Category: Miscellany
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Photograph of a protest sign at the Women’s March in Washington, DC: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
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I have been learning new terms these past months. Today it was âalternative facts,â which goes together with an older term, apparently repurposed for our current political and cultural momentââgaslighting.â I saw the latter term on a protest sign at the Womenâs March yesterday.
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Photograph of the full-page New York Times ad.
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Some participants of the conference I referenced in the previous post took it to twitter. See #GHImaps.
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My initial personal takeaway from tonightâs lecture on digital mapping: It looks useful as an analytical tool, and for presentation, but in the end we still have to write narratives. Historians have to make choices, not present facts that merely speak for themselves.
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I was standing near the driver in my bus yesterday, waiting for the light to change so I could get off. When the light turned green, but the car in front of us didnât move, the driver beeped his horn. I said, âPeople need to get off their phones,â which earned…
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Link to a story by a friend in DC.