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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 3d

A century of progress in access to primary education

This is a line graph depicting the global gender gap in primary school enrollment from 1900 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the percentage of primary school-age children enrolled in primary education, ranging from 0% to 100%. The horizontal axis shows the years from 1900 to 2023.

There are two lines on the graph: one represents girls and the other represents boys. In 1900, about 31% of boys and 23% of girls were enrolled in primary education. The lines gradually rise, reflecting an increase in enrollment over time. By 2023, the enrollment rates are nearly equal, with 91% of boys and 89% of girls enrolled.

The data sources for the information presented are the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2025) and the study by Lee and Lee (2016). The image is credited to Our World in Data and is licensed under CC BY.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 9d

Paris

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 14d

Movie industry tanked. Netflix project managers don't buy art. Rich millennials and Gen Z don't buy paintings like prev gens. Identity art doesn't sell as well as people were predicting after Covid.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 16d

Paris, France #nokings

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 18d

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-...

Report on the Construction of Situations

Guy Debord Report on the Construction of Situations And on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action July 1957...

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 20d

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS PARIS · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** On October 18, join Indivisible Paris and other participating American groups as we say once again NO KINGS, at Place de la Bastille from 3-5PM CE...

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 20d

Russian wasn't a written language until the 1700s.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 22d

I did some work on the Art Review Generator and it is back online after a short break. artreviewgenerator.com

Art Review Generator

A tool to generate and analyze language used to describe fine art.

artreviewgenerator.com

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 22d

Sitting on the right meant you supported reformed monarchy and a new blend of institutions that centered aristocracy. If you stood or sat in the middle you were in the "swamp".

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 22d

The political terms left and right come from one meeting in a specific building in 1789. It was a royal horse riding ring made to teach princes how to ride. The French revolutionaries gathered there. Sitting on the left meant you wanted all new governance by the people.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 22d

cahiers de doléances – notebooks of grievances (what's in yours?)

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 22d

Sentence of the day from my book on pre-revolutionary France: "while the elite agonized, French people learned to read."

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 23d

www.ircam.fr

Ircam

Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique et Musique

www.ircam.fr

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 24d

"Today's artist lives in an era of dissolution without guidance. He stands alone. The old forms are in ruins, the benumbed world is shaken up, the old human spirit is invalidated and in flux towards a new form. We float in space and cannot perceive the new order." – Walter Gropius, 1919

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 26d

plantuml.com

Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML diagrams.

Easily create beautiful UML Diagrams from simple textual description. There are also numerous kind of available diagrams. It's also possible to export images in PNG, LaTeX, EPS, SVG.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 26d

madness, as a distinct mental state, was an invention of the mid-1500s. The first mental hospital was Bedlam, in London. The French were the first to split prisons into criminal and psychiatric institutions, which had enormous benefits to mentally ill people. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem...

Bethlem Royal Hospital - Wikipedia

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 26d

dithyramb – an over the top statement or speech with poetic flourish

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 27d

crowd reactions at my train station performance

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 27d

If you reach a goal by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded.

If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.

The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 29d

For someone rejecting aesthetics she sure made some wild sports clothing

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 29d

Interesting to look at AI art debates through the lens of Russian Constructivism. Art at the service of the state becomes just another tool, another machine.