June 16, 2020
500€, Same As In Town
Austrian man fined for farting at police officer...and this is how we know how that provocatively breaking wind is a 500 Euro offense, a tenfold increase compared to the last time somebody farted at an Austrian police officer, which happened 10 years ago in Styria (article in German). [more inside]
All this machinery/Making modern music/Can still be open-hearted
Walk It Off
According to Outside, Walking Is Making a Major Comeback during ; the WaPo touts "the calming power of a simple walk," and NYTimes claims the "pandemic has turned Los Angeles into a walking city." [more inside]
Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery.
US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign. “If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time,” the first message read, according to a screengrab of the thread. Later, the executive emphasized, “I want her DONE.” What followed was a campaign of harassment so strange and outrageous, its hard to believe.
It's International Domestic Workers Day
Lausan revisits their translation and writing on care work, feminized labor, and solidarity with migrant domestic workers in 11 articles (Previously.)
TSN already have a Black reporter, they don’t want to have two
[Canadians] “think that BodyBreak was started because of fitness; well it wasn’t [SLYT]. It was started to combat racism,” Hal Johnson. Toronto Star article. [more inside]
Sirens Motorcycle Club of New York
The Sirens Motorcycle Club of New York (est. 1986) is the oldest club of its kind in New York City, and thanks to its 40 odd members, who range in age from 25-74, it’s also one of the largest in the state. Not only have they been participating in the New York Pride Parade since 1986, they've led it since 1987, and are also New York Milk Bank's Milk Riders: delivering donated breast milk to hospitals and dispensaries. [more inside]
antique milk
The Cheese That Stands Alone - "So how did a working-class cheese, one of the most popular in America, dwindle to but one producer? Not every immigrant’s story is a happy one, and such a tale is Limburger’s." [more inside]
X-Wing franchise: the reimagining?
EA returns space dogfighting to Star Wars. Star Wars: Squadrons (coming Oct. 2, 2020) will have cross-platform support between players on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, and VR headset compatability for PS4 and PC. Official Reveal Trailer - EA official site [more inside]
Architecture of Oppression: Racism and Bias in Community Planning
There's No Such Thing as a Dangerous Neighborhood. Most serious urban violence is concentrated among less than 1 percent of a city’s population. So why are we still criminalizing whole areas? (Stephen Lurie, CityLab) On the other hand, a study in 2019 (abstract only) shows that growing up in an affluent community brings “compounding privileges” and higher educational attainment—especially for white residents. (Tanvi Misra, CityLab) [more inside]
Bloomsday to Zoomsday
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom. [more inside]
The “onlinification” of face-to-face lectures is terrible
Cancel This Semester. Adopt a Coronavirus Student Bill Instead (Inside Higher Ed): "Some people may claim that remote learning can be very effective. But we are not dealing with faculty members who want to teach remotely, who have had much experience with it or who have had time to develop courses. And we are not dealing with students who prefer online courses, who have had time to acquire proper computer equipment or who can ask their dorm roommate for assistance. So the experience of remote learning now upon us is likely to be worse that what we’ve previously seen. ¶Moreover, a fair amount of evidence suggests that, even under good conditions, online education does not offer the same quality of education that face-to-face classes do." [more inside]
This Is An Uprising!
A conversation with Boots Riley and Noname on music and revolution, theory and practice, and intersectional activism. [more inside]
"Who in Alaska is going to listen to me?"
Unheard: Sexual assault survivors tell their own stories. "Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation. These women and men did not choose to be violated, but they now choose to speak about what happened." [more inside]
Don't start your command name with the letter g.
How Racist Was Flannery O'Connor?
"O’Connor is now as canonical as Faulkner and Welty. More than a great writer, she’s a cultural figure: a funny lady in a straw hat, puttering among peacocks, on crutches she likened to 'flying buttresses.' The farmhouse is open for tours; her visage is on a stamp ... [But] letters and postcards she sent home from the North in 1943 were made available to scholars only in 2014, and they show O’Connor as a bigoted young woman." (SLNewYorker, June 22, 2020)
The Country Gentleman in the Njårdhallen
Saturday is Chet Atkins’ birthday! Here is Chet Atkins and the Blue Boys ripping it up for an enthusiastic crowd in Oslo on April 15, 1964, as part of a tour to introduce the Nashville sound to Europe. [more inside]
"We're not here just to shit on the Tim Burton one"
Mike and Jay from Red Letter Media talk about the 1971 classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
What's He Building In There?
Unique idea from scraps of wood! I am very happy with the result! By Vanya (Handcraft).
Robert Fripp and a tap-dancing mouse.
"Toyah has described Fracture as being like a mouse on caffeine tap-dancing." (Links to a short video on Mrs Fripp's Twitter account.)
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