Links List (Mostly politics and movies)
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London Review of Books: Diary: Before 1776 by Rebecca Solnit.
Beautiful review of an art exhibit inspired by early Pueblo revolutionaries.
Whatever Works (Substack): let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading by Naomi Alderman.
Fun co-op to do more reading, thanks tosnickfic for linking to it.
Bona Books: Honey, We Bought an AI Story.
The ongoing struggle to protect the arts, with some stumbles along the way.
Politics:
Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity.
Supporting the Indigenous communities burned out in Northern Ontario.
Assigned Media: Pete Hegseth is Obsessed With Testosterone. Here’s All the Neat Science the Manosphere’s Not Talking About by Jules Sherred.
Mostly about the science rather than US Politics, but it discusses quite a bit of transphobia.
The Odyssey Discourse:
(I'm not going to see this. I decided a long time ago that if Nolan wasn't going to be interested in women as a category, I wasn't going to be interested in him as a filmmaker, and nothing that's happened since has changed my mind about that.)
The Guardian: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal by Mohamed Sleiman Labat.
I find this pretty unforgivable, especially given what I understand to be message of the film. WTF!?
Democracy Now: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends (An hour-long filmed documentary, with transcript).
I didn't know very much about the Sahrawi, and this was quite informative. Things seem really bad there!
sovay: No bones stacked by the hearth, no ghosts on the heath.
About the importance of not placing written history above all else, in context of Nolan's comments regarding The Odyssey.
London Review of Books: Diary: Before 1776 by Rebecca Solnit.
Beautiful review of an art exhibit inspired by early Pueblo revolutionaries.
Whatever Works (Substack): let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading by Naomi Alderman.
Fun co-op to do more reading, thanks to
snickfic for linking to it.Bona Books: Honey, We Bought an AI Story.
The ongoing struggle to protect the arts, with some stumbles along the way.
Politics:
Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity.
Supporting the Indigenous communities burned out in Northern Ontario.
Assigned Media: Pete Hegseth is Obsessed With Testosterone. Here’s All the Neat Science the Manosphere’s Not Talking About by Jules Sherred.
Mostly about the science rather than US Politics, but it discusses quite a bit of transphobia.
The Odyssey Discourse:
(I'm not going to see this. I decided a long time ago that if Nolan wasn't going to be interested in women as a category, I wasn't going to be interested in him as a filmmaker, and nothing that's happened since has changed my mind about that.)
The Guardian: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal by Mohamed Sleiman Labat.
Morocco weaponises cinema to whitewash its occupation of our land. By courting foreign film crews to shoot in Western Sahara while denying the Sahrawi the right to film and express themselves, Morocco uses cinema to manufacture a romantic, tourist-friendly image designed by a regime deploying every political, economic and cultural tool to keep the occupation’s status quo and deny Sahrawi existence and resistance.
I find this pretty unforgivable, especially given what I understand to be message of the film. WTF!?
Democracy Now: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends (An hour-long filmed documentary, with transcript).
I didn't know very much about the Sahrawi, and this was quite informative. Things seem really bad there!
sovay: No bones stacked by the hearth, no ghosts on the heath.About the importance of not placing written history above all else, in context of Nolan's comments regarding The Odyssey.
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