@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall for Papers for The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. https://churchhistory.org/call-for-papers-for-the-association-for-the-study-of-eastern-christian-history-and-culture-inc/
@UP8@mastodon.social🏟️ US soccer is in the midst of a stadium boom, each with realistic ambitions
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/24/us-soccer-is-in-the-midst-of-a-stadium-boom-each-with-realistic-ambitions
@anildash@me.dmThe number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK's College of Policing proposes new rules to end years of police secrecy and suspicion in their dealings with journalists following the Leveson Inquiry (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-po
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialNever forget what the world's richest person did to the world's poorest people. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands…
@cheryanne@aus.socialCrip Culture
Celebrates disability arts, culture and creativity...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods <…
@benb@osintua.euCulture against missiles: how music became a weapon of war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/culture-against-missiles-how-music.html
@arXiv_csDL_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe QIC-Index: A Novel, Data-Centric Metric for Quantifying the Impact of Research Data Sharing
Martin G. Frasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03307 https://a…
@hex@kolektiva.socialOil is the absolute enemy, and that should be completely clear at this point. Advocate hard for a Dutch style traffic plan and Dutch bike infrastructure. Push hard for mass transit. Fight car infrastructure with everything you can. Abolish free parking.
Every dollar you spend on gas, every dollar that goes to roads and free parking, is a dollar that will be spent murdering civilians to steal their oil.
Free parking is the most important subsidy to car culture. The more expensive you can make parking, the fewer cars will be on the road, the safer cities will be, and the less money will be available for the gang of thieves directing the military.
#FuckCars
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I suspect the problem is that culture informs language, and in American English we aren't used to people taking the train many places.
I wonder what the Brits would say.
In Danish the word for "drove" would be appropriate. You could say "I drove to SFO" and it could equally mean by car, bus, or train without any further clarifi…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThat article about the alleged safety of glyphosate that was retracted 25 years after publication because it was effectively ghostwritten by Monsanto? The whole ghostwriting was already revealed 8 years ago in a court.
Quite telling about the issues with academic publishing culture.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-article-retracted-elsevier-monsanto-ghostwriting/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialYou've been told to pick one thing and stick to it.
But what if your curiosity across many areas is not a problem to fix?
What if it's actually a signal?
In a world that can automate execution, imagination is the real constraint.
And imagination does not live in narrow corridors.
New piece on staying whole in a system that wants you smaller.
What parts of yourself have you been told don't fit?
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comIt's actually quite unhelpful that the debian-user mailing list accepts posts even from non-subscribers because then it's impossible to tell if the post needs a copy sent back to them directly.
The culture of that mailing list is generally not to reply-all. I'm oretty sure this does mean that some people think they have been ignored.
@mia@hcommons.socialNew article: 'Seeing Library Collections Through New Lenses: The Potential of Large-Scale Digital Collections' in the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum, edited by @emilyjlm.bsky.social and Joanna Taylor
https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaf021
(I kinda love th…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
@cdarwin@c.imDangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWho’s going to tell Germany that commiting genocide isn’t a fundamental European value? (I can see why they’re confused, of course.)
Deutschebags.
https://shrimp.vijf.life/notes/afvjl80c075vsdvy
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"It's not that any of the other streaming services are good, but Spotify is almost certainly the worst. Do not trust it. Do not let it turn your enjoyment of music into stats and algorithmic playlists."
(Original title: Spotify Haters Club)
https://knru.polin.ski/spotify-haters-
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall for Papers for The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc.
https://ift.tt/NPkjfzC
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@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
B.C. is full of hipsters, Alberta is oil obsessed, Ontario has a superiority complex, PEI prays to potatoes, and all Newfies drink Screech at breakfast. Every Province and Territory is known for their unique habits, culture, and views of the world. And we all hold expectations and misconceptions of our neighbours across internal borders. Hey, it's a long winter and we need some gossip to get us to the end of it.
The attached video provides a detailed rundown of stereotypes for each Province and Territory, and some of the content is accurate, like Toronto being the centre of the universe. It's a bit long but you can select a chapter to check out your Province, or one that you dislike. My favourite is Albertans pouring oil on their cereal.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Stereotypes
https://youtu.be/tFEar1K_Y6w
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaComing up to 7 years since I gave up access to Dutch beer culture :( Polish Żywiec Porter is the best beer I can get in Ireland at a reasonable price. 9.5% ABV, and actually tastes like something. The Winged Hussars save the day once again...
