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"... and rock-star self-care" Alanis and Liz were supposed to tour this summer. That's not happening. The LA Times (paywalled, limited articles) brought them together for a conversation about all kinds of things, but mostly about mental health through the pandemic, and songwriting, and the patriarchy within the music business. Article written by Liz Phair.
posted by hippybear at 9:27 PM PST - 11 comments

Segregated By Design examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. Website here.
posted by UhOhChongo! at 7:56 PM PST - 10 comments

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (previously) is streaming 59 episodes of historic PBS series Black Journal. More here about Black Journal.
posted by anshuman at 5:13 PM PST - 2 comments

"A couple of months ago, NPR reporter Lulu Miller tweeted a question. She knew a 5-year-old who was texting exclusively in emoji, and wondered if were there any studies about kids, too young to read, who used emoji to communicate. People wouldn't stop tagging me in the thread, but we couldn't find any existing studies, so I decided to run a survey and make a small corpus of my own." Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language: Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning (WIRED).
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:11 PM PST - 27 comments

On September 20th, 2019, millions of people around the world took to the streets in the youth-organized and youth-lead Global Climate Strike, protesting against political inaction around the climate crisis. It was the largest environmental protest in history. And yet, it was not even the most impactful action against fossil capital which took place that week. [more inside]
posted by Ouverture at 3:00 PM PST - 11 comments

Ever wanted your very own 1991 Macintosh Quadra running Mac OS 8? macintosh.js is here for you: a free Mac OS 8 virtual machine running in an Electron app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even better, it comes with games, apps, and demos preinstalled including Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, the Apple Web Page Construction Kit, and more.
posted by adrianhon at 12:32 PM PST - 66 comments

Rhiannon Giddens has been named artistic director of Silkroad. Silkroad was founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, and conceived on the question "What happens when strangers meet?". What happened when Rhiannon and Yo-Yo met: They created a piece of music that gives texture to these times. [more inside]
posted by weft at 12:17 PM PST - 16 comments

Their Tube. What Youtube looks like to them. [more inside]
posted by storybored at 11:46 AM PST - 30 comments

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land is a memoir by Noé Álvarez that begins his freshman year of college, when raw and lonely and feeling out of place as the working class kid of Mexican immigrants, he dropped out to run with Peace and Dignity Journeys. Every four years, this spiritual run connects Indigenous peoples from across the Americas, with runners starting in Chickaloon, Alaska and in Tierra del Fuego Argentina. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:20 AM PST - 3 comments

Assisted by machine learning, artists and photographers are beginning to flesh out centuries-old paintings, statues and sculptures into portraits of living human beings not seen for thousands of years. In one quarantine project, Dan Voshart used Artbreeder, Photoshop, and meticulous research to create photoreal portraits of the 54 Emperors of the Roman Principate. Using similar technologies, Bas Uterwijk uses art sources to recreate the living people behind them: [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 9:34 AM PST - 29 comments

Insect art: Eye makeup " I distinctly remember getting some strange looks when I wore my somewhat dramatic Bolivian dwarf beauty tarantula (Cyriocosmus perezmilesi) look to pop out for a pint of milk, but generally people are really nice."
posted by dhruva at 6:41 AM PST - 14 comments

["The UK according to cakes and biscuits"] Wrong! Right! Take a close look; despite the dangers of 1 more biscuit a day (71 more?), and figuring out oddly contradictory advice, Brits choose to splurge and dunk or "suck the melting chocolate" instead. M&S launch the Extremely Chocolatey All-Butter Milk Chocolate, McVitie's the Luscious Blood Orange, and Lotus Biscoff Cream Sandwiches are a thing, as are dispensers and retro ice lolly alikes. And for this Christmas, or those wanting their 5-a-day (related: Jammy Dodgers are also vegan). Questions remain! Who is biscuit man? How do you pronounce Nice? Or this? Is Boris in the pocket of Big Tim Tam and were Penguins involved? Or make your own pinwheel cookies. Other options are available.
posted by Wordshore at 6:03 AM PST - 50 comments