@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cacrazy theory/hot take: the late 20th century and early 21st century has had a growing anti-knowledge bent because there is an underlying societal diminishing of cognitive abilitiy due to widespread lead poisoning from leaded fuel and other products.
#lead #oil #tmiw
https://m.slashdot.org/story/452100
@relcfp@mastodon.social[Rescheduled to December 12] Professor John Breen - Ise Now: Shrine, Myth, Nation in 21st Century Japan https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133860/rescheduled-december-12-professor-john-breen-ise-now-shrine-myth<…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- Music and miscarriage
From 19th-century women composers to 21st-century music therapy - how can playing and listening to music allow women to explore their experiences of pregnancy loss?
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhbl
@aral@mastodon.ar.alBands of crazed religious fanatics murdering each other is nothing new. What’s new is they now have nuclear weapons.
21st century technology wielded by 1st century minds is the surest recipe for extinction I can think of.
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThat is an excellent summary of why solar and wind power is *the* choice for the future even if you do not include climate change in the equation. It is plain and simple the better solution for the 21st century!
We need to get rid of people in power who do not see that as they are being paid to keep the fossil fuel industry alive.
Fossil fuels are a relic of the past and we need to get rid of them.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialUSA threatens our sovereignty as it does Cuba's.
“Does it make sense, in the 21st century, for a British bank to reject a transfer of medical supplies destined for children in Havana, simply for fear of a fine from Washington?”
Fidel’s grandson tells MPs: US blockade is a humiliating assault on British independence | Morning Star
@brian_gettler@mas.toThe 21st-century model of the university where much of our work - often including thinking, it appears - is "artificial friction."
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReel Men, Real Trouble: Masculinity in 21st Century Global Cinema https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/28/reel-men-real-trouble-masculinity-in-21st-century-global-cinema
@buercher@tooting.chThere are arguably discrete acts of hypocrisy by earlier presidents, who claimed exceptions from international laws in the pursuit of US interests, but mostly embraced global norms in the knowledge that the “rules-based system” overwhelmingly favoured America.
Trump has complete disdain for that system. He looks at the world through the eyes of a 19th-century imperialist, but with 21st-century weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France (Virginie Malingre/Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI don’t know much about Stoat yet but the web site says “Welcome to the 21st century.” and I dunno but the *20th century web* was pretty fucking banging in many ways before corporations and people ruined it in the 21st century with all their bullshit and capitalism.
@rberger@hachyderm.io"So it’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. (I’ve done both.) He also is the 21st-century version of Attila or Genghis Khan, heading a horde that is defined by an exterminationist loathing of cities and all that they stand for and promote. Their diversity, their toleration, their culture, their solidarity across racial and other lines—all are threats to the horde’s and its ruler’s autocratic monoculture. On the streets, the horde’s loathing manifests as indifference (at least) to the loss of city dwellers’ lives.
As it is the 21st century, and as we have an 18th-century Constitution, Trump’s impulse for city sacking Š la Attila is constrained by laws and customs, but he’s plainly determined to find ways around as many of those constraints as he possibly can. Correspondingly, a good share of the fear he’s engendered all across America has an ancient pedigree: It’s the fear of the barbarians at the gates."
#USPolitics
https://prospect.org/2026/01/15/attila-genghis-khan-trump/
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialGreat piece by former Republican, Tom Nichols.
"The Republicans have a Nazi problem, yes. But this means that the United States also has a Nazi problem. The responsibility for defeating it in the 21st century falls, as it did in the 20th, to everyone—of any party or creed—who still believes in the American idea."
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Weekend Players:
🎵 21st Century
#NowPlaying #WeekendPlayers
https://hani27.bandcamp.com/track/weekend-players-21st-century-jack-shaft-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/1g6okxDqeoQ8jSlMFx5uW4
@UP8@mastodon.social🪸 Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
#ocean
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://mastodon.scot/@lindseylavender/116120093040525559
This kind of art will be enormously important in the future, when people wonder how we lived in the 21st century, what our houses and cities looked like. A good investment!
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bad Religion:
🎵 21st Century (Digital Boy)
#BadReligion
https://hellvetika.bandcamp.com/track/21st-century-digital-boy-bad-religion
https://open.spotify.com/track/7C794YeXiiSdlvGLxgabkd
@cdarwin@c.imIt would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.
Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialSome Starfleet academy pilot ideas:
- Different mating rituals can be hard to learn
- Does anyone have a 21st century pencil?
- Someone thinks they failed a test!
- Oops, a cadet lead the chef to believe they love to eat Gagh and doesn't want to insult them!
#startrek
@teledyn@mstdn.caAI companies are the tobacco companies of the 21st century:
- fabulously lucrative
- incredibly toxic
- requires constant spin
- and celebrity endorsement
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialIf historians object that Trump is not a copy of Mussolini or Hitler or Franco, the reply is yes—but so what? Trump is building something new on old principles. He is showing us in real time what 21st-century American fascism looks like.
...
Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it, and to recognize something, one must name it. Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP: Democracy and the Nature of Familial and Unaccompanied Mobilities in the 21st Century https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/24/cfp-democracy-and-the-nature-of-familial-and-unaccompanied-mobiliti…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe last Volkswagen ID.3 has been built at the 'Gläserne Manufaktur' (Transparent Factory) in Dresden.
