Tale as old as time.

And finally, @[email protected] shared a little music, a Tiny Desk concert from Grammy winner Meshell Ndegeocello. Her profound, thoughtful songs focus on love, race, sexuality and religion; she is committed to being herself and speaking her truth. Listen to her concert here, which includes “Thus Sayeth The Lorde,” a song from her latest album with the Audre Lorde quote, “If I did not define myself for myself, I’d be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/18/g-s1-3207/meshell-ndegeocello-tiny-desk-concert

#Music #TinyDesk #LiveMusic #MeshellNdegeocello #AudreLorde

One story we thought was great this week didn’t get enough attention: @[email protected] shared an animation about an incarcerated artist and his mentor, which was published by the incomparable The Marshall Project. Take a look at it here.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/01/animation-life-inside-prison-artist-mentorship

#Art #Prison #Incarceration #Culture #PrisonReform #Mentorship #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Nearly two million Massachusetts residents are food insecure, and that’s been exacerbated by rising prices and the end of pandemic measures. @[email protected] reports on a new group, the Make Hunger History Coalition, which aims to solve the problem of hunger, not just through food donations and charity but by addressing the underlying issues that cause it.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-11-08/can-massachusetts-lead-the-nation-in-abolishing-food-insecurity

#Food #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Charity #Boston #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Last year, the Indian government announced they had found a huge reserve of lithium in Kashmir. Now, @[email protected] reports that extraction plans have been halted as industry experts say government info on the land is “misleading and quite inadequate.”

https://restofworld.org/2024/india-lithium-reserves-halted/

#LithiumBatteries #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #India #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

People in Ukraine are worried about how Trump’s victory might affect them. The team at @timkmak’s Counter Offensive talked to people on the ground about their concerns. “If we get discouraged because an election has taken place in another country and we don’t like the president elected, we will never have independence and autonomy,” says 21-year-old Yelyzaveta Kanievska.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-street-level-view-from-kyiv-on

#Ukraine #Kyiv #USElection #DonaldTrump #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Humans spend a lot of time moving in crowds. Matthew R. Francis and Maki Naro collaborate on this comic for @KnowableMag, which demonstrates how tools from fluid dynamics can help model crowd behavior and smooth the flow of crowds, potentially making us safer.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/using-physics-to-understand-behavior-of-human-crowds

#Science #Physics #FluidDynamics #CrowdBehavior #ThinkingFluids #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Democrats in Texas were thrashed in last week’s election. It wasn’t supposed to go like this. For @[email protected], Gus Bova looks at how it happened, and offers a couple of things to think about.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-lost-decade-2024/

#Texas #TexasDemocrats #ColinAllred #BetoORourke #BernieSanders #USElection #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Political polarization is making us sick, according to new research from a team at New York University. @[email protected]’s Crawford Kilian writes about how COVID-19 epitomizes this and whether there’s a possibility of repair.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/06/Political-Polarization-Making-Us-Sick/

#Health #COVID #Polarization #Politics #Canada #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

A little bit of Democrat joy from @[email protected] as they report on Monique Worrell, the state attorney who was ousted by Ron DeSantis last year, and beat her replacement, Federalist Society member Andrew Bain, to win her job back.

https://boltsmag.org/tampa-orlando-proscutor-elections-2024/

#Florida #Voting #USElection #MoniqueWorrell #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Tech site @[email protected] says people have been canceling their subscriptions to the site out of a general sense of depression since the Republicans clinched the presidency and the Senate in the U.S. election. Here, co-founders @[email protected], @[email protected], Samantha Cole and @[email protected] explain why their work is still valuable.

https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/

#Trump #DonaldTrump #News #Media #Journalism #Technology #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

In a mission statement earlier this week, the team at @[email protected] explained their plans on holding the incoming Trump administration’s feet to the fire. Here, they dive into the specific issues journalists will be following, and how to get in touch with reporters if you have information to share.

