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hyperallergic.com
“Art auctions and fairs become a choreographed attempt to convince the world that everything is fine. But everything is not fine. And most of the people making the work that keeps this machine running know it.” —Damien Davis
Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World
Auction headlines offer a picture of health that hides a body in crisis.
hyperallergic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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eoghanmacguire.bsky.social
This is really cool. Including a couple of Bellingcat stories where this method has been used below.

It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work
trbrtc.bsky.social Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 11d
The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
Diagram explaining how the timing between a bullet’s supersonic shock wave (“crack”) and the muzzle blast (“pop”) can be used to estimate the distance between a shooter and a microphone. Three scenarios (T₁, T₂, T₃) show a rifle firing a supersonic bullet past a microphone. In each scenario, the ballistic shock wave cone reaches the microphone before the slower muzzle blast sound. To the right of each diagram is a waveform: a sharp spike labeled the shock-wave “crack,” followed by a later cluster of peaks labeled the muzzle-blast “pop.” The time delay between these events (t_d1, t_d2, t_d3) increases as the microphone is positioned farther downrange. A formula shows distance = t_d / (1/c − 1/v), where c is the speed of sound and v is bullet speed. Text boxes explain: “Downrange timing between shock wave ‘crack’ and muzzle blast ‘pop’ gives distance estimate between shooter and microphone,” and “For investigation of Trump assassination attempt: microphone signal was from the lectern.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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ironspike.bsky.social
26) Product is a machinima maker with roots in the Sims community who just finished a wildly disturbing psychobiddy glamourpuss grindhouse trilogy, "Mother/Alice/Father."

David Lynch/John Waters would love this.

You should watch it. It's unlike ANYTHING else.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5bD...
Mother
YouTube video by Product
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July 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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leighloveday.bsky.social
Ryu versus Blanka: GET OFF MY CASE, WEED STONER. Ken versus Dhalsim: GET A JOB YOU HIPPIE WASTOID. Chun-Li versus Vega: PISH POSH, POT IS FOR THE BIRDS! Guile versus M. Bison: I'M CALLING THE COAST GUARD.
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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seva.bsky.social
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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momofnorank.bsky.social
I can't wait for y'all to read this one. I got to talk to Jamal Hinton and his "Thanksgiving grandma" Wanda Dench, who are celebrating their 10th Thanksgiving together this year. They represent the best of us -- what a joy to hear about their story.
1 Accidental Text and 10 Years Later, Wanda and Jamal Are Still Spending Thanksgiving Together
“It’s just amazing to sit back and think that one mistaken text led to so many people’s happiness and joy,” says Jamal Hinton.
www.today.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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dethveggie.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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fionaswriting.bsky.social
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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pwnallthethings.bsky.social
Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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onebigboss.bsky.social
Pretty much
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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emma.best
"Ask yourself: in the system you’re part of, are you ever really at the top—or always potentially the subordinate?" www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/e...
Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means
Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like …
www.techdirt.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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blackmediapresents.bsky.social
Comment below with your favorite musical!

We love musicals, especially the classics! This is our version of “My Favorite Things” from one of our favorites, The Sound Of Music!
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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hyperallergic.com
A German newspaper commissioned an article from Ai Weiwei but then refused to publish it. You can now read the artist’s original reflections in full on Hyperallergic.
What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.
hyperallergic.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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juliarosekraut.bsky.social
"'Banned Book Club is really a place for discussion, no judgment, where we're just talking about what we think different themes in the book mean, and why we think it's important,' Cruce said.” 📚
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 20
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
When you asked for Teamspeak, but got peak Teams
lowercasejai.bsky.social Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · Oct 15
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive
October 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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seamus.bsky.social
Is it actually just a branded laptop with joysticks?

29 year old me is rioting in the streets.
lowercasejai.bsky.social Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · Oct 15
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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rusirius.bsky.social
with the release of his new book Enshitificatio, there's a lot of Cory Doctorow interviews going around. I'm sharing the Democracy Now one because it's pretty concise at about 20 minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uLp...
"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism.

aftermath.site/true-lies-4k...
They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath
The 4K transfer of True Lies is what happens when a company uses proprietary tech to overwrite and denoise history.
aftermath.site
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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ghostdrone.bsky.social
#DeleteSpotify
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
zer523.bsky.social
It does not even make since some of the things we are trying to take people out of
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Oct 13
For months we followed what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI.

"It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" www.404media.co/what-happene...
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
www.404media.co
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM