October 12, 2021
I’m Southern f*cking Baptist!
Let's talk about and listen to Ethel Cain. Her music has been described as an unforgiving portrait of Southern Baptist America and it's been said she fears no darkness.
You might enjoy the videos for Crush, God's Country and The God (might be NSFW in some jurisdictions, caveat clicker) and her Soundcloud. [more inside]
dejaqueveas / waitilyousee
Eleven Poetry Recommendations for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month. To highlight just three... Raquel Salas Rivera reads "dejaqueveas / waitilyousee." Valerie Martínez reads from the just published Count, a book-length poem on the heartbreaking reality of climate change. Urayoán Noel reads the beginning of “hear me out human.” [more inside]
Debby King, 71, Backstage Aide Known as ‘Soul of Carnegie Hall,’ Dies
“She’s the soul of Carnegie Hall,” the cellist Yo-Yo Ma said in a phone interview. “She enables the transition that takes place between a person backstage getting ready to perform and then going onstage to share everything that is important to them. That transition for an artist is often when they’re at their most vulnerable.”
Debby King, 71, Backstage Aide Known as ‘Soul of Carnegie Hall,’ Dies (SY NYTIMES)
A short video from Today's A Life Well Lived segment
GET OVER HERE!
"We certainly did a ton of prep for our video shoots, but some ideas came to us while filming. With Scorpion’s spear, it started with “You know what would be a cool ass move?”. From there you can be a fly on the wall and see us working through the details." How Scorpion got an iconic move: Twitter thread (and threadreader)
A Talent Agent for the Best Local Cheesemakers
Anne Saxelby, champion of U.S. cheesemakers and owner of Saxelby Cheesemongers, has died. Inspired by Neal’s Yard Dairy, which helped revive the British cheese industry in the 70s and 80s by forging relationships with small cheesemakers, Saxelby opened her first stall in New York’s Essex Street Market in 2006. [more inside]
Flash Tuesday Baguette Fun
A Very Long Baguette [SLIO] is a game involving a very long baguette. A 16ft baguette to be precise. You, or you and a friend, must deliver it from the kitchen to the customer, going through the necessarily unnecessarily maze-like restaurant. [more inside]
The Real Black Box Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning. But a number of researchers are showing that idealized versions of these powerful networks are mathematically equivalent to older, simpler machine learning models called kernel machines. If this equivalence can be extended beyond idealized neural networks, it may explain how practical ANNs achieve their astonishing results. [more inside]
Welp, there goes my evening ...
What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about? This Reddit Thread Of The Most Useful Websites That Most People Might Not Know About Will Make You Fall Down The Ultimate Internet Rabbit Hole. via digg [more inside]
The affirmation trap & the overconfidence man.
The Dilletant Army issue, Mission Accomplished, presents essays and poetry on the topic of hollow and premature declarations of victory, largely involving US government officials.
Test the limits of ekphrasis
"She stares at it longingly until she hears a voice calling her name"
"[Y]ou’re basically crapping yourself constantly and you lose 5 pounds" “Noom claims that if you can just change your thoughts, you’ll be able to resist the urge to eat certain foods. But that doesn’t acknowledge how human biology works. We are not supposed to try to override our hunger drive. That’s the major nuance that Noom is missing.”
(CW: eating disorders) [more inside]
The Humble Vegetable
I have started volunteering once a week at a local farm stand. This is for many reasons — not least of which is I get a box of free vegetables in exchange for my time, which I will admit is what drew me to the gig in the first place — but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t mostly because it’s reminding me how to exist as a person in the world. [Pandemic related/via]
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