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Israeli attacks on educational,
religious and cultural sites in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says.
10 June 2025.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-release…
Whispers of Many Shores: Cultural Alignment through Collaborative Cultural Expertise
Shuai Feng, Wei-Chuang Chan, Srishti Chouhan, Junior Francisco Garcia Ayala, Srujananjali Medicherla, Kyle Clark, Mingwei Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00242
Why Québec Is Right to Take On Spotify: Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of Algorithmic Homogenization http://musictechpolicy.com/2025/05/26/why-quebec-i…
UNDERNEWS: Why Cultural Decline in the U.S. Is a Threat to Democracy
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-cultural-decline-in-us-is-threat-to.html
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The latest salvo in Trump's fight to remake America’s elite cultural institutions:
This time, the attack has foundered!
So far, Sajet, a 60-year-old Dutch art historian with a long career in American and Australian art museums who became the National Portrait Gallery’s first female director in 2013, is still at her desk.
Trump lacks the legal authority to dismiss Sajet or hire her replacement
—although you can bet that administration lawyers are looking for legal …
🦸 Mexico’s ‘lucha libre’ makes the leap into American entertainment: Cultural appropriation or an opportunity for growth?
https://english.elpais.com/sports/2025-05-19/mexicos-…
playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…
A Reference Architecture for Gamified Cultural Heritage Applications Leveraging Generative AI and Augmented Reality
Federico Martusciello, Henry Muccini, Antonio Bucchiarone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04090
💡NFDI4Culture schreibt für die Teilnahme an der Konferenz / Autumn School "Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI” (8.– 12.09.2025 an der Universität Siegen) mehrere Reisestipendien für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen aus, um neue Forschungsperspektiven zum Thema Generative KI zu fördern und die interdisziplinäre Vernetzung in diesem Forschungsfeld zu unterstützen.
👉 Weitere Infos findet ihr hier:
Europeana want you to 'Share your views about AI and digital cultural heritage' to inform the common European data space for cultural heritage https://pro.europeana.eu/post/share-your-views-about-ai-and-digital-cultural-heritage…
"What I'm optimizing for isn't growth... reach, or influence. I'm chasing connection[...]spending my days on things that bring me alive."
"It's about...signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans...private replies saying they've never felt so seen or understood." Rob Hardy
To fellow #writers
When art meets blockchain: Ukraine’s new frontier in wartime cultural preservation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/when-art-meets-blockchain-ukraines.html
Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8de3ld05yo
Excellent keynote in the #SemDH2025 workshop by Laura Hollink on Cultural Bias in Linked Open Data. Laura is addressing all bias related aspects in cultural heritage items itself, in the data representing it, the data schemata, vocabularies, and ontologies on which the data are based, as well as in the knowledge representation languages used to create the schemata.
We Animals Media – Bringing visibility to hidden animals worldwide through compelling photo and videojournalism. #AnimalRights
Panel on Tibetan Yoga at the 17th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (Kathmandu, August 23-29, 2026) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070110/panel-tibetan-yoga-17th-seminar-internatio…
I’m well out of my depth here: my historical knowledge to speak to the issues is thin; my cultural knowledge is almost nonexistent. Reading that Standing Together site, seeing how they’ve crafted what they write, I see just how much nuance and awareness I •don’t• have.
I’m grateful to the people who’ve helped me learn, and who’ve pointed me to these resources — in this case @… and @…. Sometimes the Internet really is good for something.
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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the "tides have turned" in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
TIL: »Specific typographic rules have been developed for each language for centuries, but in recent decades, especially due to globalisation and the unification of software tools, they have been disregarded. The international project of a typographic proofreader for European languages will preserve these rules as an expression of European cultural diversity for future generations.«
Source:
Fluent but Culturally Distant: Can Regional Training Teach Cultural Understanding?
Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Sunayana Sitaram, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21548 …
“We need to go beyond legislation to a cultural change, where disability is treated as an identity to be celebrated.”
Brilliant article in the FT on housing design for disability and the aesthetics of accessibility
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460…
"Putin believes Russia is a “civilization-state” with cultural-cum-religious significance, rights and responsibilities that justify the erasure of other nations."
Opinion | Putin’s agenda in Ukraine has long been clear. Trump ignores it. - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.07-145813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/putin-russia-ukraine-trump/#selection-1277.0-1281.114
"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."
Não existe nenhuma contradição em ver o funk como legítima manifestação cultural/social e, ao mesmo tempo, admitir que ele é extremamente pobre do ponto de vista musical.
Trump White House puts preschool funding first on its list of "woke programs" to be eliminated.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cuts-to-Woke-Programs-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Do people recommend any good, properly researched books/articles on Ukraine & Russia & their histories?
So that I can get to know the views of both sides (even if I'm biased to believe one side more than the other). I'm most interested in socio-cultural and political explanations, I'm not interested in military strategy etc
A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05164-9
Data for 35 cities. Looks similar to the neatnet method
New paper alert:
Finkel & Lamm, Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying.
This is the third in the Distributed Adaptation series.
