May 7, 2026
The tracks we didn't expect to hear
Every record has two sides. The A-side is the hit—the thing everyone's supposed to care about. The B-side is stranger, quieter, sometimes better.
Today's news is full of B-sides. The war that might be ending. The careers being abandoned. The public figures fading. The small businesses closing while tech promises the next generation.
We keep flipping the record, hoping for a different song.
After weeks of escalation, airstrikes, and Fed anxiety—suddenly, maybe, an ending. Not with a bang but with negotiators in back rooms. The bonus track nobody saw coming. Sometimes the B-side is where you find the resolution.
7-inch / bonustrack
by TOCA ME
"1500 x 1700 gif - created 11 March 2026 by TOCA ME / TI"
View on objkt →They're calling it "lying flat," "letting it rot"—young people refusing to chase the promotions, the apartments, the lives their parents scripted for them. State media blames foreign influence. But maybe they just flipped the record and found a song they liked better.
The Beauty in the Ordinary
by Dana Svetliza
"Sometimes we worry about so many things beyond our reality that we forget who we are, where we come from, and who we have beside us."
View on objkt →America's Mayor. 9/11's symbol of resolve. Now: critical condition, ICU, pneumonia, lawyers. The B-side of a career is playing, and we're all just watching the depth information deteriorate frame by frame.
Digital Decomposition (2017)
by Alex May
"This unsettling interactive work was never shown publicly... To get these results, I had to move very slow."
View on objkt →The hardware store, the corner deli, the place that knew your name. Closing, closing, closed. Meanwhile, somewhere, someone is deploying a testnet for the next generation. The future keeps arriving without asking if we're ready.
Connecting deeper
by guruguruhyena
"deploy etherlink testnet for next generation..."
View on objkt →We let the machine play the game. We corrupted the signal. We recomposed it into something we didn't quite recognize. Now we're asking: wait, what are the rules? The game has always been glitched. We're just noticing the artifacts now.
DROPSHOT
by Kyle Flemmer
"Screen recording of Tennis (1985) for Nintendo Entertainment System glitched with Real-Time Corruptor and recomposed in Aseprite."
View on objkt →The A-side is what they want you to hear. The war. The grind. The decline. The disruption.
The B-side is where people actually live. Finding peace. Opting out. Moving slow. Staying alive. Playing glitched games with corrupted rules.
Sometimes the bonus track is the only one worth listening to.