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Multicultural Futurists panel discussion from Platform 2014. Diverse and inclusive perspectives for the future. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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peepingbird: por René Burri photo by Burri, architecture by Barragán.
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We were having our own doubts, of course. How could you not? The Google Books project seemed to be letting itself go. Things any librarian would notice: bad scans; faulty metadata; narrowing the scope of public domain; having machines do jobs that should be done (or at least overseen) by humans. They seemed to be…
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point…
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micdotcom: Missy Elliott just saw a 1,000% increase in sales Elliott is poised to record an astounding 70,000 downloads when official numbers come out this week, according to Billboard, compared to just 6,000 two weeks ago. That’s thanks to her amazing Super Bowl halftime appearance — which attracted a record 118.5 million viewers — alongside…
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blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: This image is not by some 1960s acolyte of Ellsworth Kelly or Tom Downing, the D.C. dotmeister. It is not, in fact, abstract at all. It is an evocation of Catholic communion wafers rendered as the dots from Wonderbread wrapping, and was made in 1968 by the artist known as Sister…
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everybodyontheinternet: On February 26, the FCC is going to decide if the internet should stay free and fair, or if it should be handed over to the cable companies. You don’t want them to pick the cable companies. Join everybody on the internet to help the FCC do the right thing.