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⛩️ Efforts To Reconstruct Edo Castle Tower Keep Enter 18th Year
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/efforts-to-reconstruct-edo-castle-tower-keep-enter-18th-year/

The Edo Castle Reconstruction Project Enters 18th Year
Efforts to reconstruct the once magnificent Edo Castle have been met with numerous obstacles, pushing the project into it's18th year.

Dallas Cowboys' new 'energy' culture adds to Brian Schottenheimer lore https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-new-energy-culture-adds-brian-schottenheimer-lore

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Toxic masculinity has warped our culture. Trans men are showing the path forward. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/toxic-masculinity-has-warped-our-culture-trans-men-are-showing-the-path-forward/

What a great write-up of the bananas ideology currently running ( and ruining ) the world
The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-pol…

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

In an internal memo, NYT's culture editor says four critics, including long-time music critic Jon Pareles, will be reassigned as the section seeks new voices (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/new-y

NY Times Reassigns Four Critics in Culture Desk Shake-Up
Four New York Times critics -- Margaret Lyons, Jon Pareles, Jesse Green and Zach Woolfe -- will be assigned 'new roles' as the paper changes up its culture desk coverage.

Jeez, I wonder why Trump won't release the Epstein files (Drew Magary/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/i-wonder-why-trump-wont-release-epstein-files-20772363.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p158#a250716p158

I was incredibly excited about seeing Wu-Tang's last-ever show at the Garden tonight (with Run the Jewels opening, no less!), so I thought it was a perfect time to tell the story of when I got to see the last time all 9 members performed together on one stage — complete with footage of an on-the-run Old Dirty Bastard bursting onto the stage to everyone’s surprise: …

Exit the Wu
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Bradley Chubb: Dolphins 'were lying' about culture change last year https://www.nfl.com/news/bradley-chubb-dolphins-were-lying-about-culture-change-last-year

Culture vs War: Serhiy Zhadan – the life of a poet in a city under shelling: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/culture-vs-war-serhiy-zhadan.html

Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/samsung-electronics-chip-division-d…

Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together the voices of early-career researchers from multiple fields, it explores how AI systems that simulate or interpret human emotions are reshaping our interactions in areas such as education, healthcare, mental health, caregiving, and digital life. The analysis is structured around four central themes: the ethical implications of emotional AI, …

AI futures: Culture wars https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/ai-futures-culture-wars/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Copy…

AI futures: Culture wars
AI is transforming culture, entertainment, business, and society at a pace unprecedented in the digital era. Unlike previous tech, AI is evolving at the speed of computing, not the speed of the hum…

really delightful 1985 scene report on japanese kissaten culture. found the heads! https://social.lol/@thetonearm/114840680488798313

from my link log —
Situated software.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050120085129/http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html
saved 2025-04-11

Dieser ganze Mythos von Computer-Hackern und Silicon Valley etc stammt aus einer Zeit, in der in den USA kleine Garagenfirmen¹ sich² mit neuen Ideen gegen diese Computerriesen³ und damit auch die Übermacht der staatlichen Bürokratie und ihrer grauen, phantasielosen Kästen stellten, in Deutschland eher der CCC, der sich gegen die staatliche Post mit all diesen Regularien auflehnte.
Computer für alle hieß auch Demokratisierung gegen übermächtige Spaßbremsen.
Und all das hat mit heu…

Why Bell Labs Worked.
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs

Lenine (le chanteur brésilien) est Š Paris et Toulouse!!
Le Monde – Lenine, chanteur et guitariste brésilien : « Le frevo, j’ai baigné dedans »
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/202…

Lenine, chanteur et guitariste brésilien : « Le frevo, j’ai baigné dedans »
Le musicien se produit au festival Rio Loco, à Toulouse, puis au Théâtre du Châtelet, à Paris, avec le puissant big band SpokFrevo Orquestra, qui réinterprète la musique du carnaval de Recife.

Listening to a digital history talk at #DH2025 I'm reminded that IMO 'labs' isn't a natural metaphor for 'working together' (but maybe the realities of hierarchies and politics do fit the DH/GLAM use?).
Is importing 'data culture' from the world of business the right move for digital history / humanities?

