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https://twitter.com/archeometrie/status/1170031822614474752?s=12

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In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

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Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

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art by Robert McCall

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“One of my earliest Space Colony paintings was based on the giant ‘Model 3’ cylindrical habitats envisioned by Gerard O'Neill. I imagined the clouds forming at an ‘altitude’ around the rotation axis.” ~artist Don Davis

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Saddened to hear of the passing of Russ Nicholson. His art for the Field Folio was always some of my favorite.

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Linda Codega has interviewed The Fifth Season Roleplaying game co-developer Tanya DePass for Gizmodo and Tanya dishes on some of the details of how the game together and what to expect in play.

https://gizmodo.com/fifth-season-rpg-nk-jemisin-tanya-depass-green-ronin-1850018440

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Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964 via r/TheWayWeWere found here https://ift.tt/VjnGhsY by @mrnguyen123

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Interesting.

— excerpt from feminist theory: from margin to center by bell hooks

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This. Worth your time.

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I’ve been waiting for a couple of YEARS to be able to show off this new game project. The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game, now crowdfunding on Backerkit, is designed for you to play out adventures and stories set in the world described in the Broken Earth trilogy of novels by N.K. Jemisin—a world where constant and unstable tectonic and volcanic activity threaten all life; a world whose peoples have learned to adapt in order to survive. It is a world where everyone learns that Father Earth hates his children and is always trying to kill them, where metal rusts and even stone crumbles, and the best you can do is be prepared for the next disaster. In the world of the Broken Earth, community—the comm—is everything, because in community there is support and a chance to persevere. You and your fellow players take the roles of members of such a community, working to overcome internal difficulties and external threats, in order to be ready when that inevitable Fifth Season comes. Are you a lifelong native of this place, someone everyone has recognized from childhood? Maybe you’re a more recent addition to the comm, someone who’s come from a distance, contributing something to the comm that makes the possibility of your secrets and past catching up to you worth it. Or perhaps you are an orogene, one who was born to sess the movements of the tectonic plates, gifted with a forbidden power to still the shaking earth and bleed heat in your environs away until frost coats everything in a perfect circle around you.

These may be times of peace and plenty, but strife and lean times are ahead, with the next Season of Death looming like a dark thunderhead on the horizon.

Welcome to the Stillness.

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Green Ronin Publishing is crowdfunding a tabletop RPG based on @nkjemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, powered by the Adventure Game Engine! Check out The Fifth Season Roleplaying on BackerKit!

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Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.

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Ex Libris Catalogue 11: Bauhaus 1984-1985 [Cooper Hewitt,… https://ift.tt/2SS64tV

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Bride of the God Bel, Henri-Paul Motte