Corner Yard
Digital illustration 2024
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Corner Yard
Corner YardDigital illustration 2024
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Collaborating with Algorithms
Algorithms are everywhere in our daily life. We can let them roll over us or we can attempt to collaborate and guide them. It’s not just that Spotify’s recommendations tend to be pleasant because it has a lot of data about me. It’s that Spotify has the listening history of 675 million people, whose interests…
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Cursor is a kite
Enter a location, and turn your cursor into a kite.
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Cover roundup: Glycerine by Bush
Glycerine is a banger from the mid 90s by Bush. Probably the most famous version is the one Gavin Rossdale performed due a rainy 1996 MTV Spring Break. Allison Lorenzen and Midwife add shoegazey fuzz Easy listening lullaby version Acoustic with female vocals Piano really changes it Or a string quartet
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Lego robots crossing different terrain challenges
Here’s a cool video of differently mobile Lego Technic robots crossing differently simulated terrains. That spiderbot is creepy.
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The Smithsonian and what is history
The nation’s museum, The Smithsonian, becomes another front in the war on truth. But even as the social history approach remade American museums, most Americans cling to an understanding of history that prioritizes the very things the social historians criticized. According to a 2021 survey of attitudes to history, conducted by researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson…
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Harry Potter and the Problematic Author
Maia Kobabe illustrates the issues around Harry Potter’s author, J.K. Rowling. All that fame and fortune, and backing transphobia is what she decides to do.
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The story of Oregon Trail, the game
If you went to school in the 80s and 90s, you most likely played the game Oregon Trail. It influenced video gaming in numerous ways, such as naming your companion characters. Fifty years after it was created, The Oregon Trail’s legacy remains powerful and, in many ways, surprising. Hundreds of millions of players have attempted…
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Who gets to participate in fandoms?
Fandom can be a fun way to share camaraderie and community, but they can also be toxic in a myriad of ways. In 2020, fandom thrived. We saw people return to their old fandom favorites like Twilight or Sherlock, play so much Animal Crossing and The Sims, and fall down the BTS rabbit hole (leading…
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Video games bleeding into real life
The term Game Transfer Phenomenon, or GTP, was first coined by Angelica Ortiz de Gortari, a psychologist at the University of Bergen in Norway. She first proposed the concept a decade ago while working on her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Mark Griffiths, head of Nottingham Trent University’s International Gaming Research Unit. Ortiz de…