Ok. Deep breath.
I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in.
The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine is the latest front. And the idea it doesn't already involve us is fiction, a lie.
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via @NYTOpinion. Tom Hanks who I can proudly say went to the same high school as me, eloquently describes my same thoughts he last week. To grow up in minority majority Oakland and still never even read about the Tulsa massacre in any history book. https://t.co/1T711cPPP7
@haibintx@Dr_Geophysics@paulkrugman The UK has the oldest nationalized health system in the world and is currently ahead of the US in percentage of people vaccinated.
Nashville-based songwriter @julienrbaker's third record is remarkably contemplative, and a cosmically-textured tapestry.
With "Little Oblivion", Baker explores the aching toll of a roiling soul with her most ambitious musical backdrop to date. https://t.co/oe8h4OBgu7
SNOW! (1963). A team including Edgar Anstey, Geoffrey Jones (& Daphne Oram of the Radiophonic Workshop) created this BRILLIANT 8-min British Transport Film, getting ever-faster, about British Railways frantically recovering after snowstorms. I’ve edited a few bits to fit Twitter:
Perfect tone from the Terminator. It’s primary source stories from history like he tells here that we need more of. I remember when I was growing up, the concentration camp tattoos of my neighbors.