Curiously keen to recapture the not-knowing-what-the-hell-is-on-there waiting period that analog film required, young digital types have taken up the popular Dispo camera app, which forces its users to wait until 9 a.m. the following day before photos “develop” and they can view the damage. - The Atlantic
The school said it had looked closely at a wide range of alternatives, including a ‘do minimum’ approach, a new build on the site or elsewhere on the GSA campus, a hybrid or a full reinstatement. - The Architect's Journal
The social media giant "has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob to attempt a violent coup." But "the Facebook we have in the United States is actually the platform at its best." - The Atlantic
"It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design problem. It’s a function of comprehensive social design, web design, workplace design, and conversation design." - Fast Company
"People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ ... I know exactly what he’d say. He’d say something hilarious and cutting. ... There is no cancel culture. It only exists if you’re a whistleblower or a victim.” - The Guardian (UK)
A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out felt good: "There is another life for our stuff, and another life for our company." - Vancouver Sun
"Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a west London broadcast centre on 25 September." But some are back - only some, for instance on Great British Bake-Off. - BBC
In a Facebook post, gaffer Sergey Svetnoy wrote of holding Halyna Hutchins as she died, and he blamed the 24-year-old armorer - and the producers. "To save a dime sometimes, you hire people who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job." - Los Angeles Times
Author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson taught art for decades before her first novel was published. My Monticello was easy to imagine, she says, "because it was me nudging forward from the very real fears I had after 12 August 2017." - The Guardian (UK)
The experts weigh in - and it's not going to go well for someone. "This doesn’t happen without negligence. There are safety protocols that are supposed to be followed. It’s really just a matter of who’s negligent and how the responsibility gets parceled out." - Los Angeles Times
So much celebration ensued - and, well, perhaps for good reason. "The show, which opened on Broadway in 1988 and has never closed, takes its first post-pandemic bow not just as a monied buttress for the industry, but as a symbol for Broadway’s own endurance." - Variety
Glass plate negatives, nitrite negatives, lantern slides, paper - all can disintegrate and decay. What will the digital records of these tangible archives tell humans in a century or two? - The Guardian (UK)
Virginia Heffernan read them for us. "Loathsome characters bring out zestful writing, and authors who represent Trump as perilous to democracy ... could find that the danger the former president poses to America’s future is more cinematic than democracy itself." - The Atlantic
