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"The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe.” http://bit.ly/496z77C

How a 1930s Architectural Masterpiece Harnesses the Sun to Keep Warm in the Winter & Cool in the Summer Keeping the summer sun out and the winter sun in has figured prominently among the tasks of architecture ever since antiquity. As Aeschylus said, 'only primitives and barbarians lack knowledge of hous...

How a 1930s Architectural Masterpiece Harnesses the Sun to Keep Warm in the Winter & Cool in the Summer

Three monochrome photographs, one at the top shows the head and shoulders of a white woman with short dark hair and striped top looking out to the viewer, bottom left image shows a stylish round metal teapot and image to the right reflects a tall metal coffee pot

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #WomensArt

A vintage black-and-white illustration from the January 1963 issue of Popular Science shows a method for disposing of used engine oil. In the image, a hand is seen pouring dark, used engine oil from a rectangular container into a hole in the ground that has been filled with fine gravel. The oil flows into the center of the gravel-filled hole. An inset diagram in the bottom-right corner of the image provides a top-down view labeled "HOLE FILLED WITH GRAVEL." Below the illustration is a caption with instructions: "Disposing of used engine oil can be a problem. Solution: Dig a hole in the ground with a posthole digger and fill it with fine gravel. Then pour in the oil. It will be absorbed into the ground before your next change. Cover the spot with soil."

I'm dismayed that many proposals for CO₂ removal involve digging a hole and burying organic matter. But I guess that's how we've always treated waste.

Task Force Urges World Bank and International Monetary Fund to Prioritize Climate, Restructure Lending Policies - Inside Climate News As the World Bank and IMF hold annual meetings in Washington, D.C., a new report calls for these institutions to reform their lending models to drive the clean-energy transition and help developing co...

As the World Bank and IMF hold annual meetings in Washington, D.C., a new report calls for these institutions to reform their lending models to drive the clean-energy transition and help developing countries withstand climate shocks.

This year's Durham Lumiere to be the city's last, organisers say Since 2009 it has drawn more than 1.3 million visitors and made the local economy £43m.

Predictably the BBC haven't pointed out this decision is due to Reform's leadership in Durham County Council. A party which rejoices in ignorance and longs to destroy our arts and creative industry sector

www.bbc.com/news/article...

happy 10 year anniversary to one of the most prophetic tweets of all time @cavalorn.bsky.social

light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

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Dozens of home grown tomatoes on the kitchen counter

Summers not done til the tomatoes are done!
🌱 #gardening #tomatoes

Eric Trump admits that Indonesian President Subianto was caught on a hot mic talking with his dad about Trump family business deals in Indonesia

(so much for the supposed firewall between Trump's business and the federal government ... )

From the Pentagon Press Association:

“My 14-year-old is mature enough to decide how many decapitations she sees.” Farah Rahimi, Seance Technician

Instagram Restricts Teens To PG-13 Content
https://theonion.com/instagram-restricts-teens-to-pg-13-content/

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

🫣 Wow. "The entire press corps leaves the Pentagon..." sounds like the first line of a very dystopian novel.

thank you - will check

me, too, please …🙋🏻‍♂️

Bridging vs cross-posting When we talk about what we do here, one topic that comes up often is bridging vs cross-posting. They’ve both been around for a long time, and they’re similar, but they’re different in some important w...

That's more cross-posting/cross-sync than it is bridging. We have a post up on our blog that explains the difference: blog.anew.social/bridging-vs-...

One of the songs the New Jersey Young Republicans sang in 1966 (to the tune of jingle bells): „Riding through the Reich in a
Mercedes-Benz
Shooting all the k****, making lots of friends.
Rat tat-tat-tat-tat, mow the bastards down,
Oh, what fun it is to have the Nazis back in town."

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

See you Saturday in Columbia! #nokings #indivisible

Bridgy Fed Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

I went to Mastodon to wish my friend happy birthday and told him I was mostly on Bluesky; he gave me this resource to bridge my Bluesky account with Mastodon so that folks there could see and interact with my posts here: fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

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

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
t.co/joY390u4V0

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

I thought this was brilliant: a great introduction to the problems of The Free Press (and what the CBS acquisition represents), and John Oliver as energized as he's ever been. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Solidarity is the only way

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/