“ No professional photographers ever have their photos on Wikipedia, because they want to make money from the photos,” said Jay Dixit, a writing professor and amateur Wikipedia photographer. “It’s actually the norm that most celebrities have poor photos on Wikipedia, if they have photos at all. It’s just some civilian at an airport being like, ‘Oh my god, it’s Pete Davidson,’ click with an iPhone.”
Dixit is part of a team of volunteer photographers, called WikiPortraits, that’s trying to fix that problem.
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Wikiportraits
The Wikimedia foundation is enlisting volunteer photographers to update headshots of celebrities and public figures “ No professional photographers ever have their photos on Wikipedia, because they want to make money from the photos,” said Jay Dixit, a writing professor and amateur Wikipedia photographer. “It’s actually the norm that most celebrities have poor photos on Wikipedia,…
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Speed in 4K
Pop quiz hotshot. What 90s action movie starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper holds up nearly 30 years later? Speed in 4K It check all the boxes you want in in action movie: ✔️ a cool underdog to root for ✔️ a charismatic villain✔️ a diverse cast of side characters adding life to…
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Princesses Over 40 Publishing House
Life hits different after 40, even for princesses. Edith Zimmerman illustrates the covers, such as Silver Linings: Embracing Your Naturally Aging Hair by Rapunzel.
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A School District Rejected a Black Author’s Book About Tulsa for Its Curriculum. Then the Community Decided to Act
From Phil Lewis: A School District Rejected a Black Author’s Book About Tulsa for Its Curriculum. Then the Community Decided to Act After the school board voted against adding Pink’s book to the Pine-Richland School District’s ninth-grade curriculum, the community decided it was time to act. Macmillan, the publisher of “Angel of Greenwood,” sent Pine-Richland…
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The Biggest Live Game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Ever Played
Dimension 20 is a show where Dungeons and Dragons plays out for an audience in real time. They recently sold out Madison Square Garden. t’s a frosty January night in New York City, but Madison Square Garden is red hot. You feel the heat when pillars of flame spit out from black butane tanks that…
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The Cobain 50
When Kurt Cobain’s journals were released, they contained a list of his 50 top/favorite albums. KEXP has been doing podcast series, The Cobain 50, releasing an episode a week for each album. The series is now in the final stretch. Each week, The Cobain 50 podcast digs into albums from this famous list and how they may…
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Quordle
Merriam Webster hosts their own Wordle clone, Quordle. The usual Wordle rules apply, but solve for 4 words at once in 9 attempts. Those first two or three guesses are key to knowing what vowels and common consonants you’re working with. As you can see, I didn’t solve this one. *sad trombone noises*
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Visualizing all the books
Recently, Anna’s Archive, perhaps one of the largest online shadow libraries, put out a call for visualizing all the books that have an ISBN. This would be helpful to understand how complete their coverage is. Here’s a comprehensive explainer as to how the winning entry was designed.
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Rights vs Conditional Privileges
From existennialmemes: