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The Morning News
In 1948, the "Paramount Decrees" ruled movie producers couldn't own cinemas. Their expected rollback threatens small theaters.
↩︎ Associated Press 4m

We can travel to see what exists instead of wishing for some mythical untouched state, the dream of a place prepared perfectly for visitors and yet empty of them.

In the face of overtourism, an argument for the inauthentic.
↩︎ Vox
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Hundreds of hours of archived home movies from East Germany's everyday lives—drinking, dancing, visiting the amusement park.
↩︎ Open Memory Box 16h
TMN and Rooster merchandise—perfect for a holiday treat. Remember, Sustaining Members get 50% off!
↩︎ The TMN Store 16h
Entrancing stuff: "GIFANAISQATSI" randomly pairs slow-mo images from Giphy with the original Philip Glass soundtrack.
↩︎ Monkeon 16h

One year ago, CNN didn’t have Buttigieg or Yang in its sights.

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Bitcoin viewed from 11 years later: it may not be a currency, but it is a great casino game.
↩︎ JP Koning 16h
An emerging crisis among young PhD researchers: much higher anxiety levels than the general population.
↩︎ nature 16h
German artist Evelyn Bracklow hand-paints old porcelain crockery with ants.
↩︎ La Phiilie 1d
In case you missed it: how to eat for free in New York City with an automated Instagram account.
↩︎ Chris Buetti 1d

Using machine learning, researchers can now predict how likely an individual is to be involved in a car accident by looking at the image of their home address on Google Street View.

From Tom Whitwell’s “52 things I learned in 2019.”
↩︎ fluxx studio notes
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This year's Turner Prize goes to all of the artists on the shortlist after they formed a collective so none of them would lose.
↩︎ It's Nice That 1d
A study of giving cash to the extreme poor finds that every dollar increases total economic activity in the local area by $2.60.
↩︎ Goats and Soda 1d
"Tweenage Landscapes," by photographer Beth Garrabrant.
↩︎ Beth Garrabrant 1d
One byproduct of our addiction to the internet? "Valuing information based solely on volume."
↩︎ GEN 1d
Pages from Emily Dickinson's personal "herbarium," or collection of dried plants.
↩︎ Harvard Library 1d
The best news photographs from the last year of the decade.
↩︎ The Atlantic 1d
Alex Ross catalogs the genius of German record label ECM—which counts Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Arvo Pärt among its artists.
↩︎ The New Yorker 1d
When music magazines were great, they helped you appreciate a song or artist. But too often they were hacky and bland.
↩︎ Longreads 1d

“So now I have to deal with the aftermath of having the most wrong thing I’ve ever done in my life become public. And that’s when I become the source of the president’s personal mockery and insults.”

Lisa Page says being insulted by the president isn’t something you get used to. Like when he uses your name to simulate an orgasm.
↩︎ The Daily Beast
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