This lady redesigns book covers after she reads them. I love this idea.
This lady redesigns book covers after she reads them. I love this idea.
For the last four years, Vanity Fair have been doing an interview with Billy Eilish where they ask her the same questions each year year. They first caught her in 2017, right before she blew up, so it’s amazing to watch the changes as she’s become one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
A hilarious thread from someone who hated the first book as much as I did. But what’s with the random, selective takedowns of pictures of her highlighted passages from the book? Who is the copyright holder in cases where it’s a photo of a book that only contains whole passages from other, better things?
Oh, your OS boots from a floppy disk? That’s cute too, I guess.
I know I’m not exactly the target market for this stuff, but I think TikTok is just about the last great thing on the internet right now.
Robin Sloan:
Browsing Twitter the other day, I once again found myself sucked into a far-off event that truly does not matter, and it occurred to me that social media is an orthographic camera.
This has been stuck in my brain since Robin mentioned it because I think he’s hit the nail right on the head. I look at my Twitter timeline and see jokes and breakfast updates and outrage given the same space and importance as world-changing news events. No wonder we’re all so exhausted.
My (least?) favourite part of this story is that some people noticed it might have been written by an AI because there was nothing substantial being said and it was pure regurgitation and these people got downvoted for being rude.
A perfect encapsulation of the Internet in 2020.
This is just adorable but it’s also is a great example of how hard is to be a parent and not let your parenting affect your day job.
Andy Samberg recommends some things he’s been enjoying recently. His review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire is pretty spot-on.