Uber built Kraken to solve the same problem with distributing images: https://github.com/uber/kraken

Is there any difference between this and the kind of forced attrition that Meta and Google have also signaled recently?

Not to be confused with Uber's Zanzibar: https://github.com/uber/zanzibar

This reads like an April 1st gag. Is there a corroborating account from a different, reliable source?

The podcast Futility Closet had an entire episode on the book: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58...

Hey bbhat - glad to see you landed on your feet. :)

Revolutions by Mike Duncan. I've always been interested in History, but Revolutions has really deepened my understanding of how our nations and political philosophies came to be, and what could have been.

https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

There's a good interview with the curators of the museum here: http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4654.

Probably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Very similar style to Infinite Jest, but the story seems much more sinister.

Parts of it were boring, parts of it terrified me (way more than Lovecraft ever did).