which way to the baby war

Claire LeDoyen . Disaster Printer

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André Breton. The African Mask. 1948.

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Antonin Artaud. La Pendue. 1945.

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hussein chalayan s/s 98

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Ive done irreparable damage to relationships with some great friends but at least its been a year since i last cut myself. happy fuckin valentines day im gonna start drinking now ✌

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Lesley Dill “Divide Light”

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“Hunger” Käthe Kollwitz Woodcut 1923

The front cover of a 4 page news print paper. 

Kollwitz was at her strongest producing powerful images protesting against social injustice and oppression of all kinds. The despair of the mother who cannot feed her starving baby is understood by all. It was a cry for help in a Germany which, in the early 1920s was facing financial meltdown through unemployment, inflation and having to pay war-compensation (reparations) to the Allied nations.

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Woodblock textile printing, Jaipur, India

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printeresting:

Uwe Bremer. Playing-cards printed around 1968 by Heinrich Schwarz & Co. in Nürnberg. (via Rixdorfer Spielkarten)

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Really want to make my own deck. Eventually make a tarot deck. Eventually make an x-men tarot deck......

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Chinese playing cards, c. 1000 C.E.

German playing card woodblock

No matter where you were on the Eurasian continent, the earliest printing was really just about gambling.

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Note to self

Essay on engendering poetry? Criticize how my understanding of a certain line of poetry becomes harder to hold onto once imagined spoken from a queer person of color

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Quality Inn Central, Clearwater, FL from Assignments $400, sale benefits #CAIR, contact to purchase graphite, watercolor, acrylic, marker, oil pastel on paper 9.75 x 9.75 inches 2009 #CAIR,#noban, #immigrantsmakeamericagreat , #qualityinn, #drawing,#art

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My buddys band just put out their self titled EP. Loverboy Wanderers outta Philadelphia, PA.

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The company behind Trump’s online ad campaign as well as Brexit Leave (leave.eu led by Nigel Farage) is Cambridge Analytica. It uses psychometrics to ‘measure’ tendencies among individuals and groups through their digital traces. Specifically what you like on Facebook. 

Cambridge Analytica’s parent company - SCL or Strategic Communications Laboratories - uses psychometrics for psychological manipulation and behavioral change communication. The business structure conducts “political upheavals in developing countries; others had done work for NATO, developing methods for the psychological manipulation of the population in Afghanistan.”

For those who know me know that I work with analytics, algorithms and the intersection of technology and society (society in the holistic people-oriented sense, not cloistered enclaves). I’ve been talking about this for so long; how Big Data has played a massive role in emboldening the most unhinged forms of fascism in society and how Silicon Valley is one of the places to blame.

Of course, when a woman says something like this, the go-to reaction among tech folks is to label her hysterical and brush her doubts aside by telling her that she is too ‘emotional’ to discuss and analyze technology’s role in politics and governance.

Among those to mock my thoughts were upper class white men who hide their lack of empathy under the guise of ‘rationalism,’ middle class white men who buy waifu pillows on Amazon and yell at minorities online via anonymous Twitter accounts, and South/East Asian men who’ve made it big in SF and feel the need to parrot their white peers’ ways so as to avoid being called betas. It’s a pretty sad sight all in all.

But this is a truly terrifying read on how psychometrics and data-driven communications played an integral role in fascism and Trump’s victory through online marketing and micro-targeting using the O.C.E.A.N. method.

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there’s a book about this caled “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by data scientist Cathy O'Neil and it’s both fascinating and horrifying

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The Washington D.C. Demon Cat (nicknamed “DC” by Capitol employees) is said to haunt the government buildings of Washington D.C. It is said that when sighted, the cat looks like a black house cat but its eyes glow; however it is also said that this cat can grow to the size of a lion when startled. 

This cat is known to be a bringer of bad fortune and is typically seen before election days and tragedies in the White House. Allegedly, the Demon Cat was seen the night before both the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations. It was also said to have been seen before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the attempted assassination of Regan and even the night before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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RVA DIY FEB '17

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Note to self

Make coffee ice cream chicken

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