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But if I know one fact (and I do) it’s that there will always be people with no other interests or…

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:22:22 -0800

But if I know one fact (and I do) it’s that there will always be people with no other interests or life skills except finding out what’s happening and writing it down. You can give them big paychecks, but it won’t make them work any faster. You can fire them, but it won’t make them work any less. The moneyfolk come and go from media for reasons I will never understand, but when they’re gone—when things look the most bleak—that’s when your true reporter goblins come out to play.

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/the-awl-inflection-poin

CAT PIANO

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:18:23 -0700

everydaylouie:

CAT PIANO

Happy May, friends 🍄🌿✨

Mon, 01 May 2023 09:54:34 -0700

oracle-fae:

Happy May, friends 🍄🌿✨

China’s population falls for first time in more than 60 years

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:39:19 -0800

China’s population falls for first time in more than 60 years

Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:37:13 -0800

Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

During the 1960s, King was a very divisive figure. The last Gallup poll to ask about his popularity…

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:32:40 -0800

Americans see Martin Luther King Jr. as a hero now, but that wasn’t the case during his lifetime | CNN Politics

During the 1960s, King was a very divisive figure. The last Gallup poll to ask about his popularity during his lifetime, taken in 1966, found his unfavorable rating was 63%. This included 39% of Americans who gave him a -5 rating, on a scale with -5 being least favorable and +5 being most favorable.

King’s highly negative rating came when he had turned his attention from Southern de jure segregation toward de facto segregation in northern cities.

But even before then, King was far from a universally liked person. In the middle of 1964, when Congress was in the midst of passing many landmark civil rights laws, King’s favorable rating was just 44%. His unfavorable rating was basically equal at 38%.

When Americans were asked which three Americans they had the least respect for in a 1964 Gallup poll, King came in second at 42%. This was barely less than the 47% registered by George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama. Only 17% mentioned King’s name, when asked which three Americans they had the most respect for.

Perhaps even more revealing is that a lot of White Americans thought King was doing more harm than good for the fight for civil rights. In a 1966 Harris poll, 50% of White Americans indicated that he was hurting the civil rights effort. A mere 36% said he was helping. King’s favorable rating among them was 27% in 1966.

lazywonderlvnd: this tweet sends me into fucking hysterics once...

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:22:18 -0800

lazywonderlvnd:

this tweet sends me into fucking hysterics once a day

The Shit Show • furbo.org

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:55:08 -0800

The Shit Show • furbo.org:

Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you’d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be Mastodon instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone’s Micro.blog, or maybe another person’s Tumblr, or someone else’s photo feed. There are many apps and servers for you to choose from.
It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint.
One thing I remember from these early days: no one had any idea what they were doing. It was all new and things like @screen_name, #hashtags, or RT hadn’t been invented yet. Heck, we didn’t even call them “tweets” or use a bird icon at first! The best ideas came from people using the service: all of the things mentioned above grew organically from a need.
That’s where I want to be in the future. Exploring unknown territory that empowers others and adapts to the needs of a community.

Wait, is this a Canadian thing?

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:00:56 -0800

Wait, is this a Canadian thing?

“One of the very weirdest things about this moment where the internet consists of five giant…

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:59:41 -0800

Normalize Dark Corners!

“One of the very weirdest things about this moment where the internet consists of five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four is that using a website other than one of those giant silos has become intrinsically suspect. Hell, even hosting your own email is practically an admission of guilt these days. The other day, I dialed into a podcast for an interview with a great show and their recording system wouldn’t let me in. The only way to connect to it was with a login from one of the giant platforms.”

Jason Thorne: CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one...

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:11:44 -0800

Jason Thorne:

CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one of our city snow plows

Jeremy Mayer: Crow IV Assembled typewriter componentsLife scale

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:10:37 -0800

Jeremy Mayer:

Crow IV
Assembled typewriter components
Life scale

Austin Kleon:

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:08:43 -0800

Letting books talk to each other - Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon:

“A few years ago, I wrote a post about reading more than one book at a time. I wrote, “One of my favorite ways [to generate new writing] is to have 3 or 4 books going at the same time and let them talk to each other.””

I like this idea. I recently read “Ducks” by Kate Beaton and “Bedroom Rapper” by Cadence Weapon — one a memoir on working in the oilsands, the other on building a music career. But both reflected on a period of time in which the nascent internet was letting creators find audiences worldwide from more remote places, and had some themes I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I’d not read them at the same time.

“and now we go live, to Walter Croncat…”

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:07:36 -0800

“and now we go live, to Walter Croncat…”

Asher’s 2nd #ChineseNewYear fashion is a cape style gift...

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:06:44 -0800

Asher’s 2nd #ChineseNewYear fashion is a cape style gift that’s slightly too big on him. I’m going to make some minor adjustments with some double sided tape so it will fit him better.

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:05:08 -0800

ALT

“We found that, compared to reading on a paper medium, reading on a smartphone elicits fewer sighs,…

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:03:56 -0800

Reading on a smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension - Scientific Reports

“We found that, compared to reading on a paper medium, reading on a smartphone elicits fewer sighs, promotes brain overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, and results in reduced comprehension. Furthermore, reading on a smartphone affected sigh frequency but not normal breathing, suggesting that normal breathing and sigh generation are mediated by pathways differentially influenced by the visual environment. A path analysis suggests that the interactive relationship between sigh inhibition and overactivity in the prefrontal cortex causes comprehension decline. These findings provide new insight into the respiration-mediated mechanisms of cognitive function.”

book benches in Bulgaria

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:02:44 -0800

book benches in Bulgaria

Good, but also terrible coubterprotests we’re even necessary

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:00:58 -0800

Drag Queen story time supporters shout down protesters in Coquitlam, B.C. | CBC News

Good, but also terrible coubterprotests we’re even necessary

(via [OC] Distribution of 19 Types of Berries Native to North...

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:00:14 -0800

(via [OC] Distribution of 19 Types of Berries Native to North America + Approx. Berry Diversity/Density in NA : dataisbeautiful)