Kanye West to open porn studio

One of Ye's fixations is American Parochial, a churchy vibe lately illustrated with another brainfeel of his, tearing out the windows (Hypobrutalism? Construction Liminal? His best work lately is a Malibu mansion he gutted to the cement frame and left to rot in the brine) While now best known for other work, the artist formerly known as Kanye West has a new aesthetic kink, one more literal than the rest: pornography. — Read the rest

#Elsagate: a subreddit that's sleuthing out the weird videos of Youtube Kids

Last month, James "New Aesthetic" Bridle published an influential essay exploring the prolific and disturbing video-spam that had come to dominate Youtube Kids, in which seemingly algorithmically generated videos endlessly recombined a handful of Disney characters and assorted others engaged in violent, abusive and even psychosexual conduct, over a soundtrack of a few repeated public-domain kids' songs, with all sorts of trickery designed to uprank them in Youtube's play-next, recommendation and search results — keyword stuffing, duration-stretching and more.

Dandelion

She broke the silence, "Jared went in last week."

"Where?" I knew, but I was being difficult.

"You know where: the clinic."

"Oh."

Our living room was always small, but today it felt particularly cramped. We sat on opposite sides of the white microfiber couch. — Read the rest