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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds • Kansas Reflector “The Keeper of the Plains” is Blackbear Bosin’s 44-foot steel sculpture of a Native American, hands lifted to the heavens. It is installed on a rocky plinth above the confluence of the Arkansas and Li...

Opinion by @maxmccoy.com: The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/t...

There is a part in Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat when Andree Blouin describes fleeing Congo under the cover of night by plane wih documents for Patrice Lumumba hidden in her chignon.

Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.

“Why do you want me to be like a sunflower, turning toward the sun? I am the sun.”

Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤

One thing Americans can’t claim is that they hadn’t been told.

Behold, the battalion of pusillanimous malingerers, here to offer us their counterfeit toil!

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

America really elected President Eric Cartman.

“Footfalls echo in the memory,
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden. My words echo
Thus in your mind.”

—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
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📸My First Edition

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

Photo of “Discourse on Colonialism” by Aimé Césaire

Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire

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Indian environmental leader, eco-feminist, philosopher, and quantum physicist Vandana Shiva talks about her involvement with the Chipko Movement.

Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."

chipko means "to hug"

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Photo of “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant

Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant

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There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
With eyes as black as coal that looks down in my soul
— Phil Spector & Jerry Leiber,
Spanish Harlem, 1961

Photo of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4/20
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Great books permeate the brain with facility and leave the memory with difficulty.

People who are good at reading have different brains Reading can change the brain.

The bookworm has turned: Scientists analyzing brain data found distinct differences in skilled readers’ left hemisphere—specifically the anterior temporal lobe and Heschl’s gyru, areas vital for language comprehension and phonological awareness. Books may yet be the enduring threads of remembrance.

Your Smart TV is Watching What You Watch If you’re thinking of buying a “smart” TV for the holidays, you ought to know that your new device is constantly capturing snapshots of what’s on screen and sending them back to the manufacturer — eve...

Smart TVs are designed to track and report what you watch through a feature called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). This technology works by taking quick snapshots of whatever is on your screen—even through HDMI connections—and analyzing that data to create user profiles for targeted ads.

BuroLandschap, Pieter Rabijns · Cycling between Terrils Cycling between Terrils is a floating bridge on the border between Dilsen-Stokkem and Maasmechelen, municipalities with a visible mining past. The area was visibly transformed in the 20th century by t...

BuroLandschap has designed Belgium’s longest floating bridge, a 400-meter structure inspired by the Fibonacci sequence, offering a buoyant crossing experience for cyclists and pedestrians.

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream (Official Audio)

”I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that ”

Brunette James is more accurate.

Day 3/20
The Proper Study of Mankind
– Isaiah Berlin

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Day 2/20
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
– Daniel C. Dennett

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Inspired by @acfick72.bsky.social

I accept the challenge.

Day 1

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Our Most Loved Pieces of 2024 - Boston Review The essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

As the year comes to a close, we've gathered the 24 essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

“... political party united by supernatural beliefs can revise its beliefs about economics or climate without revisers being bad coalition members. But people whose coalitional membership is constituted by their shared adherence to “rational” propositions have a problem when new information arises.”

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

—T.S. Eliot

Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life and career Audio diaries including previously unheard material tell of the jazz giant’s anger over the prejudice he faced

He said it with a smile.

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YouTube video by Fela Kuti Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy

Fela Kuti’s “Water No Get Enemy” is testament to life’s simple truths. Water nurtures, heals, flows ... and can kill: a perfectly simple metaphor for Black resilience.