- ‘You’re Not a Racist and Neither Am I’: The Former Feminist Who Turned to White Supremacy ※ How white women get written out of the hate movement // On the other hand → Stumbling toward wokeness ※ And here’s an inspiring photo of an inspiring man → “Crazy Dion” Diamond (the photo’s context makes it even more so).
- Numeracy. It’s a thing → Wealth shown to scale ※ But how is it I am invisible on that scale if it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered?
- “Seemingly preposterous, but worth taking very seriously” → Music in Human Evolution
- Much needed → Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope
- Inside the Social Media Cult That Convinces Young People to Give Up Everything
- Look upon these visual works, you mighty, and be ensnared → 2020 iPhone Photography Award winners // The Wonder of Miniature Worlds // The ancient art of painting on water // Stefan Visann’s trippy photos // The ISS Photo Explorer // Discarding Images Medieval illustrations // Birds with arms
- What Hot Dog / Image / Frog / Dildo / Cursed Image are you?
- Gallimaufry → $26 million robotic dolphins // The World’s Smallest Wireless Record Player // The Endless Doomscroller // Tiny Camera Backpacks for Beetles // Mammaries for Humanity // Secret Hitler // Tour Pharaoh Ramesses VI’s Tomb // The screamer in Munch’s ‘The Scream’ isn’t screaming.
- Today in 1776, by decree of the Second Continental Congress, the United States Post Office (USPO)—forerunner of today’s United States Postal Service—is established with Benjamin Franklin appointed to lead it. Franklin was unemployed, having been relieved of his role as one of the joint postmasters of the British Colonies for his revolutionary activities. But before being fired, Franklin had replaced the haphazard colonial routes with new routes design for efficiency, including regularly scheduled mail runs, and instituted a standardized system of costs based on weight and distance. The USPS has grown a bit: today it processes and delivers nearly 500 million pieces of mail every day, or approximately 48% of the world’s mail volume, to locations across more than 42,000 zip codes from 00501, home of the IRS mail collection in New York, to 99950 in Ketchikan, Alaska, where I rode my first funicular (and purchased my first professional level coffee gear). ※ See also: The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service