Linked List: November 2024
Friday, 15 November 2024
- Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update ✶
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Never played Valve’s second classic? Get Half-Life 2 and its sequel episodes for free on Steam until November 18th. And try clicking on the grav-gun on the bottom of the page and then clicking on any page element :)
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
- Enlightened Imagination For Citizens ✶
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Alan Kay:
In our world, we have enough power to topple our most important systems, but not the power to restore most of them.
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
- Learning in depth ✶
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One of the great paradoxes of education is that only when one knows something deeply can one recognize how little one actually knows.
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In her portfolio is a beautiful large sheet on which she had written, almost like a medieval manuscript, a copy of W. B. Yeats’s poem “The song of Wandering Aengus,” with an illustrations of the ‘glimmering girl / With apple blossom in her hair’ and of Wandering Aengus who had looked for her for so long, and thinking when he had found her that they would pluck ‘till time and times were done / the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.’
- Don’t Be a Sucker ✶
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Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and “crooked” gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler’s Storm Troops. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.
Via Armin Ronacher.
- Booklets ✶
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Print, cut, fold, staple. Drop off at a little library, big library, bus stop, coffee shop, laundromat, workplace, dentist’s office, the mailbox of your crush…
Friday, 8 November 2024
- 1933 and the Definition of Fascism ✶
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Ancient and military historian Bret C. Devereaux:
And if hearing about these things that happened is unpleasant, well, Polybius offers the solution: “men have no more ready corrective of conduct than knowledge of the past” (Plb. 1.1.1). We must correct our conduct.