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Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art.

pale-oceaned globe · glisten
under snapping fluorescents
desertion of elves

is a harbinger

"Much is made of the tendency toward 'personal brands' in the current era of the web, but domain names arguably originated the phenomenon."

There are so many ways the national election system in America could be fixed. My favorite (besides redividing all the electoral districts to hold an equal number of people--this is something computers could be very useful in) is just to give every candidate the exact same amount of free air time, & refuse to allow them to buy any more than that. But the oligarchs whose commitment to preventing change is quite as adamant as any monarchy in European history ever was, of course won't even allow these ideas to be mooted. They are literally unspeakable. That's the worst thing to me. It's like we had to depend on ambulances that can only go around in a circle like an amusement-park bumper-car ride. The game can do things that are already part of the game. It can't change how the game is played.

Poet & puppet.