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New Zealand designer makes ingenious solar-powered skylight that desalinates water for drinking.
Man captures photos of one of his country’s 50 rare albino squirrels.
Adored by many but loved by Chanel—A forgotten Parisian It Girl.
Pompeii archaeologists uncover “sorcerer’s treasure trove.”
Three-year-old girl dresses up as strong female role models in empowering series.
New York City woman finds hidden empty apartment behind her medicine cabinet.
Here’s a giant elephant sculpture made entirely of recycled tires and steel.
The women warriors who served wine on the battlefield.
The kingdom of women—The society where a man is never the boss.
Jeresneyka Rose was surprised to find Walmart carrying her artwork without her knowledge or consent.
Artist uses chainsaw to transform a damaged tree into a hand reaching for the sky.
Why European fascism is destined to die a slow, painful death.
Why we need to include female villains in our history books.
Pussy Riot has accused Bella Thorne of ripping off their signature ski masks.
Haiti is poor because colonial powers like the United States made it that way.
The economic recovery threw the middle-class dream under a Benz.
Hasbro introduced Monopoly For Millennials and Millennials are mad.
Hate groups make unprecedented push to recruit on college campuses.
Cheating and manipulation: Confessions of a gaslight.
The lost American museum that had it all.
How to turn a red state purple (Democrats not required).
Why Baltimore doesn’t heat its schools.
Here’s a free pattern for a beautiful knit scarf.
What does it feel like growing up in a collapsing world?
Ahed Tamimi offers Israelis a lesson worthy of Gandhi.
The real reason employees have no loyalty to corporations.
World Cup 2018: The moral clarity of Pussy Riot’s protest.
An artist has been accused of plagiarizing Japanese artists and using others’ work without credit.
Bitcoin is not a good way to get started with investing.
Study finds that Trump voters are driven by fear of losing status, not economic anxiety.
Lucky the translucent lobster may be one in a 100 million.
Here’s why no one should ever own an Amazon Echo or any other voice assistant product.
How movie stars conquered the “gig economy.”
The delights of parsing The Beatles’ most nonsensical song, “I am the Walrus.”
Celebration, Florida: Six bizarre realities of life in a town owned by Disney.
How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about.
The Brady Bunch house is for sale.
The Hitler family is alive and well—but they are determined to end the bloodline.
This woman had the perfect response when ICE agents boarded her bus.
I’ve just read the news about First Daughter Ivanka Trump closing down her fashion line. While I feel bad for the employees who will be losing their jobs, I have zero sympathy for Ivanka Trump.
Actually she was someone whom—under entirely different circumstances—I would have felt sorry for because she didn’t have it easy despite growing up in wealth and privilege. Try to imagine being a kid who’s old enough to learn about the media coverage of her parents’ divorce along with her father’s open affair with Marla Maples (who later became his second wife for a brief spell). Try to imagine growing up with a father publicly saying all kinds of sexually inappropriate things about his own daughter, which The Daily Show has archived in this two-part series: Don’t Forget: Donald Trump Wants to Bang His Daughter and Again, Don’t Forget: Donald Trump Wants to Bang His Daughter.
While I would love to feel sorry for her, I just can’t do it. Ivanka chose to work for her father after she finished college—the same father who said those sexually inappropriate things about her. She has spent the bulk of her professional career working for her father. When her father was elected president, Ivanka moved with her family to Washington, DC in order to serve as an advisor to her father.
I still remember when Donald Trump first arrived at the White House I read about some people expressing hopes that Ivanka Trump would serve as some kind of a moderating force for her father in the White House—a kind of a softer version of a social justice warrior. That was definitely wishful thinking on their part because, to date, I have yet to see Ivanka take any kind of a major stand on an issue while urging her father to support that issue. It’s like this Daily Beast headline says: How Ivanka Trump’s Loyalty to Her Father Killed Her Fashion Label.
The rationale for people hoping for Ivanka to be a social justice champion in the Trump Administration was the fact that she claimed to be a “feminist” while also publishing the book Women Who Work. If these people had read closer about Ivanka Trump, they would have realized that she was never going to be a white wealthy female version of Martin Luther King. There were the women who work in those factories in Third World countries making her clothes and shoes for her fashion line who were paid very little while working in poor conditions with little occupational safety and they were frequently separated from their own children. There was also the fact that she was very reluctant to give maternity leave to her own female employees working in her U.S. offices.
