Hinsh

@hinsh.bsky.social

Usually working outdoors. Here, I’m reading about public policy, STS, art, archaeology, Treaty, and posting nature pictures. Join a union.

The Paramount Theatre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 1948. #marqueespotting. Image: Archives of Ontario and Old Ontario Series on FB. It looks like the big sign out front is still being installed. Given the history of anti-Indigenous racism in this city, the movie’s title lands a bit different today.

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But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Okay. Can somebody under the age of, I don’t know, let’s say 50, explain this AI gibberish to me? All I remember from that day is that I was driving the north shore of Lake Superior.

In an AI generated summary of my day’s listening, Spotify describes the range of music from last June 30 as “diverse” adding the incomprehensible phrase “genre hopscotch, vintage to vapourwave”.

Reading about the presumed date that pendulums were incorporated into English domestic clocks (around 1660), with the innovation attributed to either Richard Harris, Christian Huygens, Ahasuerus Fromanteel, or Robert Hooke.