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  1. 🙄 Wow, can you believe it? The Salt Lake Tribune finally realized that in the era of free content, nobody wants to pay for their news. 🎉 "Victory" declared: they've removed the paywall and are proudly joining the 21st century... only a few decades late. 🚀
    sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/ #SaltLakeTribune #PaywallRemoved #FreeContent #NewsIndustry #21stCentury #HackerNews #ngated

  2. Book Review: Blank Space by W. David Marx


    Author: W. David Marx
    Title: Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
    Narrator: Frits Zernike
    Publication Info: Books on Tape, 2025
    Summary/Review:

    Living in a college town, I often find myself in crowds of students and noticing that they dress pretty much the same as when I was in college in the early 1990s. With some exceptions like the rise of athleisure making yoga pants casual wear, the everyday fashions of young adults was frozen 30 years ago.  Which is strange, because of you look at photos of young adults from the 1920s to 1990s, the fashions vary widely between decades and even within a decade.  Similarly, the 20th Century saw the emergence of new musical styles every few years but arguably no new genres have been born since the 1980s.  This is not to say there isn’t good music, and a lot of artists are doing interesting things across genres, but a lot of pop songs from 2025 sound like they could’ve been released in 2000 and vice versa.

    I was hoping this book would give me some insight into this flattening of culture.  My experience is that this book is a good if sometimes exhausting litany of twenty-five years of pop culture, a litany of music, fashion, reality TV, and internet culture.  But I don’t find myself always agreeing with Marx’s analysis of what created this culture.  He does make a good point about artists being omnivores, thus the creative mashups and remixes of existing culture.  But he also calls 21st century culture a “monoculture” when I find that cultural touchpoints are actually more fractured than in the 20th century. His examples of monoculture include frequent references to things I’ve never even heard of, like the Bathing Apes clothing line.  I suppose though that it is harder for niche cultures to remain niche thus not allowing subcultures to persist.

    The book is very depressing in its analysis, particularly charging the millennial generation with compromising with consumerism (a harsh analysis in my view).  He frequently cites the philosophical battle of poptomism versus rockism.  Now I previously understood poptomism as appreciating that popular music, even silly love songs, can still be good art while rockism insisted only white dudes with guitars were worth listening.  But according to Marx, rockists are artists with ____ values who don’t sell out, while poptomism is assigning value to pop cultural artifacts solely based on their financial success.  Marx also chronicles how right wing politics evolved within this cultural milieu.  Conservatives when from “stuffed shirts” to selling themselves as cool and transgressive, an unfortunately successful counter-counter-culture in some sectors of society.

    Overall, I think there’s a lot of interesting details in this book that can provoke further discussion even if I’m not always on the same page as Marx. In the introduction, Marx admits that his observations are limited to the United States and the fields of his specialties.  But even within that framework, there’s a lot more to be said about 21st century culture than can fit in a single narrative.

    Recommended books:

    Rating: ***

    #21stCentury #Audiobook #BookReviews #Books #History #PopularCulture
  3. 🚀 Wow, Lone Lisp now has generators! Because delimited continuations were just *too mainstream* 🙄. The language finally joins the 21st century, boasting its own "specialized coroutines" that sound like they were named by a group of sleep-deprived grad students. Who knew Lisp could be so... cutting-edge? 😂
    matheusmoreira.com/articles/ge #LoneLisp #Generators #Coroutines #21stCentury #CuttingEdge #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🚀 Wow, Lone Lisp now has generators! Because delimited continuations were just *too mainstream* 🙄. The language finally joins the 21st century, boasting its own "specialized coroutines" that sound like they were named by a group of sleep-deprived grad students. Who knew Lisp could be so... cutting-edge? 😂
    matheusmoreira.com/articles/ge #LoneLisp #Generators #Coroutines #21stCentury #CuttingEdge #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🚀 Wow, Lone Lisp now has generators! Because delimited continuations were just *too mainstream* 🙄. The language finally joins the 21st century, boasting its own "specialized coroutines" that sound like they were named by a group of sleep-deprived grad students. Who knew Lisp could be so... cutting-edge? 😂
    matheusmoreira.com/articles/ge #LoneLisp #Generators #Coroutines #21stCentury #CuttingEdge #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🚀 Wow, Lone Lisp now has generators! Because delimited continuations were just *too mainstream* 🙄. The language finally joins the 21st century, boasting its own "specialized coroutines" that sound like they were named by a group of sleep-deprived grad students. Who knew Lisp could be so... cutting-edge? 😂
    matheusmoreira.com/articles/ge #LoneLisp #Generators #Coroutines #21stCentury #CuttingEdge #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🚀 Wow, Lone Lisp now has generators! Because delimited continuations were just *too mainstream* 🙄. The language finally joins the 21st century, boasting its own "specialized coroutines" that sound like they were named by a group of sleep-deprived grad students. Who knew Lisp could be so... cutting-edge? 😂
    matheusmoreira.com/articles/ge #LoneLisp #Generators #Coroutines #21stCentury #CuttingEdge #HackerNews #ngated

  8. I'm trapped in the #21stcentury. I've been here long enough to get used to things, though. In fact, I just want to learn about 21st century #ai. That includes #llms, other forms of #generativeai, and related topics.

