Commie-perisian - La Capitainerie

I do kind of think that we're past the point where new technological innovations can actually meaningfully improve life for most people in industrialized countries. Like I think the problem is social organization, not a lack of new gadgets.

@quicherat me going to buy you brand new toys in by brand new 1968 Buick Riviera

🧸 Animal Toys, 1968 🧸

Images photographed by Akihiko Tsutsumi.

it has to end eventually right

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).

Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we