In January 1928, Tom Howard of the “Daily News” smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments
https://www.cupoty.com/winners-04
The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 (2022)
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Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever. Maybe it’s time to get a little more personal.
You’re barely beyond the grasp of our small sun refusing to let go. Wave goodbye to our last, demoted planet. Next stop: Alpha Centauri proximity, year 19600 AD. In the time it took humans to evolve from neanderthal to digital lemming you’ll cross the lawn to say hello to our next-door neighbor. If there’s life there that resembles your gold-etched humans, they’ll be more human than I. Here I carry a practical supercomputer in my pocket that can connect to Dial-a-Prayer across 13,000 miles, guided by a cranial electric storm, while mapping the walk where I tripped over a lost, tilted grave. You cross 13,000 miles in a fraction of a second, steered by a computer less powerful than a Pac Man watch. Who knows what seed you carry. I fell to Earth before you left our atmosphere. Blink three times if you miss me.
[CW: ref to violence and self-harm]
2xl: 2016-01-18 → https://fncll.org/2xl-2016-01-18/
It takes 11 lbs of force to strangle a human being.
A bit more weight than a bag of sugar or a gallon-and-a-half of milk.
Or 20 average paperback romance novels.
Or 22 hard drives with 9 million songs or 6 million books or god knows how many ones and zeroes that can be forced to squeak and bleat into the unending silence.
The Gripmaster Pro ™ requires 11 lbs of force per finger, “appropriate only for individuals requiring extreme and extraordinary grasping power.”
…Every time I'm away from using a #wiki for a while, I return to nostalgic feelings of old, lost, simpler dreams. I miss that excitement.