Just as everyone is feeling the loss of the very popular annual folklife festival that they’d normally see on the national mall. Displacing the incredible folks who’ve been studying and hosting complex cultural festivals for decades and then blaming THEM for your sad production
The White House has released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history." https://t.co/7jF3FTT10n
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
@ISASaxonists@Putney_Kotto@Slangdini Dude, you’re not understanding. Once they get those noisy warehouse workers out of the way with their expensive demands for safety and fair pay or whatever, they’ll be able to sell rapaciously cheap stuff so much more efficiently! The inhuman consumption model is visionary!
@ISASaxonists Getting trained up to plant their little English flags in Northern Ireland, too, or whatever the day’s equivalent is
But not a stitch out of line, that’s the important thing
@joshshepperd Not sure the “severing” is what’s novel. Times and places where ppl flourish in pursuit and production of knowledge and art often rely on patronage of projects largely outside institutional hierarchies.
@joshshepperd The calling part, when I’ve thought about it, is uncomfortably close to how I imagine 18th c “gentlemen” dabblers or naturalists or something. People who are unemployed due to some degree of wealth and privilege and use their time invent things, or collect things, attend meetings
@scottsantens UBI seems so far from being the threat it truly should be to our rapacious capitalist systems, it’s surprising a sound post like this draws such venomous replies.
Maybe they just really hate Star Wars?
@hoe_llister@Bobbcattts How do you then welcome the tourists who think they are visiting “ancient Egypt” and have no sense of the exploitative footprint they’re helping to make?