Linked List: May 2025
Thursday, 29 May 2025
- Andrea del Sarto ✶
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From a poem about the Renaissance painter by Robert Browning:
Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that?
Speak as they please, what does the mountain care?
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for? All is silver-grey,
Placid and perfect with my art: the worse!
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
- Goodbye, Sebastião Salgado ✶
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May more people appreciate life the way you did.
Thursday, 22 May 2025
- Cartography design tutorials ✶
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Daniel Huffman gets in the weeds with lots practical advice on map making.
See also Tom Patterson and Molly O’Halloran.
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
- Protect my public media ✶
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Public media is facing multiple serious threats. The Administration has proposed eliminating federal funding in its annual budget request, issued an Executive Order to block support for PBS and NPR, cancelled grants that support the creation of children’s educational programming, and plans to claw back funding approved by Congress.
Act now. Tell Congress to reject the rescissions package and stop the dismantling of public media.
Via 88.1 FM WYCE
Monday, 19 May 2025
- We become what we behold ✶
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
—Marshall McLuhan (misattributed)
Friday, 16 May 2025
- Dissolution Speech ✶
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From the read-again-regularly list.
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
- “Just so you know, I don’t know where we are” ✶
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Jordana Cepelewicz writing about poet mathematician June Huh in Quanta magazine:
Moreover, as he later realized, “I wanted to be someone who writes great poetry,” he said. “I didn’t want to write great poetry.” Now he sees that version of himself as almost a complete stranger.
Thursday, 1 May 2025
- Dawn of the Dead ✶
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My favorite zombie film, from 2004. Here’s the trailer.