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Hey, the documentary for that old Soundheim musical "Company" is good, and if you like such things, I recommend it. It's definitely theater nerd catnip, and the performances from Elaine Stritch and...
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There's also a whole thing around recasting revivals of it, which I just learned about. I don't follow theater that much these days, but I think about it a lot.
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As in, I think about it constantly. lolI think it's rudely inaccurate to say spoken word performers are frustrated actors, but I'd be lying if I said that was entirely untrue, in my case. I'm not...
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Finished Sarah Schulman's "Gentrification of the Mind", which I highly recommend.https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280069/the-gentrification-of-the-mind
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uspol, gentrification, communities, urban planningHey.Continuing the work that Jane Jacobs started, and actually doing it, not just in a feel good way? Yes, that.
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Leon Theremin Playing His Own Instrument https://archive.org/details/LeonThereminPlayingHisOwnInstrument
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Friends don't let friends post additionally restrictive CC licensing to otherwise unaltered public domain works
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The preceding toot was brought to you by "you may think that slapping a NC-BY-ND license on public domain works is being helpful, but it's actually just annoying", which may or may not be even relevant...
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Lastly, if you or someone keeps doing this: #notalawyer, but saying "hey, there's no copyright!" is not a line of defense, last I checked. Thankfully, if the work is in the public domain in your...
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Sorry for griping about this, but I keep seeing this happen. It's not helping, and taking some time with the Creative Commons documentation on their website should help with this.
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LB: I came, I saw, I "meh", I moved on, but kept the door open a bit, I guess. (This is about the current hype about a certain corporate social media platform)Apologies if I added to the "you can have...
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The *idea* of it being a larger-scale "early Twitter" is kind of interesting, *but* as one person over there put it, more or less, "We hate small niche communities. They suck."Sure, I guess? I mean,...
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Wanting Peak Online to be some kind of throwback to better times, online or off, is never really the truth. Which isn't to say things can't be better! This place is an example of that. I wish people...
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"I wonder what Jane Jacobs would have to say about the state of urban communities online and off in 2024," she posits, thoughtfully
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Just the idea that the better parts (and the not-so-great parts) of living in a larger city exist online now, and have for some time, regardless of geographic location, is no small thing.Of course,...
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It's possible that this is even more critical than network effect, or at least, it's a large part of what drives network effect, at least in the parts of online that aren't about FB-like "my family |...
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