March 27, 2020
The Board Game Remix Kit
This is internacionalista Latin American dance popular
Ana Tijoux. Antifa Dance. RS write up. Fader.
Another song, about the recent protest movement in Chile: Cacerolazo.
Another good one: Somos Sur. Chuck D's a fan.
Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality
In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice. - Marshall Steinbaum reviews Piketty's "Capitalism and Ideology".
Turnips are very sensitive to time paradoxes.
Animal Crossing Fans Are Fighting Over Time Travel [Comicbook] “While Animal Crossing: New Horizons players tend to be united in their love for the game, if there's one area in which players vehemently disagree, it's on the topic of time travel. Time travel is a practice in which players adjust the Nintendo Switch's internal clock in order to jump ahead in time and gain access to things that they shouldn't yet have access to. Nintendo has taken strides to prevent players from accessing the game's holidays early, but it seems that there's little they can do to stop time travelling altogether, and it's resulted in some strong disagreements in the fan community, as a result.” [more inside]
A Moment of Respite: Canal by Helen Frankenthaler
The Antarctic Winter Film Festival
For more than a decade, antarctic winterovers across the continent have held an international film festival. These include timed competitions with themes
and
also
a
free
form
category.
Entries
are
often
silly,
but
rarely dull and
occasionally timely. Sadly, the vast majority are not online yet. [more inside]
deftly flensed from aging silicon
Let us begin by weaving a lucid dream; the bones and sinews of my antique. Teach your contraption the language of the Motorola 68000.
But when I go to sleep at night / Don’t you call my name.
Originally, murder ballads focused exclusively on homicide—and often that of women. We dig into the history of the subgenre, and the women who reclaimed it. The History of Murder Ballads and the Women Who Flipped the Script
"We are constantly in a year-round state of preparedness"
Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic Previous natural disasters have helped the regional grocery chain prepare for the current pandemic.
They were none of them godfearing folk
"Friends. I'd like to compose a story over Twitter with your help: a daily(ish)-updated serial comprised of however many tweets I feel like tweeting any given day influenced by your prompts/requests. The only certainty is that it'll be gay. I will start below." Author Rivers Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts, The Deep) is starting a story. They'd like your involvement. [more inside]
helps with convergent thinking but not divergent thinking
A strong cup of coffee boosts focus and problem-solving — but not creativity (CNBC): "Researchers from the University of Arkansas looked at how caffeine affects our ability to do two cognitive tasks: problem-solving and brainstorming. The researchers found that while consuming caffeine “significantly enhanced” problem-solving abilities, meaning they solved problems faster and more accurately, it has no effect on people’s ability to think up new ideas." [more inside]
"as in the best it is"
Murder Most Foul is a new 17 minute song by Bob Dylan about the JFK assassination. Alex Petridis of the Guardian puts it in context here.
Thirty Years Of Vogue
March 27, 1990, Madonna releases what is possibly her most influential single, Vogue. The song was nearly an instant global hit, at number 1 in 30 countries within a month. The video, directed by David Fincher, is considered one of the best videos ever made. But there's a lot more Vogue. [more inside]
Song of the Fearless
Hopeful greetings from the choir of Vaskivuori high school (Vantaa, Finland). Students are sheltering at home and their choir director wanted to get them singing together again. Lovely young voices and messages (there's also a very pretty black cat!) [more inside]
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