things i’ve liked this week, vol. 6

2025-06-15

here are some things, new (to me), that i liked this week.

music

we are always under the same sky by qrion

i have been listening to this an embarrassing amount, perhaps because i know next to nothing about the progressive house genre. it seems like headphone music made for a rainy commute as much as it feels like it would belong on a massive dancefloor. for some reason, it reminds me of the late 2000s.

short story

“why don’t we just kill the kid in the omelas hole” by isabel kim

the premise and some of the writing are a little on the nose for me, but it plays well on the extremely dubious utopia presented in the namesake story by ursula k. leguin. it also brings up some interesting questions about our perception of causality, and the very danger of basing your ethics on mere causality.

miscellanea

wiktionary hot words¹

hot words, according to wiktionary, are “terms that were recently coined but have become widely used in that short time”, and appropriately many of the words are strange, algorithmic; fluid at times, slightly terrifying to those over the age of thirty, unaccustomed to those d1 glazers who fw aura farming heavy. i hope i never get ghiblified and until next time, live, 🚡, and love.²