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A thread of LBJ’s truly demented doodles.

From Texas Monthly:

Take, for instance, his drawing of Bobby Kennedy, sketched on letterhead from the U.S. Senate, the institution in which Johnson served from 1949 until his ascent to the vice presidency in 1961. He likely doodled this during the 1960 presidential campaign. The image is clearly a drawing of Kennedy—that hair is unmistakable—but Johnson has also given him a mouthful of shark’s teeth, sad eyes, a jack-o’-lantern’s nose, and skinny legs.
Jun 10, 2022
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Often referred to as “poor man’s cocaine,” Captagon is already wildly popular in the Middle East where it sells for as little as $3 per pill and fuels the Gulf states’ party scene.

A drug called Captagon, the trade name for fenethylline, shows signs of following in fentanyl’s footsteps in the United States.
↩︎ Undark Magazine
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New software enables stalkers to “unmask” pornography actors without their knowing.
↩︎ WIRED 2d
A fashion retailer uses an old psychological study to summarize how your shoes influence other people’s perceptions of you.
↩︎ Mr Porter 2d

If a new style were invented that had all the merits of the old styles (whatever you think they are), and that enjoyed their broad and deep popularity, surely any sensible traditionalist should be in favour of it?

An illustrated argument for “easy” (or easier) architecture.
↩︎ Works in Progress
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A windowless telecommunications hub in New York City “embodies an architecture of surveillance and paranoia.”
↩︎ Places Journal 4d
Baristas are invited to work and live in Rotterdam, at “the world’s first coffee hotel.”
↩︎ Sprudge 1w
High-school girls are worried that all their vaping in middle school gave them vocal fry.
↩︎ Airmail 1w

Creating another option for wealthier individuals—utilizing otherwise idle cars—is perhaps the next step toward closing the mobility satisfaction gap.

In Los Angeles, you can now rent athletes’ and entertainers’ supercars when they’re not driving them.
↩︎ Robb Report
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The work we do helps to bring this regime down, and it is defending itself. If you are suddenly ill, please do not discount the possibility that you may have been poisoned. Tell your doctors. Fight for yourself.

What it’s like, as a Russian journalist, to feel pretty sure you’ve been poisoned by the state.
↩︎ n+1
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A remembrance for a forgotten street (Coenties Slip) that played a pivotal role in New York City’s mid-century art movement.
↩︎ Art Forum 3w
New research proposes that our brains may sort memories by evaluating how likely they are to be useful in the future.
↩︎ Quanta Magazine 3w

A mountain biker tours the Italian countryside, looking for espresso.

Aug 9, 2023

Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share in it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed.

“The appetite grows by what it feeds on.” Some suggestions on how to read well.
↩︎ The Map Is Mostly Water
Aug 2, 2023
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