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youngbadmanbrown: cloama: Every time I see a post like this one, I remember that they aren’t really for me. So here are mine* The Martha Jones test: a Black woman character exists. She is complete and faceted. She has a family and a life that is visibly represented. She has a personality. She is complete. The Cookie…
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theverge: Samsung wants to make the roads safer by making standard-issue transparent trucks. what would a convoy of these trucks look like? what image would the last one present? would it be intelligible at speed?
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it’s time for us to move like water; infinite like the ocean, with the strength and direction of a thousand rivers carving routes to freedom; in unafraid. climbing poetree (via yesixicana)
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actionables: Because news cameras are apparently only there if looting and protests are mentioned, here are some shots from the march for peace in Charleston yesterday. In case you missed it, thousands marched to Ravenel Bridge, holding hands in prayer and unity. Yet this doesn’t make news, but an interview with the killer’s friend does.…
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Brown Girl in the Ring- Indiegogo Campaign
Brown Girl in the Ring- Indiegogo Campaign starklyinaccurate: poc-creators: Director Sharon Lewis has launched a crowd-funding campaign to create the first caribbean canadian sci-fi feature film Brown Girl in the Ring: The Prequel. A coming of age story set in a futuristic ghetto, inspired by the award-winning novel by Nalo Hopkinson. The campaign Brown Girl in…
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In their blog post, Harvey and Samyn address the “failure” of their most recent release, Sunset. Despite a development philosophy and marketing strategy tuned to connect the game to a broader audience, the game sold only “a little over 4,000 copies” to date, including units sold to backers of the game’s Kickstarter. Honestly, I’m still…
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[…] a book is a different object every time it is instantiated or read, be it by a human or machinic entity; they become part of the apparatus of the book, a performative apparatus. A Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices with Janneke Adema, Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti (2015)
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The 2015 open source summer reading list [opensource.com]
mostlysignssomeportents: A decade of good books It’s 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launche something called “The Facebook” at Harvard University. Apple’s most popular pocket i-thing is years away from taking phone calls. A curious new Linux distribution called “Ubuntu” appears. Opensource.com doesn’t exist. It won’t for another six years. Tech-savvy readers…
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kateoplis: Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and the Gendering of Martyrdom “In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s…
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bunnyfood: (via tastefullyoffensive:vininnarella)