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asylum-art: Jelly Gummies by Sam Lyon The disturbing “jelly gummies” animated Scottish illustrator Sam Lyon.
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rhube: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves. sophiamcdougall: carnivaloftherandom: saathi1013: bana05: letthetruthlaugh-blog: I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to…
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unionmetrics: austinkleon: Ways of Seeing Instagram Isn’t it striking that the most-typical and most-maligned genres of Instagram imagery happen to correspond to the primary genres of Western secular art? All that #foodporn is still-life; all those #selfies, self-portraits. All those vacation vistas are #landscape; art-historically speaking, #beachday pics evoke the hoariest cliché of middle-class leisure…
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brucesterling: “Let’s Crowd and Open. http://goteo.org
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We can debate about the details. Should civilian blue-collar workers be able to support their families on a single income so that one parent can stay home with the kids? Is it right to raise taxes if you want public school classrooms with 15 kids per teacher instead of 30? Regardless of where you come…
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do you know how the whole thing with 4chan started? I’m still rather confused
rhube: yakfrost: It’s a big misconception that “most of Tumblr brought this on themselves!! wahhhh” What really happened is this – /pol/, the politics section of 4chan, posted a fake 4chan raid on /b/, the random section of 4chan, which was this /pol/ was basically trolling /b/, and in fact /pol/ actually despises tumblr politics,…
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notational: alexainslie: The Internet’s Own Boy If you haven’t watched this yet, please rectify that situation. Highly recommended. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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In order to counter the attempts to marginalise progressive lifelong learning, and promote the cultivation of the Cooperative Gestalt, we need to address the needs, so to speak, of the head, the heart and the hands. The head needs to be reinforced with greater understanding. It is important to explain why it is better to…
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harvestheart: Archaeologists working in Peru have discovered 25 well-preserved quipus, an ancient string-based device used to solve mathematical problems and to assist in record-keeping. The find was made in the archaeological complex of Incahuasi, south of Lima, Alejandro Chu, reports Peru This Week. The items were found in ancient warehouses, or kallancas, and not in…
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kenyatta: hautepop: New from @robertjparkin over on our FACE work blog: How To Detect Communities Using Social Network Analysis In it, Rob explains the network diagram pictured above: Let’s start by revisiting the ego network from my Facebook graph that we investigated in the previous blog. Here nodes are portioned by modularity, with each node…