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Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...

Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept that Trump is strong, you are accepting that you are weaker than Trump. And once you accept the strongman form of politics, you no longer have recourse to laws, or norms, or even basic ideas of decency.”

De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert

Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert. The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When DJ Maseo tells the Tiny Desk crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a new group called De La Soul,” he means it as a joke.

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change ( Amazon ). The synopsis: Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change

The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago , I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the

Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)

The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s . The prints were created using the photochrom process : The prints look deceptively like color photographs. But when viewed with a magnifying glass the small dots that

Exploratorium

Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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The Uncanny Valley

It used to be an obscure oddity, now we all need to understand it. 18 years ago, I posted this image: …and I still can’t get it out of my head. Sorry. Why do we have such a creeped-out reaction to images that aren’t quite right? A robot that looks too much like a person, […]