In my (extremely biased) opinion, the most stylish people on earth work at Fluevog.1 Unlike, say, Aritzia, you can walk into a store and never predict how the employees are going to be dressed. It’s a brand that celebrates individuality to the point where you’re allowed to wear whatever you want, as long as the look is totally your own. One day, I came across a video interview with an employee at their New York City store, Madeline Kevelson. After a brief scroll of her Instagram, @spiltmlk, I was smitten by her complicated, historical outfits that seem to exist outside of time.
— Read on freakpalace.substack.com/p/i-found-the-best-dressed-person-in
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One of Diablo 4’s most significant technical changes is its fully connected overworld. Instead of isolated zones, players move through environments that update continuously. Enemy density, weather changes, public events and world boss timers are all managed through cloud coordination. As clients request updates, servers adjust local states to reflect global conditions.
The setup reduces the traditional boundaries seen in older ARPGs. It requires fast, consistent communication between server clusters and player devices. When too many events occur simultaneously or the server load spikes, players notice it immediately through latency or ‘rubber-banding’. Diablo 4’s smoothness during crowded encounters is largely a result of intelligent distribution of compute processes in multiple data centres.
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While you can always twist reality to soothe your ego, iron, with its uncompromising physical reality, won’t support your self-deception. It doesn’t give a shit how you feel. As Rollins wrote, two hundred pounds “is always two hundred pounds,” regardless of whether you slept well, had a breakup, want to lift, or want the weight to exist.
What is iron in your life? What qualities, what people, what ideas can you rely on to bring you back to reality?
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when I was much more active on Twitter than I am now, I’d find myself, e.g., washing dishes and, without wanting to, thinking about various mundane things in the form of tweets. Some nascent half-kernel of an idea would come to me and, like a hack comedian for whom every banal thing is material, I would immediately start working it over for any and all tweet-like potential.
Maybe there was a tiny bit of dish soap left at the bottom of the bottle, and I considered diluting it with water to get it out more easily, and make the bottle last longer. I wouldn’t simply think that. Thanks to Twitter, I’d think something exponentially more inane and annoying, such as, “The masculine urge to water down the dish soap…” or “The two genders [picture of brand-new dish soap vs. picture of old diluted dish soap]…” or “Choose your fighter [same two pictures again]…” or “Wake up babe, new diluted dish soap just dropped,” or “Men will dilute the last millimeter of dish soap rather than go to therapy…” or “No but the way I just diluted the dish soap…”
And so on. Just cycling through a procession of dumb, Twitter-borne phraseologies as they ran through my head
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How to get control of YouTube. Shut off the algorithm and get a better landing page.
How to get control of Spotify. Escape the algorithm, expand your listening.
How to get control of Twitter. “Onboarding to Twitter is challenging. It’s not a rewarding experience for most people; your posts barely get any engagement at all until you have a few hundred followers at least, and the process to get there is punishing. It takes a lot of time to curate a good Twitter feed; the median content on there is trash.”
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These songs that make me think of Europe as “the other” – a remote place difficult for Americans to understand. The flip side of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. This is not to be confused with songs that deliberately make Europe seem exotic or remote.
“This is the Day,” The The
“Moderation” and “French Boys”, Cate le Bon
“West End Girls,” Pet Shop Boys
(movies where Europe is the other: “Say Anything,” “Beyond Sunrise”, “Wings of Desire”)
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“The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter.”
Some guidelines for using Twitter as a superpower – meeting people, getting questions answered, learning. It covers how difficult it is getting traction at first.How to Be Found by Your People Online (YouTube)
“Transform your Instagram Feed Into a Community Bulletin Board.” Make the Instagram algorithm biased to local community. “…curating in this fashion is an excellent way for turning the platform’s shortcomings into a positive.”
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“Will Emerson talks about the impending financial turmoil”: “the only reason they get to continue living like kings is we have our fingers on the scale in their favor”
“The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything” – “The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.”
“Democracy?” – “Will you gentlemen excuse us for a moment please?”
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The PARA Method – the best way to organize a folder that I’ve ever found.
Getting Things Done – Systematize the clutter in your brain and get things done – they call it work Zen for a reason.
An opinionated guide to using Anki correctly. – repetitive ways to improve learning.
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