NDC are back.
exilic design [is] the act of knowingly building within the Para-Real… protecting our own memory through deliberate fragility.
(Emphasis mine)
the exilic are venueless. Their participants know the server won’t be there tomorrow. They treat the right to disappear, distort, and misremember as sacred, or at least, as inevitable. They document on their own terms, with their own tools, and preserve through adaptation. They recalibrate after loss, borrowing from sneakernet traditions for out-of-band transfer and redeployment.
Got my dental bone graft stitches out, so I no longer have those little spiders dancing on my tongue. Now I have to wait 5½ months until the next stage where they will drill the implant into my newly reconstructed upper jaw 🦷
Was itching to read something in paper and after a long discussion with an LLM about moody recommendations and narrowing down my massive To Read list, I ended up picking up The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
Egads… I ended up binging A Knight of Seven Kingdoms in a single day. Light and brutal 😊
Speaking of layers of history (cf. my long post on London) Hari Kunzru walks the city and skates from one historical layer to another, from reality to fantasy, and back. Fabulous writing.
Dolls are out for #ひな祭り Doll Day! We brought the entire set over in the 19 boxes we sent from Japan in 2024. We didn’t have space to get them out last year in our tiny condo. This year we still don’t have a rack for the whole set, so just the Empress and the Emperor are out. 🎎
Excellent evening of co-op showcasing, solidarity, and FOOD at www.solidstate.coop tonight! #SurreyBC
Chad opens an event at Newspeak House At the top of Brick Lane on Bethnel Green Road in east London the streets are lined with four-storey buildings tightly packed shoulder-to-shoulder, alternating brick and plaster. At street level there are pizza parlours, cafés, vinyl record stores, and a shop that sells terrariums. One building, measuring four gabled windows across with two wide storefront windows at the ground level, has nothing in the display for sale.
What an up and down day. Early morning went into surgery. Woke up around 4 feeling good. Decided to relax and watch a film. Oh whatta film! boxd.it/DUHM
We just happened upon this Senegalese place so decided to take the opportunity. Had some Senegalese Jollof rice and veggie fataya, with Bissap Hibiscus juice and a lovely drink made of baobab fruit!
An unexpected thing happened to me on my first trip to London earlier this month.
I stayed in Brick Lane close to the venue (which I will write about separately!) for the event I put on. The first four days I stayed in the area prepping for the event and meeting people, so pretty much just work work work… but after the event was over (and I finally got a full night’s sleep) I had 3 days to explore the city, which I did mostly on foot.
Easy to digest, but some difficult subject matter (power harassment/abuse) that was not for me. Some people gave it 5 stars so it touches others. I just hope everyone is okay.
Had some epic anime clouds above the city today. Gorgeously warm and bright for Feb 🌞
