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@maxakohler

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html energy ❇️ (@htmlenergy) profile picturehtml energy ❇️@htmlenergyJun 13
who is writing html by hand today?
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Rent on these flats was ~3% of people's income by the way
line graph showing rents relative to wages in the gdr, 1960-1990 falling from 4.2% to 2.9%.

ALT line graph showing rents relative to wages in the gdr, 1960-1990 falling from 4.2% to 2.9%.

East German Visuals (@GDRvisuals) profile pictureEast German Visuals
@GDRvisualsNov 5
Harf Zimmermann's photographs of his neighbours on Hufelandstraße in East Berlin, 1980s.
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Correct. The whole point of modern residential architecture was/is to make safe, pleasant houses available to regular people by mass-manufacturing them, and people like it.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 (@mnolangray) profile pictureM. Nolan Gray 🥑
@mnolangrayAug 1
I think that rationally ignorant, time constrained normie homebuyers see contemporary architecture/design and (mostly correctly) understand it to be a shorthand for, "great, it'll have all the usual modern amenities, no major safety or maintenance issues, etc."
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I remember walking around Walter Gropius' original development from 1925 (!) and being struck by how spacious and well-built everything felt compared to the 1980s mock-georgian house where I lived. It's good architecture!
modernist semi-detached house

ALT modernist semi-detached house

modernist semi-detached house

ALT modernist semi-detached house

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Moby-Dick is good but Capital by Christopher Nolan would be the greatest film ever made
Matt (@scriptumsent) profile pictureMatt@scriptumsentJul 18
Who’s gonna do Moby-Dick though. That one needs the blockbuster auteur treatment.
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honestly this might be the last year of HTML Day unless we can find sustainable funding HTML Day belongs to the community and I'd love to see it continue but organizing it takes a lot of <time> if you'd like to help support it we would love to talk
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"with a baroque bow and two weeks of solid practice i could totally do this", he thought to himself youtube.com/watch?v=JZmanibt…
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I do think one of the beautiful things about classical music is that there is really no skill ceiling. Every violinist in the world has been playing the sonatas & partitas for 150 years but there's still room for discovery
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i shudder to think how many people at my job are doing exactly this every day
paragraph 4.1.3 from the paper linked in the first reply

ALT paragraph 4.1.3 from the paper linked in the first reply

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if you can write a for loop and two if statements i'd love to email you sometime maxakohler.substack.com/
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for context, this is the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/… and this is (roughly) the problem they set: leetcode.com/problems/maximu…
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SPACE LAPSE for RCA Sculpture (2021)
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every job i've ever had (2023)
drawing of weird boss face on video call

ALT drawing of weird boss face on video call

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some views from my future design studio
A group of people in white shirts is seen operating strange optical machinery.

ALT A group of people in white shirts is seen operating strange optical machinery.

Three women are seen assemble paper globes.

ALT Three women are seen assemble paper globes.

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off to client meeting in the company vehicle
A man in a tan suit is seen walking past the back window of a grey-blue van. Painted letters on the van reads "Colchester Lathe Co. Ltd."

ALT A man in a tan suit is seen walking past the back window of a grey-blue van. Painted letters on the van reads "Colchester Lathe Co. Ltd."

Two small, round, grey-blue vans are seen parked in front of an industrial building.

ALT Two small, round, grey-blue vans are seen parked in front of an industrial building.

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keeping cool in our in-house type foundry
Black and white photo of shirtless young man working in a 20th century Budapest neon sign factory, source: https://welovebudapest.com/en/article/2020/07/03/budapest-s-retro-neon-a-look-back-at-illuminated-nostalgia/

ALT Black and white photo of shirtless young man working in a 20th century Budapest neon sign factory, source: https://welovebudapest.com/en/article/2020/07/03/budapest-s-retro-neon-a-look-back-at-illuminated-nostalgia/

Black and white photo of young man working in a 20th century Budapest neon sign factory, source: https://welovebudapest.com/en/article/2020/07/03/budapest-s-retro-neon-a-look-back-at-illuminated-nostalgia/

ALT Black and white photo of young man working in a 20th century Budapest neon sign factory, source: https://welovebudapest.com/en/article/2020/07/03/budapest-s-retro-neon-a-look-back-at-illuminated-nostalgia/

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did not get life changing berlin job :((((((((((((((((((
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whenever that image of the PanAm building comes up I'm reminded of this front page, a few years later - the beginning of the end of modernity
front page of the new york times may 17, 1977 with the headline "5 killed as copter on pan am building throws rotor blade"

ALT front page of the new york times may 17, 1977 with the headline "5 killed as copter on pan am building throws rotor blade"

Tantric Turanist 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@cornu__copia) profile pictureTantric Turanist 🇫🇮🇺🇦
@cornu__copiaMay 25
It always blows my mind that the German architect Walter Gropius who co-designed the (then) PanAm Building in New York was born in 1883. He was 20 when the Wright brothers did their first flight, 25 when Model T was first produced... And somehow drew this.
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one year on acrestudios.cc
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Good essay about this in OfficeUS Agenda (2014)
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I had an office like this for ~2 months years ago I've not come close to that level of productivity since
Lemón 🍋 (@cigarettesummer) profile pictureLemón 🍋
@cigarettesummerMar 12
Can you spot what's wrong with this desk rotation?
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Wild contrast to this 1995 National Geographic I picked up today
Cover of march 1995 national geographic showing a baby wolf

ALT Cover of march 1995 national geographic showing a baby wolf

contents page of march 1995 national geographic

ALT contents page of march 1995 national geographic

four-page pull out showing every endangered species in the world from march 1995 issue of national geographic

ALT four-page pull out showing every endangered species in the world from march 1995 issue of national geographic

text page with inset maps from march 1995 issue of national geographic

ALT text page with inset maps from march 1995 issue of national geographic

Rory McCarthy (@roryisconfused) profile pictureRory McCarthy@roryisconfusedMar 4
Kind of underrated element of how things are now is that all these science magazines that used to appeal to a general audience out of just being *interesting* now seem to force themselves to be *useful*. Much non-fiction writing bends this way too — it has to be pragmatic.
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