1963 - Françoise Hardy - J'suis D'Accord The story is that yé-yé got its name from The Beatles, but Françoise was already putting out hit records while they were playing in Hamburg. In terms of film clips, France was clearly far ahead of the UK, as you will now see.

Looking at the Fonts In Use page for Data 70, and this is one Data 70 book cover I haven't spotted before. Looks like a Ghost Box invention (or something from their imitators) but it's a real book from 1973.

I can't get past their subscription-wall, but I'm *pretty* sure I can guess

This looks fantastic

Josh Scannell@frannyrecounts.bsky.social · last wk.

With the book’s release, I want to give a brief overview and outline a few of the key arguments. I’d include links to contemporary events but there are too many connections. The worst part of writing about race, computation, and police power is that it is always timely.

One of my most popular (relatively speaking) posts here is about Newsom being bad. This doesn't make up for his misdeeds but is good news.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“California businesses are banned from collecting data on their workers’ brain activity or inferring their emotional states through use of AI-powered surveillance tools, under legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law Wednesday.”

RIP (when I clicked on this I got served an ad for Google AI)

Carl Wilson@carlzoilus.bsky.social · 2w ago

RIP to the greatest, champion of champions, who sang for the underbirds. youtu.be/u6k9U6vQ8Mk?...

Seems like these advisers should be spending a lot more time screaming about enacting radical campaign finance reform, and yet.

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 3w ago

The centrist consultant advice is always "ideally, you want to stand for nothing and alienate everyone"

RIP Peter Max. I was just admiring his 1971 "Astrologicalendar" the other day: www.peculiarmanicule.com/1971-peter-m... It has compatible dates with 2027, if anyone wants to print their own and remember Peter Max all year

Ottawa Police have already been using police databases to stalk random women they see in public Now Toronto Police are (allegedly) using police databases to help drug traffickers interested in assassinating prison officials and intimidating witnesses to murders www.thestar.com/news/gta/stu...

oof the way this works without needing to know which country

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.

I mean, I am now about five years beyond believing that anyone is going to sober up and recognise the left have been broadly correct on most topics throughout my life. But man, if you can’t even recognise it when the Empire is openly ransacking your own country, then we really are truly fucked.

Trumpism is class war from above. Its effects are ripping society apart. Profits as high as never before since WW2. All extracted from labor - the effect: "Employees’ share from wages and benefits fell to 60 per cent, the lowest level since the 1950s." www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

I guess we found the one problem AI can't fix. Bad luck that it's the social safety net, but we have to be realistic about the future.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

My brain every time I see a picture of Dario Amodei: oh no, what bad thing happened to Matthew Rhys?

Beyond exposing these people as fans of bigotry first and women's sports dead last, the would-hang-with differential between the two groups is incalculable

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

yeah I'm pretty sure I was introduced to this shocking new idea 22 years ago: harpers.org/archive/2004...

What Democracy?, by Richard N. Rosenfeld

The case for abolishing the United States Senate

harpers.org

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Abolish the Senate" is obviously correct and has been obviously correct for so long that watching idiot pundits pretend to be shocked by it makes me want to DRINK POISON. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/yes-obviou...

I hope they at least mentioned that he's a professor of MARKETING, so him being a professor is as irrelevant as him being a puppeteer or a princess.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tonight BBC radio 4 ran an hour-long advert for “suicidal empathy” (the idea and book) on the Moral Maze, describing its author simply as a Canadian professor, without mentioning his enthusiasm for Great Replacement ideology nor calls for civil war in the UK. That does not seem ok.

People complain endlessly about academic / "theory" jargon, but when a non-academic writer comes up with a specific but catchy term it takes like a year to turn into useless nonsense. This is why academics need to make their terms as repellently dull as possible

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 2mo ago

Shouldn't get riled up by YouTube screenshots but even given my qualms with the concept more generally I *really* don't think you should apply "enshittification" to art you don't like

I already assumed year-round pedestrianization would die under this mayor, so on balance this is good news for this balls-appreciator

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com · 2mo ago

Rainbow-coloured balls to return to Montreal Gay Village

they finally got him

Here's a fun timeline juxtaposition. The stores will cost about $70M from what I'm seeing

As negatively as I feel about genAI, I like too many musicians from places like the Caribbean—where the use of AI in artwork and videos (and maybe the music too for all I know) was an extremely predictable continuation of existing practices—to try to draw a line against it.

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

THE SILENT STAR (1960, East German/Polish co-production) could have been a weirder Planet of the Vampires-like film if they'd ditched all the scenes of Serious Scientists Explaining Things. Based on a story by Stanisław Lem who hated it, as he did with most adaptations of his works.

Pretty funny to get so mad at people pointing out how credulous you are that you make the absolutely most credulous post conceivable

I think it’s gotten worse too since they got the memo that saying inflammatory stuff like “I’m tryna optimize the dystopian stack” gets even more clicks and attention.

and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self

ok but what about Mussolini?

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

There is no legitimate reason for random cops to have unfettered access to sensitive personal information like this Instead of publicly humiliating himself making videos telling officers to knock it off with criminally stalking women, Ottawa’s Police Chief could cut off access to these databases

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Even TMZ had something to say

There actually are extremely well-paying academic jobs in the humanities . . . provided you are willing to become a conservative hack who promotes "viewpoint diversity" rather than peer-reviewed scholarship.

AHA Career Center@historyjobs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New History Job Posted Today: Director, Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization | University of Colorado Boulder

A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...