Friday, December 20, 2024
As humans, we possess the unique habit of archiving; we collect symbols essentialized by their permanence. We build up the intimate interiors of our homes with found artifacts, collected ephemera, photographic records capturing our lineage. We place these images on our walls in neat geometric compositions. We move to translate the loss of time into an idealized eternity by passing these records down — each a form of proof that life has continuity, that we belong to the past and equally as much to something beyond ourselves.
— Lydia Chodosh, On the Impulse to Notate
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The gift that was a cutting of my grandmother's Plumeria tree sent from Los Angeles has been refused by the Louvre Museum in Paris on the grounds that the collections do not contain works in this format.
— @davidhorvitz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
MrBeast has reportedly rented the three Pyramids of Giza for 100 hours for a YouTube video.
— @starworldlab
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Of course, I am happy. In each of your hearts is piece of Nelly, and you’re never gonna forgot me, and that was my aim. Cake, we can bake. Piece of Nelly, you got.
— Nelly, "E6 Autumn Week," The Great British Baking Show
Monday, December 16, 2024
Dadadadadada
— Wally
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Joe says that when he looks at Bo, he feels past generations looking through him, like a stack of pringles.
— @noraphone
Saturday, December 14, 2024
I was born to have him.
— Lily
Friday, December 13, 2024
Working each day for nearly a decade, Lemon has made these drawings as "a way to memorialize, honor, and celebrate the greatness of minor things."
— Wall text, Ralph Lemon's "Untitled (The greatest [Black] art history story ever told. Unfinished)"
Thursday, December 12, 2024
if i'm ever terminal or anything please bring me to pet animals
giraffes bunnies
— Lily in a text
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Thus, Reagan would grow up to be a model American, freed of the burden of the past and ready to make a fresh start. In other countries, the historian Bernard Lewis observed, events that had happened a thousand years ago were still sparking conflict. In the land of opportunity, by contrast, the phrase "that's history" was used to dismiss something as having "no relevance to present events, concerns or purposes."
— Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Yesterday, Google announced Willow, a new generation of quantum computer chips capable of performing a task in 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete. This marks a significant leap from 2019, when Google revealed its quantum processor could solve a mathematical equation in three minutes compared to 10,000 years on a supercomputer.
— @starworldlab
Monday, December 9, 2024
And one of the biggest mistakes that Americans make is that we study periods where greatness happened, but we don’t often study periods where nothing happened or where really bad shit happened. We don’t spend nearly enough.
— Saagar Enjeti, "Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454"
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Mr. Zittrain has lectured on the “right to be forgotten” in tech and digital spaces — a legal standard that forces search engines to delete links to sites that include information considered inaccurate or irrelevant. But he said in a post on X that he had not asked to be excluded from OpenAI’s algorithms. In an interview, he said he had noticed the chatbot quirk a while ago and didn’t know why it happened.
— Ali Watkins, "Why Wouldn’t ChatGPT Say This Dead Professor’s Name?," The New York Times
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Gotaku is a traditional Japanese art form that involves making prints from real fish. Originally developed in the mid-19th century as a way for fishermen to record their catches, it has evolved into a celebrated artistic practice.
— @streetartglobe
Friday, December 6, 2024
Here's a mind-boggling fact: Stegosaurus lived so long ago that it went extinct 80 million years before T. rex ever roamed the Earth. To put that into perspective, there's only 70 million years separating us from T. rex—meaning humans are closer in time to T. rex than T. rex was to Stegosaurus!
— @amnh
Thursday, December 5, 2024
He noted that he believes the meaning of the work is not completely up to him and he supports users interacting with it as they choose. However, he stated that work’s obsolescence, resulting from deterioration, was not something he intended or desired.
— Jessica Pace, Lou Di Gennaro, Josephine Jenks, Catherine E. Stephens, "Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books," RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Your top song was Mystery Train by Elvis Presley.
You were in the top 0.001% of listeners globally.
— Spotify Wrapped
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
History for us is just like stuff that happened in the past that doesn't matter anymore. But a lot of other people around the world experience history as something that really still matters. Like, really matters to their lives today. They just. They live in history more than we live. A deeper understanding of kind of how they got to where they were and the things that happened to their parents and grandparents and ancestors. And so there's just. It's just, you know, I don't know if it's, you know, better or worse. It's just a different way of experiencing reality.
— Marc Andreessen, "#2234 - Marc Andreessen, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Monday, December 2, 2024
Service temporarily suspended between Philadelphia and New York
— Amtrak App
Sunday, December 1, 2024
To be recognised and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same clothes, travel by the same way, perform actions in the same order. Like all birds, it fears the unpredictable. Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day, soothe the hawk from its wildness by a ritual of behaviour as invariable as its own.
— J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
