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Jewish women's bath in the Sar Chal neighborhood of Tehran, Iran, 1970s.

John Brosio - Dinosaurs Eating a CEO (2013)

Cong He by Zhong Lin for W Magazine China June 2024

my homegirl wrote a really salient essay on substack about how reliance on algorithms ultimately stifles modern day listener’s curiosity and the livelihood of music artists themselves.

open.substack.com

Your Algorithm Hates the B-Sides

Notes About Streaming from a Music Listener

i def recommend giving it a read and reflecting on your own music listening practices and habits. a favorite paragraph of mine that speaks further to the evidence that we living in a dystopia today:

“Algorithmic curation has consumed every facet of people’s lives —they search for information on AI run search engines, they exclusively buy products on social media platforms that push hundreds of ads based on the posts they engage with, they build virtual communities amongst like-minded, aesthetically aligned and desirable online users. A revival of pre-streaming label street teams and independent CD pushers would fail for many reasons, one being that they’d find the streets desolate and empty.”

Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

…we will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies.

Amaldus Nielsen - Aftenstemning [detail]

Long-Form Videos

Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think by Technology Creations [ 37:52 ]

How White Nationalism Was Successfully Rebranded by Kat Blaque [ 40:30 ]

Capitalism’s Final Form: The Billionaire Apocalypse by Elliot Sang [ 27:30 ]

How the Attention Economy Benefits from Our Anger by Dasia Sade [ 42:19 ]

How Billionares Became Our Gods by Dasia Sade [ 47:17 ]

Why Art No Longer Reflects Reality by Dasia Sade [ 55:51 ]

The Tragic Optimist’s Guide to Surviving Nihilistic Capitalism by Dasia Sade [ 59:04 ]

Fighting Pseudoscience with Science Communication by Miniminuteman [ 32:11 ]

What If We Ran The Economy? by Andrewism [ 24:11 ]

The Problem with Civilization by Andrewism [ 25:37 ]

How Crafting Became A Form Of Public Activism And Protest by Amy of Melbourne [ 21:21 ]

Disfigurement, Disgust, and the Dark Side of Pretty Privilige by Rowan Ellis [ 1:15:41 ]

How AI is Ruining Our Dreams by Jessie Gender [ 39:09 ]

How Bread Built Civilization by OTR Food & History [ 1:05:16 ]

Girl Math & Girl Power: The Conservative Politics of ‘Girl World’ by Shanspeare [ 49:04 ]

Why Cheap Renewables Won’t Save Us by Our Changing Climate [ 28:03 ]

How To Identify Quality in Clothing (A Rant) by Bernadette Banner [ 24:16 ]

Pseudoscience, Cults, and Social Media in the Modern Age by Unsolicited Advice [ 37:21 ]

Microplastics Are More Dangerous Than You Think by SciShow [ 23:21 ]

The Terramere Culture and the Bronze Age Collapse by Dan Davis History [ 25:21 ]

How Severence Rejects ‘Work-Life Balance’ by Pillar of Garbage [ 48:04 ]

romance is everywhere if you’re really looking

Batak architecture of Samosir Island, Indonesia.

Arka Patra