https://www.propublica.org/article/second-trump-presidency-issues-contact

#Trump #DonaldTrump #News #Media #Journalism #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

“In some cases, it was women who were fiercest in the fight” was the headline that grabbed us in the final story in this thread, which was shared by our @[email protected]. The Haitian Revolution was the only known uprising of enslaved people that led to the founding of a slavery-free state. Many women fought alongside men, but few are remembered. An upcoming exhibition in London seeks to redress the balance with portraits of some of the female revolutionary fighters. @BBCNews’s Emi Eleode writes about the women, and the show.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240827-the-forgotten-female-freedom-fighters-of-the-haitian-revolution

#Art #History @[email protected] #BlackHistory @[email protected] #Haiti #Women #WomensHistory #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Some of us may be checking our screens a little more often than usual over the next few days, weeks, or (god help us) months. @[email protected] has a great article on overcoming device dependency and digitally detoxing, with tips that go beyond the usual “just put your phone in another room.”

https://theconversation.com/how-to-overcome-your-device-dependency-and-manage-a-successful-digital-detox-240613

#Technology #Lifestyle #DigitalDetox #PhoneUsage #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

When Manasvi Verma moved from India to St. Louis, Missouri, for college, her diet changed — and so did her gut microbiome. She wrote this beautiful essay, which is about food, science, sociology, and friendship, for @[email protected].

https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-journey-through-my-microbiome-an-immigrant-s-perspective-on-a-changing-gut

#Science #Sociology #Food #Microbiome #GutHealth #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

AI regulation and privacy laws in Spanish-speaking Latin America are either dated or non-existent, which means that Meta users there can’t prohibit the company from using their content for training. “Artists are particularly vulnerable, as many promote their creative work on Meta’s platforms,” writes Lucila Pinto for @[email protected]. She talked to creatives about what they plan to do.

https://restofworld.org/2024/meta-is-training-its-ai-with-public-instagram-posts-artists-in-latin-america-cant-opt-out/

#Technology #Tech #Art #Artists #Meta #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The fast-growing, supremely dangerous sport of base-jumping is the subject of @[email protected]’s latest photo essay, which shows the nascent scene in South Africa.

https://continent.substack.com/p/photo-essay-go-jump

#ExtremeSports #BaseJumping #SouthAfrica #Africa #Photography #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

For @damemagazine, Parker Molloy reports on a new Pew Research Center survey that shows that only 13% of U.S. adults say they have “a lot” of trust in the information they get from national news organizations. She discusses what the media needs to do to save itself.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/28/can-the-media-ever-regain-our-trust-after-election-2024/

#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Just when you thought Halloween was done, @[email protected] hit us with this true-life horror story of a parasitic fungus, Entomophthora muscae, which translates to “destroyer of insects.” “After the fungus infects the fly, it doesn’t go straight to the vital organs but starts consuming fats and other nutrients first, gradually starving the fly but keeping it alive,” writes Rohini Subrahmanyam. “Only when it runs out of non-vital organs to chomp on does it start to control the fly’s behavior, thus ensuring its continuity: By forcing the fly to seek some height and get stuck there, it ensures wide distribution of its spores.”

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/parasitic-fungus-turns-insect-into-zombie

#Science #Insects #Entomology #Fungus #Zombies #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

How best to tell the story of Texas’s frustration with Gov. Greg Abbott? Through the medium of song. “Young Greg Abbott: A FuQusical” had its first two full performances on Oct. 18 in Austin. @[email protected] reviewed the show for @[email protected]. The team behind it now want to take it on the road. “We really don’t want him to have a national profile, and, if he thinks of having one, we want to be in his ear as this very annoying little pesky punk show following him around,” co-creator Brently Heilbron says.

https://www.texasobserver.org/young-greg-abbott-musical/

#Texas #MusicalTheater #GregAbbott #Culture #Music #Theater #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday