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Historian and designer @maggiegram.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about her new book "The Invention of Design," how the field of design has evolved and the peril, and promise, of design thinking.
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Very well written and illuminating book by @maggiegram.bsky.social
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maggi...
Excited to talk with @printmag.bsky.social this afternoon. Register here: l8r.it/VBTi
I love that @myhnn.bsky.social published this excerpt, AND I feel compelled to emphasize that "Irrelevant at Best, or Else Complicit" headlines an excerpt (it's a quote) rather than a review 😆🫠
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There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
I like that my mid-range financial decisions now include considerations like "will money be worth anything"
@emilytav.bsky.social articulates beautifully what is different about civic tech (imperfect yes) & DOGE (disastrous)
did he have a flashlight? what was he wearing? sounds like bullshit to me
awww thanks! :’)
Forthcoming, June 25. By @maggiegram.bsky.social!
An executive order issued Wednesday by President Donald Trump will not stop California public schools from teaching LGBTQ curriculum, the state education office told the @bayareareporter.bsky.social ...
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!["Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine.
David Velasco
New York City”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/bafkreihrenoebwsv5fnp2z63jnlvgvdmeoswiwbonxuwywtv4u2bzqhexq)
"Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine. David Velasco New York City”
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
And assortment of brochures from the workshop for learning things, including brochures, listing workshop costs, course, offerings, etc. – on cream, yellow, + green paper
A postcard for the Workshop for Learning Things, from Philip Morrison to Ray Eames
A list of classes, including cardboard, carpentry, classroom, photography, and simple printing
Yellow course catalog from 1976. I can’t quite tell what the image is depicting!
I have some of those 1970s 📚 on cardboard furniture, but I was unaware of their cnxn to the 💐Workshop for Learning Things 🛠️, a Whole Earth-y resource + learning center for teachers (same as the 60s Ctr for Understanding Media, predecessor to my old dept @ The New School!)
(via Eames papers LoC)
what if computers were stupid? what if they could do less, with more? what if we had no idea who our target audience was supposed to be? what if we had more vc funding? what even *is* a use case?
our new startup asks all these questions, and more
holy shit
JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
Honestly the best description, ily @pjmaciak.bsky.social
Chart from article linked in next post, showing strong inverse correlation between car ownership and poverty level in NYC neighborhoods. Car ownership is by far the highest in locations with poverty rates below 20%, and a high proportion of the relative outliers are in the Bronx and outer Brooklyn.
Useful data on car ownership in NYC. Cars are clustered heavily in low-poverty neighborhoods, and the highest-poverty neighborhoods with significant car ownership tend to be distant from the congestion-pricing zone.
We found him. The user from every user story
Roland Busch, the chief executive of Siemens, the industrial company based in Munich: 2025 will be the year of industrial A.I. It will be a powerful tool to address skilled labor shortages and boost productivity, creating substantial growth opportunities.
Siva Sivaram, the chief executive of QuantumScape, a developer of solid state lithium-metal batteries based in San Jose, Calif.: In 2025, the race for global battery supremacy will intensify amid growing demand across sectors like transportation and A.I. The battle for lithium-ion batteries is lost to China, but the future depends on next-generation technologies that outperform them. I hope the United States leads in this new era of energy storage.
Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author: I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.
There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
🥰🙏 I don't promote my book as much now that I work in government, but I did write one & I believe it's still pretty useful as we enter a time of major shifts & messy information in both government & tech
www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...
A moss speckled tree branch lies above a forest floor of fallen oak leaves, several large colonies of white Splitgill mushroom grow toward the camera, their swirling gills creating flowing patterns on varied scales. Photo taken by me December 2023
Here are some nice mushrooms
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