This is great if you read it in a Fox Mulder voice.

No, this is definitely a Smoking Man diatribe. It written from too much of an insider's perspective to be Mulder.

Or as "True Detective" Matthew McConaughey, sitting in a car next to Woody Harrelson...

The book's first line really sets up a perfect opening shot for a TV version.

Does it? =)

I think the crowd on HN is old enough to have seen a static image on an analog TV.

But we have full generations that don't know what "static" looks like. To them a TV with no input is either fully black or even bright blue...

I think TV static is like floppy icons in UIs. It's been referenced enough as a no-signal indicator, as well as a deeply rooted cultural thing, that even Gen Z will recognize it.

It's funny because they'll recognize it as a cultural artifact. Used for artistic effect. Whereas, for me, it meant something more practical. Meant I was up too early or too late for anything to be on the telly. Or it meant something was wrong with the reception and I'd have rearrange the rabbit ears. Later on, it meant my Atari 800's connector had gotten loose and I'd have to go back behind the massive TV to tighten it up.

I see a lot of bill boards showing "No Input" and "HDMI 1" on a pastel blue starry skyfield. It's what pops up when you google image search for "no signal samsung".

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

For those not in the know.

Which was black and white static at the time of writing, bright blue in the 90s, and completely black from ~2005 on.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful article.

Ghostface Killah is yet to sue Action Bronson.

lol i make that mistake everytime i hear Bronson. im like when did ghostface make this track?

'I hope you die. I hope we both die' fits pretty well with Moby Dick too

The story goes that Hunter S Thompson typed out the Great Gatsby to get the flow of the writing. Quite a different approach to his infamous daily routine.

I enjoyed 99% Invisible's podcast on the seed vault, which I had no idea about prior to listening

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/

I came here to share the Anthroposcene Reviewed episode on it (2nd half - starts around 12:30 in)

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...

Oh what a fantastic podcast. I think my favorites were 'Googling Stangers' and 'The Lascaux Paintings'

What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?

The Fire Next Time has already been mentioned. You can read part of it as published in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-...

In addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation:

A Fly in the Buttermilk

Nobody Knows My Name

Faulkner and Desegregation

The Fire Next Time, IMO is a good entrypoint.

Go tell it on the mountain, it was his first book and lays the foundation for everything he did later. Amazing book

Brilliant story. This reminds me so much of David Foster Wallace's 'Little Expressionless Animals,' I wonder if DFW was aware of the broadcast and took it as inspiration

Here's a unique penalty technique from Ezequiel Calvente, the opposite to the stutter technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXnoQdEunE&ab_channel=Rosla...