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that said, because of that history, a lot of andalusian flamenco singers aren't really romani either

yeah, the romani people are still to some extent oppressed and certainly haven't attained social equality, and there's a very long history of oppression in conjunction with cultural appropriation (rita hayworth's family was also guilty)

the main flamenco guy who defends her is also a catalan, not surprisingly

i think there's a lot of resentment. latin americans aren't too happy about her winning awards meant for latin americans either

it's part of the general carve-out for musicians (lana, ariana) to change race/accent/ethnicity in a way actors are no longer allowed to do. i do like the music and she did spur a bit of a revival in romani music, unsure how i feel about that part

she's a classically trained singer from northern spain who got big stealing romani music and doing a fake southern/romani accent, which then became a fake latin american accent/thing while she was dating puerto rican guys, and now she's doing an opera/techno thing reflecting her original training

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

it's ai slop, which is the real problem, but

uh. do you think someone can make that shirt humorlessly, like some kind of salem puritan

Yeah, man, the left and liberals are definitely the ones rolling their eyes at accumulated wisdom, certainly not all the tech disrupters and institution smashers and regime changers on the right, no sir.

“last Saturday… he led a small protest outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home, during which he accused Muslims of being ‘pedophiles.’”

Hen Mazzig, the "progressive" , "pro peace" Israeli influencer gave an interview to a Israeli lifestyle magazine in which he says he pretended to support Kamala Harris in order to maintain his credibility, but in fact he thinks Trump is great . See alt text.

Hegseth's advocacy of war crimes is now such a frequent occurrence it draws scant attention. Thank goodness for Brian Finucane... bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

Woman killed in crash with Tesla near Dunlap identified Authorities have identified 34-year-old Misty Lynn as the woman killed in a DUI crash in Fresno County, which also involved two small children.

The amount of anecdotal evidence of people using Tesla Autopilot/FSD specifically to make driving while drunk/intoxicated easier is absolutely shocking.

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Supreme Court asked to end temporary protections for Haitians backed by US bishops - OSV News The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by a federal judge barring it from ending a program shielding Haitians from deportation.

Trump & Vance are trying to end protected status for the Haitian immigrants they lied about eating pets, over the objections of the US Catholic Bishops.
www.osvnews.com/supreme-cour...

you look at all the comments to any performance of berghain and it's just europeans talking about how eurotrash of this caliber brings them together (nice) against islam (uh oh)

on the other hand, the avatar films, which are the star wars prequels of the 2020s neo-2000s, are just kinda hindu and i haven't fully processed that yet

rosalía reminds me of how if you look at OG early 2000s catholic-buddhist perennialism, and yes i mean the star wars prequels here, from one perspective it's this consummate work of engagement with faith and power, but from another perspective it's kinda racist and paglia and twitter nazis like it

yeah i know she used to be catholic but she isn't currently and it had better stay that way

certainly evil

it also really disturbs me that rosalía's new album is as good as it is but her engagement with orientalism-perennialism-catholic-mysticism had to coincide with her being white again. lana del rey MUST stay protestant or i'll have a crisis of faith about whatever this cultural moment is

i can't tell whether damon albarn is actually evil or not though. same thing with bono. and anyone involved with the children of men soundtrack from tavener to digital mystikz. maybe we actually could use more early 2000s orientalism-perennialism idk

i thought i had killed my obama nostalgia but it's breaking out. 2000s nostalgia feels actually demonic from an adult perspective. summoning the astrological decan of obama to save me from feeling comfortable in the neo-2000s

new gorillaz album has mos def rapping about how starbucks is bad. 2005 is so back

These are not necessarily public documents, and unions may very well have policies on whether or not things like CBAs should be fed into AI platforms. Matt has unilaterally decided that people like Sam Altman are entitled to that information, I guess!

lmao

yves tumor is american??? there's hope for us

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.