Eating blueberries from a grocery store & wondering what difference it makes if I think about the "labor chain" that brought them from the field to my kitchen, rather than the "supply chain." A big difference, I suspect.
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johnedwinmason
Профиль VivelyHistorian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Better headline: Why Does Spain Still Have a Colony in Africa? apnews.com/video/why-is...
Why is the Spanish territory of Ceuta a flashpoint for migration from Africa?Between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier from Morocco to the Spanish territory earlier this week.apnews.comThe genocide in Gaza isn't over, as Israel reminds us daily. apnews.com/video/famili...
Families mourn those killed as Israeli strikes pound the Gaza Strip overnightIsraeli strikes on Sunday across Gaza killed at least eight Palestinians, including two children, and wounded over a dozen others, according to local health officials.apnews.comNow Playing. A terrific 1993 concert by the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove & his band. "I've worked with all kinds of musicians, and if a guy can play, a guy can play! Whether it's gospel, funk, R&B, jazz, or hip-hop, if it's something that catches your ear and it's good, that's all that matters…"
France Musique"J'ai côtoyé toutes sortes de musiciens, et si un gars peut jouer, un gars peut jouer ! Si c'est du gospel, du funk, du R'n'B, du jazz ou du hip-hop, si c'est quelque chose qui vous rentre dans l'oreille et que c'est bon, c'est tout ce qui compte…" Roy Hargrove ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/odE
"On August 1, 1944, white employees of the Philadelphia Transit Company (PTC) launched a strike to protest the company’s decision to promote eight Black workers to the position of trolley driver—a job previously reserved for white men."
cville1989🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus... 5000 USArmy troops moved into Philadelphia to prevent uprisings and protect PTC employees…the confrontation resulted in at least 13 acts of racial violence, including several non-fatal shootings.
Hard bop is the apotheosis of jazz.
G-Rated Sex JamPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Naked bigotry, driven by white Christian nationalism. But you know that. Even some relatively powerless people at the Times know that.
The New York TimesTexas and Florida have recently designated the Council on American Islamic Relations, one of the largest Muslim civil rights groups in the U.S., as a terrorist organization. The new state-level effort to make such designations has triggered fresh civil liberties concerns from some legal scholars.
😄 I love this clip. Patti Smith — yes, that Patti Smith — is absolutely speechless when meeting Pope Leo. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6E...
Pope Leo XIV meets singer Patti SmithYouTube video by CNNm.youtube.comThe fact that many, many people at Google thought that this AI tool was a good idea says terrible things about the company. Yes, an already awful company.
Joseph CoxUpdate: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Cool video. Besides getting to hear a terrific piece by Marianna Auenbrugger, who died tragically young, you'll get to listen to a piano from roughly Beethoven's time. A very different sound than a modern piano. Call it a tart austerity.
Dr. Garrett SchumannHere is a link to a fabulous performance video of the Auenbrugger sonata performed by Yumiao Mai on a historic instrument at my employer university (and grad alma mater), I've known this excellent composition for years because it appeared in my music theory classes of yore youtu.be/hGyFQcDIGKc?...
Sam's right. This is a fantastic album. Hugely inventive. Moving from a contemporary piece by @vijayiyer.bsky.social to a sonata by Beethoven is an unexpected delight. The whole thing will make you happy. (BTW, before this I only knew Vijay Iyer as one of our most creative jazz pianists.)
Sam StephensonA great new classical solo piano record. Highly recommended. Unique sequence of material both venerable and brand new, and tremendous performances by Sarah Rothenberg.
The Grammys created a separate-but-(un)equal category for "Asian" pop. BTS said fuck that. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
PBS NewsThe K-pop group BTS will not submit their music for consideration at next year's Grammy Awards. Their announcement Wednesday comes one month after the Recording Academy unveiled a new category for Asian pop that is set to debut at next year's ceremony.
The world is going to hell. But at least it's tomato season. Thank God.
R. O. Kwon 권오경dry-farmed tomato season is starting with 20 lbs. of this abundance hallelujah I praise the tomato gods 🔴🔸 this is also the time of year when I need to be very careful not to eat so many tomatoes I turn noticeably orange, ask me how I learned such a transformation is possible 🍅s from Mariquita Farm