Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs

Eixo Político@eixopolitico.com.br · 3mo ago

🇧🇷 URGENTE: Brasil proíbe empresas de mercado de previsão, como Kalshi e Polymarket, de operar no país. Resolução do Conselho Monetário Nacional, assinada pelo presidente do Banco Central, Gabriel Galípolo, entra em vigor no dia 4 de maio e proíbe apostas sobre política, esportes e entretenimento.

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life

This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

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Lucrecia Dalt (@lucreciadalt.bsky.social) is coming to Baltimore to release her new album, A Danger to Ourselves (2025). At Hopkins, Dalt will join me for a conversation & listening session of tracks directly from her vinyl records. Oct. 29, 2025, 12:00 PM, at the Levering Arellano Theater.

Today at noon in Gilman 479, Johns Hopkins hosts an open class by art historian Tatiana Flores (UVA) on Mexican avant-gardes, examining the intersections of art and literature in Maples Arce’s landmark manifesto "Actual No. 1" (1921)—open to all.

Ceci n'est pas une livre

Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What does it mean that there's a "streaming only" option for a book? You have to go to the publisher website to read? Sounds terrible

Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune Venice Film Festival, 1961 bit.ly/k41Nye

Elis Regina gostava de cozinhar e mandava bem nas panelas, inclusive gostava de fazer feira e era rigorosa nas escolhas. Quando chamava os amigos pra jantar na sua casa e ganhava elogios, respondia: -- É que você ainda não me viu cantando!

The only conceivable GG biopic ever: youtu.be/aZU4qJsujjo?...

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) - 1080p AI Remastered

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Publishers, please take note that at least one person just bought three books SOLELY based on the viscerally appealing covers designed by a human being.

Like an artist’s book, artists’ records are fascinating objects. In my latest article, I examine the long trajectory of the renowned Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles with vinyl records. The article is available as open access and can be downloaded for free. doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects

This article shows how Cildo Meireles’s perspectives on sound and sculpture using the phonographic record offer a metacritical assessment of the medium as a platform for sonic investigations, while...

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My new article, "Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects," has just been published in the latest issue of the JLACS (Vol. 34, No. 2)—and the PDF is available as open access for free download. doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects

This article shows how Cildo Meireles’s perspectives on sound and sculpture using the phonographic record offer a metacritical assessment of the medium as a platform for sonic investigations, while...

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Mujica entendeu que fact-checking não nos salvará: "Minha geração, racionalista com uma visão programática da história, não compreendeu que os humanos muitas vezes decidem com a intuição e então sua consciência constrói argumentos para justificar as suas decisões." jacobin.com.br/2025/05/minh...

Minha geração cometeu um erro ingênuo

O falecido militante histórico uruguaio José “Pepe” Mujica argumenta que o capitalismo não se resume apenas as relações de propriedade, mas um conjunto de valores culturais que a esquerda deve confron...

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Elis Regina and Tom Jobim: two giants in one record. The 16mm footage is a lasting gift. Pure joy, music as high art. Now free to watch. Don’t miss it. youtu.be/469gcz-oyBA?...

Elis & Tom: só tinha de ser com você

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Opportunity for MA and PhD students in the US—deadline on May 16. islaa.org/updates/rese...

New ISLAA 2025 Research Fellowship Program

Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Library and Archives. Photo by Olympia Shannon.

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Just finished this excellent book on the cultural backgrounds to ‘The Waste Land’ and its relationship to the work of Eliot’s contemporaries, with a refreshing emphasis on women modernists. A good book to read alongside Matthew Hollis’s ‘The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem’ (2022).

O grande (e grande amigo) Ailton Krenak levando a palavra da floresta para a Neuropa ouvir.

True. I've been off Spotify for three months now, and my music-listening habits are doing great—better now, actually. Opting out looked impossible at first, but let me tell you this: it is not only possible, it is liberating and transformative. Just do it! open.substack.com/pub/littledo...

Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide

The Joyful Sabotage Guide to Supporting Real Music and Reigniting Pleasure in the Age of Tech Oligarchy

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Movie theaters are struggling because people no longer assemble in front of the big screen. I went to Baltimore's coolest place for “One to One: John & Yoko” just to find an empty room. The film is magnificent, inspiring, galvanizing; but people were “absolutely elsewhere.” youtu.be/Oiw_WJeiv4Q?...

One to One: John and Yoko | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX®

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Billie Holiday 110 today and we're making our annual April 7 late at night pilgrimage to Billie’s Alley here in Baltimore—which is literally 3 blocks from home. Gonna drop a few of her tunes out there with a portable speaker. Lady Day's day! www.udiscovermusic.com/news/billie-...

Verve To Release Billie Holiday's 'All Or Nothing At All' On Vinyl

Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series, which masters classic LPs from original tapes, is releasing Billie Holiday's 'All or Nothing at All' on vinyl.

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My daily memento/mantra—to be recited every morning for the foreseeable future: "The world changes according to the place we place our attention. This process is additive and energetic." John Cage

Back from spring break here at the office—spent the afternoon with my old copy of Sterne’s groundbreaking masterpiece, the book a friend gave me when I was still a grad student at Duke and that changed my life.

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

Farewell to Jonathan Sterne

We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …

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Profoundly sad with such untimely loss. Sterne has changed the way we listen to the world. Audible past, present, and future! Rest in power!

Society for Cinema and Media Studies@scmstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

Baltimore's High Zero experimental music festival will throw a fundraising event this Wednesday at Fadensonnen! See you there! www.redroom.org/high-zero-ni...

High Zero Night at Fadensonnen - The Red Room

7pm Wednesday March 12th, 20253 W. 23rd St., Baltimore Halfway between festivals, we want to keep the High Zero spirit alive in Baltimore! Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music f...

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Adrien Brody took home the award for Best AI-Assisted Overacting and didn’t even bother to thank the software Respeecher that made him “sound authentic” in Hungarian. No need to learn anything when you can just have the editor, a native speaker, feed his own voice into an AI and patch over your act.

Bernie Krause is such a wonderful person. I am glad his lifelong pursuit of listening to nature keeps drawing the attention of other creators. He needs to be heard. An excellent short film about him is just out. youtu.be/w-0IzU1EDdk?...

How Soundscapes Change After A Fire | "The Last of the Nightingales" | The New Yorker Documentary

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Excited about Natalia Lafourcade's vision for her new tour, centered around the concept of 'Cancionera'—sus canciones, una silla, guitarra y voz. NL: “Mi deseo es compartir la intimidad que vivo con mis canciones en mi habitación. En mi casa, en mi universo personal o mi propia imaginación.” 🫶

Students & faculty from BU Dept of Romance Studies have collaborated on the first-ever exhibition on the archive of poet Federico García Lorca. The exhibition Lorca y el archivo: Memoria en movimiento is the largest ever organized by the Centro Federico García Lorca. www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/2...

SOUND SCENE 2025: CONNECTED MAY 31, 2025 | Hirshhorn, Washington DC hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-...