Asperity & Impermancence

Excited sheep burning at the horizon line.

We lord over the flame thrower, and we’re looking forward to seeing you!

All wetness faraway. 

A fine life lies ahead of you — so sign up for those knife throwing and axe building courses — the apocalypse will soon be post-.

Mere chagrin for thee Ashes. After a sunrise filled with explosions, expansions, asbestos pullovers, and human cookeries (where custom allows). 

We’re in the thick of the crypto cash-flow. At the precipice of being quashed by rogue AI agency. What ambitious proto-programmers are we.

We’re on the countdown clock to post-post oblivion, so rack (those faraway eyes) out of focus, yawn, and take a nap.

Contrition is an unknown meme in the home of the brave — asperity and impermanence is upon us.

Our knives are dulled. Our chosen hucksters and clowns lead us to perdition. Fear rules the day. We’re easy pickings for synthetic intelligence.

We have created and welcomed our executioner. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more deserving, animal (as we).

In retrospect, the sheep were lucky.

What I’m Reading:

Cyclists in Boston, Massachusetts reported 2,136 vehicles parked in bike lanes during August alone.

The figure comes from Bike Bureau, a free app that lets riders document a blocked lane by pointing a phone camera at the vehicle. It captures the photo, reads the license plate and files the location in about three seconds, blurring faces and the plates of non-offending cars before anything uploads.

The count started at 54 reports on August 2 and reached 2,136 by the 31st, covering Boston and neighboring Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline. Bike Bureau published the month as an animated map, with every reported vehicle appearing where it was logged until the map all but disappears under parked cars.

— BikePush / Facebook post