Octavio Kidd @ticokidd

something something I'm interesting next to where the food is Joined November 2009

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

a week ago

We spend more than 90% of our time inside, so why do we design so many of our interiors like this? Grey carpets, white walls, harsh lighting. It's generic, boring, and genuinely bad for our physical and psychological health...

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Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG

a month ago

Viggo Mortensen would routinely take photos of his cast mates during the filming of the Lord of the Rings. Here is a quick thread:

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The Woke Salaryman @wokesalaryman

3 months ago

The year my son got cancer. DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A PRO BONO PIECE WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired

3 months ago

Music through AirPods gets a *tiny* bit slower when you wear the wrong clothes. If a heavy jacket blocks a random bluetooth frame; nbd. Packet-loss concealment (PLC) covers the gap with a little error correction. When consecutive packets go missing, it gets tricky:

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Tom Cruise @TomCruise

3 months ago

Over 30 years ago, I began the journey of producing my first film, Mission: Impossible. Since then, these eight films have taken me on the adventure of a lifetime. 1/20

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

4 months ago

When Vincent van Gogh started painting he didn't use any bright colours — so what happened? It isn't just about art. This is a story about how we're all changed by the things we consume, the places we go, and the people we choose to spend time with...

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

4 months ago

This painting is 101 years old. It was made by George Bellows, one of America's greatest ever painters — and an artist who changed what art was all about...

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The Stanford Review @StanfordReview

4 months ago

INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford. After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, the Review can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. 1/8

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nick.eth @nicksdjohnson

5 months ago

Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

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a 🗡️🍉 @ama_a93

6 months ago

dont open an etsy shop 😃 (1/4)

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

6 months ago

571 years ago today Amerigo Vespucci was born. He's the guy the Americas are named after. But it was basically an accident — and he didn't even know about it...

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

7 months ago

This painting is nearly 100 years old. It's by Grant Wood (most famous for American Gothic) and it's called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. Why does it look like that? Because Grant Wood had one of the most unusual styles in art history...

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Works in Progress @WorksInProgMag

7 months ago

There exists a popular sentiment that we can’t build as well as we used to and our best days are behind us. But when we choose to, we can still build beautiful and interesting developments. Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

8 months ago

Why Brutalism isn't as bad as you think...

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

9 months ago

It might feel like Christmas is now over — but it's only just started. Because Christmas really begins on the 25th December and ends on the 5th January. That's why there are Twelve Days of Christmas...

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Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre

9 months ago

I read Google's paper about their quantum computer so you don't have to. They claim to have ran a quantum computation in 5 minutes that would take a normal computer 10^25 years. But what was that computation? Does it live up to the hype? I will break it down.🧵

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Wildfire Whispers @WildfireWhisper

9 months ago

Ode to my Thanksgiving Turkey (Warning: this poem contains profanity and graphic descriptions of violence.) You bitch. You salmonella infested, slimy skinned, over glorified chicken. This is my mantra As I wear you elbow deep on my arm like a meat glove And my fingers search…

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

10 months ago

This painting is nearly 500 years old. It was made by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, one of the strangest (and funniest) artists who ever lived...

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由仁アリン Arin Yuni @Arin_Yumi

10 months ago

Welcome back Trump-san from 🇯🇵🇯🇵!!

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Narwitz @SophiaNarwitz

10 months ago

I need to get this off my chest, overly long post incoming: This election has far too many young people speaking of hopelessness, some going so far as to make suicidal statements. Especially within the LGBT realm. And quite frankly, it's extremely messed up and we need to have a…