Geoff Hing @ghing@4estate.media

While it's important to think deeply about the specific dynamics around all kinds of violence, I'm trying to understand how things like shootings - both people targeting many others or just one person, military invasion, response to the COVID-19 pandemic and people striking pedestrians with their cars all reflect a broad and growing disrespect for human life.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/06/13/longtime-north-side-ward-volunteer-killed-after-driver-hits-him-in-north-center/

Shout out to customer service workers who enforce the spirit of policies while offering flexibility on the letter of those policies. It makes everyone's life so much easier.

This is a really cool community wifi project in Tucson, Arizona

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeIDv6ALjtJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This so intensely feels like the episode of Atlanta where Al tries to steer a brand diversity advisory board, but at the same time, I really appreciate the BIPOC punk Insta, because it shows how many BIPOC people have been in scenes even if it doesn’t seem that way because they’re often white dominated. Anyway, there are some bands I like on this playlist and I need more driving music and maybe you do too?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Kro7EjPdHPl23hAnoOX2U?si=AbKby21WSPiL-nwlZI-Plw

Trying to find new fiction to read, and had one of those good internet experiences where someone has compiled a resource on a somewhat specific topic.

https://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/post/658889233969315840/17-cyberpunk-books-by-bipoc-black-indigenous

I recently finished reading the book “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng and I really enjoyed it. I think it captures the loneliness of otherness and the way that the unsaid can be both mundane and tragic.

As a kid I loved those Richard Scary books that were basically, “these are people who live in this town and this is what they do”. And reader, I still love that kind of content.

We live in a golden era of people sharing pedestrian but interesting and potentially useful things about their life and work. For example: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTds6ovdL/?k=1

“I think making anything is cathartic. You and your friends set out to make something and when it’s done, it always feels good.” - Lee Buford of The Body in this interview: https://echoesanddust.com/2021/01/lee-buford-from-the-body/

I’m recognizing the deep, cross-cultural appeal of driving a truck around while flying some sort of flag.

“The numbers were scary”

Related: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00805-0

I think one of the most interesting things about Mastodon is that it lets you interact with a system that has slightly different priorities and have a visceral rather than speculative sense of what that’s like. I’m thinking of the content warning feature in particular, but there are other things that just feel different in a refreshing way. I don’t remember Ello, which was the last non-mainline social network I tried, feeling like that.

The accessible flex is one of my favorite genres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpIcymSPfvA