The best action scenes of the previous decade.

From Jonah Jeng's highly informed survey of the last decade’s best action scenes, including scenes from many movies you've never heard of.

It is a moment that flirts with ridiculousness but—on account of Rajamouli’s willingness to go big at every level, from the radiant colors to the outsized emotions to the widescreen-worthy shots of digital multitudes—lands on the side of the sublime.

Aug 16, 2019

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Painter Jammie Holmes flew George Floyd's final words behind airplanes over Detroit, Miami, Dallas, LA, and New York.

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"Wrong question, lady." Roxane Gay's advice for a woman who's worried about rehiring her house cleaner.

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A list of global crises to keep in mind while countries are battling COVID-19.

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“What is normal? Normal changes all the time,” she said. Look at her, she says. “I craved the ordinary life, to live like other people, to have small concerns and do little things.” But, she said to me, “normal is something elusive. It doesn’t exist. It was just a dream of mine.”

A moving profile of Marga Griesbach, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor who set off for a cruise around the world in February.

↩︎ The Cut

A marathon of vexations.

Pianist Igor Levit on livestreamed Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” a solo of four lines repeated 840 times, to evoke the crisis facing artists during the coronavirus pandemic.

#igorpianist - Eric Satie Vexations Live https://t.co/pVF9Jg8le1
— Igor Levit (@igorpianist) May 30, 2020

From a New York Times report:

“Vexations” performances are extremely rare, and typically presented as a roughly 19-hour relay with a long roster of pianists. But Mr. Levit — accomplishing the unthinkable, if inadvisable — did it alone in a Berlin studio, starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday and finishing at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, relatively early even with scattered intermissions.

See also, a brief conversation between Levit and Alex Ross:

“At some point, you lose the perspective of time—like now. You lose the perspective of an end—like now. I think at some point I will lose the hope that this will ever end—like now. Maybe I won’t make it. It’s just about surviving. Like now.”

A list of at least 50 separate instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during recent protests.

↩︎ Bellingcat 4h

At some point, these demonstrations will end. But the problem of America’s racist past and present will still be here.

↩︎ Vox 4h

This is about years and years of being treated as less than people—and not just by police.

Frustrations felt by many black people go far beyond policing, not to mention the partisan wars that define the Trump era.

↩︎ The Washington Post

Eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

A well-done job of stringing together security footage, witness videos, and official documents demonstrates how a series of actions by police officers killed George Floyd on May 25.

“I want to see despair expressed in action that moves things forward.” Watching the protests, black Angelenos recall Rodney King.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times 1d

A round-up of organizations to support that are performing "the real, meaningful, slow work of advancing justice."

↩︎ GQ 1d

“This virus has really highlighted the fact that Black frontline workers, no matter what job they have, deserve a higher living wage. Still, I haven’t seen any representation of Black front line workers in the media. I feel invisible.”

From “Essential & Black,” a series of profiles by Patrice Peck.

↩︎ Coronavirus News for Black Folks

Examples of white people offering advice to black people on how to protest.

↩︎ The Root 1d

Nonstop reporting of black suffering takes a toll on black journalists' mental and emotional health, but they keep going.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

No one can deny the murderous racial injustice baked into life in the United States—especially not the NFL.

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Of course! Private equity stands to make a fortune off the bankruptcy of businesses around the country. By firing workers and raiding their pensions, they’ll make off with the bag.

Socialist answers to variations on the question, “Should we care about looting?”

↩︎ Jacobin

Japanese whiskey has a problem: much of it isn't made in Japan, and some of it isn't whiskey at all.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without reading a global story. Whatever else the current crisis may be teaching us, the one certain thing is that self-sufficiency is a non-solution to our suffering.

Corrective literature has come for coffee—“the first naïve emissary of internationalism.”

↩︎ The New Yorker

Welcome to 1988 in the Hood Internet's ongoing series of year-in-one-song audiovisual mashups.

Another way to pass the time: Contribute to a collaborative digital novel that's being created in real time.

↩︎ Boook.Land: The Speaking Machine 3d

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