Sublime

Cassettes received! Man, this is cool. Low quality, but that’s the charm. It’s for fuzzy/WIP ideas. For a 1-year Otter subscription, you can get a knock-off Chinese walkman and 100 Maxwell 1-hour tapes. I’m going to cancel Otter.

These Modern Homesteaders Live Off the Grid, but They’re Extremely Online - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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Sick of being a digital serf

There’s a genre on TikTok I call “pay to ruin a fake game,” except I’m not sure if the people paying know it’s fake. You swipe into somebody manually clicking a counter, and they seem to be somewhere like 999,999,999,999,253. ONLY 750 MORE AND THEY HIT A QUADRILLION? That’s pretty cool. But hey, if you give this guy a “galaxy” (a $20 emoji), he has