Erodium Thunk
Ads promising gratification stack one atop the other in this short video directed, animated, and edited by Winston Hacking.
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Let's soul.
President Trump issued an executive order to end his policy of separating families, but the government still has no plan for returning the children it has already taken. 1/18 The Guardian printed the names of 34,361 refugees who died trying to make the journey to Europe. 2/18
The United States of Disorder.
This week Trump repealed Obama's executive order that protected oceans and the Great Lakes, opening the door to industry and drilling. 1/21 Health and Human Services asks the Pentagon to ready three military bases to house up to 20,000 migrant children. 2/21 It's
A soundtrack for solitude
For good reason, Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" is everywhere—and now it's a video produced by and featuring Elisabeth Moss.
Trump is flailing.
President Trump abandoned his policy of removing migrant children from their parents’ care. 1/22 The White House changed its story no fewer than 14 times before ending its border policy. 2/22 “If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace.” Protesters confronted the Secretary
The indigenous islands divided by the Ice Curtain.
Residents of Little Diomede are American. Their relatives on Big Diomede are Russian. For almost half a century, these icy islands have been out of contact—a relic of Cold War division, just miles apart but 21 hours different by time zone. A 25-minute documentary shows their reunion.
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Three
We start our second book of the summer, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, in conversation with novelists Laura van den Berg and Rosecrans Baldwin.
The trick is forgetting.
Perhaps you've already heard it, but here are the sounds of crying migrant children as they're separated from their families at the US-Mexico border. Right now, my six-year-old is excited to see what the tooth fairy will leave him for one of his
A Neural Remake of "Take on Me"
The classic video recreated shot for shot by an AI finding similar looking archival footage—and apparently without any human edits.
Wake up!
The US Supreme Court delays making a decision on gerrymandering. 1/24 Free speech advocates cheer a judge’s ruling to allow a white nationalist to sue Twitter. 2/24 The head of an asylum nonprofit in Houston relates what she’s seeing in border detention facilities. 3/24 Inside