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Lost Landscapes 20th anniversary is happening now! youtu.be/B4OrjUezqKg?... @footage.bsky.social
Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20!
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
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December 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Quake! Felt like my house just got hit by a truck!
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I take scam fighting personally, been doing it for over 25 years.

It pisses me off.

GSE is bringing people together to offer simple tools to keep us all safe online.

I’m putting my money where my mouth is.

www.globalsignalexchange.org/blog/craig-n...
Craig Newmark backs global platform tackling online scams and protecting vulnerable communities
The Global Signal Exchange (GSE), today welcomes support from Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and a leading digital-safety philanthropist, to accelerate the GSE’s work to help organisations tackl...
www.globalsignalexchange.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Song of the day: youtu.be/nYFXkt-fIPg?...
Mirrors of Emptiness by Grigory Smirnov - Marimba Literature Library
YouTube video by Vic Firth
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December 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This is so good. So inspired by Coates. Particularly to see a guy with such a huge brain leading with his heart.
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Refusing to Choose Is a Choice. “You can say ‘all are welcome,’ but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves.” [kottke.org]
Refusing to Choose Is a Choice
I recently found this quote on social media and quite liked the sentiment: You can say “all are welcome,” but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves. The smart sheep will go somewhere
kottke.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
September 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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If you’re in the Bay Area (and even beyond), just a heads up that the new community space we’re opening up in Oakland has opened up memberships ahead of our October open.

We’ve got so much good programming on tap.

Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ruth Asawa at SF MoMA. What a Queen
June 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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👍🏻✊🏻🙃 Good
@nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Behold, this amazing group of ladies who just won @npr.org Tiny Desk competition: youtu.be/IBOPNgYJ9_w?...
Ruby Ibarra - Bakunawa ft. Ouida, Han Han & June Millington (Live) Tiny Desk 2025
YouTube video by Ruby Ibarra
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May 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Always a good idea. Also, working for public institutions like museums, libraries, schools.
If you want to make a positive difference in the world, consider working in state or municipal govt or running for local office. There has never been a better or more critical time
May 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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April 30th is International Jazz Day. Why not try the following:

1. head to thejazztome.info
2. click on a year
3. click on a cool looking album cover
4. click "listen to this album"
5. read about the album you're hearing

Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky
The Jazz Tome – Jazz liner notes, reviews, and ephemera
thejazztome.info
April 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oakland showed up. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally come for Europe to once again try its hand at hosting the spirit of the age.” (via @jeffjarvis.bsky.social) [zeit.de]
Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All
Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.
www.zeit.de
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM