Month: April 2018
April 21, 2018
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“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made
The power of Stanley Kubrick’s classic is bound up with the story of its making. Photograph from Photofest Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature… -
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Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the web – Wikimedia Blog
Photo by Ajepbah, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE . The Wikimedia Foundation, with a US$3,015,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , is leading an effort to enable… -
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The Conquest of Climate
by Will Boisvert How bad will climate change be? Not very. No, this isn’t a denialist screed. Human greenhouse emissions will warm the planet, raise the seas and derange the weather, and the resulting heat, flood and drought will be cataclysmic. Cataclysmic—but not apocalyptic. While the climate…
April 20, 2018
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I need a group chat that creates a really good permanent archive. Most are tuned towards NOT keeping an archive, but I want to save my chat history permanently, but privately.
Any ideas?
April 19, 2018
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Society puts too much emphasis on originality. Feel free to take ideas and build on them as you see fit.
All great artists take and remake.
too much emphasis is put on originality. Feel free to take ideas and update them at your will all great artist take and update.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 18, 2018
April 18, 2018
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Raised by Wolves
The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved by Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Michal Rovner: Night-7 , 2016. Rovner’s work is on view in…
April 16, 2018
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Silicon Valley's newest investor is a guy who raised $3 million to start ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Capital — named after the shrugging emoji tattooed on his wrist https://t.co/KBN8JqiHz6
— twelvethirtysix (@1236) April 16, 2018
April 15, 2018
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My sense is that the sociological concept of “subculture” has dropped out of favour since the rise of the Internet. It was the lens I viewed the world through as a youth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture
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An Older Origin for Complex Human Cultures
When Rick Potts started digging at Olorgesailie, the now-dry basin of an ancient Kenyan lake, he figured that it would take three years to find everything there was to find. That was in 1985, and Potts is now leading his fourth decade of excavation. It’s a good thing he stayed. In recent years, his…
April 14, 2018
April 13, 2018
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“At Home With Hitler” from Homes & Gardens magazine in 1938.
http://wow.blogs.com/photos/hitler/cover.html
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April 12, 2018
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Thanks for the warning
#Toronto is getting a clown festival https://t.co/fpgIcKuUkA pic.twitter.com/AO1DLPWNil
— blogTO (@blogTO) April 12, 2018
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Animals strike curious poses
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America’s Loneliest Roads, Mapped
Screenshot/Geotab Linda Poon Mar 19, 2018 An interactive map highlights the least traveled routes in the country—and some of the most scenic. Among road-trip enthusiasts, the Alaska Highway is a favorite. It runs more than 1,300 miles, dazzling travelers with tundras and sightings of eagles,…
April 10, 2018
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Today I learned that Chet Baker and Art Pepper released an album called “Playboys” that got pulled and released at “Picture of Heath” for obvious reasons. pic.twitter.com/aMO3WOvVtO
April 9, 2018
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I’ve updated my blog to a new custom WordPress instance. But after four or five moves between platforms, the whole thing feels really crufty. I need to do a good spring cleaning before inviting people over.
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“History is merely a list of surprises.
It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Social media is littered with quizzes urging you to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first car?” By participating you may be giving away answers to “secret questions” that unlock your online identities.
Don’t Give Away Historic …
https://kenschafer.micro.blog/2018/04/09/113706.html
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Machines reading the archive: handwritten text recognition software
Any researcher who has used online newspaper archives, repositories of digitised books or even resources like The National Archives’ Cabinet Papers Online will recognise the revolution created by optical character recognition (OCR) technology. It is this technology which enables us to search not…
April 7, 2018
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Quick video of Brian Eno on genius vs “scenius” and Universal Basic Income
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I’m not a competitive person. Winning does little to motivate me.
I certainly enjoy being recognized for my efforts, and I love COMPLETING things, but I struggle to think of a situation where WINNING drove me to do something.
April 6, 2018
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Last year we announced our plan to retire Site Streams & User Streams, and replace them with the Account Activity API (currently in beta). We are delaying the scheduled June 19th deprecation date.
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) April 6, 2018
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If you love your third-party Twitter app, I’ve got some really shitty news for you: https://t.co/W1C21QSnZW #BreakingMyTwitter
— Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry) April 6, 2018
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Tending the Digital Commons: A Small Ethics toward the Future
The Hedgehog Review : Vol. 20 No. 1 (Spring 2018) Alan Jacobs The Hedgehog Review: Spring 2018 (Volume 20 | Issue 1) Issue TOC >> Print Article >> Subscribe >> F acebook is unlikely to shut down tomorrow; nor is Twitter, or Instagram, or any other major social network. But they could. And it would…
April 5, 2018
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Somebody buy Flickr and let me run it.
Three years ago Yahoo paid $200m to acquire Polyvore. Today they sold it to a tiny Canadian startup called SSENSE. pic.twitter.com/ISW2OQuvWI
— Erin Griffith (@eringriffith) April 5, 2018
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An explanation of the Forer Effect, which eases us into believing pseudoscience like Myers-Briggs, biorhythms, astrology etc.
Forer effect – The Skeptic’s Dictionary –
http://Skepdic.com
http://skepdic.com/forer.html
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Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters