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As the moon still hung above the treetops, Dad Bear gently woke his little fisherman to set out on a grand adventure. They always took the long way around the mountain, but when they finally arrived to their fishing spot, the fish weren't bitin' a bit. When they were ready to pack up their things, Dad Bear declared it "a wonderful day!" which confused Little Bear. How could it be a wonderful day? They didn't catch a single fish! So Dad Bear teaches Little Bear a valuable life lesson. Just because they didn't catch any fish didn't mean it was a bad day. They spent time enjoying the wonders of the world. They got to see the majesty of the mountains, and hear the song of the cicadas. But most of all they got to spend time TOGETHER. When I Caught You is a sweet story that teaches readers that sometimes it's not about how many fish you catch, but the memories you made along the way.

"The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet" is a 208-page book that documents five tumultuous years when we learned how to live, create, and conspire on an increasingly adversarial internet. The original “Dark Forest Theory of the Internet” essay was published by Yancey Strickler in a private newsletter sent to 500 readers. The post struck a chord and became widely shared, with hundreds of thousands of readers in the following weeks. The concept of the Dark Forest captured a feeling and sense of danger online that an increasing number of people shared.In the years following, some of the most influential voices on the web and in culture built on, argued with, and expanded the original Dark Forest concept. "The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet" brings those disparate pieces together into a canon of thought that defines a specific era of the internet.The eleven authors include: Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter/Metalabel); Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm); Maggie Appleton; Peter Limberg and Rebecca Fox (The Stoa); Joshua Citarella (Do Not Research); Arthur Röing Baer and GVN908 (Moving Castles); Leith Benkhedda (DNR, Trust, and New Models); and Caroline Busta and Lil Internet (New Models). The Anthology contains:— The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Yancey Strickler— The Extended Internet Universe by Venkatesh Rao— The Dark Forest and Cozy Web by Maggie Appleton— Chapel Perilous by Peter Limberg and Rebecca Fox— We Need New Platforms to Tell New Stories by Joshua Citarella— Proof of Vibes by Leith Benkhedda— Moving Castles by Arthur Röing Baer and GNV908— The internet didn’t kill counterculture; you just won’t find it on Instagram by Caroline Busta— The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton— Holographic Meda by Caroline Busta and Lil Internet— The Post Individual by Yancey StricklerThis Metalabel release makes available 777 first-edition copies of the book along with a digital edition and private roundtable for collectors of the work.This is the first release by the Dark Forest Collective, the label of authors who came together to make this book.

Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributors—art and social practitioners, researchers, and educators—who have been researching and writing about caring infrastructures and promiscuous care for the past several years. This interdisciplinary publication comprises essays, visual schematics and scores, personal letters, recipes, and conversations, which emerge from the work of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Promiscuous Infrastructures calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another within and beyond the shared context of a structurally dispassionate institution that requires innovation, expediency, and accountable results. The promiscuity it explores is defined by a collective refusal of efficiency, and favors generosity, care, love, and attention. Together, the group and their interlocutors address themes ranging from institutional change, communal responsibility and accountability practices, mental health and collective care, hospitality and hosting, soil, counter-histories, intergenerational learning, joy and collective grief and the poetics of imagining otherwise.

Marco and Samara are best pals and have fun doing all sorts of activities together. But there’s one thing they can’t do together—swing. That’s because wheelchairs don’t fit on swings. So, Marco and the other kids at school decide to raise money for swings all kids can use.Inspired by the true story of the students at Glen Lake Elementary in the Hopkins school district in Minnesota, A Swing for Samara celebrates the power of compassion and inclusion and highlights the many ways accessible playground equipment benefits all children.

WHERE EAGLES FLY FREE is based on the true story of Thomas Wright and his young wife Annie who are driven from their home in England to the shores of America. They arrive just as the country is pulling itself up out of the ashes of civil war and entering the greatest economic boom in American history. Thomas, a brilliant engineer and leader of men is thrown into America’s rush west with the construction of the transcontinental railroad from New York to San Francisco that will help bind America together into the greatest country the world had ever known.We follow Tom and Annie chasing their American dream across the Atlantic, up rivers, over plains and mountains, through Indian uprisings, western disasters and their crucial involvement in the greatest technological feat of the nineteenth century, tying the frontiers of America’s wild west to the gilded age of New York City.This is a masterfully told story of the great sweep of human desire for freedom, liberty and western expansion for land at a time when Abraham Lincoln described America as, “the last best hope on earth.” It is a fast-moving story of adventure, romance, greed, sacrifice, faith, family and the courage of these immigrants to push aside fear in a life and death confrontation with arguably the most despicable robber-baron of 19th century America.

A total of 29 chapters are conveniently compiled in this special volume. In addition to 519 illustrations, there are glossaries, charts, and bibliographies. The variety of material in this anthology reflects in-depth scholarly research and the experience of master practitioners. It will be a valuable source for judo enthusiasts for future decades. By making this book available to individuals and libraries, we hope this rare material will greatly contribute to further research in this field and inspire many to learn the history and culture of judo along with aspirations to mastery.

An extended meditation on virtue, love, beauty, affect, Confucianism, machine translation, and the experience of being a Chinese girl online. CHINA! is a documentation of the collective literary phenomenon known affectionately as 'Chineseposting', featuring texts produced over 2021-2024 by various contributors assembled with found images from Xiaohonghshu, with a translator's introduction by Michael Dragovic.

The booklet was published on the occasion of Arthur Jafa's exhibition, *****,Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2024.

Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays,recipes, fiction, and art, including:• Conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel• An essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction. • An exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu • A reflection on how climate change is impacting farming for cacao, grapes, and other fruits by eco futurist Lily ConsueloSaporta Tagiuri• An interview with flavor scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson on the scientific reasons behind our blue raspberry cravings byDominique Evans  • Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von HauskeValtierra, and Rie McClenny• Sweet and surreal fiction by Sanaë Lemoine, Puloma Ghosh, and Celina Baljeet Basra• A timeline of the many iterations of Candy Land (the iconic board game, not the magazine) and how these changes mirrorreal world events by Elaine Mao• Plus a reflection on growing up in Hershey’s corporate candy town, a dissection of the contemporary tanghulu trendbeyond TikTok, a brief but insidious history of banana candy, a dumpster diving trip for Theo’s chocolate in the gentrifyingPacific Northwest, an ode to aspartame, and more.