@davej@dice.campThe takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys Cheerleaders turn heads in festive pajamas at team Christmas party https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/trending/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-pajamas-team-christmas-party/0af5ce67246a2fa98…
@anildash@me.dmOkay, this is a key distillation of work I've been doing for a few decades, one of the most important lessons I try to share with the people I collaborate with: They have to be able to talk about us without us. https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/05/talk-about-us-without-…
@Luc@dresden.networkit's been 30 years since "tri repetea" from autechre.
#techno
@raiders@darktundra.xyzEstablishing a new identity on both sides of the ball in recent Raiders mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/04/establishing-a-new-identity-on-both-sides-of-the-ball-in-recent-raiders-mock-draft/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI feel like the movie Human Centipede doesn't get the credit it deserves for the mark it made on culture and society.
@cheryanne@aus.socialSBS Learn English
Ease into the English language and Australian culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA #mural on the municipal "Palace of Culture" (weird translation) in #Lipno, #GreaterPoland.
Forgive the angle, but of course the view straight ahead was blocked by a car.
@poppastring@dotnet.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe Seahawks smothered the 49ers, then soaked it all in: 'I don't want today to end' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6938665/2026/01/04/seahawks-49ers-cigars-nfc-playoffs-celebration/
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgJust released "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your price!) and bandcamp will waive their fee.
http…
@jby@ecoevo.socialBefore we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…
@neverpanic@chaos.social"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…
@anildash@me.dmSince ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t
@hynek@mastodon.socialOMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://
@fgraver@hcommons.socialTaylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty | Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/taylor-swift-songs-sung-in-the-style-of-the-velvet-underground-by-father-jo…
@pre@boing.worldFinally get to spend some time lounging in the corner of the bed watching Who Culture podcast on the closet monitor in the tardis bedroom.
The mattress did expand another cm or so during the time away over xmas. It's now been much more than the recommended 72 hours before I should use the bed.
So I used the bed for drinking a glass of wine, watching Who Culture, and mucking about on the tablet screen.
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social📣 Die Shortlist des 4. Culture Music Awards wurde veröffentlicht! Insbesondere wurden Projekte gewürdigt, die sich Massenmedien widmen, von Choralbüchern, Social Media bis hin zu YouTube.
🚀 Drei KandidatInnen wurden von der Jury ausgewählt.
🌟 Aida Amiryan-Stein (Universität Paderborn)
🌟 Henrik Schuld (Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Abteilung Musiktheorie)
🌟 Christoph Hust (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig)
Wir drücken allen die Daumen🍀
➡️
@anildash@me.dmSince ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t
@UP8@mastodon.social🤼♂️ Japan's sumo association turns 100, but the sport's rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
https://theconversation.com/japans-sumo-association-turns-100-but…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html
saved 2019-11-16
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Culture:
🎵 The International Herb
#Culture
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GGPUysb8GpCG76dQH63te
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life. The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…
@StephenRees@mas.toSunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/02/Sunrise-Market-…
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@rae@bne.socialYou know there's something suss when a local council takes time to indulge in this sort of culture war. Just what are they trying to distracted ratepayers attention from?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/aboriginal-torres-…
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgIn this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.socialManche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.
@cdarwin@c.imUSAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people,
⇔ of them children.
Officials simply deny any harm,
while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it
https://www.newyork…
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@nemobis@mamot.frGermany is looking for ever more creative ways to avoid the embarrassment of getting zero points at #Eurovision again.
«Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer told Reuters that Germany should not participate in Eurovision if Israel is excluded.»
@buercher@tooting.chFor all its success, there are two things Netflix wants and has never achieved. First is to win the Academy Award for best picture and, second, to make a proper blockbuster movie. It’s well to remember that Netflix is a US corporation, not the radical guerrilla outfit it sometimes presents itself as. And they want their films to be at the heart of mainstream American culture in the same way their TV shows are.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/what-does-netflix-hope-to-achieve-by-buying-warner-bros?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@timbray@cosocial.caJimmy Wales isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I enjoyed reading this interview about #Wikipedia in 2025: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magaz…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social#Portugal hoje estš em alta na Euronews. Aqui estš uma extensa entrevista com os autores do "Astérix na Lusitânia" - https://www.euronews.com/culture…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world @brichapman@mastodon.socialCheck out my latest article - "the lie of the niche"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-lie-of-the-niche?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
@seav@en.osm.townNo surprise: the top ten most-viewed articles on the English @… in 2025 are basically politics and pop culture.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2025articles<…
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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
@scott@carfree.city"In a safety culture, you look at the system, you don't just thump the individual who screwed up." https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/commentary-munis-near-disaster-is-about-more-than-a-sleeping-train-ope…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialLearning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy
@bici@mastodon.socialBabbitt , by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life & the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.
