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Unmute !

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“[Keanu] Reeves said a recent conversation about “The Matrix” with a 15-year-old put things into a terrifying perspective. The actor explained to the teenager that his character, Neo, is fighting for what’s real. The teenager scoffed and said, “Who cares if it’s real?” “People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art,” Reeves said. “It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?” “It’s this sensorium. It’s spectacle. And it’s a system of control and manipulation,” Reeves continued. “We’re on our knees looking at cave walls and seeing the projections, and we’re not having the chance to look behind us.””

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Keanu Reeves Slams Deepfakes, Film Contract Prevents Digital Edits - Variety

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My childhood copy of A Wrinkle in Time was a yellowing paperback with the Richard Bober cover, which I loved desperately. But I didn't know there was potentially a companion cover for A Wind in the Door!! I wonder if there's third Bober cover out there for A Swiftly Tilting Planet...

Uncredited 1980 cover art to ‘A Wind in the Door,’ by Madeleine L'Engle

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god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

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i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

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Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

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I can't explain it but this is the vertical equivalent of a moonwalk

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Putting all tabletop players into a college level ethics class and forcing them to turn in a paper on moral philosophy before buying a new book

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"ca. 1850–1640 B.C." !!!!

not just lil bb guys

but ANCIENT lil bb guys

I was working on some other tasks and somehow landed on the animal figurine side of JSTOR (don't tell my manager).

May I offer you three conspiring jerboa figurines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

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don't you love when forest taiga but also space brutalism

RT-64 Radio Telescope, Kalyazin

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Gah I love them

fishies!

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I would like to be soft and also uncanny, pls and ty

creature

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today someone asked me what my favorite even-toed ungulate is… god, who could decide?

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Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China

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I don't care if it's overdone I support Dev Patel's establishment of a Righteous Vengeance Cinematic Universe. Look at him