[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]
Whaaaaaawhaaaaa. Unfortunately tonight’s free outdoor @McLongshot and Lazerbeak show at Boyd Park in St Paul has been cancelled due to weather. pic.twitter.com/hJnfGjLiWa
— LAZERBEAK (@_LAZERBEAK_) August 24, 2018
Spike Lee speaks: Trump has made America dangerous pic.twitter.com/W2mIXsmcTa
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 24, 2018
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) August 23, 2018
— Humans of Late Capitalism 🕊️ (@HumansOfLate) August 23, 2018
Jordan Peterson was invited onto a show to sell his batshit and dangerous water and steak diet with his daughter and they showed a clip of him prior to his Mercer and Koch brother funded make-over. The expression on his face when they cut back to him is priceless pic.twitter.com/Ovd1DnDl5X
— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) August 12, 2018
Love makes us, not us it. pic.twitter.com/mT6Pvh4dFy
— penny rimbaud (@pennyrimbaud1) August 23, 2018
Auch im Straßenbild deutscher Metropolen wird deutlich, dass alte weiße Männer mehr und mehr obsolet werden. pic.twitter.com/NyUwN6lGpT
— MladenGladic (@MladenGladic) August 23, 2018
Bees versus wasps, science edition. pic.twitter.com/B82gcuh9sL
— Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) August 21, 2018
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＼/＿＿＿/— Creamspeak (@creamspeak) August 21, 2018
I have finally time to delve deeper into 'Media Information and Disinformation Online' and it dissects calmly where 'Kill All Normies' joined the troll culture it tried to report on.
Also, it's free! Hype it! Share it!https://t.co/HeYfqGQLUR— eve massacre (@evemassacre) August 22, 2018
petition to bring back rainbows in computer logos
rt if u agree, fav if u agree pic.twitter.com/cjofOqEKIb
— isis agora lovecruft (@isislovecruft) August 21, 2018
Capitalism commodifies human needs & is structurally unable to end under/un-employment and many people who have jobs lining the pockets of the CEOs and shareholders who never work are still poor anyway. Capitalism *requires* a chunk of society to be doomed to inescapable poverty. https://t.co/4hVMaQfeN2
— Morgan (@discomfiting) August 19, 2018
Chill pic.twitter.com/5H5jW44Tb3
— Give Me Internet (@GiveMeInternet) August 20, 2018
The racism in this video will make your blood boil. Why do Africans still cozy up to such racists? 😡😠😠😡 pt 1/2 pic.twitter.com/MYMom6TUDR
— Mwes M Drew™ (@_mwes) August 17, 2018
#ifyouonlyreadone
How to handle a troll … and neuter a sea lion – “From asking innocent questions before mounting an attack to inciting online abuse by others, trolling is entering a new, subtler era. Here’s how to deal with it” Very concise categories.
#watch,
“WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING” – A Bad Lip Reading – “How White House press briefings sound in Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ head…”
OMAROSA! A Randy Rainbow Song Parody – “I do the blowing around here”
listen and
Tribute to Aretha – The First Line Of Happiness by Bibio – Goosebumps. R.I.P.
#learn
The Glaciers on Earth’s ‘Third Pole’ Are Bursting, Causing Deadly Floods – “Central Asia’s glaciers make up the third-largest mass of frozen fresh water on earth, the planet’s “third pole,” The region’s “thousands of glaciers and regular snow melt form the headwaters for 10 of Asia’s biggest rivers, which bring drinking water, power and irrigation directly to 210 million people, while these river basins indirectly support more than 1.3 billion people,” according to the World Wildlife Federation. That resource is now doubling as a hazard, with glaciers skipping the melting process altogether to rupture and flood in a region that has warmed at twice the global rate of climate change.” Our situation on this planet gets more and more lethal
In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We? – “In passage after passage of “Small Fry,” Mr. Jobs is vicious to his daughter and those around her. Now, in the days before the book is released, Ms. Brennan-Jobs is fearful that it will be received as a tell-all exposé, and not the more nuanced portrait of a family she intended. She worries that the reaction will be about a famous man’s legacy rather than a young woman’s story — that she will be erased again, this time in her own memoir.” Time to smash the myth of the genius, not just Jobs, all of them. Too often “genius” is used as an excuse for terrible behaviour.
German police in row over far right after officer blocked TV crew at Pegida rally – “There are growing concerns in Germany about the willingness of state employees, particularly the police, to voice rightwing views, most particularly in the former communist east, where criticising the media has become increasingly normal” This story went international, lol.
