Internet sundries à la Dennetmint

dĕ•NĔT•mĭnt: Civic media enthusiast, bicycle commuter, experimental cook, aspiring athlete, wannabe programmer, infrequent pianist, language lover, tupperware fanatic and tea junkie. Above all, a West Coast girl at heart. Internet sundries: Inspired by someone's "quickies," aptly described as "not exactly a blog post, too long for Twitter."  

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Año 2013 en 1940.

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African American Boxer Joe Johnson, the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915)

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high five!

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A broad stroke of sympathy, but a great video to explain how empathy and sympathy are different

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Silicon Valley has a seemingly endless capacity to mistake social and political problems for technological ones, and Bitcoin is just the latest example of this selective blindness.

Alex Payne — Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology

Sharp criticism of bitcoin from Alex Payne

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c. 1920 by Harry Clarke 

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DOROTHY DANDRIDGE…

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hott.

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habitosnotivagos:

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”

― Frida Kahlo

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Remember this quote and understand why it is wrong to enshroud the memory of Frida in an aura of pain & suffering as if that’s what she were all about.

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I fucking love this picture omg

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the giggles!

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"Music….That Lordly Power" by Gordon Parks | 1993

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EARTHA KITT | BIKING BEAUTY

Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, 1952

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Yes to these tiger rugs. YES.

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So the sentence for Chelsea Manning is 35 years. The intention of government here is obvious: like everything else in the ridiculously harsh treatment of Manning it is an attempt to deter others from leaking information. So is the detention of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s partner under...

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One of the painful things about seeing Detroit city manager Kevyn Orr and Christie’s auction house taking steps toward possibly selling off Detroit’s art is that there doesn’t seem to be much Joe Citizen can do about it: Detroit’s situation is so dire that the state has given the city manager extraordinary powers. The only recourse art lovers and people who care about the future of Detroit have is to publicize how the DIA has been an important part of Detroit’s past and that the institution and the art in it should be a cornerstone of Detroit’s future. Hopefully raising awareness and putting pressure on Orr and Christie’s helps keep Detroit’s art in Detroit, available to the public.

Last week thousands of art lovers took an important first step in calling attention to a disaster-in-the-making by participating in “A Day for Detroit,” which helped spotlight great works of art in the collections at the Detroit Institute for Arts. According to the DIA, over eight million people saw your tweets and blog posts. So let’s keep it going!

The Modern Art Notes Podcast wants to help draw attention to the way art at the DIA is important to Detroit’s present and future. The entire August 29 episode of The MAN Podcast will consist of segments highlighting the ways in which the DIA and the art in the collections there are vital to the city of Detroit.

Please help us help Detroit!: We want to hear about how the DIA and the art there have been a part of your life. Did the art at the DIA help you or your children understand something about the world you might not have otherwise known? Did it inspire you to create something? Or has the DIA made your life richer in another way? If you have a story of how the DIA and the art at the DIA have been important to you, your children or your family, please email The MAN Podcast at [email protected]. We’ll pick as many of the best stories as we can for broadcast on Aug. 29. Please be sure to include your contact information so we can reply and record your story!

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THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING!

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There was no way to prepare for the eyes, the eyes that every day stared with such entitlement at my body, with no change of expression whether I met their gaze or not. Walking to the fruit seller's or the tailer's I got stares so sharp that they sliced away bits of me piece by piece. I was prepared for my actions to be taken as sex signals; I was not prepared to understand that there were no sex signals, only women's bodies to be taken, or hidden away.

Rose Chasm on objectification, CNN iReport

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immigrants don’t come to America for welfare, they come to work

Building a Wall around the Welfare State, Instead of the Country | Cato Institute (via nickgrossman)