Week round-up: July 6
Here's some stuff I read this week!!
Bearded in Cairo - Zohran Mamdani
This student newspaper article from 2013... by the Zohran Mamdani... is really good! Mamdani spent time studying Arabic in Cairo during a period of growing revolutionary tension... including tension surrounding men's facial hair. He was used to wearing a beard in the US as a political statement, but his beard started to carry new political meaning in Cairo. It's a really interesting read.
(a) cohost postmortem: life after death - jae kaplan
something we saw fairly often (anecdotally, of course) in the cohost shutdown was users deciding that they were done with social media as a whole and were moving to smaller communities to actually talk to their friends. whether this fragmentation and siloing is good or not is yet to be determined, but it's definitely happening; we see it on a different scale with people moving off of twitter.
the reality of social media is that unless you have an Audience, you are probably better served among friends.
‘Child’ in the dialects of North Brabant, Netherlands - Yoïn van Spijk
A post about differences in dialect just within one province in the Netherlands.
Skin Deep Art Density - Brendon Chung
Check out Brendon's post about the density of detail in Skin Deep art assets. Interesting stuff!! Buy Skin Deep!!!