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Links: June 28, 2020

  1. Controversial? Maybe. Essential? Absolutely → Nikole Hannah Jones on What is Owed
  2. More reading for this moment. And hopefully many moments until it becomes happily irrelevant → You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument ※ The First Year Out ※ Reconstruction In America: Racial Violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876
  3. Boompilled! → Boompilled: Fireworks Conspiracy Theories Are Bursting Across The Internet ※ The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy Theories ※ But it doesn’t all have to be serious: I’m the Guy Setting Off Fireworks Every Night In Your Neighborhood and I Have You Right Where I Want You
  4. Last week I offered you a chance to buy Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s childhood home for me, allowing me to retire in style. No one did, so this week I offer you a new opportunity → An Entire Old West Town Is for Sale. But It’s in New Zealand.
  5. Coronavirus + Summer? → Walking Is Making a Major Comeback ※ In Praise of the Flâneur (apropos of nothing: flâneur is one of my favorite sounding words)
  6. I had no idea the bake sale had an activist history → The Power of the Bake Sale ※ Speaking of food, some of these recipes look really good, and not just because I’m hungry right now: cook a classical feast: nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome
  7. Download and print this book designed by Big Jump Press in June 2020 in response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor → Read This Out Loud ※ While I have your…ear? Eyes? More bookish links: A clever overview of a variety of book critters, including literal Bookworms Thanks, Reader M.! ※ Page Through This Incredibly Detailed Sino-Tibetan Book Printed in 1410 ※ Rare Book School Lectures archive
  8. John Peel’s iconic radio show ran on BBC radio from 1967-2004. This epic, growing list is at 968 sessions and counting → John Peel Sessions
  9. This week’s miscellany → U.K. Museum Reimagines Classic Art With Face Masks // Pick a year and play those hits with Nostalgia Machine // Identifying Generational Gaps in Music // I Am Liesl von Trapp and I Owe the Resistance an Apology // In Taiwan, Pizza Hut Created Ramen Pizza // Plants fill seats at Barcelona opera house concert // Book fountain page by page
  10. Today in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, are assassinated in Sarajevo, the causus belli of World War I. On this same day in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the bloody war between Germany and the Allied Powers. In between, more than 9 million soldiers were killed and more than 21 million wounded…along with nearly 10 million civilian casualties. Sadly, this wasn’t the most deaths in the wars of human history, but it was almost inarguably as brutal as any if you consider the proportion of the fighting that involved trench warfare, chemical weapons, and direct hand-to-hand fighting in battles with death tolls nearly equalling those of the most deadly in history. It is absolutely inarguable that World War I is too often overlooked, overshadowed by World War II and the natural desensitization of time. ※ View the Treaty of Versailles as submitted to the U. S. Congress.

13th

“Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.” → ► 13th

A Cart Apart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvD7ISSXxc

A promotional ad for social distancing that has more than two million views? Only in the age of Coronavirus. I watched it three times. → ► A Cart Apart

Responses: June 28, 2020

Reader J.: “‘Africa‘ – wow. Clever and – it took me down the rabbit hole of Tesla Coil music. Btw, I wonder if you might get around to some kind of tribute to the greatest living musician, Jacob Collier. ¶ Also – thanks for the BLM Heads-up. ¶ Also, also – for the Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things. Down time for a sunny day.” — That’s incredibly high praise for Jacob Collier, who I have to admit I’ve only heard of, not actually listened to. I guess it’s time!

from “The Devil & The Good Lord” (Jean Paul Sartre)

GOETZ: Someone was to have come in the autumn.

HILDA: Who?

GOETZ: I don’t know any more. [Pause] Tell me. What is today? What day of what month?

HILDA: Do you think I count the days? We have only one now, that begins and begins again; it is given to us with the dawn and taken away with the night. You are a clock that has stopped and always tells the same time.

—Jean Paul Sartre
—from “The Devil & The Good Lord” (translated by Kitty Black)
—found in The Devil & The Good Lord and Two Other Plays (1960

costive

Too tired

costive · /KAH-stive/ · /ˈkɒstɪv/. adjective. Slow or reluctant to act; lethargic. Stingy. Originally: constipated. From Latin constipare (to press or crowd together), from con- (together) + stipare (to cram, pack).

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Links: June 21, 2020

  1. “I use time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in. 1 year of life = 1 minute of color.” Powerful. → stolen
  2. Be careful who you donate to. → “The Black Lives Matter Foundation” Raised Millions. It’s Not Affiliated With The Black Lives Matter Movement.
  3. An interesting, interactive approach. Slide a few dials around and see how your intuition compares to reality. → Do You Know How Divided White And Black Americans Are On Racism?
  4. Apologies to all the people named Karen who aren’t Karens → You Know Karen. But do you know the names that could be “other Karens” or “future Karens?” We found them using data.
  5. “…an imaginary museum that explores the strange place between art and curiosities.” → The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
  6. “Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call.” → Netflix Hangouts
  7. I’ve never asked for donations, but I’ll make an exception if you want throw this my way. → Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s childhood home up for sale, complete with pool, party room and library for 22,000 books
  8. Play like a child at home → Fold-n-Fly database of Paper Airplane Designs ► Play like a researcher at home → Seventy-Five Scientific Research Projects You Can Contribute to Online
  9. For laughs → Texting With Famous Authors ※ For “dawwwwww” laughs → San Diego Zoo’s baby pygmy hippo makes splashy debut ※ For grimacing laughs → This Foot Does Not Exist ※ For pained laughs → Name a thing that lasted longer than the Confederacy. (New Coke, among other things).
  10. Today in 1788 the U.S. Constitution is ratified. Today in 1964, civil- and voting-rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are abducted and lynched by a group including a Deputy Sheriff under the supervision of a Sheriff known for ignoring racially motivated crimes. ※ Today in 2015, Charles Marshall, armed with a cordless drill with no bit, is shot and killed by police after his wife called the police because he was suicidal and had sliced open one of his wrists. The cop told Marshall’s distraught wife that, “We [police] are trained to kill.” ※ Also today in 2015, Adrian Simental, unarmed, is killed by police responding to a psychiatric call. ※ Today in 2016, Pedro Cruz-Amado, wielding a metal chair, is killed by the police responding to a psychiatric call. ※ Also today in 2016, Lane Lesko, armed with a BB gun, is shot and killed by police responding to a psychiatric call.
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