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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 11h

"The Librarians" indie doc follows librarians as they become unlikely defenders of democracy and intellectual freedom against coordinated efforts to remove books. The film explores the risks, including personal safety, career threats, while fighting for the 1st Amendment and access to information

The Librarians Film | Official Site

Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy

thelibrariansfilm.com

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 11h

William Kentridge’s award-winning chamber opera "Waiting for the Sibyl" (2019) makes its NYC premiere this week in Brooklyn. Performing amid a lively melange of the artist's distinctive animated ink drawings, collages, text projections and sculptures.

William Kentridge opera to have its New York premiere at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn

The South African artist’s 2019 "Waiting for the Sibyl"—originally conceived as a companion piece to Alexander Calder’s “ballet without dancers”—grapples with life’s uncertainty

www.theartnewspaper.com

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 11h

Nina Protocol, a scrappy New York-based music platform founded in 2021, hopes to change things, it allows artists to upload their projects onto the blockchain and distribute them to fans to download. Artists on Nina keep 100 percent of the revenue for their music, www.ninaprotocol.com

Nina • Nina

A new internet of music

www.ninaprotocol.com

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Yunchul Kim, Chroma V, interactive sculpture at CERN #sciart

Serpentine shaped metal sculpture suspended from a ceiling

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 13h

Legendary Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, born on October 10, 1917 #botd

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 13h

The Psychedelic Reliquary hosts treasured artifacts and ephemera, including the spectacles of Dr. Albert Hofmann and the ashes of Timothy Leary. By sharing the psychedelic and mystical experience through visionary art, an observatory is provided for the beyond within. The Soul is restored,

Entheon

Sanctuary of Visionary Art

www.cosm.org

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 19h

🧵“Dr. Timothy Leary, high priest of LSD, talks with Mana Pardeahtan, Apache who was recently acquitted on drug charges [in Denver] on grounds that his use of peyote was part of the religious rites of the Native American Church.” Rocky Mountain News, 9/5/67...

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · Oct 27

Kim Novak by Milton Greene, 1955.

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 15h

For a while now, there are lots of people who have so much fucking cash they no longer can figure out where to stick it....

Unfortunately, they've opted out of imagination.

We Cracked Open Ben Stiller’s 30-Calorie Sodas

That’s right, Ben Stiller is making sodas now. Sure!

www.thecut.com

MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 16h

“You cannot put a price on first.” Put simply, a watch like this has never been crafted before – a point that fits like a LV glove with Pharrell’s new vision for the biggest, and best luxury fashion house in the world.

Yes, you can - $1.8 million for a single wristwatch.

Pharrell Williams wore one of the rarest watches in the world for his big LV moment

Louis Vuitton's creative director flexed big in Paris with Rihanna and Jay-Z

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 17h

Interview: Laurie Anderson’s work has a way of making time feel very physical, like a substrate. Her practice has long combined music, performance, and technology, often examining time and the machines we use to understand it, she helped define a generation of interdisciplinary artists

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games

In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

hyperallergic.com

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 19h

as only The Onion can do.... (allegedly)

(21min)

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 19h

Join Up and Help Out: As a member organization of the Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA), we believe that technology should support the intellectual freedom at the heart of a democratic society. efa.eff.org

About EFA

The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network made up of independent community organizations. Allies across the United States work to support digital rights and empower their local co...

efa.eff.org

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 22h

This seems like a massive installation to be only running for two weeks -
Brandon Stanton's “Dear New York” is on view at Grand Central Terminal and Grand Central Station, between East 42nd and 45th Streets and Lexington and Vanderbilt October 6–19

‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

Brandon Stanton, creator of "Humans of New York," has launched New York's largest public art installation since "The Gates" at Grand Central.

news.artnet.com

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 22h

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the national zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial museum, 31,500+ photographs and videos have documented 56% of current Smithsonian exhibits www.citizenhistorians.org

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet ...

www.citizenhistorians.org

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 1d

2025 Global Expression Report (GxR), published by the British advocacy organization Article 19 in June, which takes a quantitative stock of freedom of speech on an international scale. Of the 161 countries studied, only 35 — representing 15% of the global population — remain in “open” conditions

New Reports Expose the Global Toll of Censorship

Two dossiers paint an urgent quantitative picture of the rapidly growing suppression of free expression and artistic freedom.

hyperallergic.com

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 3d

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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow, Conversations
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 1d

Get your free download of “Ritual Escape” here >
(Your email, etc. is not revealed to me. I’m just glad you get to hear this cool suite of instrumental music.)
#DownloadCodes #FreeMusic

Stan Stewart - Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) | Free Bandcamp Codes

www.getmusic.fm

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 1d

Yves Klein (1960) performing the 'Monoton-Silence' Symphony.
(A piece of minimalist music, consisting of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major, followed by a 20 minute silence'.)

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SciFood Blog @scifood.blog · 1d

Another long read this time on CRISPR

www.noemamag.com/editing-natu...

Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures | NOEMA

Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?

www.noemamag.com

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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 1d

Scissors were invented in Egypt in 1500 BC

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 1d

The landmark report traces the history of “excited delirium,” its baseless scientific underpinnings and roots in anti-Black racism, and the profound harms caused by the continued use of the pseudoscientific phrase.

“Excited Delirium” – Often Cited as Cause of Death in Fatal Police Encounters – Is Scientifically Meaningless: PHR Report - PHR

A new investigation published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) finds that “excited delirium” – often cited as a cause of death in fatal encounters with law enforcement – is not a valid medic...

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