Watching The Hunt for Red October (1990) with the teen and she’s flagging all sorts of weirdness:
- jenky computer graphics and paper maps
- apparatchik named Putin who isn’t *that* Putin (or is he?)
- young Alec Baldwin
Dana Bauer
Geographer. Dog mom. Under Wawa's eye. I don't understand social media anymore.
“The new digital divide is that GenX will buy things on their phones but Millennials won’t.” -GenZ
I already do this.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@everythingisimportant/115569878795982977
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Jean Armour Polly, aka the Net-mom & the person who helped popularize the phrase “surfing the internet," celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage. Her message highlights the ephemerality of websites, the importance of preserving digital culture, & honors the librarians & archivists who make it possible.
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new Hilma af Klint article just dropped, to absolutely no one's surprise she was Super Gay and one guy read her journals and thinks she was Kind of a Bitch, love this for her!
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I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/
I want to spend a month contemplating the sea.
TIL that Sarah Marshall likes to relax in IKEA food courts and I didn’t think it was possible for me to love her more. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/episodes/18167694
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horror movie but it's just local parents sharing screenshots of their healthcare premiums for next year
Husband emerges from his office in a stupor after six hours of writing and says, “let’s order some nice food, tasty food, something edible.”
user archetype of the day: normal people
For example, “that’s how normal people use it”
@IMGoph and then brace yourself again when you realize competence is not enough to save us
@IMGoph brace yourself for the seemingly competent government leaders
my very brief review of Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie “House of Dynamite”
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