Sad to learn that MAD Magazine will cease publication after this year. It taught me media criticism before I was old enough to know what that was and shaped my sense of humor to this day…
I’ve been going back and reading classic works on ethnographic film. Really strikes me how much they ignore the importance of speech and sound in in their attempts to grapple with the medium. It’s as if films didn’t have soundtracks or subtitles…
When people in my timeline talk about human rights abuses in camps, I don’t even know if they mean China or America?
China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border (Scary, but it would be much easier for America to object to this if it wasn’t doing similar stuff…)
“While tearing to pieces the living body of the proletariat, its rulers must no longer expect to return triumphantly into the intact architecture of their abodes.” Marx on “incendiarism” during the Paris Commune.
Headlines from the past week or so: Chennai without water. Mussels bake in their shells on California shore. So hot in Spain that manure self-ignited. 40% of Greenland experienced melting. 😱😱😱
Refreshing summer hat!
Sanders is right: Republican tax cuts cost more than forgiving student debt
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
The Problem with ‘Fixers’: On hiring local reporters as “fixers” rather than as reporters.
Footwear spotted on the MRT.
Anyone who watched HBO’s Chernobyl should be concerned when politics leads scientists to lie about basic facts, such as whether or not Taiwan is a country.
I didn’t watch the debates but, based on my FB and Twitter feeds, they helped Warren and Harris, hurt Biden, and didn’t do much for Sanders either way.
Looking to move away from @Dropbox as they add unnecessary bloat to the app. Moved off pro back when they added Rice to the board, now time to get off completely. Already use G Drive and iCloud, no need for a 3rd app on my computer.
I don’t normally share clickbait lists, but these “14 Taiwan 7-Eleven Goodies You Won’t Regret Trying are a good introduction for the uninitiated. (Even if it barely scratches the surface.)
Jennifer Hubbert, “China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization” (Interview with the author.)
Upsetting how little support there is in Taiwan for the EVA Flight Attendants Strike. Hard to fight the corporate media…
The film Memento may be the best analogy for social media ever made.
One thing I haven’t seen yet written about Chernobyl is any discussion of the numerous homages to various horror films and thrillers littered throughout each episode. He wasn’t particularly subtle about it, but I don’t feel it interfered with the story.
This really happened.
