2026-01-16 05:22:23
By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world.”
2026-01-16 03:53:18
Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025.
2026-01-16 02:46:25
The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century illustrated encyclopedia of indigenous Mexico, “the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.” Courtesy of the Getty, the entire document is online and searchable.
The Digital Florentine Codex gives access to a singular manuscript created by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists. Written in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish texts and hand painted with nearly 2,500 images, the encyclopedic codex is widely regarded as the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico. Upon completion in 1577 at the Imperial Colegio de la Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco (today Mexico City), the manuscript was sent to Europe where it entered the Medici family’s library in Florence—thus, the Florentine Codex. This digital edition unlocks the manuscript’s content by making the texts and images searchable.
(via jeremy bassetti)
Tags: Mexico
2026-01-16 01:51:11
Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought about by polycrisis. “I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me — now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive.”
2026-01-16 00:53:51
From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers.
2026-01-15 23:44:44
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business:
From their post:
This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead of the new London Living Wage coming in April 2026. That annual increase is double what everyone expected; from £13.85 to £14.80 per hour. If you want to know more about how the rate is calculated check out the work of the Living Wage Foundation @livingwagefoundation. This is fundamentally a dignity wage line that as a company we don’t feel prepared to drop beneath.
The Dusty Knuckle is a “purpose-driven” business: “we strive to use our busy operations to help at-risk youth take forward steps in their lives through on-the-job training and mentorship”. The Insta post says that “all the bread you lot ate in 2025 allowed DK to train 70 young people from the prison and care services into the workplace”. (thx, david)
Tags: food · infoviz · The Dusty Knuckle