Four walls and a floor plinth covered in 8.5x11" sheets, each featuring an image from the encyclopedia

Eight displays in the center of room and all walls filled with sheets of paper containing images from the RH Encyclopedia

A close up of some o the images, each centered on the page -- we see plants, diagrams, etc.

White boxes with marker-sketched labels identfying their topical contents -- here: Time Chart: Chapter 882...

Matt Mullican's The Universe at Peter Freeman: cataloguing every image in the 1990 Random House Encyclopedia

on destroying the internet

Panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip in which Calvin and Hobbes eagerly agree to go to sleep on the basis that in dreams, they can play together all night long.

Douglas Wolk argues that “cartooning is, inescapably, a metaphor for the subjectivity of perception.” So maybe Hobbes’ reality is up to us. Or maybe it doesn’t matter, because in a comic, everything is real because nothing is real. This has always been true. But Watterson underscores it. 14/14

me and the boys are in the groupchat espousing the buddhist tenet of Anattā

Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

An edited version of Magic the Gathering's 2026 year line up: January 23 - Lorwyn Eclipsed March - Unannounced Lorwyn April - Secrets of Lorwyn June - Lorwyn Super Heroes August - The Eclipse October - Lorwin Eclipsed: Reality Fracture November - Caves of Qud

It's not too late Wizards you can still turn this around

A Paradise Built in Hell (by Solnit, the poster im quote-skeeting) was probably the most impactful book I read last year because it has so many morsels like this in it. I bring it up almost weekly- it stays relevant particularly for Californians. Cannot recommend it enough.

Palantir used to have affinity groups and DEI as late as 2022, and I had the logos saved on my phone because they pissed me off so much and of course they buried those pages. But I never forgot.

ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed

This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.

This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

apparently the virtual town hall only happened because of an organization fighting hard for it, but I never heard the organization's name name-dropped. Seems like they've been effective lobbyists on the issue of ICE and LAPD crackdown on anti-ICE protests.

she was willing to call Trump names and condemn ICE but like, that's not showing that she's commanding the city? She'll talk about big DNC narratives about the republicans being racist but not like, substance about what the city is doing to stop ICE. Those answers came from other experts in the call

got out of a karen bass town hall that I only knew about because of a flyer someone posted near my work. Dawg. this woman does not know what is happening in her own city. Several questions were met with a Mike Johnson style "I'd have to look into that." All authoritative answers from outside experts

I work in a museum but don't come from art history training. I'm trying to dig deeper into art history as a discipline on my own when I can - would you be willing to share a list of those foundational books are? If not no worries ofc

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

el froggylado

The Vinland Saga artist seems as cool as you'd hope he'd be.

hi i have a collection of resources, including layout templates requiring minimal html knowledge + guides that will teach you that minimum, on my own indie web page. god please make an indie website

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Pete Buttigieg Interview YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

watching this pete buttigieg interview and I keep getting struck with how he handles questions like a consultant, not like a leader. he doesn't have a position on zohran or gaza, but says that he sees that support and the party needs to be listening more. mckinsey roots showing through

Binging XOXO talks was a great way of keeping myself entertained during the sloggier parts of art school.

alas 😔

i enjoyed AI Mike tremendously last time, if that's still a solve you all enjoy

Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc (1930) ink on paper

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

sent the link to all my east bay friends earlier this week! rock on y'all power to you