@pmarca I'm building a map of photos of all people through the 19th century to today to maintain this cultural context. Most people today are still close to Faulkner, Lincoln, Marx. networkoftime.com/?match=william…
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Jesse Ward
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Jesse Ward
@RealJesseWard
Creator @networkoftime
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Tham gia Temmuz 2010
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In our cultural memory, 1866-1928 might as well not even exist. Lost decades, despite virtually the entire modern world as we know it conceived and built then.
Kolchak the Daywalker 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌@ArthurKolchak
It’s weird how historicized, canonical figures in the arts are all flattened in the popular imagination as having lived in some strange, undifferentiated 19th century. Even the great modernists, who definitionally dwelled within a thoroughly industrialized technological paradigm, are all conceived of as some vague Victorian types who wrote by candlelight.
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David Bowie to Nikola Tesla in 5 photos.
1. Tesla with actor Joseph Jefferson and Mark Twain, 1894
2. Jefferson with Helen Keller, 1902
3. Keller meets Frank Sinatra (+ Orson Welles photobomb), 1944
4. Sinatra stars with Bing Crosby, 1957
5. Crosby duets with Bowie, 1977
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Then he asked the audience if we remembered Dick Shawn. Only one person did. He continued to show us a clip of the time he guest hosted The Tonight Show when Shawn was a guest. Almost any level of fame completely disappears within a lifetime.
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It was incredible to see Rich Little, at age 86, performing routines from 50 years ago. If you see Paul McCartney perform today, you want to hear him sing I Saw Her Standing There, from 1963. Nobody says that song is too old to play. Old live comedy is the same.
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My vacation to Las Vegas resulted in a meditation on the nature of fame, proximity and collective memory.
Network Of Time@NetworkOfTime
You've probably inherited Richard Nixon's handshake without realizing it. This is the nature of collective memory. Read my Las Vegas travelogue – link in reply.
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Here's the side project I've been working on the last few months.
Network Of Time@NetworkOfTime
Network Of Time is live again. Explore a photo-based social graph linking 16k+ historic people through verifiable photographs. Pick any two names → see how they connect. IE: Darwin → Marilyn Monroe van Gogh → Stone Cold Steve Austin Explore now: networkoftime.com
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Protip for those applying to @ycombinator, the form sends a Posthog event every few keystrokes. Do something weird in there and you get real-time visibility from the Product Team.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
The deadline to apply for the YC Fall 2025 batch is this Monday, August 4th. All you need is an idea: ycombinator.com/apply
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@TerryGlavin This has been happening for decades: halifaxexaminer.ca/investigation/…
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Well. This is embarrassing.
blacklocks.ca/paid-233k-for-…
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@MarkBourrie This is good. Recent story in the Philanthropist Journal goes deep into this issue and the role non-profits can play. thephilanthropist.ca/2024/02/reinve…
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New FairPress post!
An overview of the crisis in Canadian media:
fairpress.ca/articles/fixin…
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Lunenburg votes to replace colonial legacy of Cornwallis Street with Queen Street thebarnacle.ca/lunenburg-vote…
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A reporter could face five years in prison for writing about a murder trial halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/a…
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Life in Halifax will have you always searching “how to pay for transit” in every new city you visit. The answer is always tap payment with any debit or credit card, but you figure there must be one other outpost exclusively accepting coins or special drug store tickets
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Conservative MP @RickPerkinsMP on why he voted against Bill C-18:
“It’s a misguided bill that is based on – in my view – on a concept of a lie.”
thebarnacle.ca/a-news-chat-wi…
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i keep periodically telling myself i want to make a list of interesting "action-terminating"(?) assumptions people make and i keep forgetting them so i think i'ma try to just start a thread and slowly add 1 at a time
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Couldn’t feel more honoured than in 2013 when Michael Hastings shared my question from the @BretEastonEllis Reddit AMA. RIP twitter.com/mmhastings/sta…
kayds ♡’s Georgia@lessirusso_
what’s your biggest/fave celebrity notice ??
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John DeMont's column: While the Town of Lunenburg may want to divest itself of the iconic Lunenburg Academy, the foundation that cares for it is unyielding in its view it should stay in public hands. saltwire.com/halifax/opinio…
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"The Town of Lunenburg says they cannot speak to why they are pursuing sale of the Lunenburg Academy building, because this decision was made during a private in camera meeting of Town Council."
thebarnacle.ca/town-of-lunenb…
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Future of Old Fire Hall a mystery more than one year after loss of NSCAD artist residency: thebarnacle.ca/future-of-old-…
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@CBCNS Article says "The town defines affordable rent as costing 30 per cent of a person's income" – they are defining it as 30 per cent of the median census income, approximately $1,637/mo.
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