Come study physics. Totally a real science and not magic. www.tumblr.com/dduane/77…
How It Actually Feels To Live With Face Blindness
“Oh my God, heyyy”
Four words I dread hearing, delivered this time at a train station. I spin around. There’s a girl in front of me: similar age, dark hair, face that could be described as “vaguely familiar”. Or maybe she just looks like someone I should be friends with.
“How are you doing?” She says that last part as if she’s dying to know.
“Oh heyyy,” I respond in the same tone. “Yeah, great thanks, you?”
“Really well. I just got the keys to my new art studio, so that’s quite exciting.” I make a mental note of “art studio”. She makes art. My first contextual clue.
“It’s so important to have your own space,” I reply. “I would actually love to have my own office one day.” If I keep talking, I think, she’ll never know. She’ll never know that I have no idea who she is.
I have encounters just like this on a regular basis. Last week I was at a professional conference and had several encounters like this every day. Fortunately, people at conferences wear name-badges.
A test to determine if you have prosopagnosia, or trouble recognizing faces. If you score 65 or higher, there’s a good chance you have it. I scored 80. Go, me! www.troublewithfaces.org/test-your…
A brief history of the camera. mymodernmet.com/who-inven…
The Dodo Is Extinct Because of Humans. Now We Can Learn From It. nytimes.com
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The Democrats' pathetic plan to regain power: Appear on sports podcasts. nytimes.com
Your Local Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina on the measles outbreak and how RFK and other authorities are spreading dangerous misinformation. Also: Hantavirus, Medicaid popularity and opiod and HPV deaths decline. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
In ‘Dark Winds,’ things are about to get even darker: Zahn McClarnon, who stars as Joe Leaphorn, on the new season. nytimes.com
Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s — Keith Stuart www.theguardian.com/games/202…
The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs — Drew Breunig dbreunig.com
The Digital Packrat Manifesto. “DRM and big tech’s war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.” — Janus Rose. 404media.co
The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund — Molly Crabapple. The Bund was a Jewish anti-Zionist political organization that flourished in Poland between WWI and WWII. thefunambulist.net
Primary Every Democrat! primary.every.democrat
Brother makes a demon-haunted printer. pluralistic.net
“The Democratic Party is an exhausted and empty shell, a corpse sucked to the very edge of death by moneyed donors, a pale jumble of consulting firms trying to sell unflavored broth at the Gumbo Festival.” — Hamilton Nolan, “A Television Show Called the USA”
“In the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, you can learn that the first animals with backbones evolved during the early Cambrian Period, 525 million years ago. Outside of that museum, few backbones can be found in Washington, DC.” — Hamilton Nolan, “A Television Show Called the USA”
“Stop trying to reinvent Twitter.” — Dave Winer
“The critics panned [Mickey] Spillane, but he didn’t care. He said, ‘Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.’ He said he never had a character who drank cognac or had a mustache, because he didn’t know how to spell those words.” — Garrison Keillor [writersalmanac.publicradio.org]