Liebe Community von #NFDI4Culture ,
ab heute ist die Registrierung für unser ➡️ 5. #CultureCommunityPlenary eröffnet.
Wir laden Euch vom 24. bis 26. September 2025 nach #Mainz ein, …

"Partly, I think, he took the dive to buy himself a few seconds of the dignity of silence. She’d killed him with culture shock." #JohnnyMnemonic

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

Oh yeah, my copy of the Psygnosis book is being shipped ✌️
#psygnosis

Jeanty is Loving Culture Pete Carroll Brings to Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-maxx-crosby-las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-john-spytek

Housing, food and energy security are “more important now than ever with climate change,”
Haíɫzaqv Hereditary Chief λšλíya sila, Frank Brown, says. 
“Housing is a human right.
It’s imperative we make some progress around ensuring people have adequate housing and that it’s appropriate for the threats that are coming.”
https://

Heiltsuk Nation is building for the climate crisis | The Narwhal
The B.C. First Nation is building energy efficient, affordable homes grounded in culture

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lambrini Girls:
🎵 Company Culture
#LambriniGirls
https://lambrinigirlsband.bandcamp.com/track/company-culture-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Svm9cZMKVHOII0NECMhiy

Major US brands like Bud Light have shifted advertising strategies away from DEI themes, sources say due to fears of a Trump administration backlash (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/88949dbf-7be3-47ed-a6e2-48064bd3fa26

How the culture war is remaking advertising
Brands are diluting or scrapping campaigns with social purpose as the movement against DEI intensifies

Of course Mamdani is a Wu Tang fan
One has no choice but to stan
https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114866702093830197

It seems that chatting with AIs can either cause or trigger psychotic episodes
Please be careful. My suggestion, if you're using AI frequently, would be to tell someone you trust that you're using AI frequently, ask them to keep an eye on you, and even allow them to access your chat log.

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

The Taste of Popular Culture: Essays and Recipes from Screen to Kitchen
https://ift.tt/vaCEG3K
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How the N.B.A. and the M.L.B. Shattered America’s Sports Culture https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/sports-nba-mlb-leagues-streaming-fan.html

Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only
with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, including its culture, engineering practices, rapid growth, and the launch of Codex (Calvin French-Owen)
https://calv.info/openai-reflections

Reflections on OpenAI

I am reading “Use of Weapons” (rereading all the culture books) and I just can’t be bothered with this insane time switching setup.
With not having time to really read a sizable chunk at a time it’s just too all over the place.
I think I also didn’t finish it first time round tbh.

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

@… @… If you can’t fix the problem with culture, fixing it with a system seems like the next best method.

“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
– Harry Stonecipher, former Boeing CEO

Britain, France the necessary relationship - https://on.ft.com/4nEOcSV
"Some other European countries have the martial culture but not the scale. Some have the scale but not the martial culture. Until that changes, sheer necessity forces Britain and France together"

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

My new post for #HealOurCulture: “Trust and Democracy”
https://healourculture.org/2025/05/15/trust-and-democracy/
Also on Substack:

Affective-CARA: A Knowledge Graph Driven Framework for Culturally Adaptive Emotional Intelligence in HCI
Nirodya Pussadeniya, Bahareh Nakisa, Mohmmad Naim Rastgoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14166

Affective-CARA: A Knowledge Graph Driven Framework for Culturally Adaptive Emotional Intelligence in HCI
Culturally adaptive emotional responses remain a critical challenge in affective computing. This paper introduces Affective-CARA, an agentic framework designed to enhance user-agent interactions by integrating a Cultural Emotion Knowledge Graph (derived from StereoKG) with Valence, Arousal, and Dominance annotations, culture-specific data, and cross-cultural checks to minimize bias. A Gradient-Based Reward Policy Optimization mechanism further refines responses according to cultural alignment, …

It’s important to note some exceptions, not all AI pioneers fell into this trap.
Some, like Seymour Papert went to do a lot of good (creator of Logo, Mindstorms and a principal of One Laptop Per Child).
https://forward.com/culture/346666/remembering-seymour-papert-revolutionary-socialist-and-father-of-ai/

Culture vs War. ANTYTILA: From The Stage To The Front. The Story Of a Band That Fights: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/culture-vs-war-antytila-from.html

