And instead of generic "Mexican embroidery" pinterest boards, I can find a whole study done with a community to record and digitize traditional motifs because they're as much a stitched language as an art and I can both use this to deepen my connection with my culture AND learn cool things
I've been deep diving into Mexican embroidery, and aside from my small but growing library of books, I've been relying heavily on and loving the existence of the digital Commons network because I can be like
"What are motifs that set mazahua embroidery apart?"
I think the biggest personal frustration I have with AI is that
WE HAVE SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE
RIGHT HERE
On this here godforsaken world wide web!!
www.bl.uk/collection/d...
Imagine asking AI to make up an example of historical art when www.si.edu/openaccess
Is RIGHT THERE
Screenshot of the digital Commons Network website, showing a bar chart of breaking down the hundreds of thousands of articles on various areas of study that are available such as social and behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, law, education, etc
Imagine asking predictive text to think for you when instead you could discover the beautiful world of people thinking very hard and methodically about interesting things in the hopes you become interested too
Imagine asking AI for ideas when people freely share their knowledge and research so that you can instead come up with your own
network.bepress.com
If enough people like this, I'll give you the neurodivergent married couple galaxy brain rundown of how each of these nicknames happened
If you'd gone back to the 90s when my brother and I were watching Daytona with my dad and told us that my brother would be doing media in the pitt for the driver of 43 and we'd get a little wave on the HBO app from him I would have said what's an app and WHAT THAT'S SO COOL
Photograph of a full ToysRUs shopping bag on a concrete office floor in front of file cabinets
"Archives: A Portrait of Rural Municipal Work"
Aka we're going through retention schedules and properly organizing/shredding things in the attic and found this relic
#Maine
I think my love of data entry started with filling in album info when I was ripping CDs
If these seem far fetched, you haven't met old mainers
"oh I remember when a pin got stuck in his leg and the doctor couldn't get it out...didn't he offer the doctor his pliers and that's how they got it out?"
"oh that one time he mangled his leg with a chainsaw, packed it full of bag balm, and waited til he had time off of work to go to the doctor"
"yeah I remember when he cut off his toe and sewed it back on with fishing line"
Selectmen are chit chatting after a meeting - today's topic - gruesome/very Mainer injuries and reactions to them:
I KNEW this was a deliberate shot
I also love the contrast of Kendrick’s performance and Benito’s. Such perfect book ends.
Two men dancing inside the open door of a truck
Omg this is so good I missed this! VERY intentional shot lingering on two men grinding on each other
Throughout his career Benito has been an ally to the LGBTQ community and has tried to push back against the machismo prevalent in Latin music
Ricky martin's sitting on a white plastic chair in front of some bananas
We ALL know that's Ricky Martin singing in front of the bananas
He's singing "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii," an anti-statehood song that holds up Hawaii as a cautionary tale (as already established, Benito is pro independence)
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
1) I think it was supposed to be him giving the Grammy to a younger version of himself and 2) I strongly urge people to ask themselves why they can’t tell two latino boys apart
That was very much not Liam Ramos in Bad Bunny’s performance - his image has been plastered all over this site for weeks. Very strange thing to imagine.
Me holding copy of the book
You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽
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Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.
Through this #SuperBowl weekend, you can get the e-book edition of "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau for $9.99 or less! Links to retailers are on our site. #BadBunny
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
Well, that was a great Super Bowl. I’m glad Bad Bunny won.
I know Ricky Martin was there because he's a Puerto Rican icon, but I really appreciated that Bad Bunny made a pointed choice to give a gay man a moment in the spotlight in his vision of America
This except it was just me yelling in a room full of white people
