Leandra Baker: Patriarchy is a Boot on the Neck.
Feminism is a woman complaining about the boot.
This is for all the babies who STILL don't understand what patriarchy is and sounds like | Credit: LeAndra Lee Baker, static jones.
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…and other beautifully animated and interactive explorations.
How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
The algorithm gives every peak a turn as an anchor. For each one, it defines a target zone to its right (a window of time and frequency) and pairs the anchor with every peak inside that zone. Each pair generates a compact hash from three numbers: the two frequencies and the time difference between them.
Confusing and upsetting, darn right.
Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your understanding of the world. This means that for the brain, your loved one is simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time. You are navigating your life despite the fact that they have been stolen from you, a premise that makes no sense, and that is both confusing and upsetting.
The article mentions Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music” – which made me cry and shake a little and made me a little angry, too, and which I dared to translate into German (I hope the real poets forgive me):
Sanglose Klage (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Ich bin nicht versöhnt mit dem Hinabsenken lieber Herzen in festen Grund.
So ist es, und so wird es sein, denn so war es schon, seit die Zeit dröhnt:
Hinein ins Dunkle gehn sie, die Weisen und Lieben. Im Bund
mit Lilien und mit Lorbeer gehn sie; doch ich bin nicht versöhntGeliebte und Denker, hinab ins Erdreich mit euch.
Seid eins mit dem Staub, so matt und so verdorrt.
Ein Rest eurer Gefühle, eures Wissens fleucht,
Formel, Phrase bleiben bestehen – doch das Beste ist fort.Die Antworten, prompt und präzise, der redliche Blick, das Lachen, die Liebe darin –
sie sind fort. Sie sind fort, die Rosen zu nähren. Vornehm gewellt
ist die Blüte. Duftend ist die Blüte. Ich weiß. Doch ich nehm es nicht hin.
Kostbarer war das Licht in euren Augen als alle Rosen dieser Welt.Hinab, hinab, hinab in des Grabes dunkle Dünen
gehn sie leise, die Zarten, die Gütigen, wunderschön;
gehn sie schweigsam, die Klugen, die Geistreichen, die Kühnen.
Ich weiß. Doch ich nehm es nicht hin. Und ich bin nicht versöhnt.
Why did two grown men, in the words of one social media user, ‘drive for an hour through a storm just to make the world an uglier place?’
Götterbaum und Baumwürger.
Die invasiven Neophyten der Unionsliste.
Die Robinie hat’s nicht auf die Liste geschafft, vermutlich war die Holzindustrie zu interessiert daran 🪵
Guy Debord: Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels (1967).
Lost among tangles of rhubarb, consumed by roots, thinking about how a precious, “uncivilized” drug made its way from ancient China to a backyard garden in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment.
Penguins mate for life and lay one egg per year, which the parents take turns incubating and nursing for long stretches as each ventures into the sea hunting for food. The separation can last for months, during which the starving parent protecting the egg must retain unfaltering faith in the mate’s return — for if they too leave the nursery and go in search of food, the egg will perish.
Note the black musician in the orchestra? Yeah, me neither. I was lucky to hear Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances for the first time performed by Chineke! Orchestra in Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Goosebumps.
Image Spam Errors in the Age of Hyperconnection.
Image spam is “one of the many dark matters of the digital world”1 and for this reason the following pages endeavor to articulate an account of its errors. Image spam may have a lot to tell us about contemporary culture and it may likewise reveal the issues underlying the resources used to power this dark matter that permeates the digital world.