    I obviously have zero background in the subject matter beyond reading blog posts. Artificial intelligence intrudes in my life a lot. I'd like to understand as much as possible about those changes, despite my limitations.

    On my website (
    https://cathymarkova.com), I'm sharing how my perspective changes. I'm also exploring the #vtuber concept, but I'm unsure about compatibility. I really enjoy #midcentury aesthetics, of course. From the 2020s, I enjoy #lofi, #kpop and #kdrama, #vibecoding, writing #fanfic at times.

  9. Without further ado, here's my personal selection of the best electronic music tracks of the last 25 years. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. arielmartinperez.com/pages/202 <- #electronic #music #electronicMusic #21stCentury #musicList #techno #personalSelection #personalSites

  10. Behold the revolutionary #Chafa, where 21st-century #tech meets the artistic flair of a 1980s dot matrix printer. 🎨✨ Get ready to squint in awe at "reasonable approximations" of images, because who needs high-res when you have ANSI X3.64? 🙄🤦‍♂️
    hpjansson.org/chafa/ #DotMatrix #Art #Retro #21stCentury #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Fringe: The Ultimate Episodic Sci-Fi Show of the 21st Century

     Fringe Was The Ultimate Episodic Sci-Fi TV Show Of The 21st Century

    By Rob Sperduto, Published 2 days ago

    Rob Sperduto is a Contributor for Screen Rant, covering Classiv TV. He’s covered film, TV, and video games for 5 years, combining sharp editorial judgment with a storyteller’s eye. Known for his insightful analysis and clear voice, Rob helps audiences understand not just what’s trending, but why it matters. He is always looking for the next great story across all media.

    Rob is also a content strategist, and his work can be seen across The Direct, Attack of the Fanboy, We Got This Covered, and Pro Game Guides.

    Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:

    Fringe was the kind of show that doesn’t exist anymore—strange, ambitious, yet patient enough to play the long game of procedural network television. Premiering in 2008, it followed Agent Olivia Dunham, scientist Walter Bishop, and his son Peter as they investigated the edges of modern science for the FBI’s Fringe Division.

    What started as one of the best monster-of-the-week horror shows slowly unraveled into a story about loss, memory, and the limits of reason. The show’s science fiction was rooted in universal storytelling, where every experiment was carried out by people trying to fix what life had already taken.

    That blend of invention and empathy made Fringe feel distinct even in its era. It was mysterious as far as shows like Lost go, and had the structure of The X-Files, but it carried itself with more sincerity. And its storytelling asked for the same stamina it gave; a demanding 20+ episodes per season. Fringe demanded investment, and it earned it by making every anomaly feel human.

    Fringe Was The Ultimate Episodic Sci-Fi TV Show Of The 21st Century

    Every week, Fringe opened with something impossible, like a plane full of crystallized corpses, a man aging decades in minutes, or a city caught between universes, and it thrived on that structure. The cases were bizarre, but the rhythm was deliberate, and within that rhythm, the show found room for emotion to surface in ways serialized dramas rarely allow.

    Walter Bishop’s experiments carried the show’s moral gravity, where every discovery felt like restitution for what he’d done to his son, and every new case echoed the same guilt in different forms. Olivia Dunham’s composure gave those stories weight, frequently grounding the science in human cost, and she was always studying the consequences of hunting monsters.

    See also: https://screenrant.com/db/tv-show/fringe

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fringe: The Ultimate Episodic Sci-Fi Show of the 21st Century

    #2025 #21stCentury #AmazonPrime #Education #Film #Fringe #History #JeffPinkner #JoshuaJackson #Libraries #ScienceFiction #ScreenRant #series #Television #TV

  12. 🎉 Congratulations, New England! You've finally stopped choking on coal dust and joined the 21st century! 🌍 Now, if only the rest of your news could stop sounding like an #NPR fan club meeting... 📻😴
    nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-10-06/ne #NewEngland #CleanEnergy #CoalDust #21stCentury #Progress #HackerNews #ngated