Her fashion label won’t be missed. Her clothes didn’t impress me at all. In fact, I’ve seen better designed clothes at Target. Then there were the accusations that her fashion line has plagiarized the designs of some of the shoes from Aquazurra. Even if I was a major supporter of her father, I would not be interested in wearing anything from her fashion line because her clothes, shoes, and jewelry were mediocre at best and possibly plagiarized from others at worst.
I’ll end this post with this Saturday Night Live fake ad from last year which skewered Ivanka Trump (played by Scarlett Johannson) and it still remains among my favorite parodies of Donald Trump and family.
Let’s take a moment to remember the sacrifices our armed troops have made for this country on this Veterans Day holiday.
Now let’s go on to the links for this week.
Here are some ways people disrespect the flag daily based on flag code.
Niger is the perfect example of the US state of perma-war.
How Twitter killed the First Amendment.
Sorry, but Haribo gummies are reportedly made with slave labor.
Interesting and colorful paintings made with controlled pours.
Artist shows how people in other professions react when asked for free stuff.
How to be an artist, according to Bauhaus master Josef Albers.
Artists who caught companies and fake artists shamelessly copyright their work and selling it.
White people commit the most heinous crimes, so why is America terrified of black men?
11th-century herbal remedy guide now digitized and online.
Wall Street got a bailout, why not Puerto Rico?
One man’s hobby is to Photoshop himself into various celebrity photos in a hilarious way.
Facing poverty, adjunct professors in America turn to sex work and sleeping in cars.
Trumpism run amok: How Alabama’s GOP runoff explains the brave new world.
Profile of an American city where the government barely exists.
Is this the end of the job as we know it?
Ta-Nehisi Coates explains why America should have seen Trump coming.
Leonardo da Vinci’s bizarre caricatures and monster drawings.
Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico.
The United Nations says that robots could destabilize the world through war and unemployment.
Smithsonian digitizes and lets you download 40,000 works of Asian and American art for free.
There’s something REALLY shady going on with Equifax’s website.
Dead air: The ruins of WFBR radio.
Photos of auto mechanics recreating Renaissance-era paintings.
How to stop Google and the police from tracking your every move.
Wonderful photographs of Victorian women of color.
Hundred-year-old fruitcake found in Antarctica is in “excellent condition.”
Miniature scenes with a darkly satirical twist by Frank Kunert.
There’s a Tumblr full of Nazis getting punched because that will always be awesome.
A free tutorial on the sashiko embroidery technique.
Amazon scammers’ new trick: shipping things to random widows in your town.
An intimate look inside a rare kingdom where women reign.
The last American baseball glove manufacturer refuses to die.
Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments.
An interesting graphic based on philosopher Karl Popper’s The Paradox of Tolerance.
The retro-industrial wonders of the Mold-A-Rama coin-operated machine.
How classic cartoons created a culturally literate generation.
People are furious at these new shirts from Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
This artist is brining out the beauty in stretch marks.
The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground.
What it means to be on the left.
Gorgeous color autochromes of American women from over 100 years ago.
Creative mom dresses up in amazing cosplay to represent older women characters.
Fender custom shop recycles Hollywood Bowl bench boards to make $12k guitars.
Rural America is stranded in the dial-up age.
This man spent 6 years crocheting a Super Mario Bros map blanket.
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals.
Transgender soldiers of the American Civil War.
The 11 most unintentionally hilarious religious paintings.
Meet the unconventional family who lives in a 1940s time warp.
The Gig Economy won’t last because it’s being sued to death.
Fourteen artists proving that Black Americana is real.
How a British artist visualizes the microbiome through handmade embroidery.
Adorable robot friend Kuri can now find its way home to charge.
Hell on wheels: New York City’s subway system as seen in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
What an apple-picking robot means for the future of farm workers.
Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s space robot.
Independent retailers are struggling to survive in Washington, DC.
A look at a 2,000 year old computer called the Antikythera Mechanism.
Five obscure anime you should definitely check out.
San Francisco tries to ban delivery robots before they become a public safety hazard.
49 photography blogs worth following.
FilmNation ventures into animation with sci-fi reimagining of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid.
This open source AI voice assistant is challenging Siri and Alexa for market superiority.
Why open source AI voice assistants pose little threat to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri.
10 photography tricks you can do at home without having to use expensive camera equipment.
Plush sports-doll maker Bleacher Creatures files for bankruptcy.
The Internet isn’t killing shopping malls—other malls are.
NBCUniversal is buying the DIY craft tutorial site Craftsy.
Phony WordPress domain steals cookies to fool web admins.
Infertile mice with 3D-printed ovaries successfully give birth.
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