The Crowd 312: Live Transmission

Hi Crowd! Not a thing I expected to be doing in 2026, but here we are. It's no secret that I have a complicated relationship with my devices. I love what they can do, what I can do with them, hate what they make me do, and the reliance on them. I daydream about simpler times when I wrote tiny space efficient notes on carefully folded up pieces of paper and never worried about the battery on my pager because a AA would last months, and txt codes from friends meant that most often getting paged contained all the info I needed and there was no expectation of a return call anytime soon.

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Shooting Artists & Burning Punks

Chris Burden was shot. That is the physical fact of what happened. We can build on that statement by adding that his friend pulled the trigger, that this took place in an art gallery, that an audience was in attendance. None of that changes the fact that Chris Burden was shot. Here's the video: We can also turn the facts into a story with some narrative.

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The Crowd 311: Less Than Available

Hi Crowd! for some reason The Algorithm presented me with this post earlier today with this snip from an interview with Naval Ravikant where he's talking about his schedule, or rather his lack of one. "I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don't keep a schedule. And I took that to heart. So I deleted my calendar and I don't keep a schedule...

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The Crowd 310: Friends

Hi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add a /friends page to their websites. The basic idea is that this is like an old school blogroll or webring, which fellow olds may remember was how we used to find interesting people on the internet before search and algohell took over.

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The Crowd 309: Rewriting Narratives

Hi Crowd! I've been thinking a lot about narratives and how stories are told and what the public walks away with recently so perhaps it's fitting that the first thing I have to tell you about is ALIEN: PARADISE which is a fan made edit combining Prometheus and Covenant into a single film as well adding in some of the extra content that was available as promotional material or DVD extras.

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The Crowd 308: The USA 250

Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it's become is far wider than many want to admit. Honestly it has been since the beginning. But I also hold hope that it can be better.

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The Crowd 307: Sustaining Open

Hi Crowd! Almost 7 years ago I co-wrote a book about philanthropy and the importance of open. Open principles, open source, and generally building, failing, and learning in the open. 7 years feels both too long and too short when I think about it, so much has changed since then and so much is exactly the same. The book, 50 Shades of Green: Reimagining Philanthropy…

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The Crowd 306: Sock It To Me

Hi Crowd! While everyone else in the world is either betting on World Cup games, refreshing their Claude accounts to see if they have access to Fable 5 again yet, or spitting their coffee all over their laptops when they saw that Kamala Harris is privately reaching out Zohran Mamdani and others to think through a Palestine strategy for a potential second presidential run, I've been staring at my feet.

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Death and what we leave behind

As I was finishing off my newsletter the other day I heard that Om died. It didn't fit at all with the themes in that edition but I had to say something regardless, he played a role in my life at different times and in different ways, and I felt like I had to mark that. I was also still a bit in shock from the terrible…

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The Crowd Is Postslop [303]

Hi Crowd! Yesterday Derek Guy posted about Emily Segal's recently coined term "tasteslop" in part because of Phoebe Luckhurst's big piece in The Times about it. If you are in the Telegram group you saw this come through last night but I've been thinking about it a lot since then. Tasteslop, as Emily defines it, is "1. Slop made out of things considered to be tasteful 2.

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The Crowd is Abnormal [302]

Hi Crowd! I made a thing, that relates to a thing, and is driven by another thing and very much out of my hands by design. It's abnormal. I'll try to explain... Sterling released an NFT project a few years ago called Wiiides. The pieces changed every time they were transferred, and I always loved this idea, of a thing that is on-chain but always changing.

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Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy? | Norman Solomon

No one has more at stake than Kamala Harris – who has ‘signaled’ support for its release without saying so publicly

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The Crowd Over Performs [301]

Hi Crowd! What a timeline we're on amirite? As a non-US resident I often find myself looking at what's going on in the US and thinking it's too absurd to be real. I know this isn't an uncommon perspective as it's the most common discussion that comes up anytime the US is mentioned in conversations with other non-US residents. Last week I ventured across the border and spent a few days with friends new and old and while it wasn't the primary conversation, it was certainly a conversation.

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The Crowd Is Performative [300]

Hi Crowd! I've been really into this series of photos I've been taking and posting recently and think I'm going to build on it a bit more. I don't know how much I want to talk about what is drawing me to them just yet but there's a few levels of tension and unease in them that I'm just loving. I don't know what anyone else thinks about them yet, but if you are enjoying them as much as I am stay tuned.

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Museum Punks

A registry of CryptoPunks acquired by museums.

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The Crowd Is Socially Engaged [299]

So the EFF announced that they are leaving X, not because of any political objections though they note that’s a legitimate reason as well, but because they did the math and they get only 3% of the engagement on a post today that they did 7 years ago. People have opinions about this, not the least of which is…

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EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

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