“‘Every day every body is at odds with the built environment.” This…is about those odds, those ‘mis-fits,” and the ways designers might open up space for the reality of interdependent life…
…Five years ago, Sara gave a talk about her work that remains one of my favorites, ever, on any subject. There’s the kind of talk where you find yourself nodding along, engaged, agreeable; those are fine. There’s another kind of talk where you find yourself tingling, aware of electricity rippling across the surface of your brain; this is that other kind.
—Robin Sloan, “‡ Lo! So! Bro!” The Society of the Double Dagger. September 20, 2020.
Category: videos
Not His First Rodeo
JamBase Live Video Archive
“Find and watch nearly 100,000 free streaming concert videos.”
—https://www.jambase.com/videos
Heavy on jam band and jam band adjacent music, but also includes things like live performances done at Seattle’s KEXP.
G.I. Joe
Hasbro has put the full G.I. Joe cartoon from the 1980s on YouTube. “Knowing is half the battle!”
NASA’s Guide to Near Lightspeed Space Travel
The channel has a bunch of strangely informative videos on space that can make difficult physics topics more accessible to people that don’t know anything about physics, like me.
The Last Light
“In April 2020, the weird and ambitious startup Magic Leap cut its workforce in half and delayed plans to take mixed reality glasses mainstream. The company had a wealth of ideas about how ordinary people might use its hardware, which overlays virtual images on reality. But after years of development, many were still prototypes or tech demos…Inside the company, though, a few dozen developers were building what they describe as one of Magic Leap’s most exciting projects. It’s called The Last Light: an interactive story about a young woman dealing with the death of her grandmother, designed to show the storytelling potential of mixed reality.”
—Adi Robertson, “Fading Light: the story of Magic Leap’s lost mixed reality magnum opus.” The Verge. July 6, 2020.
Now available as a free download.
TheirTube
“Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people’s YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube home page would look for six different personas. Each persona simulates the viewing environment of real Youtube users who experienced being inside a recommendation bubble through recreating a Youtube account with a similar viewing history. TheirTube shows how YouTube’s recommendations can drastically shape someone’s experience on the platform and, as a result, shape their worldview.”
—http://www.their.tube
Tokri (The Basket) by Suresh Eriyat
We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors
“These 68 videos show clear apparent instances of police officers escalating violence during protests. Most departments refused to share details about investigations and discipline or even officers’ names.”
—Zipporah Osei, Mollie Simon, Moiz Syed, Lucas Waldron, “We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors.” ProPublica. July 29, 2020.
When someone wonders why anyone would want to “Defund the Police”, there is now a handy reference of police misconduct toward citizens exercising their First Amendment rights that may serve as a useful point of reference.
