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YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive Miles Davis with John Coltrane- March 21, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris

"Great artistic statements are often made by groups on the brink of imploding." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VE_...

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

A Cloud in Love • The Paris Institute Nazım Hikmet

“Literature, in all its forms, begins and ends with the fairy tale.” – Nazım Hikmet parisinstitute.org/a-cloud-in-l...

André Bazin’s Academic Afterlives www.nrftsjournal.org/screen-media...

20 Years Later, “Grizzly Man” Still Stuns Filmmakers and Audiences Alike - sundance.org By Lucy SpicerIn a world where film serves as a form of escapism to many, it’s rare to see a documentary grab hold of public attention and embed itself in the zeitgeist. But that’s exactly what Werner...

20 Years Later, “Grizzly Man” Still Stuns Filmmakers and Audiences Alike www.sundance.org/blogs/20-yea...

Stream of Rivals: Licensing Coalitions and Arthouse Film Streaming Platform journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT GAZA Comrades,

“For the truth to have an effect on those to whom it is told, it matters when it is told to them – and, obviously, the same goes for political statements, especially with regard to the ongoing Gaza war.” open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p...

Digital Culture Shock How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design

“Digital Culture Shock” by @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social is out today via @princetonupress.bsky.social! According to Library Journal, the book "offers a compelling argument that technology is never neutral.” #HCI #AI #BookSky press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal [Kate May is an LLM international human rights law and practice student at the University of York] As Palestinian scholar Nabulsi warned over ten years ago, “Israel is seeking to annihilate an educ…

Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal
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YouTube video by shin-JP New York City Ballet / "The Four Temperaments - Theme and 4 Variations" by Hindemith & G. Balanchine

New York City Ballet / "The Four Temperaments - Theme and 4 Variations" by Hindemith & G. Balanchine www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KF...

The Political Machine Feeding Turkey’s Wildfires The blazes ravaging the country have been worsened by climate change, but were set by policy decisions

Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show @sofiacherici.bsky.social and @aylinlc.bsky.social in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation.

Phrenology and IQ tests: the far-right revival of discredited race science Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media

“Discredited ideas on race, genetics and IQ have become staple topics of far-right online discourse”

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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Influencers, Influencers Everywhere From premieres to other events a big social following is all you need

Influencers, Influencers Everywhere thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/wicked-gla...

In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

"Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Marguerite Renoir – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Marguerite Renoir! Best known as Jean Renoir’s film editor & life partner during the 1930s, her career before their collaboration has been largely overlooked.

Excavating the Video-Game Industry’s Past

Excavating the Video-Game Industry's Past
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The Meritocracy Paradox | Columbia University Press Meritocracy—the idea that individuals should be rewarded based on their talent and hard work—is one of the most widely celebrated ideals in education, bu... | CUP

Summer reading! In his new book, ASA member Emilio J. Castilla ‪@mit.edu analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations using real-world examples and showing the effects of personal biases and social barriers. ‪@columbiaup.bsky.social‬

Yılanların Öcü (Revenge of the Snakes), Metin Erksan (1962)

This Place Called Nowhere Box And The Twins · Everywhere I Go Is Silence · Song · 2016

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Marie Antoinette’s execution. Look, they’re holding up her decapitated head on a stick for everyone to see! Shouldn’t have been so greedy!

Happy Bastille Day!

ASPARAGUS bit.ly/44HVm02

Pitt’s animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist’s inner world, and a viewing experience like no other

Circular snapshots from the very first @Kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots #OTD

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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"Active users" can mean very different things. Pretty sure everyone who's got a website, newsletter, whatever can attest to Bluesky outperforming as a traffic driver, which was hard to come by even when the alternatives weren't heinous and Google worked

Do you lie awake at night wondering if you’ll ever be able to afford your own home? | Fiona Katauskas Maybe you’d be better off dreaming * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

Do you lie awake at night wondering if you’ll ever be able to afford your own home? | Fiona Katauskas

'He was a violent socialist': How Superman started out as a radical rebel Returning to cinemas next week, the superhero may be known as the ultimate all-American Mr Nice Guy – but, back in the 1930s, he didn't begin that way.

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Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’

11 months ago The Guardian wrote a piece exposing the anonymous white nationalist known as "Lomez" on Twitter and who ran the press that published racists books by Steve Sailer. Today, Ross Douthat granted Lomez a friendly interview in the New York Times.
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Musk and co should ask an AI what defines intelligence. T... The X owner thinks that artificial general intelligence is ‘smarter than the smartest human’. But it’s not as clever as he thinks it is

Interesting column by John Naughton at the Observer on AI as cultural technology. Claude agrees with us! Farrell et al (2025) Science, 387(6739), 1153-1156. Or rather the summary of information on intelligence the Claude system provides is reasonably accurate.
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