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ixi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to ethelcain

On this day 10 years ago, Future Islands made their stellar debut on Letterman.

"This was the moment that the wider world really caught on. Letterman was delighted, the performance went viral, and Future Islands suddenly became a whole lot more famous."

"I don’t remember actually performing the song.
I was so overcome with the moment that I blacked out.
It was a life-changing moment, and it took me years to see the way that it opened up my life."

#FutureIslands #IndiePop #Letterman

ixi, 2 months ago to random

40 years ago today, Dead Can Dance released their self-titled debut.
The start of one of music's most intriguing artistic collaborations.

"We’ve got something weird between us, there is something between Brendan and I when we work together that is really strong, something I’ve never found with anyone else.
It hurts. There is pain, there are blessings, there are moments of great beauty." - Lisa Gerrard

07."Threshold"

#DeadCanDance #4AD #PostPunk #DarkWave #Gothic #LisaGerrard #BrendanPerry

ixi, 4 months ago to mastodon

It would be nice to have an option to automatically delete your replies to other people's deleted posts.

Lack of context and all, these monologues with the void rarely offer any worthwhile input for me personally anyway.

#Mastodon #WhatsMissing

ixi, 5 months ago to random

“Jews cannot fight antisemitism alone.

The victim cannot cure the crime.

The hated cannot cure the hate.

It would be the greatest mistake for Jews to believe that they can fight it alone.

The only people who can successfully combat antisemitism are those active in the cultures that harbour it.”

• Rabbi Sacks

#Antisemitism

ixi, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Elica Le Bon on the continued support of so-called 'anti-imperialists' for Pan-Islamism.

#FreepalestineFromHamas #FuckHamas #IranianWoman #JinJiyanAzadî #WomanLifeFreedom #IraniansStandWithIsrael #MuslimBrotherhood #PanArabism #IslamicImperialism

ixi, 5 months ago to MovieChat

Remember the discussion boards on IMDB film listings before Amazon decided to get rid of them in 2017?

I always loved getting additional movie insights.

'MovieChat' has backed up millions of posts for IMDB's top 10,000 movies/shows and added them to its ever-growing database of user-based discussions.

When you use the 'New IMDB Message Boards - Moviechat' script, they are integrated directly into the IMDB page itself just like old times.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/27617-new-imdb-message-boards-moviechat

#IMDB #MovieChat #GreasyFork

ixi, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random German

Heute vor zehn Jahren veröffentlichten Messer "Die Unsichtbaren".

Noisiger deutschsprachiger Post-Punk hatte damals Hochkonjunktur und trotz unüberhörbarer Reminiszenzen an alte Genre-Größen traten Messer mit diesem zweiten Album endlich aus dem Schatten der allgegenwärtigen Vorbilder.

Immer noch ein gern gehörter Gast auf meinem Plattenteller.

Messer - Neonlicht

(Liedtext und das vom Sänger gemalte Cover folgt in der Reply)

#Messer #PostPunk

ixi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Already intrigued by the title card for "Deutsches Haus", which uses the Tannenberg font as a shadow.

Subtle but very effective.

"German House/The Interpreter of Silence follows Eva, a young woman in 1963 Frankfurt, as she takes a job as the interpreter for the first Auschwitz trial of former SS officers.
It’s only here that she fully begins to grasp the true horrors of the Nazi regime and starts to uncover a personal connection to the camp."

#DeutschesHaus #TheInterpreterOfSilence

ixi, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Trying to stomach the recent "hero" statements from Hamas/PIJ terrorists¹

The Clash - "Tommy Gun"

"An' we can watch him make it on the nine o'clock news
Standin' there in Palestine lightin' the fuse"

"You'll be dead when war is won
But did you have to gun down everyone?"

"You can be a hero in an age of none"

"So let's agree about the price
And make it one jet airliner for ten prisoners"

"I see all the innocent, the human sacrifice
And if death comes so cheap
Then the same goes for life"

ixi, 6 months ago to random German

Oh wie schön, "Persepolis" wird laut Pressemitteilung in der kürzlich erschienenen 4K-Restaurierung wohl auch wieder ins Kino gebracht.

https://kinomeister.de/persepolis-4k-uhd-blu-ray-dvd-digital-kino/

Statt des Trailers hier noch der alte Teaser, der meiner Meinung nach noch gelungener ist. (Alt-Text in der Reply)

"In der Comic-Verfilmung Persepolis zeigt Marjane Satrapi, wie sie ihre Kindheit im Iran während und nach der Revolution '79, zwischen Moderne und Islamismus, erlebt hat."

