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Wed. 10/28 - 2020's Best Game Is a Cursed Real Estate Listing

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A look back at one hundred years ago when women ruled a notorious wild west town. Some thoughts on the effects of technology on our ability to remember our thoughts in the long-term. And the internet is calling it the best game of 2020, but it’s actually just a virtual 3D tour of a house for sale. What’s going on? Sponsors: Fundrise, Get your first 90 days of advisory fees waived at fundrise.com/kottke The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Links: Remembering When Women Ruled a Wild West Town (Atlas Obscura) Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote: The Story of Utah Women's Suffrage - Better Days Curriculum (Utah Women’s History) Are we losing our ability to remember? (Scott Taylor) This 3D home tour is the best accidental video game of 2020 (A/V Club) The House on Blue Lick Road (Waxy) 3D Tour of 880 Blue Lick Road   Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday October 28th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

A look back at 100 years ago when women ruled a notorious Wild West town.

0:48.9

Some thoughts on the effects of technology on our ability to remember our thoughts in the long term.

0:56.1

And the internet is calling it the best game of 2020, but it's actually just a virtual

1:02.5

3D tour of a house for sale. What's going on? Here are some of the cool things from the

1:08.7

news today.

1:20.0

Election Day is less than a week away here in the United States, although over 70 million Americans have already cast their votes.

1:27.0

Don't worry, I'm not about to get into anything about the presidential election, but I do want to talk about a cool bit of history. So this year, 2020, a record

1:30.1

number of women are running for the House of Representatives, 298 of them, to be specific,

1:35.7

and there was also a record number of women who got further than ever before in the presidential

1:39.8

primaries. But despite how far this many women are going this election cycle year on a national scale,

1:46.7

they have nothing on the once all-woman-led town of Jackson, Wyoming. This year is the 100th anniversary

1:54.8

of the election of Mayor Grace Miller and her cabinet of council members Rose Crabtree, May Deloney, Fustina Haidt, and

2:03.4

Genevieve Van Vleck. They won against an all-male roster in an election with the highest voter

2:09.5

turnout since the town was incorporated six years prior. For several of the positions, the women

2:14.5

won two to one against the men, and Rose Crabtree even beat her husband, Henry Crabtree.

2:20.3

And despite the walloping that he received in the press, by all accounts he took his defeat in stride.

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