My first, the best, the peak of guitar band genius.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 19h ago60
Daniel Freed
@dan-occ-light.bsky.social
I write things and make pictures. Reformed 20th c. theorist splicing the 21st. Comp. Lit. / film history / translation. Pre-mill post-punk.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 19h ago
I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
Goth musique was supposedlye an exploracioun of the shadowes and the uncanny but it was also a strikinglye effectyve waye to teache vocabulary to younge people: maelstrom, tinderbox, rhapsody, bereft
'While Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, we can consider Faye, the first African woman “to dare to make a film,” to be its mother.' www.moma.org/artists/7405...
Safi Faye | MoMA
Senegalese, born 1943
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Feminist Media Histories@femmediahist.bsky.social · last wk.In "Safi Faye with and against the United Nations: African Women, Development Filmmaking, and the Neoliberal Turn," Nikolaus Perneczky examines the development films of Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye. Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Re-upping, because now a magistrate judge has ruled on behalf of BBC's financial discovery demands.
Daniel Freed@dan-occ-light.bsky.social · 3w agoIt appears the BBC have responded with two separate filings. Trump + are gumming it up with a flagrant conflict of interest, compounded by a dubious Florida court venue. The BBC filing that may end up gaining more traction could be the financial demand, because Trump claims financial damages.
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
Tell me, O Muse, of the review that was so fire it burned down its publisher
Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?
Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
Salvador Dalí's Bond movie tarot deck never made it to film, but we really wish it had.
Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die.
In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 n…
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Roberto Bolaño died 23 years ago today. I've been re-reading his poems, short stories, and novels this year, for whatever reason, and so have been thinking about his life and work quite a bit. I've yet to re-read the Last Interview, but here's a nice review. biblioklept.org/2009/12/21/r...
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview
I hate reviews that hem and haw too much over context, but I feel that a proper review of Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview has to begin with some background information. But because I love you, g…
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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"Grossman managed to produce first-rate journalism that is also of lasting quality as artful prose." Eric Vanderwall reviews Vasily Grossman's "From the Front Line": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vasily-grossman-from-front-line-stalingrad-treblinka-reporting
Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT
Les Diables rouges ont vaincu Team USA 4 à 1 cette nuit, dans un contexte alourdi par les ingérences de Donald Trump. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Mof
I’ve seen worse first hand and also heard the same from colleagues. The number of students admitted to PhD programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year. What Trump has done to US science will impact us for at least a generation.
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Trump wading into soccer is pretty hypocritical considering Balogun wouldn’t even be on the U.S. team if it weren’t for birthright citizenship, which Trump’s administration has tried to eliminate. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Oh, now President Trump realizes birthright citizenship makes us better | Opinion
Folarin Balogun is an American through birthright citizenship, which President Donald Trump has worked mightily to end.
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A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
Jeff Cowie goes big in calling for structural changes to build democracy. In the process, he reminds us of some painful history, including how tantalizingly close we came to getting rid of the Electoral College in 1969, when the House voted 338-70 to do so. democracyjournal.org/magazine/81/...
What Real Democracy Might Look Like
Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.
democracyjournal.org
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni...
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