KaVontae Turpin on why ‘everybody is buying into’ new Cowboys’ culture, offensive role in 2025 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kavontae-turpin-on-why-everybody-is-buying-into-new-cowboys-culture-offensive-r…

Bradley Chubb says Dolphins 'were lying, honestly' about culture change last season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bradley-chu…

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Learn more:

From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Pour les fans de typographie.
En fait, non : pour les fans de titre d’article de presse de qualité.
Comic Sans, tout le monde déteste la police
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/comic-sans-tout-le-monde-deteste-la-police

Comic Sans, tout le monde déteste la police
Depuis trente ans, les caractères aux traits enfantins suscitent chez certains une sainte horreur, sans égale dans le domaine. N’en déplaise aux ronchons, son usage reste pourtant extrêmement répandu

Scientists Just Discovered a Lost Ancient Culture That Vanished https://www.404media.co/scientists-just-discovered-a-lost-ancient-culture-that-vanished/

Cycling in Ribble Valley
#Cycle routes
The Ribble Valley has miles of scenic country roads of which many are ideal for riding your bicycle. To the right are some downloadable maps and leaflets detailing these routes.​​​​
You can download several other routes across not only the Ribble Valley but Lancashire as a whole by visiting Lancashire County Council's dedicated

A profile of Pat McAfee, among the top American sports pundits with millions of followers and an ESPN show, and a sports bro culture dominated by ex-NFL players (Aaron Timms/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/…

Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg on resisting the pressure of productivity culture
#creativity #artist

Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg on resisting the pressure of productivity culture – The Creative Independent
Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg discusses the difference between obsession and compulsion, the importance of time in nature, and learning to understand what art can mean.

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me…

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture
Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much ...

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production https://vegconomist.com/algae-microalgae-seaweed/seaweed-based-growth-media-replace-traditional-cell-…

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new research project led by James Cook University (JCU) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is investigating the use of seaweed as a potential

I'm sad..
I been follow them basically since day one. And they been the most exciting stories in my rss feed
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-need-for-speed-devs-working-on-battlefi…

On dit qu’il ne faut jamais rencontrer ses héros, sous peine d’être déçu. Franchement, je ne sais pas quel imbécile a pondu cette énormité. Je viens d’en avoir la preuve : c’est une belle connerie.
Lire la suite sur le Sillon 🌊 https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/martha-cooper…

Great piece from 2017 on Coil and Hellraiser: #horror …

aus der reihe "lebensnahe forschung" heute: "A Transfer of Language and Culture: German Bread and Pastries and Their Names in Kosovo". https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2024-0014 🍞🥐🥖🥯🥪🥨🫓🙃

How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
https://ift.tt/1MYb4aw
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54amfull name / name of organization: Libbie Searcy (Contract…
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Das Brot von https://culturefoodblog.de/bauernbrot-ohne-kneten-das-no-knead-bread-der-ny-times/ probiert (mit etwas Sauerteigbeigabe). Schon sehr einfach aber lecker 😋

Bauernbrot ohne Kneten: Das No-Knead Bread der NY Times - Culture Food Blog - Familie, Freunde & Food
Wenig Aufwand – narrensicheres Ergebnis Seit 2006 ist dieses Rezept schon unzählige Male um den

David Lynchs Nachlass hat sich scheinbar bei einer Auktion in die Winde zerstreut.
#Filmkultur

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Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

meet people where they are, not where you want them to be. there's a difference between faking or actually completely changing your whole soul to enter another culture, and adapting how you communicate to better convey shit to another culture.

Find the lie.
https://www.tumblr.com/hashtagloveloses/787481694420746240/theres-something-to-be-said-about-movies-like?source=share

David Hogg: Too many Democratic leaders 'asleep at the wheel'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5346407-hogg-challenges-dnc-culture/

My favorite historical mystery is “what really happened in the 6th century???”
We have few clues. We know there were at least 2 big eruptions in the 530s, most likely in Iceland, Kamchatka, or Alaska: nowhere with a surviving writing culture. Then a wave of Plague. Then probably other shit no one bothered writing down. It shattered the recording of history for many decades. We will never have a comprehensive history of the “Dark Ages” because no one wrote the pieces.

Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…

Teen artist striving for ‘hope’ during global wars banned from show
A teenager submitted a painting of a young angel in combat fatigues and flags from global conflict zones, but organisers have refused to hang it.

