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"À pleurer", "complètement honteux" : 60 tonnes de livres jetées à la poubelle après la faillite de "La grande librairie"


#société #culture

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/alpes-maritimes/nice/a-pleurer-completement-honteux-60-tonnes-de-livres-jetees-a-la-poubelle-apres-la-faillite-de-la-grande-librairie-2931843.html




Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order) https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/everything-wrong-with-tech-in-2023-in-no-particular-order | https://lobste.rs/s/oa6ezj #culture


Back in March, when the #fediverse came together to help save us, we changed our name to “Texas Observer Lives!”

Today, we changed it back to just "Texas Observer" because we need YOUR HELP to survive into 2024! It's up to our readers to preserve the voice of progressive #Texas by joining our fall membership drive.

Please consider joining—or renewing—today! https://hype.co/@texasobserver/zdmn6ya7

#journalism #JournoLife #Nonprofit #fundraising #news #culture #books #politics

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TROM II: 1. Humans


What does Romania, Russia, Latvia, Germany, and the United States have in common? A planet, and the human imagination. We imagine borders, nationalities, and differences. In truth we are all very much the same. We grow up in a culture, we watch the same TV, listen to the same music, follow similar traditions. We are "educated" and "trained" by institutions that are rarely questioned by the masses.

So how does a newborn human become someone in this culture of humans? And how does the human-invented world contrast with the vast universe we are part of?


The influencer industry is huge today, but how did it take over social media and the cultural sector?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Emily Hund about the social and economic forces that created the industry and how it still depends on precarity all these years later. It’s a fascinating conversation that also considered where it goes next!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12994172-the-influencer-industry-is-built-on-precarity-w-emily-hund

#tech #socialmedia #culture


there are #QR #code #posters here in #Melbourne for #reporting #graffiti to the #council - and #someone has been #printing their own and #carefully #placing them over the #official ones
they lead to a #documentary on #hiphop/graffiti #culture
it's perfect #because the QR posters are #uglier than any bit of #street #art


@evan

Look, it's late and I'm a silly old fool but...

... my entire life, I have worked in one way or another to try and make the Trek / Culture future come true. And now I'm chatting to you, on a platform based on something *you* created that is a seed of that future. I find that incredible.

#TheFederation / #Fediverse / #Culture is sooo close, so damned close. The free association of sentients as equals, beyond all our ridiculous, pernicious -isms.

We need our dreams!



Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition


#music #art #culture
The musician helped create the Moog synthesizer and composed groundbreaking albums and film scores, but lived in seclusion for almost 10 years to hide her gender reassignment

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-12/wendy-carlos-the-brilliant-but-lonely-life-of-an-electronic-music-pioneer.html


Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition


#music #art #culture
The musician helped create the Moog synthesizer and composed groundbreaking albums and film scores, but lived in seclusion for almost 10 years to hide her gender reassignment
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-12/wendy-carlos-the-brilliant-but-lonely-life-of-an-electronic-music-pioneer.html


Since many users are joining today and in the future, a #introduction #introductions refresh for those new or want to get a reminder of who I'm about:

Here's some hashtags. If you relate to any of these and more, I would love to interact with you all!

#film
#culture
#tech
#coding
#programming
#podcasts
#software
#opensource
#fandom
#diversity
#windows
#linux
#gaming
#retrogaming

And many more, just ask!
#hardware


A new Nazca Line has been announced in #Peru. It is a feline, so it comes at great time for #caturday.

For those who are curious, Nazca lines were made by a pre-Inca civilization called the Nazca. They lived about five hours south from Lima, in the desert, and they were built in such a way they lasted until today. Nazca people were also known for being able to dig fresh water from the Pacific ocean (do not ask me how because I do not know).

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Una nueva línea de Nazca ha sido anunciada hoy en #Perú. Es un felino.

Para quienes se sientan curiosos, las líneas de Nazca fueron hechos por una civilización anterior a los Incas conocida como los Nazca. Se ubicaron unas cinco horas al sur de Lima, en el desierto, y las construyeron de tal manera que duran hasta hoy. Los nazca también fueron conocidos por ser capaces de extraer agua dulce del océano Pacífico (no me pregunten cómo porque no sé).

#culture #cultura