Many thanks to the diligent reviewers! #philbio #cultevo
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-025-09982-4
Webinars this Wed and Thu tackle AI's impact on archives—Sara and Ben Brumfield of FromThePage on combining AI and human crowdsourcing, and yours truly on the long-term threat to cultural heritage of irresponsible AI use. More at https://blog.still-water.net/should-yo
Alley Stories V 🔣
巷弄故事 V 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link
Reflections of Cultural Wealth: Exploring Identity in Physics through Photo Elicitation
Zosia Krusberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21739 https://
The current cultural drive towards #nonmonogamy feels to me like gay conversion therapy. I feel somehow inadequate, defective and inferior by not wanting it, and under pressure to convert.
#sex #monogamy …
Weaponized Storytelling: How AI Is Helping Researchers Sniff Out Disinformation Campaigns (The Conversation, 28 May 2025)
https://theconversation.com/weaponized-storytelling-how-ai-is-helping-researchers-sniff-out-disinf…
Panel on Tibetan Yoga at the 17th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (Kathmandu, August 23-29, 2026)
https://ift.tt/uGe4Sxh
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
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Knowledge Graphs for Digitized Manuscripts in Jagiellonian Digital Library Application
Jan Ignatowicz, Krzysztof Kutt, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03180
The tape recorder (or any recording and playback technology) remains one of the most important inventions in its philosophical implications in human history, imo. For the first time, we gained new access to sound as raw material: almost as pure phenomena, potentially unfiltered by description, notation, or the cultural identifiers that usually shape musical/sonic experience. (I don’t mean that tape recording gave us direct, unmediated access - whether such a thing is ever possible with any p…
"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else", but how to do this with Linked Data? Eero Hyvönen is quoting Leonardo Da Vinci as an intro to his presentation "How to Create a Portal for Digital Humanities Research Using a Linked Open Data Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: Case SampoSampo"
paper:
Since returning to office in January, Trump has sought to crush dissent at cultural institutions, law firms, media companies and universities. Many believed it was only a matter of time before he took the fight to the streets.
The protests against ICE raids present him with an antagonist that can be used as a focal point for anger, hatred and fear, ensuring that dissent is redirected away from the government and toward “an enemy within”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
PREDATORS was excellent. A look into our cultural obsession with “True Crime” (by way of “To Catch a Predator” and what it means about us. #IFFBoston
Alley Stories V 🔣
巷弄故事 V 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
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From Guidelines to Practice: A New Paradigm for Arabic Language Model Evaluation
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar, Yasser Al-Habashi, Abdulrahman Al-Batati, Wadii Boulila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01920
GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning
Sahiti Yerramilli, Nilay Pande, Rynaa Grover, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00785
Ten Simple Rules for Catalyzing Collaborations and Building Bridges between Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers
Nasir U. Eisty, Jeffrey C. Carver, Johanna Cohoon, Ian A. Cosden, Carole Goble, Samuel Grayson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03012
Ramachandra Guha: Ignored by the ‘national’ media, a disaster is unfolding in Great Nicobar
https://scroll.in/article/1081027/ramachandra-guha-ignored-by-the-national-media-a-disaster-is-unfolding-in-great-n…
In his presentation "Exploring and Visualizing Italian Advertising Fliers and Posters through an Iconographical Lens with Linked Open Data" Bruno Sartini is demonstrating how to bridge traditional art historical methods with computational approaches by using structured iconographical data to empirically validate qualitative findings from cultural studies.
paper:
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“The theories of textuality, discourse, and visuality at the heart of cultural theory remain largely unresponsive to the sonic, failing to confront the powerful, asignifying materiality that characterizes so much experimental work with sound.”
EmotionTalk: An Interactive Chinese Multimodal Emotion Dataset With Rich Annotations
Haoqin Sun, Xuechen Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Shiwan Zhao, Jiaming Zhou, Hui Wang, Jiabei He, Aobo Kong, Xi Yang, Yequan Wang, Yonghua Lin, Yong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23018
Consideraciones para una formulaci\'on Termodin\'amica Neo-Gibbsiana aplicada a sistemas sociales
Victor Alcides Guzm\'an Rodr\'iguez, Esneiber Hibraim Solano Herrera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01794
CFP> Panel on Tibetan Yoga at the 17th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (Kathmandu, August 23-29, 2026)
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Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Economic and policy arguments just don’t matter as much to people right now as these deeper cultural divides. That’s why all elections are now existential: Small numbers of voters swinging one way or the next will decide the nature of the state, the future of democracy, the independence of the courts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/existential-election-poland-nationalism/683051/
"I don’t believe anyone was thinking about [the] 51st state idea. Truthfully, the intent was to not get political, but to focus on social, cultural, and economic ties."
I hate this nonsense. With great respect and in kindness: Mr. City Councillor in Bellngham needs to put on his big boy pants and admit that yes it is political and yes it is about the 51st state rhetoric and all the scary border stuff from his federal government.
His choice not to admit that and speak against that, and worse, to act like it doesn’t exist, is a further insult and will not help to get BC/Canadians to resume visits.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #NoFascism #TheAmericanFascist #Economy #Tourism
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/home2/video-bellingham-letter-of-support-sent-to-bc-communities-8034581
Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Taylor Swift
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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion and Taylor Swift Edited by: Alexis Bradford and Chris Swann…
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