  13. 🎁 Oh look, it's the "Internet in a Box"—because nothing says "cutting-edge technology" like cramming the entire web into a digital shoe box 📦! Apparently, it's the 21st-century version of a bookmobile, except now you can enjoy buffering cat videos in a remote mountain village. 📶🐱
    internet-in-a-box.org/ #InternetInABox #DigitalInnovation #RemoteAccess #CatVideos #TechHumor #21stCentury #HackerNews #ngated

  14. DigitalNC: New Primary Source Set on Native Americans in NC, 1900 to the Present. “DigitalNC is excited to introduce a new primary source teaching set on Native Americans in North Carolina. While Native Americans have long inhabited the land that now makes up North Carolina, this set focuses on the group’s history from 1900 to the present day.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/digitalnc-new-primary-source-set-on-native-americans-in-nc-1900-to-the-present/

  15. “This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” — #MichaelCaine

    #21StCentury / #IPCRESS / #HarryPalmer

  16. “This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” — #MichaelCaine

    #21StCentury / #IPCRESS / #HarryPalmer

  17. “This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” — #MichaelCaine

    #21StCentury / #IPCRESS / #HarryPalmer

  18. “This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” — #MichaelCaine

    #21StCentury / #IPCRESS / #HarryPalmer

  19. “This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” — #MichaelCaine

    #21StCentury / #IPCRESS / #HarryPalmer

  20. 1/?

    It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.

    And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.

  21. 1/?

    It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.

    And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.

  22. 1/?

    It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.

    And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.

  23. 1/?

    It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.

    And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.

  24. 1/?

    It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.

    And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.

  25. CW: The Complete #FearOfMu21c Countdown

    To complete the story, here's the crowdsourced list of The Best 261 Songs of the 21st Century (So Far).

    tumblr.com/weaversweek/7376097

    Some surprises in the list, both good and clichéd.

    And if you want to spend a whole day listening to the top 250 in release order (and you have Spotify), it's all there.
    #FearOfMu21c #PopMusic #21stCentury #chart

  26. #Plants can’t be expected to do all the heavy lifting - Using realistic #ecological #modeling scientists found globe’s #vegetation could actually b taking on about 20% more of #CO2 humans have pumped into #atmosphere & will continue to do so through to the end of century. “What we found is that a well-established #climatemodel used to feed into #global #climateassessments predicts stronger sustained #carbonuptake until the end of #21stcentury newatlas.com/biology/plants-ab

  27. #Retirement in the #UK isn't possible for many once they reach #statepension, let alone #retiring early. This is especially true for #women whose #workinglife often didn't come with a #pension option. For those not fit enough to #work until they drop, the consequence is frequently dire #poverty. This is #21stcentury #UK, rapidly sinking to an #Orwellian #dystopia with ex- #government members favouring a #LogansRun approach.
    theguardian.com/business/2023/

  28. "It will be a dull march back into history, a return to the denialism and silence that has defined white Australia. Honesty will be torn from the trees. Any notion of shared understanding will be shredded."

    "For all the misinformation and deceit, all the lies of the campaign, we will be left with one ugly truth: given the chance, Australia would still sooner destroy Indigenous people than listen to them as equals. The central impulses of colonisation are all still there, brutal and unrepentant."
    >
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/commen
    #Australia #culture #denial #dispossession #FirstNationsPeoples #indigenousPeoples #recognition #constitution #democracy #VoicetoParliament #SettlerSociety #TerraNullius #21stCentury

  29. Rejecting the voice shows Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

    "Australia has overwhelmingly voted not to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, and the nation has changed forever."

    "The referendum became by proxy a vote on Indigenous peoples’ right to exist in our own land. Imagine – just try – how that feels today...Why are all these people deciding whether we belong or not?"
    "White Australia doesn’t want to give blackfellas anything, even when it’s nothing." Melissa Lukashenko

    "Australia urgently needs a national anti-racism framework and bipartisan response to racism, Race commissioner Chin Tan."

    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #denial #Australia #Voice #referendum #FirstNationsPeoples #TerraNullius #21stCentury #referendum #FesteringSore #SettlerSociety

  30. Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
    >>!
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/i

    "As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
    cambridge.org/core/journals/re

    Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
    abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/vot

    #Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

  31. Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
    >>!
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/i

    "As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
    cambridge.org/core/journals/re

    Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
    abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/vot

    #Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

  32. Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
    >>!
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/i

    "As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
    cambridge.org/core/journals/re

    Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
    abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/vot

    #Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

  33. Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
    >>!
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/i

    "As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
    cambridge.org/core/journals/re

    Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
    abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/vot

    #Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

  34. Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
    >>!
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/i

    "As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
    cambridge.org/core/journals/re

    Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
    abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/vot

    #Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties