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Things discovered by Hans Gerwitz

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Hi! The bottom bar on iOS is feeling a little crowded. Is it possible to take it down to just five or four buttons again?

Answer: Hey there, @postcards-from-space-camp!

Thanks for this. It is a pertinent question, but we’re sorry to say there are no plans to change the navbar, and that is because of Tumblr TV.

We’re adding Tumblr TV in there to make watching videos on Tumblr smoother and more fun, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

You will learn more about this in the coming weeks and months, but thank you for getting in touch. Keep the questions coming, folks.

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They will not enjoy it as much as you do.

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Figure 6 from The ABC of mobility in _Environment International_ volume 185 says to me: larger cities thrive with more public transport. Except in the US, where everyone prefers car traffic.

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Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods.

Michael Atleson for the Federal Trade Commission

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Making shapes in pixels, by u/not-throwaway

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If the project of civilization—including science, economics, politics, and all the rest of it—were to bring all eight billion of us into a long-term balance with Earth’s biosphere, we could do it. By contrast, when the project of civilization is to create profit—which, by definition, goes to only a few—much of what we do is actively harmful to the long-term prospects of our species.

The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations

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How to use "Furoshiki" by Japan's Ministry of the Environment

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I have come to understand that liberal democracies were always incomplete and thinly supported among populations, even in Western Europe and North America, and that we have been complacent and even negligent in the way we have used the term (liberal) “democracy” for states that exclude large groups of the population (e.g. women until early 20th century), discriminate minorities (e.g. Muslims or Roma), or ban certain political ideas and groups (like communism or fascism)

Interview – Cas Mudde

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Titus Kaphar, Enough About You

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Is there nothing anybody would say that would cause you to cease your association with them? If so, then what you are is not a proponent of free speech, but lazy amorality.

The Case For Shunning

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Pipe marking colors, ISO 14726

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To be sure, every democratic institution has its limits and shortcomings, things which it doubtless shares with all other human institutions. But the remedy which Trotsky and Lenin have found, the elimination of democracy as such, is worse than the disease it is supposed to cure; for it stops up the very living source from which alone can come correction of all the innate shortcomings of social institutions. That source is the active, untrammeled, energetic political life of the broadest masses of the people.

Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution, 1918

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Apollo Mission Flight Plan, NASA, 1967

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HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America and a stable genius, on Truth Social.

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How to synthesize pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), a highly controlled substance, from crystal meth, which is widely available.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the _Cross of Iron_ speech, April 16, 1953

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Algorithms have largely been accepted as making constant interventions in our lives to notify us what we are supposed to want or do — to tell us how to be normal. The various forms of autocomplete don’t just save time; they show us what we are supposed to say. They habituate us to being confronted with normativity at every turn.

Overreliance as a service