this is cool. (11)

feat. guy fieri, robot poetry, and asshats

May 30, 2022

happy memorial day —

enjoy these articles.

- one of those beautiful pieces that everyone should read out of pure interest

- cowboys and masculinity — a tale as old as time

- paragraph of the year: “Thanks to new technology – namely, the ability to digitise information, the ubiquity of smartphones and the proliferation of cheap sensors – humans now have historically unprecedented powers of self-measurement. At the turn of the 17th century, in order to better understand the workings of his metabolism, the Italian physician Santorio Santorio constructed a set of giant scales in which he could sit. Santorio would measure his weight constantly, particularly before and after meals and defecation. Today, we are rewarded with floods of comparable information with minimal effort. We can track our sleep, exercise, diet and productivity with apps and gadgets. We have become beacons of unseen measurement, emitting quantified data as heedlessly as uranium produces radiation.”

- wow i love math

- FROM THE ACTUAL MERRIAM-WEBSTER

- as a 22 year old male, i should probably spend more time eating fruit and less time thinking about this article

- if you can look past the fact that this was written in canada, it’s a good read

- also: why its actually a good thing that this business exists

- BDM is a favorite of mine — any article about him always has a spot in this newsletter

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have a good long weekend,

zev