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Writing this took me places I didn't know were inside of me. Beyond self-exploration, this was self-excavation. This was performing open heart surgery on myself. In this, I wrote myself back together. I'm proud, nervous, & compelled to share it with you.
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Mark Twain must be so proud of his daughter Shania.
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A few years ago I published a piece about the history of the split flap display — and now that I’m in Philly, invited me for a tour!
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Just out: #TheNewSchool in NYC was founded on principles of community self-governance and social justice. Now, students are demanding the university return to those principles. It's time to explore alternatives.
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Is there anyone writing/thinking about what workplace democracy and true shared decision making could look like in academia? Like no deans or provosts? Adjuncts, faculty, students and staff all having an equal say in how the workplace is run?
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Every paragraph in this story is nuts. Suggests fake resume, fake charity, folded business, possibly fake address, yet he had millions of dollars. He even claimed his company 'lost four employees' at the Pulse nightclub shooting, but NYT found no evidence.
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How could this candidate get elected without this coming out earlier? Great reporting but where was everyone before?
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Spanish moss on Royal Arch Oak, Ormand, Florida, 1898
#history #vintage #relics #photography #oldphotos #heritage #historicphotos #architecture #travel
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one time in med school I pronounced Guillain-Barré incorrectly bc i had only read about it and never said the words out loud before
people laughed at me and I was embarrassed but the attending was like HEY IF HE KNOWS THE WORDS IT MEANS HE IS STUDYING and it meant a lot to me
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my ducks? in a row. ordered. disciplined. behaving predictably.
your ducks? scattered. in disarray. waddling aimlessly. desperate for a leader to impose structure.
pathetic.
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Learning that "five gooolden riings" is not in fact referring to 5 literal golden rings, but to five ring-necked pheasants, aka more birds
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Looks like there's a lot on music in Street Gang: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300447/s Plus these scholarly studies: academic.oup.com/jmt/article-ab + taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/ +
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Now I need to know if anyone's written about Sesame Street music and sound design! I had an idea a few years ago: I wanted to write something, based on archival research, on Sesame Street set design. That never happened.
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Here's another one. I grew up with border collies, so this one really struck me. I've likely sung it nearly a billion times over the past four decades
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I can't tell you how many times this ditty has gone through my head. To this day! I had no idea it was the Pointer Sisters!
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In 1976, THE POINTER SISTERS were asked to record "Pinball Number Count" for @SesameStreet, which was a series of educational cartoons teaching kids how to count. It made its debut in 1977 and was a feature on the show for many years.
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Books more your thing? Check out this list of books on Inidgenous Futurisms:
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NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.
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As a PI, I love talk-invitations and find inspiration in visiting new labs. As a single mom of 2 under 10, I was paying out of pocket for care to enable such trips. It was starting to really add up. So half a year ago I began asking for reimbursement for care costs… (1/2)
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If there is one thing you read this weekend, let it be this: forgeorganizing.org/article/buildi. #ICYMI describes the problems our movements face, and proposes some concrete solutions to reset our course.
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Do me a favour.
Tag a comic who you think had the best show this year. The person who you think deserves some recognition. Doesn’t have to be have been a guest on HaW. Tag them in a reply to this and tell them why it was great.
Let’s make our own list…
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“journey” doesnt come close to conveying how this book took me from amorphous inkling through winding valleys of years of Whats Happening to now. comin ‘atcha in june ‘23!!
nyupress.org/9781479812424/
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If "the industry" wants good little servants, nothing is stopping them from hiring 18 year olds and running in-house training camps for their perfectly chiseled subjects.
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Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
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Introduction to Critical University Studies should be a compulsory first-term course in every higher education institution in the US.
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Newschool Coop? Envisioning a Cooperative University "A cooperative model for The New School is a tangible alternative and a means to create a new, broad-based culture of ownership and democracy."
publicseminar.org/2018/08/newsch via
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To think, all of this could have been avoided if google hadn’t shut down reader.
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What if I told you that laziness as we know it is a cultural construct meant to tie your life to capitalism’s exploitative logic of bodies as “useful” tools of its own self-perpetuation?
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Since moving here, I’ve become super-interested in the window box as a site of personal curation, an identity marker, a zone of both conspicuous consumption + extravagant germination. They seem to have turned it into a competitive sport on Delancey.
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Taylor Lorenz was “permanently suspended” after said it was temporary 🚨
After asking for comment for a story, her account was suspended. Elon said she’d soon be reinstated. Taylor appealed the temporary suspension and then received this:
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The tech industry doesn’t know its history very well, and that leads us to constantly repeat things that have happened in the past. As ChatGPT is met with wonder, reminds of a similar reaction to ELIZA in the 1960s that stunned its creator.
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When I was in college, working in a record shop, I discovered an exciting new band every week. These days, a feel that exuberance a few times a year. Their album came out months ago, but I'm glad to have encountered caroline before the year's end
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I love that and had their issue party together. It seems so obvious that little magazines should be collaborating on parties instead of competing, and yet it rarely happens. It's good!
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Plus, some good recs in this thread:
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There needs to be an encyclopedic study of the whole Trump aesthetic: the Baroque interiors, the Versailles Redux Rose Garden, sharpiegate, long ties, FoxNewsLady hair+makeup, the memes, that hallway of furry red Christmas trees. There's something holding it all together.
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Re: Tressie's tweet abt far-right iconography + style: there's lots of good historical discussion abt neo-classical fetishism, Albert Speer, Italian Neo-Fascist design, Blackletter typography, QAnon's Tartarian Empire fantasies, etc., etc, etc
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"In my study of right-wing populists, I have found anthropologists are best suited to the discussion of style, imagery, + symbols as a quality of political analysis." Comm studies, design studies, art + architectural + urban history have attended to these matters for *decades*
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