- A great online exhibit → Creative Black Music at the Walker ※ Support Black artists: The Black Artist Fund
- A BLM protest goes bad → What Happened In Bethel, Ohio? ※ Ahmaud Arbery will not be erased ※ The Long Walk
- Fast but not fair is a good characterization → Why algorithms can be racist and sexist ※ For respite after that sobering read, here are some LOLfunny AI (well ML) examples from Janelle Shane:Court Cases // All your questions answered // Escape Rooms // Candle Scents + Candle Scent Descriptions
- Just watch Hamilton, even if you are allergic to all things hyped. I was fortunate to see it twice onstage and I can’t express how much I loved it → Hamilton on Disney+: Why we’ll never stop fighting about this brilliant, frustrating musical – Vox ※ Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen (NYT) ※ A fascinating exploration from an unexpected source: How does ‘Hamilton,’ the non stop, hip-hop Broadway sensation tap rap’s master rhymes to blur musical lines? ※ Everyone has a theory: Why Eliza Gasps at the End of Hamilton
- Why? → Why weed makes you laugh, according to science // Why time feels so weird in 2020 // Why a Struggling Rust Belt City Pinned Its Revival on a Self-Chilling Beverage Can // Why Literature Loves Lists // Why we can’t stop practicing physiognomy // Why Clocks Run Clockwise (And Some Watches And Clocks That Don’t)
- Boccaccio’s Decameron was a collection of 100 tales told in the voice of a group sheltering in place in Florence to escape the Black Plague. The New York times commissioned a modern day version with 29 authors writing short stories that are “inspired by the moment,” with authors from Margaret Atwood and Edwidge Danticat to Victor Lavalle and Rivers Solomon → The Decameron Project ※ ► Listen to two of the stories ※ Rivka Galchen on The Decameron
- Time for a typography walk → Letterforms / Humanforms // The Alphabet Lithographs of Jean Midolle // Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men // The Last Word on the Ampersand
- I’m not trying to police your language. I’m trying to do better with mine. Some of these surprised me → Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations
- Variety Pack → Creepy Fungus (dead man’s fingers and jelly ears) // ‘Please Scream Inside Your Heart’ // LOL Antique Road Show // Endangered California condors in Sequoia National Park for the first time in 50 years // The International Eraser Museum // Thread “Typography”
- Today in 1960, the Etch A Sketch—originally called the “L’Ecran Magique,” or Magic Screen—that two-knobbed (though initially outfitted with a joystick), aluminum plotting wonder toy, is unleashed on the world by the Ohio Art Company. Still sold today, the National Toy Hall of Fame member Etch A Sketch has not only outlived a wealth of competing toys, but also its own younger, modernized siblings, the Etch A Sketch Animator and the Etch A Sketch Animator 2000, with their fancy built-in digital screens. ※ In what now seems like a much simpler time, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign was victimized by the Etch A Sketch, leading to a memorable commercial. ※ In Breaking Bad (the television show, not Romney’s campaign), Walter White used an Etch A Sketch to burn the lock off a door. ※ You haven’t seen Etch A Sketch drawings until you’ve seen the amazing art by Nicole Falzone and others.