RT @DanPriceSeattle: Companies during the last decade: “We can’t give you a raise. Don’t like it? Leave. Everyone is desperate for a job."…
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Based on those top schools, it looks like it totally reinforces this article https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22673605/upper-middle-class-meritocracy-matthew-stewart https://twitter.com/hmorrell/status/1448261546019221504
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@BrookeELierman @JohnnyOJr It’s really sad that municipalities have to have their own transit systems to make up the shortcomings of @mtamaryland…we’re double paying.
The BaltMetro Area needs its own transit authority to leverage city/county infrastructure (like coordinating stop lights and right of way)
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Over the summer, I became more familiar with the socio-political structures that heavily influenced the work of the Italian Renaissance artists. In particular, the outsized influence of the Medici in the Republic of Florence. The Medici family came into their fortunes through banking and used those fortunes to “control” the area. Lavin (“David’s Sling and Michelangelo’s Bow”) writes that David, besides being an abstract autobiography of Michaelangelo overcoming the difficulties of working with that piece of marble, is actually a commentary on the “Medici-Goliath” (Lavin, 1990 p.140). This Goliath was a threat to the Republican nature of Florence that Michelangelo supported. With all of this political meaning overflowing from the statue, I’m not sure that most contemporary Florentines would have understood the message of David beyond the basic biblical reference.
This is eye-opening stuff to which I would distill into one uncatchy motto: Abolish private travel sports teams and ditch tech industry certifications
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22673605/upper-middle-class-meritocracy-matthew-stewart
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@eric_hontz I was really excited they were closing Chanel stores. Fascism fails when everyone looks fabulous.
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RT @RLBlibrary: Button your cardigans @ubaltmain Tomorrow is #AskAnArchivist Day, so get your questions ready about the world of Archives p…
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@GLucasRoe @jemaleddin Perhaps the belt loops are vestigial and are now adorned to show rank within the social classes of the Mer-people society?
Do Mer-people have fabric to make insulating-when-wet blankets? Only natural animal fibers or artificial filament have that property.
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Graphic Design is problem solving through the arrangement of text and images. It is not about aesthetics but communication. https://twitter.com/joenatoli/status/1447701219095547906
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This is a great thread.
I blame hyper-specialization of Design and the rise of bootcamp mentalities where it’s all about “learning” a product to use and not about solving problems.
Interaction Design goes beyond apps, languages, and pixels but that is getting lost. https://twitter.com/daveixd/status/1446865240893788160
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