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todaysdocument: “…I respectfully appeal to you requesting that you take all those measures that you may deem convenient to bring about the cessation of all such acts in violation of law and order which have caused intense alarm among my nationals…” riversidearchives: Alfredo Elias Calles, the Mexican Consul in Los Angeles, sent this telegram to…
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likeafieldmouse: Wade Guyton “Guyton’s paintings are ostensibly monochromes. Made with an Epson large format printer, these works are printed on pre-primed linen intended for oil painting and not inkjet printing. As such, the images, marks, and letters Guyton continues to employ are absorbed into the porous material and disperse the ink rather than allowing it,…
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notational: “Good design is about clarity over style, and accountability over indifference.” — John Maeda (via brianlucid) (Perhaps the virtues of fine art lay in the reversing of these priorities.) Notational’s suggestion makes sense only in the case that “design” is in opposition to “art”. Can the concepts of “art” and “design” exist on axes…
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“Doomsday” budget passes in Philadelphia
davidcoopermoore: This year’s “worst case scenario” budget for public schools in Philadelphia has passed, meaning about 3,800 employees will be laid off unless compensating state funding or alternative cuts are negotiated by the end of the summer. This will have an enormously negative impact on student safety, special education, and basic services. I don’t really…
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The Quiet Closing of Washington
robertreich: Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress down. Their refusal to compromise is working just as they hoped: No jobs agenda. No budget. No grand bargain on the deficit. No background…
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“The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty. When they are old they turn themselves inside out, then explode slowly, the petals thrown out like shards.” Excerpt From: Atwood, Margaret. “The handmaid’s tale.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…
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reclaimingthelatinatag: Afro-Colombian women in traditional Colombian wear. [Images belong (in clock wise order) to flickr users Ernest and Fidel Cafe and Lucre Diaz]
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sexpigeon: nevver: Group sex Every single smut book from this era is printed in New Caledonia, which is still a hell of a text face. Would like to know how it became the default of its era. Would propose that Minion do the same now, that rosewater column of utter decency.
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Star Trek as we had known it dies with Data –someone who’s sole purpose in life was to understand everything Star Trek was about—in the final Star Trek movie with the Next Generation Crew. This universe must die because we are no longer living in a world after history. America’s War on Terror is incompatible…
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shrinkrants: Paul Rabinow on meeting Michel Foucault When I fist came to Berkeley in 1976 I became quite friendly with Hubert Dreyfus who is a famous Heideggerian scholar but also a person who in general knows European philosophy quite well. He taught and still teaches phenomenology and various thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,…