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When Cameras Can't See: Tracing the Racial DNA in Colour Film | Political Pandora A critical examination of the integrity of the colour film production proves necessary to uncover the racism embedded in the process of this technology and the cultural use of cameras to reinforce rac...

A camera is supposed to capture the truth, yet it was also a technology that helped perpetuate racial biases in culture.

www.politicalpandora.com/post/cameras...

Sometimes all I need is a bike ride and a sunset.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Open model performance rankings across most benchmarks these days.
Top half: China
Bottom half: Everyone else

So many such cases.

The 100 Best Movies of the 1970s From "Alien" and "All that Jazz" to "World on a Wire" and "Zabriskie Point," these are the films that defined the '70s.

First out of the gate, the biggie: the 100 best movies of the 1970s. And, yes, @davidehrlich.bsky.social and I were arguing about number 1 on Slack until almost the very last moment. www.indiewire.com/lists/best-7...

Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten.
Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment

Life hack: Go to your local bike shop and buy a new or used bicycle. Put fenders, rack, and panniers on it. Ride it for every commute under five miles. Groceries, arends, everything. Keep at it.

reading the new yorker is fun because i get to pretend i understand niche references, like, "ah yes, the postmodern decline of artisanal beekeeping. classic."

Happy 20th Birthday Google Maps! On February 8, 2005, the Google Maps web mapping platform and consumer application were launched.

Happy 20th Birthday Google Maps!

On February 8, 2005, the Google Maps web mapping platform and consumer application were launched.

#InternetHistory

Lupino next to Lemmon, explains to him how to strike the appropriate golf pose. Lemmon wearing shorts, socks with garters and plain white tshirt, holding golf club awkwardly above head. Lupino leans in trying to put Lemmon’s bare knee in appropriate position.

Ida Lupino and Jack Lemmon in a pose from the comedy “Marriageable Male” — aired Feb. 25, 1954 on NBC’s Ford Theater.

While this comparison is actually too *generous* to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

A thread on how I came to publish a paper on acoustic ghost whales... I was exhaustively reading papers on blue whales for a book I'm planning to write, and came across a book that mentioned that killer whales can't hear low-frequency sounds below 2000 Hz 1/n
doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.