Yale professor Timothy Snyder announced this week that he and his wife Marci Shore (also a Yale prof) are leaving America and moving to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. This is significant because Snyder is an expert on tyranny. His book On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a succinct and vital read on the subject. It was one of the best books I read while living in Vanuatu during Trump's first term. I highly recommend it.

The first "rule," Do Not Obey In Advance, is being broken by countless individuals and corporations under Trump's second term. Once you're aware of this pithy statement, you'll start to see it happening everywhere, and it's frightening.

Here's John Lithgow reading from the book:

I've mentioned Craig Mod and his books and walking before and over the last couple days have been enjoying his two lengthy conversations with Tim Ferris. Craig is an American who’s been living in Japan for ages, writing and publishing — creating his own books to his own high standards, and living a life dedicated to his art.

When he goes on his lengthy walks (1000s of kilometres so far), he walks for 8 hours a day, stopping to talk to locals, have lunch, take photos, and understand where he is and where he’s going, and then he writes 4 hours per day. He’ll do this every day for his weeks- / month-long journeys. He does this by paring down his device use with Freedom and understanding Sister Corita’s 7th rule: The only rule is work. (I’m putting words in his mouth here.)

You can find the podcast in the usual places by searching for the Tim Ferris Show and then looking for Craig Mod, or you can stream them via YouTube:

Part One

Part Two

Habibi Funk has released seven free funk mixes. Stream them below or download to your own device.

We all know the game of telephone where a message is whispered from one person to another until it comes out changed at the other end.

TELEPHONE is the same, but done with art, each artist's work inspiring the next. Sculpture to photograph to poem to music...

This particular game has been played twice before and a new one is starting right now. Check the TELEPHONE site for instructions and sign up to participate.

The complete guide:

Learn the World Map is an online game that I think is pretty great. Challenging and educational. Very simple interface that is extremely effective at helping you learn. Works on a phone but much, much better on a laptop or tablet.

Aishy, a creative director and photographer, wanders the Tokyo streets at night looking for perfect shots.

More on Aishy's site.

The site TV.Garden allows you to stream television from around the world for free. For instance, stream:

• BBC News
• ABC Australia
• MTV (US)
• MST3K Forever-a-thon
• National Geographic (English)
• etc.

In addition to particular channels / networks, you can also sort by things like Top News from around the world, Music, Sports, Animation, Cooking, etc., or tell it to serve up a random channel.

Terrific 20 min Artbound documentary on Sister Corita Kent, The Pop Art Nun, who came up with the above rules and created the poster they're displayed on:

A few more examples of Sister Corita's work can be found at the Casual Optimist, which is where I found the video.

Informative video from MKBHD on the state and future of Drone Delivery.