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The Museum of Latin American Art is Showing Chicano Artists For the First Time in 20 Years
The Museum of Latin American Art is Showing Chicano Artists For the First Time in 20 Years In 2014 Ashman, Board member Rose Ann Djelmane and others – including Cheech Marin – convinced the Board to hear a presentation on Chicano art by collector Armando Duron. Duron’s presentation persuaded the Board to change the policy,…
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brucesterling: *Long before Lolcats there were LAL Cats. http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5201 Felixocene
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If we are not articulate about what these games are and do, then we undermine the work of the artists behind them. When a crowd of gamers is able to collectively introduce and popularize the term “walking simulator” as a term of derision before this movement can find a broader voice, then the medium suffers…
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The Librarian of Congress has issued new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as part of a triennial review, and one of them grants people access to parts of the computer software running their cars. While you’ve always been allowed to tinker with your car’s engine or change the oil and rotate the…
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This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport
This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport to read…
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The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
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Milton and the Machine
Milton and the Machine “I wanted to measure Milton’s surprise: his wrong-way cyclists. But in order to do that, I needed to know his structure. We know what people see when they look at a video: light, colors, motion. But what do we hear when we listen to Milton? Far, far more—the words, yes, their…
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apatosaurus: obsessionfull: shorterexcerpts: peterwknox: poldberg: A late night interpretation of Jesus’ thoughts about rich people by Sensitive Mark. Not enough notes on this post. But as a Sunday School graduate, I enjoyed this. Also pretty sure “give it away” does not mean “to your already spoiled children” but $2 says at least one asshole will call…
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From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality’s shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white. The real world, as most of us know (if not all presidents and prime ministers), is rarely…
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Aboriginal children express pain differently from non-Aboriginal children, and therefore may not receive the same levels of health care when they seek help…“Because they are very stoic about pain, health practitioners often don’t pick it up,” explains Dr. Latimer. “Aboriginal children will sit quietly in an emergency room for hours, and others will be seen…