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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק
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Historian of Mexico & California; Computer Science educator. Archives, manuscripts, graphics, document pipelines. Degrowth, frisbee, gardening, hi-fi.

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Amigos, aclárenmelo: en Argentina ¿cómo se denomina a un artista escénico callejero, del tipo que maneja malabares, uniciclo, o magia?

O hay o había en YouTube una canción rap feminina en apoyo a aquellas personas; ahora no me lo hallo, pero el título llevaba un localismo que busqué explicar […]
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Please enjoy what SFGate called “California's Suprisingly Horny Abe Lincoln statue,” in the Spring Street Courthouse of Los Angeles. Its real name is “Young Lincoln.” The artist James Hansen explained: “Well, from a sculpturing standpoint, it’s better to show the […]

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Shirtless, hunky Abe Lincoln, loosening his waistband.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I am on an academic committee that for some reason tomorrow is discussing the ChatGPT Atlas Browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_Atlas

Several objections will be raised!

Some of my concerns are to do with critical reasoning, natural resources, user lock-in, the extraction of training […]
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November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The characteristic shape of river stones-cum-cobblestones. Tinos, Greece, 2023.
A path made of black river stones fixed in a road all have smoothly truncated tops where people's feet have passed over them for decades.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If anyone else is interested in Kalahari Surfers and the Voëlvry movement, turns out Warrick Swinney (Warrick Sony) earned his PhD with a dissertation called “Signal To Noise: sonic reflections on the South African transition period.” It's really an autobiographical […]

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On stage, Warrick Sony holds up a handwritten sign reading, “The S.A.P. are here to see that we all enjoy democracy.”
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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“Take it from the champs, graffiti is for chumps.”

Source: “Style Wars” (1983).

#archive #document #nyc #subway #graffiti
In a street scene, an older white man holds up a subway ad from an anti-graffiti campaign.
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Duda bibliotecaria: El nombre Ángel Rama lleva tilde aunque aveces se omite nada más por mayúsculo, ¿no? Tres ediciones de su libro (es, es, en) ponen Angel tanto en portada como adentro. Citarlo así puede que sea correcto referencialmente pero no quiero dañar su nombre. Vaya lío.
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
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October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Pritzker pointing out that ICE lies first and immediately, knowing journalists will catch up later if at all.

Coming from a sitting US governor, that’s an amazing breakthrough […]

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October 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Regalitos de la 30a reunión universitaria en Santiago de anoche, la cual no pude asistir. Nótese la ortografía preferida en nuestra augusta institución.

#universidad #chile #injenieria #beauchef
Pegatines y un saco inscritos con "U. de Chile Injeniería.”
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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¿Algún amigo de CDMX quiere unas horas de trabajo sacando fotos de documentos en el AGN (Palacio de Lecumberri)? Probablemente no serán más de 50 fotos. El plazo operativo es de una semana o poco más. Gracias de antemano....

#mexico #cdmx #historia #archivo
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Cuando el archivero militar Dn. Anselmo Cortés se mostró ante el Egercito Trigarante, se certificó que “solo su adheccion a la Yndependencia pudo hacerle emprender una marcha de mas de noventa leguas....."

Fuente: University of Texas, San Antonio.

#documento […]

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Un documento del 1822 escrito en cursiva sobre el archivero citado. Es un gran párrafo solo con algunas curvas dibujadas en el margen.
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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El daño que hace la tinta ferrogálica: siendo ácida, come el soporte. Nótese que la tinta de la impresión es distinta, pero desconozco su composición. El año del documento es el 1822.

Fuente: Colección de decretos y bandos de la Regencia y Primer Imperio […]

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La rúbrica de Luis Quintanar muestra erosión del soporte en los lazos dibujados.
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Well that makes two of us who are “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/29705710-Full-Force-Full-Force

#uspol
J-card from the Canadian cassette of the self-titled LP, “Full Force.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Boleras de la independencia. Cantadas en el Teatro de la Imperial Ciudad de México la noche del 15 de Octubre de 1821, por toda la compañía de Opera del mismo.

El mosaico es un experimento que llevé a cabo con fotos informales.

Fuente: Sutro Library, PM385 doc. 53 […]

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Los nueve versos de una canción operática con coro, todo alabando al gran Iturbide que logró independizar a México.
September 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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FINALLY there was a traffic jam in just the right place on U.S. Route 101 and I got a half-decent photo of what may be my favorite graff, in Sargent, at the Santa Clara–San Benito county line. Viva AKWER, whoever you are!

#graffiti #lettering #sign #text #california
A dilapidated industrial building in a dry, hilly landscape has a giant graffiti sign in black letters spelling AKWER.
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Luis Valdez casts a wide net for literature for his upcoming anthology “Aztlan: an anthology of Mexican American literature” (Knopf, 1972).

Source: El Grito del Norte (Española, New Mexico), December 6, 1969.

#archive #document #chicano #literature #publishing #openletter
Luis Valdez, Director del Teatro Campesino, requests “in the true spirit of Carnalismo” submissions of Chicano literature, to be published in a 1970 anthology.
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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This is a true scholar here:

>> Cressy has also written articles about kinship, book-burning, cross-dressing, saltpeter, and the man in the moon.
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🥳 Me acabo de enterar, alegremente, que en diciembre la Revista de Historia de América (Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia) publicará mi último artículo sobre la Comisión de las Californias y la amenaza rusa, “The Geopolitics of Alta California in José […]

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Parte noroccidental de la carta esférica, mostrando el puerto de San Francisco y alrededores.
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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“What the hell are the Beatles trying to do to pop music? On listening to their new album I was so shocked that I lost all appreciation of the Beatles talents. Any normal musically inclined person could never hope to like this kind of stuff. If this is a new era the group are trying to create […]
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September 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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What is the double-underlined Russian word? A collaborator told me that it means “decorated” or “honored.” My best wrong reading is «кагратдей»... not apparently a word. Can anyone please correct me?

#russian #cyrillic #paleography #cursive #document #русский
Photo of parts of two handwritten documents containing a mystery Russian word.
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Historieta “El cuarto reich... la reserva de occidente!” de José Palomo, 1983.

Fuente: la revista chilena “Analisis: una opinión libre,” 13—27 septiembre de 1983. José Palomo hizo el “humor” de la edición. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%A1lisis_(revista) […]

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Dos historietas a base de carabineros parados en línea charlando entre si mientras el pueblo les grita.
September 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I was really pleased and impressed with Chris Miskiewicz and Noah Van Sciver's non-fiction graphic novel “Grateful Dead Origins.” It's a really careful and joyful project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_Origins

#sanfrancisco #california #music #history #comic
A colorful comic panel of the Grateful Dead onstage at a show with an announcer speaking: “The Kool-Aide on the left is the 'Electric Kool-Aide.' And the Kool-Aide on the right is for kids. Everyone dig what I'm saying?"
September 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I was wondering by how many semitones the music is off when a 33⅓ record is played at 45 RPM or vice versa. Looks like the interval is close to a perfect fourth (5 semitones).

5.2 ~ log(45/(100/3))/log(2**(1/12))

#math #music #musictheory #vinyl #hifi
September 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Unenforced type checking and significant whitespace
the peſtilent practiſes of Pythonists,
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM