Absurdistan, Listenbourg, Soviet Unterzögersdorf.
> 💡 This is how I do callouts in Markdown.
Review: To the North.
What is most unnerving about To the North is how easy it is to understand all of the points of view at play here. Of course, the audience will root for Dumitru, the young man coming from a poor country and willing to do anything – even die – in order to turn his fantasy about America into reality. The audience will be impressed by Joel’s kindness and his Christian ideals, which push him to help a man he knows nothing about. But what if this game between right and wrong is much more complex than one would expect?
From Worms with Groove.
Songs written by Rod Temperton (Youtube playlist).
“Too big to cancel”: can we still listen to Michael Jackson?
All forced conversations in America about race, sex and celebrity are inevitably framed by horror and absurdity, history and the modern day. Because of this, many of my people – as in American born Blackfolk – refuse to countenance moral or legal absolutes when allegations of our stars committing sexual assault hit the news. They instead invoke a form of mathematical objectivity in pursuit of American democracy’s most impossible dream: a racialised level playing field. In this accounting, Bill Cosby and R Kelly aren’t defended despite victim-testimony and compelling evidence, but because not enough equally evil-ass white men have suffered enough public shaming for their crimes.
Relevant: Spike Lee‘s documentary about Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall.
Simon Reynold’s Futuromania playlist.
Comic „Rampokan“ über Indonesien: Diffuse Farben des Kolonialismus.
„Rampokker“ wurden die Aufständischen, die Terroristen von den Holländern genannt, während die Einheimischen damit (holländische) Plünderer bezeichneten. Die grausame wie faszinierende Zeremonie des Rampokan durchzieht die ganze Graphic Novel wie ein Leitmotiv in verschiedenen Variationen, der Tod bleibt dementsprechend stets präsent.
Bonjour, Avahi, UWP‽
$HOME is <3.
$HOME, Not So Sweet $HOME.
Play Figgie.
Figgie is a card game that was invented at Jane Street in 2013. It was designed to simulate open-outcry commodities trading. Most of the skill in Figgie is in negotiating trades that benefit both the buyer and seller. Like in poker, your objective in Figgie is to make money over a series of hands.