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

KaVontae Turpin on why ‘everybody is buying into’ new Cowboys’ culture, offensive role in 2025 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kavontae-turpin-on-why-everybody-is-buying-into-new-cowboys-culture-offensive-r…

Jets' Gardner 'bought in,' hopeful about new deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45501462/amid-deal-talks-sauce-gardner-hopes-part-changing-jets-culture

How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
https://ift.tt/1MYb4aw
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54amfull name / name of organization: Libbie Searcy (Contract…
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It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/

It's Time for Something New
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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8) Does the new culture translate to the field? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/8-does-the-new-culture-translate-to-the-field

NIH scientists publish "Bethesda Declaration" rebuking Trump admin (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/culture-of-fear-and-suppression-nih-staff-speak-out-against-trump-admin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p5#a250610p5

‘Wicked: For Good’ Trailer: Ariana Grande Walks Down the Aisle & Dorothy Touches Down in Oz https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/

‘Wicked: For Good’ Trailer: Ariana Grande Walks Down the Aisle & Dorothy Touches Down in Oz
The 'Wicked: For Good" trailer sees Ariana Grande in a wedding gown, Dorothy landing in Oz and more.

8) Does the new culture translate to the field? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/8-does-the-new-culture-translate-to-the-field

SAMLA 2025 panel: "“To Be or Not To Be… a Man”: Reading Masculinities in Literature and Culture"
https://ift.tt/Pw7BeyJ
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Against 'softmaxing' culture
Daniel Mwesigwa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22968 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.22968

Against 'softmaxing' culture
AI is flattening culture. Evaluations of "culture" are showing the myriad ways in which large AI models are homogenizing language and culture, averaging out rich linguistic differences into generic expressions. I call this phenomenon "softmaxing culture," and it is one of the fundamental challenges facing AI evaluations today. Efforts to improve and strengthen evaluations of culture are central to the project of cultural alignment in large AI systems. This position paper argues that machine lea…

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (Batman University, Çankaya University, Prešov University, Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University and Prof. Adelheid Rundholz, JCSU
https://ift.tt/yAuKC08
updated: Monday, June 16, 20…

An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on balancing chaos and accessibility, redesigning core mechanics, and more, ahead of its June 5 launch (Christopher Cruz/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-ga

The Making of ‘Mario Kart World’: ‘We Have to Think About the Chaos’
Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki talks the interconnected world, 150cc speed, and the driving cow

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p102#a250708p102

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Okay, I wrote a little bit about Sly, and about Janet and Prince, and the very first thing I ever blogged about, and how Sly maybe invented some not-small part of the world we live in. And also about the scariest live show I've ever been to. https://www.anildash.com/2025/06/09/sly-st

Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
https://ift.tt/aw4rP9J
CFP: Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract CV due: Oct 1,…
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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
CFP: Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract + CV due: Oct 1, 2025 Video games have become a formative aspect of popular culture because they provide special o…

Meet the Heroes of ‘Ageing With Ease’ | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/06/06/Meet-Heroes-Aging-With-Ease/

The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders just landed a new sponsorship https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/entertainment/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-just-landed-new-sponsorship/201ba73d94aec116d7…

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says the BBC had several editorial failures in its Gaza coverage and has a "problem of leadership" (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-bob-vylan-lisa-nandy-leadership-problem-1236445…

UK Culture Secretary Says BBC Has “Problem Of Leadership” After String Of Gaza Scandals
UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has accused the BBC of having a "problem of leadership" after its latest editorial debacle over the Gaza conflict.

June 10: 1898:
Spain Declares War Against the United States.
The war lasted for 10 weeks.
After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris
under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
& Guam to the US
for $20 million
and Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

Dr Pop Culture USA (@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social)
June 10: 1898: Spain Declares War Against the United States. The war lasted for 10 weeks. After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines, & Guam to the US for $20 million & Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

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June 10, 1910:
Howlin' Wolf
[Chester Arthur Burnett],
American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player
("Smokestack Lightnin'";
"Killing Floor"),
is born in White Station, Mississippi.
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Dr Pop Culture USA (@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social)
June 10, 1910: Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player ("Smokestack Lightnin'"; "Killing Floor"), is born in White Station, Mississippi.

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