"Thousands of dedicated historians, photography enthusiasts, and archivists across the globe have spent years digitizing antique and vintage imagery to make it available for everyone to view online." https://mashable.com/article/best-photo-archive-websites/

Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Donald Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively.
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Misinformation-dropped-dramatically-the-week-15876518.php

I don't want to admit how long I spent cussing at a markdown file refusing to show the screenshot graphics.

...until I finally realized that the images were saved as image.jpeg and not image.jpg.

Some days I hate computers.

The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/

The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive is an online open-access resource that contains over 3000 illustrations taken from major editions of Shakespeare’s Works in the Victorian period. https://shakespeareillustration.org/

Rome’s Colosseum Will Get a New Retractable Floor — just like in Gladiator times! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/italy-plans-install-floors-colosseum-1-180976635/

For the New Yorker, Luke Mogelson outlined what it was like to be Among the Insurrectionists.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists

Can You Guess This Book Based On Its Original Title?

(I got 3/12)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639608/quiz-guess-book-based-on-original-title

Researchers looked at over 13,000 protests across the country starting in April 2020. And found that police used things like batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets against protesters at more than 500 left-wing demonstrations (including Black Lives Matter). But similar treatment was only documented at 33 right-wing protests (including those that were pro-Trump).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right

Scientists have confirmed the the oldest known animal drawing in the world, a 45,500 year old depiction of a hairy, warty pig on a cave wall in Indonesia. https://www.livescience.com/pig-oldest-cave-animal-drawing.html

The textile business funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; it left us double-entry bookkeeping and letters of credit, Michelangelo’s David and the Taj Mahal. As much as spices or gold, the quest for fabrics and dyestuffs drew sailors across strange seas. In ways both subtle and obvious, textiles made our world.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-textiles-repeatedly-revolutionised-human-technology

TIL in 1958, Louis Armstrong tricked Richard Nixon into carrying three pounds of marijuana past airport security
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/08/louis-armstrong-asked-richard-nixon-to-carry-his-bags-through-customs-the-bags-had-marijuana-in-them/

Media Bias Chart 6.0, as of 2020 https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/

We may think of flags as fixed symbols with a specific meaning, but there are few symbols whose significance is truly permanent. https://theconversation.com/yellow-gadsden-flag-prominent-in-capitol-takeover-carries-a-long-and-shifting-history-145142

Once, Americans rode the rails for charbroiled steak, golden French toast, and prunes. Now, a digitized menu collection shows off some of the meals that were lost when Amtrak announced that it would gradually eliminate the traditional dining car on its routes as a cost-saving measure. It’s part of a long slide that’s seen dining cars say farewell to fresh French toast and hello to prepackaged chicken fettuccini. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dining-car-food

We all need this.
https://poets.org/poem/gate-4

Using hyperprecise LiDAR data, a cartographer maps the river’s bends and channels over time with mesmerizing results. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar/