Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes(smithsonianmag.com)

23 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 7 comments

How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?(bbc.co.uk)

66 points by monooso 5 months ago | 35 comments

A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods(smithsonianmag.com)

91 points by noleary 1 year ago | 41 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by alvis 2 months ago | 28 comments

In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home(smithsonianmag.com)

176 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 168 comments

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 18 comments

We need to liberate the Postcode Address File(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)

324 points by edward 2 years ago | 275 comments

James O'Malley's Substack post on a confidential UK government pilot report about an open address register, arguing the Royal Mail Postcode Address File should be freed as open data.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.

World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review(news.artnet.com)

352 points by throw0101a 3 years ago | 153 comments

Artnet News opinion piece by Ben Davis on being targeted by painter Devon Rodriguez's followers after a critical review, and on 'parasocial aesthetics'.

UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program(reclaimthenet.org)

43 points by latein 22 days ago | 10 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.

Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis(moorfields.nhs.uk)

330 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 118 comments

Moorfields Eye Hospital news release reporting that retinal eye scans can reveal signs of Parkinson's disease up to seven years before clinical diagnosis.

UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users(eff.org)

592 points by judiisis 3 years ago | 346 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin criticizing the UK Parliament's passage of the Online Safety Bill as a threat to privacy, security, and encryption.