Do the Volgelkop bop: how a newly discovered bird-of-paradise dazzles his mate.
At What Point Does Appreciation Become Appropriation?
(…) it's often the entertainment companies, cultural institutions, private dance studios and the artists with a foot in those doors—still overwhelmingly white—that benefit financially from the appropriation of cultural dances due to existing economic structures.
Menschen als unwesentlich zu setzen, war diskriminierend gewesen, Maschinen als unwesentlich zu setzen, war vernünftig.
Susan Kare, Florence Knoll Bassett, Zaha Hadid, Margaret Calvert, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.
Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design.
Sacha Baron Cohen's Keynote Address at ADL's 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate.
Maybe it’s time to tell Mark Zuckerberg and the CEOs of these companies: you already allowed one foreign power to interfere in our elections, you already facilitated one genocide in Myanmar, do it again and you go to jail.
Relevant: The internet is an awesome thing, but we’re ruining it.
Typeset in the Future: Blade Runner.
Deckard continues to direct the ESPER to navigate around his blurry, out-of-focus photo. He asks it to enhance 34 to 36, and it obediently enhances 197 to 334 as instructed:
The Silicon Valley disruption narrative implies that bundles are suboptimal and thus bad. But it turns out only someone else’s bundles are bad.
You really should read/watch coverage of the impeachment from across the news landscape today and encourage others to do so. Like really read a bunch of articles and watch full shows from the sites and networks you think are ridiculous. (Handy chart for finding the ridiculous) pic.twitter.com/jOuxu6gFva
— Vanessa Otero (@vlotero) November 20, 2019
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours.
Email as a file system is inefficient, terribly designed, and full of friction. Repeatedly emailing yourself copy-and pasted information and attachments called presentation_final, presentation_final2 and presentation_final_final is nobody’s idea of a good time. But you know why it works? Dependency minimization.
Techno-fix futures will only accelerate climate chaos – don't believe the hype.
To navigate the high resource demands of their imagined futures, ecomodernist and left accelerationist visions rely on fairy tale technologies that do not exist.