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High on the hog netflix series
Harlem Renaissance
I’ve been playing Minecraft since I was 10, and still do to this day at 18 years old. I’ve spend these past years making multiple cities and experimenting with the craziest building and urban planning designs. My biggest project yet it a world I have been working on for 5 years now. It covers a little over 1 million square blocks, and is a world... See more
Dezeen • Bjarke Ingels: Architecture should be more like Minecraft
Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell, though they approach the subject from slightly different philosophical angles, both speak to the idea of innate human expression as a fundamental manifestation of life. While neither explicitly focuses on “baby utterances” in their most well-known works, their broader philosophies resonate with the idea that early
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I studied Classics in college. When I read Caro, I cannot help but think that his work is -- in terms of quality, significance, and longevity -- comparable to that of Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius. Truly one of a kind.
Robert Caro: Understanding Power (Full Length Version)
Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It’s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it. It recognizes that ending internet monopolies isn’t just an intellectual problem. It’s an emotional one. It answers questions like how do we keep going when the... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more