Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Replace these "wireless telegraphs" with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be for 110 years in the future. Part of a series of "forecasts" for the year to come, the caption reads: “These two figures are not communicating with one another. The lady receives an amatory message, and the gentleman some racing results.” It's a reminder that the idea of technology leading to a breakdown in "authentic" human interaction is a worry not solely limited to our age.

Punch seemed to have a knack for uncanny predictions of distant technologies to come. See for example this vision of the Skype-like "Telephonoscope" from 1879.

A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906

A few of 125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919, from the collections of Library of Congress.


Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)


Oct 11, 1957: 'Shocked' Democrats Bid U.S. Win Arms Lead
"Rep Simpson, Repub of Penn said the Democrats are shedding "crocodile tears" over Russian successes in the satellite & missiles fields... If the pseudo military experts in the Democrat Party will just calm down, the American people will reach their own conclusion that one moon satellite hasn't cost them their security."




FASHIONS BY FALLOUT
...sale atomic fallout suits like the one worn here...Heather stopped traffic.
Approved by the US Atomic Energy Commission, include an eight-day emergency supply of food in a string bag.




This 1962 British Pathé Film of the most Amazing Tree House





Spectacular garden find: a 1,900-year-old gravestone for a Roman sailor recently was discovered in the backyard of a house in New Orleans. Rather than being tantalizing evidence of an ancient Roman naval expedition, the gravestone is now known to have been in the collection of an Italian museum until the 1940s. The artifact disappeared after the museum was heavily damaged during WWII. It likely was taken by a serviceman who brought it back to the U.S. to be used as a garden decoration.


The translation of this grave marker, according to the Preservation Resource Center, is: ‘To the spirits of the dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe (natio) of the Bessi, (who) lived 42 years (and) served 22 in the military, on the trireme Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made (this) for him well deserving.’ Photograph: Courtesy D Ryan Gray and Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard


I wonder why the original founder of Wikipedia has a sudden urge to reform the Wiki of its cancer rot? Apparently he's been working on a game plan for quite some time, however as we all know the cancer has metastasized over the past 5 years.

Larry Sanger announced a new initiative with his "Nine Theses on Wikipedia" — a series of essays he "nailed" to the door of Wikipedia, in a serious attempt to foster reform.



Fox News  |  Larry Sanger/Nine Theses (on Wikipedia)

~85% of the most powerful Wikipedia accounts are anonymous.
"When we consider the larger set, i.e., the “Power 62” accounts that are in at least one of the leadership groups, only nine (14.5%) use what appear to be their real, full names. The conclusion is inescapable: The vast majority of Wikipedia’s top editorial leadership is anonymous, at least to the public."
Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are



"Classic Antifa design" is such a weird way of saying "in the manual of the Office of Strategic Services."




One of the all-time great landscape photographers in Oregon has passed at 54 after a battle with stage 4 esophageal cancer. R.I.P. he was a warm friendly guy and a hardcore patriot.




Exquisite Oregon Art



"Who the F is Charles Guiteau?"

Death by Lightning dramatizes the stranger-than-fiction true story of 20th U.S. President James Garfield and admirer Charles Guiteau, who assassinated him.




“Assassination can no more be guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.” - President James Garfield


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