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People are different but not as remotely as different as many people want to believe.
October 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My dad used to say this, so I have it on a post it note in my office.

"May luck find you working."
October 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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If you don’t do anything else as a parent you’ve got to build up your children’s confidence. That is like the single most important thing for you to do.
September 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Maya Angelou writing in bed, with a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bible. (1982)
September 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Stony Island Arts Bank! A Chicago treasure!
Friends of mine who had money sense would say “Don’t invest all your money in this building ‘cause you’re never gonna get your money out of it.”

I wasn’t worried about or concerned about resale value . I was investing in my life. I was investing in my block.

~ Theaster Gates
September 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I'm particularly pleased to have several sculptures from Mary Zehnder in the gallery for this show. A native Chicagoan, Zehnder studied briefly at the University of Illinois School of Art and Architecture when she was younger, but life got in the way. She returned to art later in life with aplomb.
August 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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At every level of this society, we just don’t value children enough.
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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rust isnt special. you know what else is memory safe. a beautiful forest stream
August 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Lovestruck Books at Harvard Square is the most popular bookseller in town for the same reasons explained by Angelina Eimannsberger

www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...
Our Golden Age of Reading (Online) - Public Books
There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.
www.publicbooks.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I like the prosody in Felix Klien’s explanation of Bürgi logarithms. He’s writing with purpose and with pride of his students and country in a time of (relative) peace in Europe ca. 1904
August 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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May depend on how ambitious you want to be but I think for most people it’s healthier and more realistic to come to terms with the fact that you can’t really “waste” your life, it’s all just life. Just do good, try to make yourself happy and healthy and if you dont like something try to change it.
Those of you 40 and up… how did you manage that whole “what am I doing with my life?” “Did I waste my life?” Feeling

(obvs if you didn’t feel that way this question isn’t for you)
August 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I hadn’t thought of the visual and cultural connections between Basquiat artistic style and the signatures of Haitian loa until I saw this inset in Zora Neale Hurston “Tell My Horse”

really obvious in retrospect
August 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Everything the West brags about:“high living standards,” “freedom," “world-leading economies (GDP)", "happiness index", etc., is paid for by the plunder of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Every iPhone, every gallon of gas, every supermarket stocked to the ceiling: stolen labour & stolen resources.
August 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
in case you’re wondering (you’re not) why Ishmael Reed calls out David Byrne as “invaluable in defusing some of the hysteria with which Neo-African religion has been relegated in the United States, a Protestant country” it’s because of Papa Legba

youtu.be/u21-p4sTz4w
TRUE STORIES. Papa Legba
YouTube video by Wild Jerky
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths” — Anas Al Sharif in a posthumous message to be share in the event of his death
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
August 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
figured this out. transferring blobs...
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A retired mathematician brought a couple bags of her books into the shop today. The Coxeter was a good find— first edition good condition. I price it around $50 while bookfinder says there’s listings of very good copies in the hundreds
August 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM