[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, tweets … you name it]
[Videos]
3 x 3 #13: David Graeber – Corona & Bullshit Jobs
FIRE (POZAR) by David Lynch
Fakten und wie man nicht mit ihnen umgeht | Falsche Gleichgewichtung
ana prvački creates 'multimask' for safety, beauty and transformation
[Music]
World Music : avril 2020 en musique et en images
Edgar Wasser – WACHT AUF!!!!!!!!
Negativland – This Is Not Normal
Mask, Gloves, Soap, Scrubs (Official Video) – Todrick Hall
[Podcasts]
Chapo Trap House – 423 – Targets (5/28/20) (soundcloud) – “We discuss the murder of George Floyd by MPD officer Derek Chauvin, and the subsequent civil unrest in Minneapolis. Will introduces us to Dave Grossman, a former Army Ranger goon whose seminars are used to teach cops to kill instinctively and indiscriminately. Finally, we take a look at Trumps order to protect the posts.”
Logbuch:Freiheit 005: Immunitätsausweis
Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen des erfolgreichsten Corona Podcasts
[Articles English]
Face coverings for the public: Laying straw men to rest [wiley.com] – “It is time to lay straw men to rest and embrace the full range of evidence in the context of the perilous threat the world is now facing.”
Women Have Always Worked From Home | Laurie Penny [wired] – “Quarantine has meant something different for men than it has for women—just look at who’s doing what.”
Ai Weiwei MASK [ebay] – “Support human rights and relief organizations”
Naomi Klein on Climate Change, the Green New Deal, and Determination [current affairs] – “Current Affairs editors Nathan J. Robinson and Lyta Gold spoke in October 2019 with writer and climate activist Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. We began by asking her about an article in the New Yorker by Jonathan Franzen called “What If We Stopped Pretending The Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?” which argues that activists (like Klein) are foolish to believe they can meaningfully halt climate change. In the piece, Franzen encouraged a kind of resignation and showed little interest in the kind of ambitious climate policies Klein is pushing for.”
Kraftwerk And Black America: A Musical Dialogue [the wire] – “John Morrison on how the 1980s black music scene gave Kraftwerk the club-wise edge”
Emancipatory mutual aid: from education to liberation [roar magazin] – “A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created the crisis in the first place.”
Stop! French philosopher Latour urges no return to pre-lockdown normal [reuters] – “The lockdowns have showed “we could actually take immensely drastic measures in a matter of days to counter a threat. So in that sense, when people say we cannot do anything, it’s clearly wrong,”
I am not always very attached to being alive [the outline] – “Chronic, passive suicidal ideation is like living in the ocean. Let’s start talking about how to tread water.”
‘Weird as hell’: the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months [the guardian] – “Researchers keen to work out why some people are suffering from ‘long tail’ form of the virus”
The feminist and the manosphere. An interview with Angela Washko [wmmna] – “How do you open up a dialogue with someone whose world views are the opposite of yours? How does an artist and feminist gets an “icon” of the manosphere to talk to her about role models, haircuts, “natural” sex roles, echo chambers and “degenerate lifestyles” being forced “upon us normal people”?”
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think [the atlantic] – “American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.”
Global Climate Report – April 2020 [ncdc] – “Averaged as a whole, the global land and ocean surface temperature for April 2020 was 1.06°C (1.91°F) above the 20th century average of 13.7°C (56.7°F) and the second highest April temperature in the 141-year record. Only April 2016 was warmer at +1.13°C (+2.03°F). The eight warmest Aprils have occurred since 2010.”
The Attacks on Tara Reade are Unbelievable Bullshit [current affairs] – “No, you’re not “asking questions,” you’re using rape apologist arguments.”
A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia | Naomi Klein [intercept] – “Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia”
When It’s Hard to Take a Deep Breath [current affairs] – “On asthma, meditation, and cutting yourself some slack during a global pandemic.”
“Patriotism” Is a Dead End for the Left [jacobin] – “Britain today remains a deeply hierarchical country. Rather than bowing to the totems of faith and flag, Labour should be drawing on the best of its own traditions — those of dissent, mutual aid, and a radical solidarity that refuses to be content with inequality or injustice.”
Papercraft Models [rocky bergen] – “Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share. Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue.”
[Articles German/French]
Müll in Weltmeeren: Mehr Mikroplastik als Plankton [der spiegel] – “In den Weltmeeren hat sich viel mehr Mikroplastik angesammelt als bisher angenommen. Britische Forscher warnen vor besonders winzigen Teilchen.”
Sie müssen draussen bleiben [derbund] – “Klaus Petrus geht der Frage nach, was es bedeutet auf der Gasse zu leben, wenn alle zuhause bleiben müssen.”
[Older articles, still great]
Nothing came up
R.I.P.
Larry Kramer
George Floyd
Double Rainbow Guy
Florian Schneider
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