#Persepolis #MarjaneSatrapi #IslamischeRevolution

video/mp4

ixi, 6 months ago to random

'Maria También' tells the story of Iranian women prior to the revolution of 1979.
Celebrating their creativity, freedom and ability to express themselves.

The women in the video are all part of a large network of artists, singers, dancers and songwriters who have been either exiled or silenced since the revolution.

Khruangbin hopes to bring these remarkable women back into the spotlight and honour the artistry of silenced women everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlGqj3ImQI

#JinJiyanAzadî #Khruangbin

The music consists of sharp, crisp drums, a weaving guitar melody and a soft, punctuated bass. A female voice whispers 'Maria, Maria', creating a groovy and seductive piece of music. The video opens with the sound of newsreaders describing Persia as 'rising in the world', Tehran as 'leaning more west than east' and miniskirts bringing 'a new freedom of expression'. Pre-80s archive clips of female artists, singers and dancers are edited together - then, at the push of a button by a man in a control room, the performers disappear, leaving an empty stage. The final scene cuts to a modern Iranian shop window with long subdued froral dresses and hijabs. Several women in black hijabs walk by. One of the women stops briefly to look at some items, with her is a little girl wearing a headscarf and bright red pink clothes.

ixi, 7 months ago to random

From his recent book "Trouble in Paradise":

"In a strictly homologous way, the Zionist defenders of the Israeli policy want us to know that they control the media (TV and press), preventing too much critique of Israel to appear in them; however, while we are allowed to know this
(in order to fear the Zionists’ power), we are not allowed to talk about it publicly
—the moment we do it, we are accused of anti-Semitism."

#Antisemitism #Žižek #FrankfurterBuchmesse

ixi, 7 months ago to random

"In einem Fernsehinterview in den 50ern sitzt Ingeborg Bachmann an ihrer Schreibmaschine und wird von einem Literaturkritiker befragt.
Seine Fragen zu ihrem Werk sind Kommentare, Bewertungen und Belehrungen.

Doch sie bleibt widerständig und sät Zweifel darüber, wer hier eigentlich wen verhört."

Szenisches Essay von Barbara Kaufmann über das Verhältnis zwischen weiblichem Schreiben und Literaturbetrieb, damals wie heute.

https://www.swr.de/swr2/doku-und-feature/das-verhoer-der-ingeborg-bachmann-swr2-essay-2023-10-15-100.html

#IngeborgBachmann
#BarbaraKaufmann
#SWR2Essay

ixi, 7 months ago to RSS

I know, a choice between plague and cholera BUT I would rather people chose Threads than BlueSky as their walled garden of choice.

BlueSky is still a closed silo with no account/invite.

And there are no plans to make the AT protocol it uses interoperable with ActivityPub(AP)¹ ².

Meta's Threads should at least be compatible with AP³, and could be scrapeable for RSS bots like Twitter is via Nitter e.g.

There are already working RSS feeds (for a fee!) for Threads accounts, for example⁴.

#RSS

ixi, 7 months ago to random

bassam.social is begging for a heavy dose of reporting and a domain block, it seems...

https://bassam.social/notice/AaXPCuYSq558n0TuRU

#Antisemitism
#HateSpeech
#FediBlock

ixi, 7 months ago to random

The cognitive dissonance of some 'progressive' accounts sporting Ukrainian support flags, anti-fascist badges or claiming to be queer allies™ posting, boosting and faving takes favouring/legitimising the recent Hamas/Islamic Jihad attacks on Israel. 🙈

ixi, 8 months ago to random

"During the Great Depression, Detroit and its auto-industry suffered an exceptional amount.
After the stock market crash of 1929, around 80 percent of the industry was no longer producing and by 1932 large numbers of citizens were dying of starvation.
The Ford Motor Company, one of the richest employers, had laid off two-thirds of its employees.

On the morning of 7 March 1932, 3,000 former and current Ford workers and other unemployed members of the community gathered on the outskirts.
1/4

ixi, 9 months ago to DaftPunk

"Daft Punk intended to make a video for the song "Human After All", but the footage they shot for it was expanded to create the film Daft Punk's Electroma instead.

The only official statement given by Daft Punk at the time was: "We believe that Human After All speaks for itself".

De Homem-Christo later said that choosing to be silent was the biggest mistake they had ever made."

Video credit to Thermometer10

#DaftPunk #Electro

"The two lead characters appear as the robotic forms of Daft Punk. One wears a silver helmet and the other wears a golden one. An opening scene shows the duo driving in a 1987 Ferrari 412 with its license plate displaying "HUMAN". After passing through a Southwestern United States landscape, the duo arrives by car at a town in Inyo County, California. The town's residents are also shown to be robots physically identical to the two main characters, but at different ages, with different clothing and alternating gender. The pair drive to a high-tech facility where liquid latex is poured over their heads. The latex is shaped into human-like faces with the aid of prosthetic appliances and wigs. The resulting look caricaturizes the members of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. When the two leave the facility, the locals of the town are shocked by their human appearance. The townsfolk gradually begin to chase the duo, whose faces eventually melt in the sun. The two take cover in a public restroom where the gold robot discards his ruined mask, then encourages the reluctant silver robot to do the same. Exiting the restroom they appear as robots again."

ixi, 10 months ago to random

We Become What We Behold -
“ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“

A short five-minute browser game about news and media.

Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

#WeBecomeWhatWeBehold #Game #NewsConsumption

ixi, 10 months ago to random

“Our cluster munitions have a much lower dud rate than the Russian cluster munitions,” Rep. Adam Smith told a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in May.
“I’m not in favor of spreading cluster munitions around the world, but in this particular case the Russians are already doing that in Ukraine.”

"I'm so scared of what I saw.
I'm so scared of what I heard.
I'm so scared of what you say!"

Cluster Bomb Unit - Fear Of The Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJerqYQZM0

#DBeat

ixi, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

If there's one thing I've learned from the enshitification of Big Social, it's that most users are willing to stick with whatever companies throw at them.

As long as their needs are met, whether it's celebrity accounts, 'Likes' or their peer groups, they won't leave.

Pointing to legitimate flaws as an indicator of the imminent demise of these platforms (existing or new) doesn't take into account how few of them actually care.

#Enshittification #Twitter #Meta #Discord #Reddit #Threads

ixi, 10 months ago to iran

[...]dass sich hier, an diesem Übergang von Terrorphilie zum Terrorakt, ein Bündnis von BDS-Aktivisten und dem iranischen Regime zusammenfindet.

Und dass der #Iran – seit langem als Terror-Finanzier bekannt – eine Zielkarte für Aktivisten erstellt hat, die sich aus der BDS-Kampagne rekrutieren.

Aktivisten, die nicht nur passiv boykottieren, sondern „zerschlagen“ wollen[...]

https://www.ruhrbarone.de/bds-der-terror-und-das-iranische-regime-eine-ermittlung-in-eigener-sache/221772/

#BDS

ixi, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

A neat little browser extension that replaces those clickbait thumbnails on Youtube with actual stills and also normalises the obnoxiously formatted titles.

https://github.com/pietervanheijningen/clickbait-remover-for-youtube

#YouTube #ClickBait #Enshitification #ClickBaitRemoverForYouTube

ixi, 11 months ago to fediverse

YES PLEASE!

"I think it would be a nice extension if you could create multiple bookmark lists, analogous to (normal posts) lists.

So you could organize your bookmarks by topics."

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/16595

#Mastodon #WhatsMissing

ixi, 11 months ago to internet

"To keep us addicted, many of the websites and apps we use fuel the same neural circuitry used by cocaine and slot machines.
But RSS feeds allow you to consume content in a way that's free from any distractions or sneaky cocaine strategies.

They allow you to see only the content you want to read right there in the feed, in its entirety, and without all the fancy ads or triggering comments."

https://openrss.org/blog/rss-feeds-may-be-better-for-your-mental-health

#RSS #OpenRSS #SocialMedia #MediaConsumption #MentalHealth