🕰️✊ We think of #clocks as neutral tools for staying on schedule, but for centuries, they were viewed as instruments of control.
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aeva
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title: A View of Venice
artist: Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: With rich colors and calligraphic brushstrokes, Thomas Moran dissolves the
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=17881
title: A View of Venice
artist: Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: With rich colors and calligraphic brushstrokes, Thomas Moran dissolves the
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=17881
"Fascism doesn’t just take down the oppressed. It doesn’t just come for the people it’s trying to control. It inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it."
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Hand dance has been the official dance of Washington, D.C., for decades. @51stNews takes a look at its history and how the community is keeping it alive.
Elyse M Grasso
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I know I have ranted about this before, but: now I am running across entire websites with "folktales" that don't exist, referencing sources that also don't exist.
Why is it a problem, you ask? A story is a story?
No. Not if it is assigned to an actual existing culture. If it is claimed to represent the heritage of an indigenous tradition. Oral tradition is endangered already in many ways. We don't need AI to enshittify this.
Check your sources.