Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Always worth reading an interview with Werner Herzog. Of a Buster Keaton moment in a film, he says: "I rejoice for having seen that. It's one of the all-time best moments in a movie ever." [newyorker.com]

Imagining the alternate history where the early dominance of electric vehicles persisted. [openculture.com]

A map of "New Prussia" on the cover of Life magazine, Feb 1916. "It was part of the effort of American internationalists to overcome isolationist sentiment insisting on continued neutrality in the ongoing European War." [forgottenfiles.substack.com]

Robin Sloan on Twitter/Musk. "His substantial success launching reusable spaceships does nothing to prepare him for the challenge of building social spaces. The latter calls on every liberal art at once, while the former is just rocket science." [robinsloan.com]

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