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.
The Nivenly Foundation (via nivenly.org).
The Nivenly Foundation brings sustainability, autonomy, and control to open source projects and communities around the globe. We set the precedent for member-owned and democratically-governed technical organizations. We offset the impact of profit-driven economies through the use of a nonprofit association that protects and supports the contributors and maintainers of technical projects, establishing sustained independence from the corporations that use them.
Nivenly believes that all members of a project should own the project, and share in the successes of a project.
Extraordinary.
Frauenmuseum Hittisau.
Old technology is any tech that’s, well… old. Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking.
Technology that is old enough is almost always small because, by modern standards, that’s all that was possible back then. Some small tech is old, some is modern. Embedded systems are an example of modern small tech development in many cases.
Relevant: small-tech.org (small team, too…)