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mockup von Ströer für 2026.

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Juxtaposition of MacPaint promo screenshot from 1984 with Goyō Hashiguchi’s woodcut image from 1920. Wikipedia: MacPaint The Walters Art Museum: 髪梳ける女 (Woman Combing Her Hair)

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Floating billboards in Shanghai

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#urbanscreen

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The golden age of hand-illustrated computer magazine covers: BYTE 1977-1984

(via Internet Archive)

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Evolution of the Alphabet /via

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Today, 17-May-2021, Barbara Hannigan is giving a masterclass in Copenhagen. Luckily for us, it’s being streamed live. The class itself is in the department “special interest” – but the initial conversation is strongly recommended for the open minded readers of this blog.  /via mprove insights#hannigan

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About my Medium posts

I am a huge supporter of Medium, because I am a huge supporter of the idea of Medium. 

Founded by a founder of Twitter to be a place where long-form thinking was possible, Medium has become a critical platform for spreading understanding in depth. I like it much more than an op-ed page in a major newspaper (since there’s no 800 word limit and it is more timely). I want to do everything I can to help it succeed.

Medium has now established a paid content section to its publication. That content is content recommended to its paid subscribers. I want my content to be easily available to both those paid supporters of Medium and anyone else. That want has led to this resolve:

I will publish my essays presumptively on Medium (sometimes elsewhere but I am exhausted by the submission process), thereby supporting the subscriber part of the platform (while earning the small bit that publishing earns me). But any article published in Medium will also be available here with a “friends link” — meaning a link that allows you to read the article whether or not you’re a paid subscriber to Medium. 

And all of my articles are CC-BY, meaning you’re free to take them and commercialize them however you want, so long as you credit me. 

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It’s 21h by Benjamin Rabe

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Lieber Leser 1985 –! Durch irgendeinen Zufall kramst Du in der Bibliothek, findest diese Band, stutzt und liest. Guten Tag. … /Kurt Tucholsky (1926)

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»REISEN SIE IN EINE NEUE WELT BUNTEN LEBENS besuchen Sie die U.S.A.« [Deutscher Sängerbund 1965] 

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In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true... The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

Hannah Arendt /via

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/based on https://twitter.com/oli_grimm_photo/status/1267776015092383745?s=21

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/based on Oli Grimm https://twitter.com/oli_grimm_photo/status/1296323910665998336?s=21

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Diesen Kerlen mit ihren Rechenschiebern und Computern wird eines Tages die Erde gehören.

Frank Towns (James Stewart) in Der Flug des Phönix