origins — it's depicted plenty. Just another white person grievance about "being forgotten."
Props to the bot accounts I follow here for not wavering from their posting schedules these last ~20 hours.
@openculture William F. Buckley: intellectual fraud, journalistic hack, and not very smart.
Joanna MaciejewskaYou know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
Say what you will about capital letters and the patriarchy and all, but title case is just easier and simpler and less confusing than all the other heading styles.
@bennzorn I saw an absolutely mwah storefront sign in Calypso in Addis Abbaba that makes me smile 10 years later.
Scaramucchi of all people makes a reassuring point: Who in 2024 is going to vote for Trimp that didn't vote for him in 2020. Despite the hue and cry of his fanatics, has he turned anyone new?
Kissinger dead at 100!