September 5, 2022

Gretchen Yanover, cello looper

Gretchen Yanover plays electric cello with a looping pedal to create layered musical compositions. "Heart and Sky", "Turnaround", an interview. An NPR story, "How Seattle shapes electric cellist Gretchen Yanover". [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo at 4:36 PM PST - 11 comments

Now the Clock Watches You

As tracking, recording, and ranking become common across all industries and incomes, so do complaints that it is demoralizing, dehumanizing - and inaccurate. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score. [NYT] [more inside]
posted by blue shadows at 1:36 PM PST - 62 comments

The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists

A few weeks ago, Khalid Qasim got some news he'd been waiting 20 years for. He had been cleared for release from the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Qasim has been in Guantanamo nearly half his life, aged 23 to 43. Like almost all the men sent there, he has never been charged with a crime. His release order does not mean freedom, yet. It is merely the starting gun on a long process of resettlement that, going by previous resettlements, could take years. Where he will be sent, neither he nor his lawyers know. While he waits, Qasim will paint. [more inside]
posted by cynical pinnacle at 12:18 PM PST - 14 comments

Far out!! Wow!! YES!! Lynda Barry #1!!

New York Times Magazine: A Genius Cartoonist Believes Child’s Play Is Anything But Frivolous [more inside]
posted by MrJM at 11:14 AM PST - 24 comments

email [deprecated]

Carlos Fenollosa has given up on self hosting email after 20 years. You might recognize Fenollosa from his handy list of Unix tricks. His argues that even emails from SDF don't work, noting that he's "positive that the beards of their admins are grayer than (his) and they will have tried to tweak every nook and cranny available." Of course the SDF (previously) is older than the actual web and so old it refers to ARPANET emails. [more inside]
posted by zenon at 10:26 AM PST - 49 comments

The 2022 Hugo Awards

The 2022 Hugo Awards ceremony happened last night! The ceremony, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, can be viewed on Youtube. You can also check out the full list of winners and the full voting statistics. [more inside]
posted by j.r at 9:17 AM PST - 41 comments

I AM A MAN

At the River I Stand is an award-winning documentary about the Memphis sanitation strike. Full transcript of the film. Conditions for black sanitation workers had worsened in 1968, under Mayor Loeb's administration, who refused to take dilapidated trucks out of service or pay overtime for late-night shifts. On 1 February 1968, two garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:46 AM PST - 4 comments

Free To Play

What do this thread and this game have in common? a) they're both teeming with odd characters; b) good beat, easy to dance to; c) both simple, single, and free to mingle. [more inside]
posted by taz at 2:49 AM PST - 69 comments

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