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Join Moon Joy June!

Are you in need of some serious Moon joy? Get ready for Moon Joy June. NASA is hosting a month-long art challenge and we would love for you to participate! For every week of June, NASA will introduce a new prompt to inspire artists and creators of all kinds:

June 1-7: Launch

June 8-14: Moon

June 15-21: Crew

June 22-30: Earth

To share your Moon joy-inspired art on Tumblr, use the hashtag #ArtemisArtShow.

The sky is (not) the limit! We encourage all forms of art, including but not limited to: paintings, drawings, sculptures, dances, music, animations, nail art, latte foam art, poetry, fashion. Choose your favorite medium and share it with us!

Learn more about the challenge in our FAQ. Happy Moon Joy June to all who celebrate!

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Okay we’ve been stuck on AI long enough it’s time to move on to BI

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John Cage, David Tudor, Yoko Ono, and

Mayuzumi Toshiro, Music Walk, 1962

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“the comedian Atsuko Okatsuka recently posted a screenshot of the proposed contract she received (and turned down) from the festival’s organizers. The section she shared, titled “Content Restrictions”, forbade material that denigrates “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including its leadership, public figures, culture, or people”, as well as the country’s legal system. It is a far cry from the principled stands comedians have taken against censorship in the past. Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, role models for many of today’s free speech warriors, both did battle with government censors: Bruce was arrested, prosecuted and convicted for his act, while Carlin’s led to a landmark supreme court decision that upheld the FCC’s authority to regulate indecency and obscenity on the public airwaves. For these comedians, “freedom of speech” means the freedom to say anything you want, including to be cruel to racial minorities, women, trans people and immigrants; to associate with conspiracy theorists and lend their platforms to politicians set on undermining democracy. Yet for all their claims of free speech absolutism, it now seems clear comedy’s champions of liberty are all too happy to censor themselves for the right price”

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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

These dirtbags aren’t champions of free speech or principled warriors like George Carlin or Lenny Bruce. They are lazy bullies who take cheap and easy shots at vulnerable people, so stupid people will laugh.

So of COURSE they are going to take blood money from a murderous regime while they pat themselves on the back.

George Carlin would excoriate them. Lenny Bruce would savage their weakness.

And, like David Cross said, none of these comics need the money. They are all choosing to enrich themselves while they help whitewash and soften the image of one of the most repressive and murderous nations on the planet.

Everyone has choices to make in their lives, and those choices matter. These comics have all shown us that they aren’t worthy of our respect or attention, and they should be reminded when they do shows in America that they are stained by the blood money they accepted.

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We now shift from one prolific writer to another: Langston Hughes. A leading force in the Harlem Renaissance, a poet, a scholar, an activist

A leading force in the Harlem Renaissance, a poet, a scholar, an activist, and a black man, Langston Hughes spoke unashamedly of his experiences with racism in a still heavily segregated America. What he discussed less, leaving ample space for speculation, was sexuality, specifically his own. While there is a general agreement of some level of connection to queerness, the debate rages on as to the nature of that connection and the level of understanding any contemporary source can have without explicit self-identification.

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