Someone on Twitter asked ChatGPT: "In two hundred years, what will historians say we got wrong?" ChatGPT gave a smooth answer about climate denial, short-term thinking, and eroding trust in institutions. It sounded smart. But it was actually revealing something else entirely—what worries people right now, dressed up as future wisdom. Here's the thing: We … Continue reading What Will History Say About Us? (Wrong Question)
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Caroline True
"Whenever assembling a new release... “The approach is always the same,” explains Savage. “It begins with an idea, then the next stage is that we send each other CDs and start breaking it down into four segments of about 20 minutes each to fit [on to] a double LP. John then handles the licensing and … Continue reading Caroline True
Thucydides and Realism
"In the face of hard realities, Thucydides embodied the dual concern of classical realism, consciousness of external threats while being wary of our capacity for self-destruction, to fall prey to irrational emotions and false hope. An age of blood and iron is well and truly now underway, and the bitter winds of economic warfare are … Continue reading Thucydides and Realism
Timeline of the Human Condition
"Ages: following the big bang 13.8 billion years ago, time passed two-thirds of the way to the present before the formation of the Sun 4.57 billion years ago. Rescaled to a calendar year, starting with the big bang at 00:00:00 on 1 January, the Sun forms on 1 September, the Earth on 2 September, earliest … Continue reading Timeline of the Human Condition
Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1IVW6uqM0 h/t Open Culture.
The Sifter
"The Sifter is a publicly available searchable database and is designed to be a tool to aid in finding, identifying and comparing historical and contemporary writing on food and related topics. It is overseen by an advisory board of rotating members of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery as well as other friends of … Continue reading The Sifter
The Online Archive of The Letterform Archive
"We designed the site and structured the data specifically with design artifacts and graphic designers in mind. After you’ve browsed the highlights from the homepage, we encourage you to use the search filters: click on each category to explore disciplines like lettering, and formats like type specimens, or combine filters like decades and countries to … Continue reading The Online Archive of The Letterform Archive
100 (or more) Gays
"Annotate your books, but please, make it good. Make it like the anonymous owner of 100 Gays, who signed their notes only ‘R.’, but gave us everything else they had. On the spare pages at the front and rear of the book, R. has added their own notes, remarks, poems and theories......This is a whole … Continue reading 100 (or more) Gays
Right to Bear Arms
You could bear them, but you needed to pick them up from the state house first.
The 1619 Project – The New York Times
"The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we … Continue reading The 1619 Project – The New York Times
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