Standoff in Italian port as Salvini refuses to let refugees disembark – “Interior minister wants EU states to take 177 refugees and migrants from ship” What an awful country Italy has become, and how fast…
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests – “Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent. Nationwide, the researchers estimated in an interview, this effect drove one-tenth of all anti-refugee violence.” Facebook hate bubbles out into the world.
Raising My Child in a Doomed World – “the only truly moral response to global climate change is to commit suicide. There is simply no more effective way to shrink your carbon footprint. Once you’re dead, you won’t use any more electricity, you won’t eat any more meat, you won’t burn any more gasoline, and you certainly won’t have any more children. If you really want to save the planet, you should die.” Should. This quote is out of context, the text then turns it around.
Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record – “Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary” Doom and gloom.
Koudelka’s Prague, Fifty Years Later – “When Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia’s capital in August 1968, Josef Koudelka was one of the first on the scene.” I love his work, this interview explains his beginnings and what happend 1968 in Prague. It seems he was a total daredevil fotographer.
Perma Future – “We work in our gardens. We paint pictures and play music and nurture systems for our gardens to run themselves. We read, write, cook. We make wine from the grapes we grow. We do not pay taxes.” Utopian futuristic scenarios are needed more than ever, linking here even though this one is not brillant.
Ein Videospiel-Süchtiger erzählt, wie er es schafft, seine Krankheit zu besiegen – “Spielesucht gilt nun laut WHO offiziell als Krankheit. Aber was sagen die Betroffenen dazu? Wir haben mit einem Gaming-Abhängigen und einem Therapeuten gesprochen, wann aus exzessivem Spielen krankhaftes Zocken wird.” Addiction still seems like the wrong word. But it can deffo confirm that gaming can create manic obsessions.
Model Tinder-Scams Men for Date Competition in Union Square – “This is what I’ve heard … and if it’s public humiliation in front of hundreds of people. She also gave guys a minute to explain why they should date her.” Staged.
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster – “Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless green carpets to meet an embarrassingly destructive beauty standard based on specious homogeneity. We marvel at how verdant we manage to make our overwatered, chemical-soaked, ecologically-sterile backyards. That’s just biblically, nay, God-of-War-ishly violent.” My hatred against lawns has an equal passion.
#oldiebutgoodie
Grand Master Flash talks about first mixer…… – “Grand Master Flash talks about how he made his first mixer. Know your hip hop history yo!!!!”
The tragedy of James Bond – “007 is still supposed to be a hero but if you knew him in real life, you would be warning all your friends not to invite him to their parties.”
Foucault on fake news, social media and algorithms – “What would Foucault make of today’s world? Here’s Angie Hobbs, Prof of Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.” Foucault would protest against think pieces claiming to know what he would make of today’s world.
»Ich bin in die Berge gegangen, um neu anzufangen« – “Was mich vor allem fasziniert hat war die Geschichte der PKK und die Geschichte der Frauenbefreiung. Zu verstehen, warum die Frage der Frau kein Nebenwiderspruch ist, sondern zu begreifen, dass die Frau die unterdrückteste Nation, das versklavteste Wesen ist. Erst mit der Befreiung der Frau werden entscheidende Schritte im Kampf gegen den Kapitalismus gegangen werden können.” Interesting Interview that also is quite informative regarding the alternative left in Germany.
Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer: Eine Unwucht in unserer Wahrnehmung – “Sehe ich mich als Rassist? Nein. Enthält mein Denken rassistisch wirksame Muster? Natürlich. Der Kampf gegen Rassismus besteht deshalb nicht nur darin, offenen Rassisten entgegenzutreten, sondern auch, rassistische Denkmuster, Strukturen, Selbstverständlichkeiten zu entlarven und immer wieder zurückzudrängen, auch bei sich selbst. Am besten ohne Selbstmitleid oder Triumphgeheul.” Every once in a while I gotta Lobo.
148 Frauen, die ihr euch zum Vorbild nehmen könnt – “Wir haben einen Kanon gemacht. Das ist dieses Ding, in dem normalerweise steht, welche männlichen Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Denker für die Welt notwendig sind. Aber nicht bei uns. #DIEKANON” Nice response to a list of influential personalities and oeuvres in Die Zeit, that featured 91 men.
Saubannerzug der Basler Justiz – “Die Polizei hat ihren Job nicht gemacht. Und trotzdem wurde Anklage erhoben. Sie sei davon ausgegangen, dass es nicht nötig sei, Zeugen für das Alibi zu nennen. Weil sie sich selbst nichts zu Schulden hat kommen lassen, wollte sie nicht auch noch ihre Freunde mit in die Sache hineinziehen”
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