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I'm an Irish artist, living in Ireland. I'm very far from a rich kid. Like most Irish artists, I make some of my living from my "artistic" work, and some from what others here migh…

Just to answer the question in this specific case: yes, a working class guy can decide he wants to pursue art (in quite a broad range of forms), and he can apply for the basic inco…

Maybe I'm missing some sarcasm here, but it would be worth asking what the consequences of this situation are for the people who actually make all the music/books/films you get to …

I think it's interesting that practically every time this point is made (and it is made so very often), the examples that are used to prove the point are objective and easy to meas…

Why would anyone care what, say, Charles Babbage was trying to do, when he didn't actually do it in any sort of useful way? Surely this is largely how knowledge is produced—over ti…

> Is there any argument here other than "Adorno is an old git who hates change, young people, and popular entertainment"? I think there is a very serious argument going on here. Th…

They don't have everything when it comes to tech or more niche material, but Kenny's ( https://www.kennys.ie/ ) is very good and offers free (and often fast) shipping.

The same Nobel prize that was given to Peter Handke in 2019? I like Handke's work an awful lot, as I do Tokarczuk's, but he's certainly not someone who furthers any "progressive-le…

It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text. [1] https://web.dev…

You can just use a VPN to sign up. Works perfectly (with no VPN) after that.

As a counterweight to the other opinions here, I'll just say that I think these chairs, particularly when grouped together, are immensely beautiful. I understand they are not inten…

'Dialectic of Enlightenment' might be a good place to start when it comes to thinking about thinking. If you want something a bit more fragmented/playful/debatable, then 'Minima Mo…

Don't want to open up a whole other can of worms but this is very clearly the role of a union in quite a number of industries. Such a body would offer both legal and financial supp…

My favourite Shepard Tone example is Stephin Merritt's 'Project Song' video for NPR [1]. It's also way more playful than most. https://youtu.be/OfFtEfxhMEQ

Not OP but this is a wonderful essay by Mary Gaitskill, one of the most interesting writers at work today. This is probably my favourite Gaitskill essay, but I am a cat person so I…

There is no way a landlord in Dublin can get stuck with a tenant for 30 years. Rent increases are capped/set at 4% a year. The length of a lease is meant to be six years, but a lan…

There's nothing at all stopping Dublin from being much more dense than it is, and there's no need whatsoever to build high to do it. Huge gains could be made by bringing more 'abov…

'Duty Free Art' by Hito Steyerl might be of interest to you. It's largely about how artworks are used by the rich to store wealth in tax-free locations, and how that affects and di…

This was really bugging me until I realised that sorting the people I follow into lists basically reverts my feeds into a standard chronological timeline again. Minus Twitter's "sc…

Just last night I found myself watching some Wordpress-related videos on the Chrome Developers Youtube channel [0], building on a talk given at the Chrome Dev Summit last year [1].…

Just in case anyone wants to read more on the subject, a friend of mine wrote a similar essay last year.[1] Just today I was re-reading a Susan Sontag essay[2] and came across what…