The word Babbitt has entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards.
w…
@lilmikesf@c.im60's era #Memphis musician Steve Cropper dies , played key roles in careers of soul singer Otis Redding, Blues Brothers band & his own band Booker T & MGs amongst many others. Lesser known Cropper roles in pop culture include producing an early John Cougar album and appearing with Jack Black & Mos Def in the oddball stoner comedy "Be Kind Rewind". I only got to see him live once …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioUnderlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
5/
@cdarwin@c.im"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." https://www.anildash.com//20…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Material-Culture: 23 November - 30 November https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133963/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-material-culture-23-november-30
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUrban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@mia@hcommons.socialFantastic welcome from SMK's Merete Sanderhoff and Jonas Heide Smith to start the Europeana Network Association Cross-Community Workshop on Culture for AI https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeana-network-association-cross-commu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had about 75K digital-only subscribers and 40K print subscribers, ends its print edition after 157 years (Kay Powell/Atlanta Magazine)
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-cultu
@cheryanne@aus.socialSex Cells
Eliza, with an academic background of Counselling and Behavioural Science, Sexology, Life Coaching and Relationship Counselling, talks all things sex, dating, relationships and culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sex-cells…
@cdarwin@c.imSilicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to "culture" and "removing layers" from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/its-cultu…
@benb@osintua.euHow does Ukrainian culture survive war? One Austrian foundation has a long-term answer: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/how-does-ukrainian-culture-survive.html
@StephenRees@mas.toAn illustration in Robert Munsch’s beloved Love You Forever didn’t seem right. I set out to discover why
I memorized every word of Love You Forever as a kid, but when I read it to my own children, one page left me unsettled
https://www.theg…
@hex@kolektiva.socialPerhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127238/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary
@pre@boing.worldDay two introduced again by Mad bitcoins .
Then the history of art on bitcoin includes satoshi and his original logo, ASCII art in the Blockchain, Cassius coins with scratch off keys, these pictured images of fake satoshi and 200 logos.
Exploded from there, trading cards, the rare Pepe's.
What makes it bitcoin art?
Symbology. The logo. Religious symbology. Is it a cult?
Memes. Memes catch and go in a fashion which is unpredictable and fits the whole history to a timeline.
Art builds culture and heros proliferate bitcoin culture for all.
Art traditionally goes up in value but none of it seems to outpace bitcoin itself.
Some is for sale in the gallery but it'll unlikely be a better but then 30 percent discount bitcoin today 😆
#bitfest #art #bitcoin
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMeinerz talks the culture being built in Denver, Hufanga looks ahead to Week 8 https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/meinerz-talks-the-culture-being-built-in-denver-hufanga-looks-ahead-to-week-8-broncos-in-60…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThe Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/25/titanic-sinclair-c5-brexit-museum-of-failure-coming-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams offer 'clear-cut example' of what Falcons want to be, but will this staff get there? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6921233/2025/12/29/rams-falcons-mnf-raheem-morris-job-culture/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzJust Lose, Baby: The Raiders’ Struggle With A Losing Culture https://raiderramble.com/2025/10/22/just-lose-baby-the-raiders-struggle-with-a-losing-culture/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Material-Culture: 23 November - 30 November
https://ift.tt/qaZoikS
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@anildash@me.dmBy popular request: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful take on LLMs that (in my experience) the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-m
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCBS has cut two streaming shows, disbanded its race and culture unit, eliminated the Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-l…
@cdarwin@c.im @cheryanne@aus.socialSpill The Gloss With Chloe Morello
Each week, Chloe Morello dives into the world of beauty, culture, and content creation...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/spill-the-gloss/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAustralia's public broadcaster ABC will receive AU$50M over three years to spend on new content thanks to an amendment to the streaming quotas bill (Karl Quinn/Sydney Morning Herald)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radi
@cdarwin@c.imIn style, as in life, timing is everything:
Brigitte Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
https://www.…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall for Papers for The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc.
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@cdarwin@c.imOur collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since.
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character.
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Swiss Broadcasting Corporation plans to gradually cut 900 jobs to help it save $334M by 2029 as it faces a lower license fee and falling commercial revenues (SWI swissinfo.ch)
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/swiss-broadcasting-corpo…
@cdarwin@c.imGerman 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify's video podcasts deal with Netflix will bring 16 shows to the platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, and Serial Killers (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-14/netflix-partnership-the-ringer…
