David O'Brien

That’s right. It’s basically birth of Christ, 1066, 1215, 1492, 1620, 1776, 1861-65, 1929, 1939-1945, 1968, 1978 (blizzard). That’s all you learn

The only way you can think AI does lit reviews better is if you’re not interested in making an intellectual argument or building theory … which uh, is pretty key to the advancement of knowledge

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

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Ink Radio.
The only place you’ll hear.

i am asking for someone who is smarter and more informed than i am to disabuse me of a thing i realize makes me feel fatalistic.

if i understand my piketty (questionable) the thing that weakened the US oligarchy was the great depression and the war.

are there examples that require less horror?

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Holger Afflerbach

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell

14-18: Understanding the Great War Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau & Annette Becker

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

having to thank "the reviewer" for "their" helpful comments when i know exactly who that bitch is

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"American Gods"
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A thread about some of the amazing collections of copyright-free images on the internet. I'll add the NY Public Library. To limit to public domain, click the "Search only public domain" box near the search bar digitalcollections.nypl.org

roses are red
violets are blue
lilacs are neither red nor blue, but if they had to answer a follow-up question picking whether they leaned more toward red, more toward blue or did not lean toward either
that would be terrible for this poem's scansion

It should be easier to find some beauty products without having to reconcile with our broken consumer capitalism.

Too much old world is dying, not enough new world struggling to be born

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...and in their collective obsession with the Thucydidean Trap, they happened to miss the point entirely; this wasn’t Sparta🇨🇳 and Athens🇺🇲; it was Athens and Melos, the Delian League all over again...

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

A motto for editors and proofreaders everywhere

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "listen mate, life has surface noise."

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

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