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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Monday, 11-May-2026 08:24:11 JST Clive Thompson

Behold a seven-segment clock display ...
... that runs pneumatically
it alternately sucks in and then releases the segments, so they appear as divots in a rubbery surface
very organic!
item #6 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to read/subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-44-microchimerism-sonic-boom-duct-tape/
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  Linkfest #44: Microchimerism, Sonic-Boom Duct Tape, and the Hidden Tetris Champion
  
  from Clive Thompson
  
  Hello there! It’s time again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest Linkfest, for which I have sifted through the entire dang Internet, top to...
2. An animated gif showing a rectangular device that has a bright orange rubbery surface. On the surface are small segments that recess into the rubber, forming numbers like 23:45 that begin counting upwards, like a clock counter. It looks very cool and strange, the sucked-in letter segments have an organic quality to them that is very dissonant with the "digital" quality of the numbers themselves

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