Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
Syllabus
syllabusproject.org
lil sites doing cool things and
going through these, I love the feeling of being guided through learning something by someone who feels passionately about that thing
idea for sublime could be to have people teach things or walk people through something they care a lot about inside of a collection
So while I could try to handwave away my failure as a CEO (“something something Ukraine war something something inflation”), I won’t do that. Instead I’ll ask the question: was Muse a zero-interest rate phenomenon?
Muse Retrospective
and then I was sent to Buchenwald. There, in the very first weeks, I was put in a work unit where I believed I would be buried.
Curt Herzstark • An Interview with Curt Herzstark
Now, stepping back a bit, they shouldn’t be. The signature obsessions of Republican politics since 2020 — election denialism, book banning, abortion bans and the crusades against trans and other gender-nonconforming people — are either unpopular with most Americans or electoral dead weight. Democrats in local, state and federal elections have... See more
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
maybe what’s happening is that what is fringe has changed
NPCs are part of a genre you might call MMCCM: massively multiplayer crowd-controlled media . Its closest precedent is Twitch Plays Pokemon (2014), where ~1.2 million people simultaneously sent commands to a single Gameboy emulator (unbelievably, they beat the game). TikTok brought this video game dynamic to social media. They replaced the main... See more