The spectacle is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue. It is the self-portrait of power in the epoch of its totalitarian management of the conditions of existence. — Read on http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
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Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta – Eyes on the Ties
Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta – Eyes on the Ties — Read on news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/
Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now – Los Angeles Times
AIs can spit out work in the style of any artist they were trained on — eliminating the need for anyone to hire that artist again. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-21/artificial-intelligence-artists-stability-ai-digital-images
Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society | Culture | The Guardian
Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
real talk
you know what your problem is?you need everyone to be exactly like youthe most toxic unforgiving love is the one that can’t move across differencewe peeped it and you the most unforgiving typa niggaleave the hatin’ middle school clique-ass bullshit in the past you GROWNleave me alone
Turé’s Ghost
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Google’s water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show, with two more data centers to come – oregonlive.com
Google’s water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show, with two more data centers to come – oregonlive.com — Read on http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html
Inequality in annual earnings worsens in 2021: Top 1% of earners get a larger share of the earnings pie while the bottom 90% lose ground | Economic Policy Institute
Inequality in annual earnings worsens in 2021: Top 1% of earners get a larger share of the earnings pie while the bottom 90% lose ground | Economic Policy Institute — Read on http://www.epi.org/publication/inequality-2021-ssa-data/
Thomas Sankara (1984): Speech Before the General Assembly of the United Nations.
I bring the fraternal greetings of a country covering 274,000 square kilometres, where 7 million men, women and children refuse henceforth to die of ignorance, hunger and thirst, even though they are not yet able to have a real life, after a quarter of a century as a sovereign State represented here at the UnitedContinue reading “Thomas Sankara (1984): Speech Before the General Assembly of the United Nations.”
only say hello
no one is coming to take yourprecious little nucleus, okay?we just wanna live another waywhere is the proof?where is the puddin’?scenes of mayhem and haw and hee and look holook hi and loand behold seethe train trackson my back on my sleeveis my life andi sigh cuz why?don’t say don’t go only say hello