Snowy sleet
My three-year-old son today exclaimed “Look Mommy it’s snowing and raining at the same time.”
If I were there I would have informed him that this meteorological phenomenon is known as “sneet” or, more simply, late winter in Chicago.
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Views From The Tank
Marginalia
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Only 22 years after the Hermitage.
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I know they just miss the free food, but the idea of dolphins delivering me coral is immensely appealing.
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"Now that everything remains accessible we interact with our cultural past differently. More accurately, we don’t necessarily even realise that it’s from the past at all."
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Interesting deep dive from Google Arts & Culture.
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The technology here kicks off James P. Hogan's 1977 Inherit the Stars. Sci-fi only has a 44 year lead, looks like.
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"TINY heating problem. STUNNING VINTAGE TREES on fire. The humans also redid all the floors in asphalt, which is a choice."
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Ray Cathode! I love everything about this.
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There's always power in collective action.
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"It feels like a betrayal of the promise of finally getting out to wonder if I want to. Of course I want to, but also I don’t want to simply go back"
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Building beats.