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by vwcx 9y ago
To the grandparent: people have been trying to colorize black and white photos since the 1840s True. But there was also tons of skepticism in the medium throughout the mid- to late 1800s. Oliver Wendell Holmes' writing on veracity of
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As a professional photo editor and historian, colorized photos really agitate me. I'm all for the creation of new ways to get people to engage with historical primary documentation, but the nuance that these colorizations are interpret
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Why are more American teenagers than ever suffering from severe anxiety?(nytimes.com)
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More revolutionary than the camera itself is the new image compression Apple is introducing. Can take all the photos in the world but we've still need to store them for all eternity. The effect of the image compression will be felt dec
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A strong reminder that as humans, in all our complexity and nuance, each of us have basic needs and a desire for empathy and connection. The need to be heard, and the ability to offer simple acknowledgement of someone else, is so underrated
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I agree with you. I see two threads of meritocracy in American life: 1. The meritocracy tied into Christian belief - that person has sinned (whatever you interpret sin to be), therefore of course their life is like that. 2. The ignorance of
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by vwcx 9y ago
On a parallel thread, August just turned over to September and rent is due in Houston: https://news.vice.com/story/harvey-flood-rent-undocumented
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For the most part, digital publishing's remaining lifespan isn't that long. Not as short-sighted in their remaining life...
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"The study, based on aircraft measurements of carbon dioxide and methane and tower measurements from Barrow, Alaska, found that from 2012 through 2014, the state emitted the equivalent of 220 million tons of carbon dioxide gas into the
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It is fully legal to do many things that are ethically awful.
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In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard(nytimes.com)
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These competitors are catching up with shipping because of the way Amazon's demands changed the entire shipping economy. UPS offers entire categories of delivery products now available to Amazon's competitors because they develope
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There are all kinds of people who have never heard of Craigslist within the United States. There are also plenty of children under 18 who have never heard of Craigslist. Despite its popularity and relative staying power, Craigslist belongs&
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A media's distaste for violent images is not the issue here. Photographs very similar to these are published every day by tens of thousands of outlets around the world. The issue is that these photographs are coming from an unknown sou
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I am a photo editor at a major publication that's been around for more than 100 years, and I have been responsible for sending photographers to Iraq, Syria and other conflict zones over the past seven years. The short answer is that we
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Christopher Leonard's book 'The Meat Racket' is a good primer for anyone interested in the subject. He does an excellent job walking through the simultaneous rise of "big chicken" and the legislative steps corporati
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“1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”(bloomberg.com)
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The framing of this article is strange. It presents encountered emotions arrived at through meditation in a clinical setting, as if people may not expect underlying anxiety about their lives to emerge. If anything, this speaks to the human
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Nigritude ultramarine, but for control of the United States of America.
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I challenge you to interrogate what sort of perspective changes happened. I used to think the same: that the occasional Netflix series binge was opening my mind to a new perspective on X topic. But after deeper consideration, I realize the
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110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue(nationalgeographic.com)
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Why claim anything? Don't mention you have one on your body (because you don't).
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At first I thought that this title was referring to the artist who intercepted satellite internet transmissions and re-constituted what JPGs were contained in the requests: http://time.com/3791841/the-green-book-project
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Seconded.
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"What will move me beyond this state of anesthesia? How will I counteract the lassitude that creeps over my soul?" What a great set of reflections. I've paused on this for the past 15 minutes and will continue to ponder it th
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by vwcx 10y ago
On a related note, what is the first banner ad you remember seeing? For me it was the X10 camera ads around 2000: https://www.geek.com/news/x10-ads-are-useless-545130/
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I can't wait for the outlash when an Alabama mosque exercises their privileges under this new statute.
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The real thing to fear here is the normalization of violence. Good perspective in the WP comments: "The truly shocking thing here is that violence - with the real possibility of serious injury - was viewed as appropriate in a situation
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Perhaps I am reading into your tone in a way you don't intend, but why reduce these climate scientists to "a couple dudes" looking at "some pictures"?
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Exactly! My company's internal benefits page tells me my compensation is "salary + employer side of medical, dental, vision + employer 401k match". I always chuckle at how high that number is compared to my actual paycheck...

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