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〈mundivagant〉
— ever, around the day in eighty worlds —
a human. being
— ever, around the day in eighty worlds —
a human. being
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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
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.
www.openculture.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
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Opinion by @maxmccoy.com: The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/t...
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...
kansasreflector.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion by @maxmccoy.com: The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/t...
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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.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
March 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
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“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 🌻🖤
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
March 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“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 🌻🖤
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
One thing Americans can’t claim is that they hadn’t been told.
February 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One thing Americans can’t claim is that they hadn’t been told.
“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
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
January 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“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
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
America really elected President Eric Cartman.
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
America really elected President Eric Cartman.
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“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
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
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
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
January 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“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
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
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
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
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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.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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.
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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.
find it genuinely delighting that people with enough money to never work again (and do literally anything they want anywhere in the world at any time) seemingly have nothing going on in their lives and are so miserable they are just spending the holidays frantically posting
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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.
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
December 27, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
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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"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
December 25, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
December 25, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
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
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
December 24, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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
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
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 4/20
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
– Friedrich Nietzsche
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
December 24, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 4/20
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
– Friedrich Nietzsche
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Great books permeate the brain with facility and leave the memory with difficulty.
December 24, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Great books permeate the brain with facility and leave the memory with difficulty.
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.
People who are good at reading have different brains
Reading can change the brain.
theconversation.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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.
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.
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...
www.ucdavis.edu
December 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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 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.
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...
divisare.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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.
”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 ”
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 ”
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 7:29 AM
”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 ”
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 ”
December 21, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Day 2/20
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
– Daniel C. Dennett
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Inspired by @acfick72.bsky.social
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
– Daniel C. Dennett
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Inspired by @acfick72.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Day 2/20
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
– Daniel C. Dennett
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Inspired by @acfick72.bsky.social
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
– Daniel C. Dennett
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Inspired by @acfick72.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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As the year comes to a close, we've gathered the 24 essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.
Our Most Loved Pieces of 2024 - Boston Review
The essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.
www.bostonreview.net
December 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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.”
Coalitional Instincts | Edge.org
www.edge.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
“... 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.”