Adam Ismail

@aismail.xyz

Senior editor @thedrive.com | Talk on @extendti.me and @silentdiscographer.com podcasts

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

The anti-CarPlay/AA crowd really confuses me because at the end of the day, sometimes I need to switch from like Apple Music to Overcast in the middle of a trip. CarPlay means I don’t have to pick up my phone. That’s basically the beginning and end of it, I don’t see how you argue that.

A take that I promise has nothing to do with recent nationalistic bullshit, but a lot of the brands that Euro OEMs have spun off in recent years are silly and shouldn't exist. Polestar, DS, and Cupra belong as model lines. Alpine's kind of on the bubble.

I want to know the measure from here to forever I want to feel the pressure of God or whatever Now it seems more than ever There's no hands on the levers I want to feel the pressure of God or whatever Death Pod For Castie returns soon for Asphalt Meadows! Tell us what this record means to you.

Death Cab For Cutie's Asphalt Meadows LP playing on a turntable Bandcamp digital release of Asphalt Meadows Acoustic written to a minidisc, being played back on an MD deck. Asphalt Meadows CD on an external DACAmp and a CD changer that apparently needs to be dusted

It's gonna be emulators and ROMs for me until heat death, I guess. Anyone else confronting the idea that maybe the circumstances that made you love games were a limited-time deal? This medium hasn't embodied the things I originally enjoyed it for in like 15 years.