Posts by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #AkzfmxLHcfl3SbrwB6 by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-08-15T14:24:30Z
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@aral Very misleading summary! Not about English speaking countries as a whole at all!Title of the study indicates it is something extremely different: "Life expectancy and geographic variation in mortality: an observational comparison study of six high-income Anglophone countries"Excludes English speaking countries with POC majorities.
(DIR) Post #AmVwi0r36B8MzABlo0 by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-09-29T18:36:59Z
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Has science ever explained why 1970s colors were like this? Maybe some weird solar flares in the 1970s changed light spectrum reaching Earth, so people thought those colors looked good together? Or was it because everything was filtered through so much nicotine haze and leaded gasoline fumes?#1970s #colors #colours
(DIR) Post #An1NbkWsYcaDfG1Bqa by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-10-15T01:46:42Z
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@RufusJCooter @falcennial Columbo is the best cop show ever. It takes place in a fictional universe where police use non-violent methods to catch rich white people who think they're above any accountability.
(DIR) Post #AnuuF3BoTll86FFYLg by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-11-11T00:49:28Z
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@LibrarianRA Hit of 1906. Everyone sing along!https://youtu.be/xXBuGHrp_50
(DIR) Post #AoIpiuBChnlUrnQ4ki by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-11-22T13:50:32Z
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@LibrarianRA I remember in 1980 coming to the US from Central American not being aware of recent US television. I went to a mall in Florida and saw almost every magazine had a picture of an actor (who I recognized as the astronaut from "I Dream of Jeannie") wearing a cowboy hat. Also, many people were wearing t-shirts with text I read as "I Shot Junior" and variations on that. It took me a bit to find out what all that was about.
(DIR) Post #AoN3aUY6I9kb33qqNk by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-11-24T14:46:18Z
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@futurebird Modern children grow up in cultures with ubiquitous images of human faces, likely commonly seen before they can pick up a crayon. In addition to the cultural background, for the past 2 centuries also children's books and past century also animated cartoons.
(DIR) Post #AoN4QhP9juxryhYuLg by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2024-11-24T14:55:42Z
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@futurebird I'm sorry I don't remember the details, but decades ago I read an anthropologist's account of time with an isolated tribe that still used stone-age technology. Anthro had brought a Polaroid self-developing camera and took some snapshots of some of the people, and found they didn't recognize anything in the still photos. Antrho said it was because there was no movement. Anthro came back next year with video camera and display, and they recognized that enthusiastically.
(DIR) Post #ApeglPacfvvSpXac5Y by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-01-02T00:47:25Z
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@futurebird @swart 1920s Herbert Hoover was promising the US a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage - meaning general comfortable prosperity. (SPOILER: Didn't work out that way.)
(DIR) Post #ArObICPhYiuU2xgiFE by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-02-23T00:08:30Z
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@samhainnight @globalmuseum Well, they didn't have microplastics yet.
(DIR) Post #Arc6s9uvO32hrByw0e by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-03-01T14:39:59Z
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@futurebird @chillicampari @patrickworld I believe Sears sold rugs called "India" and "Persia" style
(DIR) Post #AsMYqwGvt7FnSJrOBk by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-03-24T00:22:46Z
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The guy in charge of "waste, fraud, and abuse" (what he calls any money not going into his own pockets). Futurism: A Huge Amount of Money Is Missing From Tesla A whopping $1.4 billion appears to have vanished in thin air. https://futurism.com/huge-amount-money-missing-tesla#Tesla #ElonMusk #WasteFraudAbuse
(DIR) Post #AtBm0jrc3WJ8I2cR5k by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-04-17T17:20:10Z
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"THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY - DON'T LET THE BIG MEN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU"Sign at gas station, Kern County, California, November 1938. Photo by Dorothea Lange. #USpol #WPA #protest #DorotheaLange
(DIR) Post #Aunhj9RsLSwnN6lojA by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-06-04T22:16:07Z
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House on Dublin Street across from Marsalis Harmony Park, Carrollton, New Orleans. Or perhaps more accurately a pair of houses joined together with a driveway and gateway between. One of those curiosities seen in passing in the older parts of town that make me think "There's probably a story behind that building... but I don't know what it is."Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans, 4 June 2025. @noladon #NOLA #NewOrleans #VernacularArchitecture
(DIR) Post #Auvges1Cf9jTStMuwK by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-06-08T17:56:44Z
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American patriots say NO KINGS! New York City, 9 July 1776: After a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, patriots pull down the statue of King George III.J. Adam Simon Oertel, artist; John C. McRae, engraver.#NoKings #USpol
(DIR) Post #Av69XnIO3k2YrRhwBs by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-06-13T19:43:58Z
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ICE tear gasses toddler & infant in car. The children are American citizens. ICE then fled when people on the streets gathered because of the screaming babies.Do you not get it yet? Jackbooted big-government thugs are deliberately doing terrible things, in order to provoke Americans to protest, and then they'll call the protests "insurrection" and use it as an excuse to crack down and suspend freedom. https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/video-federal-agents-ram-la-driver-arrest-him-gunpoint#USpol #ICE
(DIR) Post #Ax2g3SCf7WIFHvSrBo by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-08-10T23:36:30Z
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@aral Elon Musk spent billions of dollars in order to emit more farts than anyone in world history.
(DIR) Post #AyPu84LlI1TYmbGLOC by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-09-21T02:25:27Z
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@futurebird I was told "tankies" came from what happened in Hungary & Czechoslovakia in the '50s & '60s - if a fellow Communist varies from the Moscow Party Line, "send in the tanks".
(DIR) Post #B0DE4lkkaVGRqXrcRs by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-11-11T19:27:33Z
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Meanwhile on Bluesky... writer Sarah Kendzior was suspended without notice nor explanation. https://substack.com/@sarahkendzior/note/c-175914197#SocialMedia #Censorship #SarahKendzior #Bluesky
(DIR) Post #B0DE4r8gYwNgYE6Iwy by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-11-11T19:28:33Z
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For those unfamiliar, Sarah Kendzior Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kendzior#SarahKendzior
(DIR) Post #B0F0tkOuMh8FNYytfM by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-11-14T16:03:23Z
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@wjmaggos @mikesaul.bsky.social Per Kendzior, this explanation is bunk. https://bsky.app/profile/sarahkendzior.bsky.social/post/3m5lszn6u2c24