How to fake guacamole.
Attention Californians, Texans, and everyone else who cares about the good things in life: fake guacamole, using Mexican squash instead of avocado, has hit the streets.
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Dance into the white.
A slip of the tongue may best explain Trump's collective foreign policy: to align the United States with white nations. 1/16 Secretary of State Pompeo calls China's large-scale detention of Muslims and other minorities the human rights "stain of the century." 2/
Face the strange.
Trump says the Navy shot down an Iranian drone that came within 1,000 yards of a US warship, a claim Iran denies, saying none of its drones have been lost, and that the US may have downed one of its own drones. 1/18 The EPA has rejected a
Behind the scenes of Oneohtrix Point Never's MYRIAD.
Behind the scenes of Oneohtrix Point Never's MYRIAD, an ambitious "concertscape" that combines live musicians, dancers, and installation art.
This week's ambience: Background noise in an apartment on Coruscant.
This week's ambience: Background noise in a Coruscant apartment from Star Wars.
Bigger (not little) lies.
The White House’s immigration policies follow a model pioneered by the European Union and Australia. 1/19 What the US-China trade war is really about: Huawei's communications technologies and the future of Taiwan. 2/19 “Send her back” joins “build that wall” as the latest Trump
Week Six: Lost Children Archive
This week, we wrap up Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, and we have so much to talk about.
An alternate canon of Afrofuturist classics.
“Dematerialize” by Scientist offers a useful introduction to an alternate canon of Afrofuturist classics. From Louis Chude-Sokei's notes: It begins with echoes, before bass grounds you in space and rhythm orients you in time. Almost a minute passes before you realize this is actually a groove, and
Million Vlogger Baby.
Federal prosecutors won’t bring criminal charges against the New York City cop who choked Eric Garner to death. 1/21 "Trump appeared in a live-action remake of racial comments," and other handy euphemisms for white supremacists. 2/21 Snopes stops saying "fake news," as
What APIs are doing when you're not looking.
The application programming interface (API) is a key development that has enabled a whole raft of economic and computing applications. Here's how it works.