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Image created by the artist Come spend some time in the dreamy, surreal imagery of artist Ted Chin. AlSweigart has made a post about artist and is inviting discussion about what you think and feel about the art

What music for New Year Party? by margycrane

I fucking love ranting about this topic because it makes me feel smart and it's taken me decades to learn a lot of this stuff and debunking audiophile woo. Loquacious with an epic "extended play" on music audio.

Neon Capitalism by Gino (cc by-nc-nd)

A kliuless megapost on Covid, unemployment insurance, benefits, the wealth gap, economic stimulus, digital currency, universal basic income, modern monetary theory, and more more more more.

Census punch card reader by shandrew (cc by-nc)

From the constraints of 1860s banknote sizes to "the opulent luxury of two entire kilobytes of display memory," MeFi's own mhoye dives 2500 words deep into the history of terminal aspect ratios in cgc373's post, "80×25."