2026-01-30 02:37:02
Tough week for the arts in SF with Thee Parkside announced to be closing just after the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts closed.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/mission-cultural-center-loses-its-interim-director/
Tough week for the arts in SF with Thee Parkside announced to be closing just after the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts closed.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/mission-cultural-center-loses-its-interim-director/
"Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening https://theconversation.com/ai-induced-cultural-stagnation-is-no-longer-speculation-its-already-happening-272488
I mean, you could always go back to school and learn the languages your neighbours speak, if it bothers you so much?
#uspolitics https://flipboard.com/@huffpostuk/poli
#neulatein|ische Neuerscheinung: Simonetta, Nicolini, Anselmi Gian Mario, Ferrilli Sara, Giovanardi Alessandro, Lollini Fabrizio, Pesaresi Jacopo, Schaffenrath Florian, u. a. L’amore, le armi, le stelle. Lysa Publishers. doi:10.54179/2501,
From The Conversation
Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
A publicly funded AI system could draw on public-domain materials, government datasets and openly licensed cultural content. It could be offered as an open-source system, making it widely available to researchers, developers and everyday users alike.
Jimmy Cliff,
Jamaican reggae singer,
actor and cultural icon,
dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come
had hits including
You Can Get It If You Really Want
and I Can See Clearly Now
https://www.
I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026
"The Economics of Libraries"
https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libraries/Martorana-Rizzo/p/book/9781032364285 (erscheint im April)
@…
Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/23/cultural-narratologies-form-and-context-in-contemporary-narrative-theory
A lot of what I’m archiving has like 0 hits but I just know sometime, someone, maybe in a hundred years from now, will find it useful.
It’s a nice feeling to have contributed just a little to preserving our cultural artifacts.
📅 Fr, 20.02., 15–19 Uhr
🚀 Das Netzwerk FemDevsMeetup lädt in Zusammenarbeit mit NFDI4Culture, der @… sowie dem Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Haus Bastian) zu "Cultural Heritage Meets Game Development" ein.
👏 Die Veranstaltung bringt Akteur*innen aus der Games-Industry, Kulturerbeeinrichtung…
NetEase says 2M people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-conn
"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
Bari Weiss says she wants CBS News to redraw "the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate", such as elevating voices like Alan Dershowitz (@dropsitenews)
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/1993154653941362892
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情绪化城市 - 立 🧍♂️
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Falls jemand von Euch am 25.11. in Rio de Janeiro weilt, gehet hin und hört Sara Zlanabitnig spielen! #sound
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRXnpoXD7l3/?u
My alma mater of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social continues to disgrace itself by participating in the cultural erasure of #Palestine. Thanks to the Columbia Spectator for covering this.

Amid a crackdown on protests, students began organizing Palestinian cultural events. The University keeps canceling them.
A conversation starter? 'Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI' from Europeana Pro and @… https://
"How a Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Their Fossil Fuel Sponsorships"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
Never been a Perl person, but the points made about Unix admin culture resonate with me nonetheless — seen exactly…
Assistant Professor of the History(ies) of Global Christianity(ies)
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Phillips Theological Seminary invites applications for a full-time, tenure-trackposition in the…
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German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…
Aa nice overnight, cultural, stay in Liverpool.
Philharmonic concert with UK premier of accordion concerto by Dobrinka Tabakova - a great performance and an interesting, joyful listen.
Turner exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. On his influence - again really good (the 3rd Turner exhibition I've been too this year. The others etchings at Whitworth Manchester and Turner & locally influenced painters Towner, Eastbourne). Shall have to pick up the brushes again!
Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…
En busca de mecenas para comprar cinco hectšreas privadas que albergan vestigios “únicos” de la ciudad romana de #Caraca
El Ayuntamiento de Driebes, el pequeño municipio de #Guadalajara donde se ubica este emblemštico yacimiento, Bien de Interés Cultural, quiere comprar, para su expropiació…
But did he and his staff learn anything, given the Wannong “Tiffany” Deng example? "My bad" is not a measure of improvement or competence
Daniel Lurie gets props, faces doubt in Beya Alcaraz fallout | Politics | sfexaminer.com
https:/…
But did he and his staff learn anything, given the Wannong “Tiffany” Deng example? "My bad" is not a measure of improvement or competence
Daniel Lurie gets props, faces doubt in Beya Alcaraz fallout | Politics | sfexaminer.com
https:/…
Mangia!
‘A gesture of love’: Italy’s cuisine joins UNESCO’s cultural heritage list | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/a-gesture-of-love-italys-cuisine-joins-unescos-cultural-heritage-list?traffic_source=rss
"AI Tools Are Changing Academic Publishing. How Can We Adopt Them Responsibly?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/ai-tools-are-changing-publishing-adopt-them-respons…
Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/23/cultural-narratologies-form-and-context-in-contemporary-narrative-theory
📸 Creating realistic 3D scenes from everyday online photos
#3d
🚀Unser Team der Cultural Research Data Academy hat sich zu einem Strategietreffen in Eltville getroffen und viele Inspirationen, Ideen, und Impressionen für die nächste Projektphase gesammelt.
➡️Hier könnt ihr mehr über die Events, Kurse und Aktivitäten der CRDA erfahren: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E1826
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Hey, at least we’ll still have billionaires. https://aus.social/@jhaue/115725409869759980
Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …
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After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol
The 20th century cultural references are kinda grating. This guy is played way too stereotype of relatable.
#neu & #openaccess:
"AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage"
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There’s an obvious unfinished task here… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app
"Perhaps, having lost so many [cultural] battles at home, it is easier on the ego to look abroad for societies to redeem. The attack on Europe is a disguised self-reproach"?
Maga’s strange rage against Europe - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/3e97fb8e-4b48-41f0-b193-ed599f3f60b3 via @FT
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Poland detains Russian archaeologist accused of damaging cultural sites in occupied Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/poland-detains-russian-archaeologist-accused.html
Gerade erschienen 😎: Hanna Meiners und ich beschreiben, wie wir am DDK - Bildarchiv #FotoMarburg @… als Gateway institutionellen Wissens nutzen.
Meiners, Hanna-Lena, and Klaus Bulle. 2025. ‘Disrupting the Dust: Identifier Properties and the Future of Cultural Her…
Reading Stefan Zweig's 'the world of yesterday' for obvious reasons: but hey, his description of Vienna, cultural Vienna, as if there is nothing else than cultural Vienna is one of the best pieces of non-fiction I've read in quite a while. Excellent.
Earwigs are among those animals that suffer from a kind of reputational inertia: once an idea lodges itself in cultural memory, it is hard to dislodge, even when it is wrong. The name carries a superstition - the medieval belief that these insects crawl into human ears. There is no evidence for this, and never has been. Earwigs are no more interested in ears than they are in theology or municipal planning.
Biologically, earwigs belong to the order Dermaptera, a name derived from Greek …
Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-hires-espn-elle-duncan-sp…
This will be very interesting to a very small group of people: 'For cultural institutions that provide metadata to the data space for cultural heritage, the implementation of IIIF Change Discovery provides an alternative to implementing OAI-PMH.' https://pro.eu…
Cultural differences in technology platforms are a funny thing.
On Twitter, you'd be venting and make some complaint ("I hate when the waffles are dry!") and you'd have to add a disclaimer ("yes, I know NOT ALL WAFFLES") to preempt the endless trolling and strawmanning.
Here on Mastodon, you're making the same complaint but have to add a disclaimer to preempt the problem solvers ("THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR HELP MAKING WAFFLES").
Impeach him!
