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You can read more of the lecture in the book Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (link goes to our catalog). The New Yorker also has a 3-part series on Shirley Jackson's lectures! This is excerpt is covered in part 2 (link goes to The New Yorker).

Google already tried this shit a decade ago and it crashed and burned for all the reasons you are saying. I think that an argument could be made by Meta that people are way less concerned with being recorded (or at least are more used to it) now than they were ten years ago in general and they might even right. A second mover advantage.

Still, Google Glass didn’t fail because someone got upset at being recorded but because there were people like lawyers and nurses wearing the things and accidentally recording private conversations. People recorded having sex by accident.

If I’m walking down the street and someone’s Meta Glasses records me… whatever. Idgaf. For starters, it is legal to record in public so they could do the same thing with their phone. It is rude but still legal.

It is not legal for a medical professional to record my chart to their personal device, though. Imagine a person recording jury deliberations. A lawyer recording the judge while they make a ruling in chambers. Even a person recording everything they see at a kink or swingers party, including the faces of all attending.

I’m not sure of the legality of recording without permission in private residences but it sure as fuck is rude as hell and inappropriate. I would not want, say, my apartment complexes maintenance guy to be recording the inside of my apartment while he makes a routine repair. I don’t have anything to hide but it is my private space and none of his business.

In case you were wondering: no, no one in the notes of this post read it and took it to heart.

gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.

last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships

#also sometimes u guys r just fuckig misogynist. abt the women in m/f ships. sorry

It's a large (and shifting) smoke plume, so stay safe, folks. Look up how to make a "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" if you need an air purifier inside.

I know this map shows specific areas but as of July 16th I doubt it's accurate, all of Western PA is covered in smoke, so I expect it has shifted downwards

Smoke plumes shift a lot. The further east/southeast you are from these fires, the more drastic the shifting will be. And there will always be uncertainty because ironically, smoke can make it difficult for satellite systems to detect wildfires.

BlueSky Canada has a prediction map of their modeled data here:

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.

not again

Cyclospora season is really explosive this year.

Who could imagine that Donald Trump allowing an unelected official to gut the government agencies that see to food safety would have led to thousands of people getting sick???

Also cyclospora cannot be washed off food by traditional means, you need heat to kill it.

Hey this is a pretty cool approach maybe we should take that to the Internet instead of trying to invade the privacy of millions of adults because some parents can't parent their kids

The story is formatted entirely as a really long apologetic author's note explaining why the usually monthly released chapter is 2 hours late

The fanfic chapter is attached and the fanfic is mediocre at best

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

• the jerry cans (esp their album Inuusiq)
• beatrice deer
• twin flames

Māori artists:

• jordyn with a why

Indigenous australian artists:

• tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)
• kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))
• i've also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven't checked out his stuff yet

Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually

(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,

For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!

i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.

I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that

Haven't seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she's the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She's from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she's also a live DJ at 19!

And one of her own:

Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:

1876 is a Pow Wow punk rock band from Portland, Oregon

Alien Weaponry is an awesome Māori metal band

Darkaside is a Papuan metal band

Shepherds Reign is a Samoan metal band

Ts'msyen (pacific northwest coast) black metal

I also want to recommend King Stingray here! They describe their work as Yolŋu surf rock

Lenin Tamayo, Quechua pop singer.

And of course I can't not add Mari Boine (Sámi) to a post like this:

And Arvvas, who I think have moved on to other things but did mashups of Sámi traditional singing and jazz:

oooo you want to listen to Cemican....you want Maya and Metal fusion music so bad....