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Oh wow this looks cool. I will need to add it to my to see list. :)

See also 'The Body and the Archive" by Allan Sekula

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Francis Galton would like credit for this reinvention

Wait Agamemnon from Time Bandits is in other stuff

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

I would start with one which started my love for the mountain goats, Going to Cleveland:

and you torture me with those big eyes
and you punish me with pity
but i'm going to cleveland

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Colby Chamberlain on Alison Knowles

"By Knowles, with Knowles, through Knowles, we can locate models for collaboration and participation that remain tacky to the touch." www.artforum.com/columns/colb...

RIP Alison Knowles, the free-spirited and generous conceptual artist, a legend among legends in the Fluxus gang. 1933–2025. Tonight, we eat salad.

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah. It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” “D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92

Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

That’s amazing!!!!! Way to go

Way to go and fingers crossed

Inside Higher Ed • September 03, 2025 Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University

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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Trump's concentration camp builders and operators heavily funded his campaign and now are receiving massive non-compete contracts from DHS. This is definitional corruption.

Four vertical panels, hung in a row, each a different color. From left to right: white, green, red, and black.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Amen

This is the same eugenic belief system that many still hold re: the ongoing pandemic. They believe people’s deaths from covid are acceptable if they’re medically vulnerable. It’s a disgusting ableist belief system and this rhetoric surrounding children in Gaza is the natural consequence of that

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie . Alt: a black and white photo of a James Baldwin in a suit and tie .

“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”

-James A. Baldwin

I learned that Minneapolis Public Schools have a 🌟 Community Ed program that offers before- + after-school care, extra-curricular pgms for kids, and for adults: ESOL, digital literacy, citizenship + career prep, cooking, home remodeling, 🏊‍♀️ lessons, pgms for seniors + ppl w/disabilities, and more 🎉

Heartbreaking: Palestinian journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Quraiqa were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the tent of Al Jazeera correspondents near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

May God have mercy on them and grant them paradise.

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

And this photo is beautiful 😍

Hooray!!!!

'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

Andry with his friends, freed, smiling. A sign in the back says “Liberdad para Andry.”

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.”

—Andry José Hernandez Romero

Raymond Saunders, artist and author of ‘Black is a Color’, 1934–2025 ‘Pessimism is fatal to artistic development. Perpetual anger deprives movement.’

Raymond Saunders, known for his mixed-media assemblage paintings that layer fragments of printed matters with expressionistic brush marks, has died aged 90 artreview.com/raymond-saun...

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba