I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was pondering, what if some of the archaic literature we relied upon to document past events was actually fictional accounts intended to be read for leisure?...
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
The centrality of archaeology in articulating and espousing the politics of nation states as also erstwhile empires is today undeniable. The history of archaeological research and practice is replete with cases where material culture has been used to produce origin myths, shared imaginaries of communities simultaneous with...
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp....
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Openreads is looking for funding for IOS development. (github.com)
Become a Github sponsor or buy the dev a coffee.
“United in diversity” :3 (lemmy.ml)
Muer: An open-source front-end for Youtube Music (github.com)
Ancient historical fiction?
I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was pondering, what if some of the archaic literature we relied upon to document past events was actually fictional accounts intended to be read for leisure?...
Why did the sound vanish from all of my recording devices at the same moment?
I am seeking a scientific explanation behind this phenomenon which is unprecedented to me....
Socially Conscious Movies
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it?
"Piracy" here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts....
Why Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Rationality (iai.tv)
My review of “Orientalism” (1978) by Edward W. Said (lemmy.ml)
When I asked my friend how she found the book to be, she described it as “a jumble of thoughts that felt familiar.”...
Open source Android video editor, built with Media3 and Jetpack Compose. (github.com)
There's a promising start for an anti-goodreads subreddit, we should take this opportunity to direct them to open source alternatives (www.reddit.com)
The people there are full of potential, they only need guidance....
‘I was a sensitivity reader – until I realised why I was hired’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Books written by authors from the Global South.
Hello, we’re nearing the end of the year and I’m looking for non-personal suggestions to fill my bucket list with....
Attack on Titan and existentialism
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11759040...
Surviving fragment of a 1513 Ottoman world map depicting the new world [449x599] (Original file is 1,964x2,619 pixels). (lemmy.ml)
The map is known by the name of its author, admiral Piri Reis. Only half of the original map survives today....
A Review of Eduardo Galeano's “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” (2013) (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/10484701...
Betrayers of the Truth : Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science | My Review (lemmy.ml)
(available on libgen ;)...
Their Civilization—Whose Archaeology? (www.jhiblog.org)
The centrality of archaeology in articulating and espousing the politics of nation states as also erstwhile empires is today undeniable. The history of archaeological research and practice is replete with cases where material culture has been used to produce origin myths, shared imaginaries of communities simultaneous with...
Why are we suddenly getting spammed? Does anyone know why? (lemmygrad.ml)
It’s super weird that a niche communist forum with like 100 active users is getting spammed in the first place....
Depictions of and by the Other
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp....
The Historical Awareness of Khairy Al-Zahaby's “The Trap of Names” (2009) (lemmy.ml)
Disclaimer: there is no English translation of this book...
Socially conscious films for the comrades
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...