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In Today's Reason to avoid Social Media: Report Finds Social Media Companies Engaged in Vast Surveillance.
"The report lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans’ personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year..."
This site has been around forever and I've always found it rather neat: a searchable database of all registered dog names in NYC.
Trying to choose a name for your new friend? See how common it is in NYC, which is probably a good way of gauging how common it is in general.
You'll notice that there are no Shakedowns. There wasn't when I named her 12 years ago, either.
In May, Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti wrote The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel (gift link). It's an excellent read.
If you prefer to learn by listening, today, the NYTimes podcast The Daily, did an interview with Bergman that breaks it all down into an easily-understood timeline. It is a great primer on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and I encourage you to listen to it.
If you're done with that and looking for more, check out The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017 by Rashid Khalidi.
A few weeks ago the film geek internet lost its mind because Tony Zhou made the first new episode of Every Frame a Painting in many years. Though I thought the episode was fine, my favorite of his is the one below.
If you're not a film buff and have never really understood what makes one film dynamic and another a bore — of if you're unaware of what a director does, or what blocking is, give it a watch:
And if you enjoyed that, the whole series is here.
This is a few years old but still interesting: a nearly 2 hour walking tour of the Pyramid of Giza. 4K / 60FPS.
Via TKSSS.
I've often joked that there's a Heron that watches over me. In LA, Spain, Vanuatu, The Dominican, and here in Toronto. I'd swear it's the same bird.
And then there's Yaren, a Stork that lives half the year in Africa and half the year in this livestreamed nest in Turkey.
Yaren not only returns to Turkey every March, she returns to the same friend, a Turkish fisherman named Adem Yılmaz. They've spent each Spring and Summer together since 2010.
More on Yaren's Wikipedia page.
Street photographer Meryl Meisler's got a new book, Street Walker. It's available from Eyeshot and they're only printing as many copies as are pre-ordered.
Elvis & Kresse make bags, wallets, and rugs from upcycled firehoses, parachutes, and rescued Burberry Leather. I find their size decisions to be rather odd (for instance, the bag below does not fit a Macbook Air) and I've never been a fan of companies gendering their products, but I can't deny they make gorgeous items that are intelligently and thoughtfully designed. Wonderful details.
Elvis & Kresse
David Szauder creates these Anatomy Sweaters using AI, which unfortunately means you can't purchase them.
You can, of course, view more on David's Site.