A symbolic end to a symbolic factory, itself an icon of early 21st-century Germany, when nothing but progress seemed possible?
https://www.instagram.com/vwmanufaktur_de/
@bourgwick@heads.socialeven a dystopian 21st century future imagined by philip k. dick in 1964 was unthinkable without paperbacks (not that i wanna live in "the three stigmata of palmer eldritch"). #books
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.sociallo-fi is the smooth jazz of the 21st century
@brian_gettler@mas.toWD-40, "Je reviens de l'est" (2001)
Je reviens de l'est
Où poussent les Molsons tablettes
Les tavernes de ce coin-lŠ
Aiment les dames autant que moi.
A group that's close to my heart with a song imagining the geography of turn-of-the-21st-century Montréal like a flipped western. The video features much of my old stomping ground (if the camera had been positioned just a little differently in a couple of frames, you'd see our apartment).
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialI think the future will see Cold War Steve as the great chronicler of our age, sort of like a 21st century Hogarth. Also: FIFA, what are you thinking???
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How did TVs get so cheap?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheap
saved 2026-01-08 https://…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Weekend Players:
🎵 21st Century
#NowPlaying #WeekendPlayers
https://hani27.bandcamp.com/track/weekend-players-21st-century-jack-shaft-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fAUTtZRqzFndi0OfahwyS
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou ain’t seen fascism till you’ve seen fascism with 21st century technology. Strap in folks, it’s gonna be one helluva ride…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReel Men, Real Trouble: Masculinity in 21st Century Global Cinema
https://ift.tt/EdcnzmQ
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@pygospa@social.linux.pizza"The most valuable resource of the 21st century is your attention – and no one mines it more efficiently than Mark Zuckerberg. In 2025, Meta generated $196 billion in advertising revenue."*
I especially like the first part of the sentence, i.e. #attention being the most valuable #resource
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
King Crimson:
🎵 21st Century Schizoid Man (incl. Mirrors)
#KingCrimson
https://warmsurplus.bandcamp.com/track/king-crimson-21st-century-schizoid-man-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MfrET7Nc3StKQcGoZKqr9
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHighly recommend Albertan Senator Paula Simons’ @… passionate response to Alberta Separatists and for all Canadians.
“…Alberta’s current crop of separatists don’t just want to leave Canada. They seem to want to opt out of the 21st century entirely.
But Albertans aren’t quitters. So let’s not quit Canada. Let’s fight to make it better, fairer and more prosperous for everyone, Albertans included.”
https://albertaviews.ca/the-case-for-sticking-around/
P.S. I wonder if we are cousins 4 times removed or so. lol ... Both my maternal grandparents were born in the same general area of what is now Ukraine.
@teledyn@mstdn.caWhat punishment would coax programmers to expand their fucking elided text? FFS.
Pick one:
Th…
Th…
Th…
What POSSIBLE excuse is there for this ubiquitous bad practice? Is it taught in the schools this way?
Some describe me as calm, and I say oh yeah? give me five minutes alone with 21st century software.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP: Democracy and the Nature of Familial and Unaccompanied Mobilities in the 21st Century
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@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWhen I moved out of London over a decade ago, there was some move towards having wifi availability in the deep tube lines, but there were still plenty of places where smartphones became dumbphones when you were in the tunnels.
This article is a very interesting and non-technical run through of how over the last few years they finally solved the problem of putting 21st-century wifi technology into 19th-century train tunnels.
#London #tube
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialQueering food in the 21st Century https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/08/queering-food-in-the-21st-century
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOKING MATTERS: HUMOUR, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE (HUMOUR IN THE 21ST CENTURY) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/joking-matters-humour-ethics-and-social-difference-humour-in-the-21st-century…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHousing policy in BC finally starting to bear fruit:
"Rental prices seem to be taking a dip in B.C. as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its 2025 Rental Market Report, which showed that Greater Victoria’s vacancy rate rose to 3.3 per cent, the highest it’s been since 1999…. The report noted that the steepest rent declines are focused in B.C. and Ontario, with B.C. being host to seven of of the top 15 cities recording the largest annual rent declines for apartments.”
A largest-ever national population decline helps a lot too!
#CanPoli #BCPoli #YYJ #Victoria
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOKING MATTERS: HUMOUR, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE (HUMOUR IN THE 21ST CENTURY) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/joking-matters-humour-ethics-and-social-difference-humour-in-the-21st-century…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall for Book Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall for Book Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNo Doug. It's the 21st century.
Keep up.
edit: also, why are you covering for American auto companies?
#Canada #EV #Cars #Auto #EndFossilFuels #canPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-chinese-electric-vehicles-carney-9.7054922
@relcfp@mastodon.socialMLA 2027 Panel: Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/15/mla-2027-panel-beyond-emancipation-stages-of-protest-resi…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialMLA 2027 Panel: Beyond Emancipation? Stages of Protest, Resistance, and Agency for the 21st Century
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialOsgood Perkins and 21st-century Horror
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOKING MATTERS: HUMOUR, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE (HUMOUR IN THE 21ST CENTURY)
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialNational Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialQueering food in the 21st Century
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialInternational Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century
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