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Wound-Up Opera
In sorting through the old vinyl, I run across those “what was I thinking??” purchases. Curiosity, no doubt; the desire to hear “something different.”
The Ubiquity of Smartphones, as Captured by Photographers
The first image in this collection of pictures of smartphone users around the world reminds me of nothing so much as those images of 1950s movie audiences wearing 3D glasses. Will those images of smartphone users look as quaint and innocent in 50 years? via CJ Chilvers’ newsletter
Reminding You Who’s In Charge
From ProPublica: the number of IRS audits of a poor county in Mississippi makes it the most heavily audited county in America. In a baffling twist of logic, the intense IRS focus on Humphreys County [in Mississippi] is actually because so many of its taxpayers are poor. More than half of the county’s taxpayers claim …
Who is our Community?
Brilliant, tough, compassionate story from Buzzfeed’s Joe Bernstein on the Baraboo photo: The culture of racist irony that prevails online and offline today is, in part, a distancing technique that creates the space people need to dehumanize and harm other people. The Christchurch shooter’s video is the most chilling and extreme documentation of this phenomenon. …
My paper on Anton Chekhov’s “On Official Business”
During the last semester of my master’s program, I was crunching the numbers on my survey and writing my thesis. Since I had to be on campus anyway, I wanted to take a fun, just-for-me course.
Because They’re There
From Robin Sloan’s latest newsletter: Beware, anytime you hear anybody talking about reading novels as self-improvement – because they “increase empathy” or something like that. A close cousin is when people say you should read science fiction because it “helps you imagine the future.” Here is my proposed alternative: read novels because there are novels… …
MusicProf78’s YouTube Channel
Links to great collections of old-time 78 RPM records!
Critical MAS: Tips on Quitting Facebook
Michael Allen Smith’s nine tips for getting out of Facebook (see his post for details): Define the Reasons You Want to Leave Remove the Facebook Mobile App Log in and Out With Every Visit Stop Posting Find Other Ways to Connect to Good Sources How Will You Spend Your Liberated Time? Start Data Scrubbing (optional) …
Dracula as Hero of His Own Story
It’s been done before, but I’m still interested.
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