Trump refused to eat sushi in Tokyo and instead opted for McDonald's
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/trump-refused-eat-sushi-tokyo-36599444#Echobox=1769355001
A prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …
For half a century, psychedelics largely belonged to the cultural left: anti-war, anti-capitalist, suspicious of the church and state. Now, one of the most politically consequential psychedelic drugs in the US – ibogaine – is being championed by evangelical Christians, Republican governors, military veterans, and big tech billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-right-champions-psychedelic-drugs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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城市点阵 ⭕️
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Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-hires-espn-elle-duncan-sp…
Biological signatures of history - examination of composite biomes and Y chromosome analysis from da Vinci-associated cultural artifacts: #Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA achieve a milestone.
rare good news https://bsky.app/profile/dropsitenews.com/post/3mcl7mhmpb22h
Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.
Alright so I don't know why I feel I have to justify it, but Avatar was absolutely staggering. Saw it in 3D on the biggest screen in my area, and it's fair to say I think I'll remember this experience forever.
You can quibble with the story or the cultural treatment, but it's a quantum leap in the cinematic experience. Easily among if not the best action adventure film ever made *in this form*.
Absolutely unique filmmaking. (1/4)
@axbom@axbom.meWhy?
1. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion that explicitly legalized racial profiling in immigration enforcement.
2. The term “Kavanaugh stops” really, really, really gets under his skin.
3. He’s now kind of trying to walk back the opinion in the hopes that the phrase “Kavanaugh stop” does not become a permanent part of our legal and cultural memory.
I've spent enough time in Florida to know that it is a horrible place to live except during a few winter months (and even then, Florida is always a social and cultural nightmare.). So I would guess that these people have several "homes".
However, I would suspect that there are people out there who might consider this kind of concentration of $billionaires as a convenient kind of "targeting coordinates".
'‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show …
what does your father think. what does he think of this cultural moment we inhabit, the current state of affairs, if kerl jaggenbach really cheated on alifia rogenhoth
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“He’s the scary bad cop to St. Nicholas’ good cop,
to stoke some fear in the naughty children and get them to behave better.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertain
$5000 Essay Prize/Call For Papers: Skirball Cultural Center https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136927/5000-essay-prizecall-papers-skirball-cultural-center
"Uncertainties in the Archives" @…:
https://blog.sbb.berlin/uncertainties-in-the-archives/
"Over the course of …
I wasn't surprised to see Rob Sanderson quoted in this, because rich vs aligned semantics - specifically , wanting both at the same time - is *such* a cultural heritage data interoperability problem #MuseTech
From: @…
How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines
Für alle, die mehr über die kommenden ECHOES‑Termine erfahren möchten:
📆 Am 14.01., 10–12 Uhr, findet ein ECHOES-Webinar für deutschsprachige Kulturerbe-Communities statt
📆Vom 16.–20.03.2026 veranstaltet ECHOES seine zweite Jahresveranstaltung in Posen, Polen am Polish Optical Internet Research Center. Dort können lokale Interessengruppen mehr über die Cultural Heritage Cloud erfahren.
Nähere Infos zu den Programmen und Anmeldungen findet ihr hier👉
Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory
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#neu & #OpenAccess:
"Material Cultures of Archiving: An Introduction to a Global and Historical Practice"
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Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory
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Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory
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$5000 Essay Prize/Call For Papers: Skirball Cultural Center
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Physicist Max Born’s other great cultural contribution,
besides the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics,
Is his granddaughter
Olivia Newton-John.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115668812376356901…
The Jim Henson Studios lot is a cultural landmark, built by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1910s as his first film studio
— and it’s where he built sets and shot many of his most recognizable movies.
It’s also home to the Henson Recording Studios, formerly owned by A&M Records, where stars like Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have recorded albums.
That’s why speculation swirled around what might happen to the history-steeped lot when the Henson family announ…
ONLINE SEMINAR: Borders of Healing: Transmission, Secrecy, and Syncretism in the New Generation of Segnatori
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The Hidden Second World War: Cultural Depictions of Irregular Warfare and Covert Action
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…
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