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Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog

The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras.

Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminal had a joystick (for controlling a camera), a camera button (which would capture an image and upload it to the RemoteLounge.com), a next button (for switching to another camera), a chat button, and a landline phone.

So you could cycle through the bar until you found someone sitting near a camera, then you could request to chat with them via the phone. Sometimes, as you were watching a scene, your video camera would start to move, and you’d realize someone else was watching and controlling the same camera that you were.

— Read on docpop.org/2013/10/way-ahead-of-its-time-the-remote-lounge-nyc/

orange blue banana

i saw a coyote cross the ocean road
two black kitties in the abandoned field 

in a comradely way you said
we disagree but soon we be red 

orange blue banana smoothie 
we had a time didn’t we

Let America Be Your Periphery – Steve Salaita

We’re a year into unspeakable brutality, so let’s keep it simple: there is no electoral solution to the problem of Zionist genocide. If anything useful comes about in the United States, then it will be at cross-purposes with all these silly dreams of American redemption.
— Read on stevesalaita.com/let-america-be-your-periphery/

What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like

Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain “racialized” groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind of political precondition; it serves as an exemplar of what can be done with full-throated, full-blooded fascism.
— Read on www.peacelandbread.org/post/what-american-fascism-has-already-looked-like