Kirstin Butler

@kirstinbutler

Cultural canary, unapologetic generalist, pie-lover. Currently working on my first novel, a satire of startup culture by way of Nikolai Gogol.

Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2009

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  1. This is the kind of servicey journalism I like to see from Buzzfeed ty

  2. Portmanteau alert @ "fansubbing"

    Translated from Danish by

  3. This video has to be the premise of a George Saunders story, it just has to

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    Brb screaming into the void

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    "Your secret weapon against the Three-Foot-Tall Stack Of Unread New Yorkers Sitting In Your Apartment." THIS IS GREAT

  6. Well lordy be, a piece of land art might actually figure in the 2016 presidential race

  7. Also there are two new letters for sequencing genomes now??

  8. "[L]ike all revolutions, it's perilous." Three years ago scientists found an easy technique to edit DNA--now what?

  9. Young hipsters review old hipsters, I go cry quietly in the corner

  10. I realize this is ancient by internet standards but you should stop whatever you're doing to read it (via )

  11. I'm so-so on the new Tessa Hadley story in this week's New Yorker but really like these bits from an interview w/ her

  12. There's a physicist in Omaha working on a warp drive in his garage which sounds like the plot of a Shane Carruth film

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    4 Hours Scrolling Through Facebook Before Bed Referred To As ‘Winding Down’

  14. Paging & , the entire British Movietone collection is online (via )

  15. Close cinematic encounters: what aliens have looked like in the movies, from 1902 to today

  16. Kirstin Butler followed , and
    • @m_clem

      Fellow at & . Frontier research on economics of development, migration. My Erdős number=5. My views, not CGD's. YouTube:

    • @geistmagazine

      Geist is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture—fact + fiction, photography and comix, essays, reviews, and the weird and wonderful from the world of words.

  17. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town

  18. The new Detroit: driverless cars have their own city in Michigan

  19. A non-Francophone New Zealander just won the French Scrabble championship after memorizing a dictionary in 9 weeks

  20. This. Is. Awesome.

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