This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-i…
I tried going for a 1km run this morning, first time out since tearing my calf back at the end of July.
After a few minutes walking, I started running slowly, only to make it a few hundred metres before feeling a weird "ping" in my leg that suggested I was maybe being over optimistic.
I walked the rest of the way, with no problems, but I'm a bit sad that I'm not quite ready to get back on the roads yet, to say nothing of the tennis court 😕
Bears' Williams: Pressure not in '25 game plan https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45874363/bears-caleb-williams-no-pressure-entering-second-season
Next week is the first edition of the relaunch of Papers Club! Read the following paper in preparation: “Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens” by Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Ralph Hertwig.
Date: July 28th, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM (discussion will happen about a half an hour later).
Location: Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
A link to the paper and the PDF can be found at the Luma link. RSVP is not necessary but r…