This Aeon piece makes the case that we are living in a golden age of mass literacy. I said as much in this thread from 2010, swinging off this IEEE Spectrum post, which argues that no media category grew as much since the 80s as text. Interestingly, DuckDuckGo finds all sorts of stuff but it doesn’t yet find my comments on obscure blogs; Google has always been good at that sort of thing.
Tankman, zoomed out; that’s a complete regiment of Type-59 tanks he’s holding up. The ground would have been physically shaking.
More tankman.
The neural-feedback controller for the Atari 2600, never deployed due to lawyers. This guy has plans but I can’t help finding it almost as creepy as Google Now popping up “Time for Work!” or the rest of the current Silly Valley fixation for prod-and-badger interfaces. At least this one is open source, and I guess he means well.
The latest candidate for the Great Leeds Band, the Mount Impossible of British music. It is not there to be achieved, but to be strived for. Or even striven.
A case that the Afghan government is at least as sound as the one the Russians left.
This is awful. The Socialist Worker seller crying “Fascism is alive and well in Muswell Hill!” still begs the answer “Like Elvis!”…but really.
Cool.
Turkish protest photo; even better photo.