de minimis: new US tariff confusion has many European shipping companies suspending deliveries to the United States—see previously
o tu illustrata: the 1988 David Lynch produced album of Jocelyn Montgomery performing Hildegard von Bingen compositions—see previously here and here
thank you for your attention to this matter: Gavin Newson can perhaps ape despots so well because they’re not all that different
optical illusion: if you stare at this circle for long enough, it becomes a red dot
sometimes easy, sometimes hard: reflecting on the legacy of post-punk hit Deluxe by Harmonia half-a-century on—via Feuilleton
labirinti di immagini: fifteenth century Italian architect Francesco Segala pioneered the picture maze
entartete kunst: Trump orders a purge of diversity narratives at the Smithsonian
uptown top ranking: a reggae one-hit wonder from duo Althea and Donna
never let a crisis go unexploited: like the Dole fruit company in Hawaii or the supposed car-jacking in DC that led to its takeover, the US will capitalise on the protest of a newborn being removed from her Greenlandic mother for welfare reasons as the excuse to annex it
synchronoptica
one year ago: a quick weekend get-away (with synchronopticรฆ) plus the Formosa Straits crisis of 1958
thirteen years ago: travel bumper stickers
seventeen years ago: designed obsolescence
