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Jordan Kisner: The Dark Art of Mastering Music (Pitchfork)
Jordan Kisner: The Dark Art of Mastering Music (Pitchfork)
The mastering engineers I spoke to for this story kept using the same phrase when describing their job: “to make the song competitive in the marketplace.” That is, making the music sound better in audio quality—clearer, louder, more vibrant—than anything else out there. Traditionally, the “marketplace” has been radio, where a well-mastered song hits that sweet spot where you feel immersed in the music but not battered by it. If your song is poorly mastered, the logic goes, people won’t want to buy your album. Worse yet, they might switch stations. And now, the marketplace also includes online streaming, which has raised the popularity of listening to music on headphones or portable devices with lousy speakers—platforms that require their own kind of mastering.
·pitchfork.com·
Jordan Kisner: The Dark Art of Mastering Music (Pitchfork)
Brief Raptures (Ask MetaFilter)
Brief Raptures (Ask MetaFilter)
I enjoy spending time in temporarily deserted places that usually bustle during daylight hours. Examples include San Francisco during Burning Man weekend, Penn Station at 2pm on Christmas day, almost everywhere in the US on Easter Sunday, the Financial District in Boston on Saturdays and Sundays, many major European cities during August.
·ask.metafilter.com·
Brief Raptures (Ask MetaFilter)
TransWhat?
TransWhat?
Transgender is an umbrella word that is used to describe a very large and diverse group of people. "Transgender" can refer to transsexual people; to genderqueer and gender-variant people; to crossdressers; even to feminine men who still call themselves men, and masculine women who still call themselves women. If someone says "I am a woman," or "I am a man," or "I am ____," please take that person seriously. Our cultural framework tends to tell us that their bodies may contradict their statements — that there's no way you could be a guy with XX chromosomes, or a genderless person with an obvious beard. But the trans person is the one who's right, and the simplistic framework is the model that's wrong. Gender is not dependent on physical appearances, or on the word of doctors, friends, family. The individuals are the ones who get to assert their own identity.
·transwhat.org·
TransWhat?
Julie Pagano: On Making Mistakes
Julie Pagano: On Making Mistakes
A very common initial reaction is to be defensive. You probably didn’t mean to make a mistake or cause harm. Unfortunately, you did whether you meant to or not. It’s ok to feel defensive – it’s an incredibly human response. However, it’s usually one you want to keep to yourself (and maybe a few close friends). Responding defensively is an intentional act that defends your mistake instead of admitting fault. It can do additional harm and is unlikely to improve the situation. Take a little time to sit with any feelings of defensiveness.
·juliepagano.com·
Julie Pagano: On Making Mistakes
Julie Pagano: 101 Off Limits
Julie Pagano: 101 Off Limits
I keep saying that impromptu, unwanted feminism 101 discussions are exhausting and not a good use of my resources. Then people ask what I mean by 101, so I’m starting to make a list.
·juliepagano.com·
Julie Pagano: 101 Off Limits
Mandy Brown: Bots
Mandy Brown: Bots
In every case, these AIs are designed to seamlessly take care of things for you: to answer questions, schedule meetings, provide directions, refill the milk in the fridge, and so on. So in addition to frightening ramifications for privacy and information discovery, they also reinforce gendered stereotypes about women as servants. The neutral politeness that infects them all furthers that convention: women should be utilitarian, performing their duties on command without fuss or flourish. This is a vile, harmful, and dreadfully boring fantasy; not the least because there is so much extraordinary art around AI that both deconstructs and subverts these stereotypes. It takes a massive failure of imagination to commit yourself to building an artificial intelligence and then name it “Amy.”
·aworkinglibrary.com·
Mandy Brown: Bots
Anna Maria Barry-Jester: How MSG Got A Bad Rap: Flawed Science And Xenophobia (FiveThirtyEight)
Anna Maria Barry-Jester: How MSG Got A Bad Rap: Flawed Science And Xenophobia (FiveThirtyEight)
That MSG isn’t the poison we’ve made it out to be has been well-established. News stories are written regularly about the lack of evidence tying MSG to negative health effects. (Read here and here, for example. Or here, here, here, here and here.) Still, Yelp reviews of Chinese restaurants tell tales of racing hearts, sleepless nights and tingling limbs from dishes “laden with MSG.” Even when the science is clear, it takes a lot to overwrite a stigma, especially when that stigma is about more than just food.
·fivethirtyeight.com·
Anna Maria Barry-Jester: How MSG Got A Bad Rap: Flawed Science And Xenophobia (FiveThirtyEight)
Roberto A. Ferdman: How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ (The Washington Post)
Roberto A. Ferdman: How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ (The Washington Post)
There is ample evidence that we treat these foods as inferior, as Krishnendu Ray, the chair of nutrition and food studies at New York University, writes in his new book "The Ethnic Restaurateur." Ray points to the comparatively low price ceiling for various "ethnic cuisines," as a telling sign. Despite complex ingredients and labor-intensive cooking methods that rival or even eclipse those associated with some of the most celebrated cuisines — think French, Spanish and Italian — we want our Indian food fast, and we want it cheap.
·washingtonpost.com·
Roberto A. Ferdman: How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ (The Washington Post)
Casey Johnston: The Feed Is Dying (NY Mag)
Casey Johnston: The Feed Is Dying (NY Mag)
Who among us hasn’t logged into Twitter only to find friends one-upping each other with meta-meta-meta-ironic jokes about something that happened five minutes ago, and no longer is anyone actually mentioning the thing they’re joking about? Who among us has not followed someone because of a really excellent viral photo or tweet, and then hundreds of posts later it’s like Oh my God, stop talking about your cat, or your car, or your loneliness?
·nymag.com·
Casey Johnston: The Feed Is Dying (NY Mag)
Ian Welsh: The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft
Ian Welsh: The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft
The market will not miraculously produce a capital replacing living wage. If it does so in any particular market it is happenstance; luck, not social physics. This is a social action problem; a race to the bottom issue. It makes sense, individually, to race to the bottom. Company execs and investors get rich, consumers get cheaper rides and drivers get money they need. But this isn’t win, win, win. It is win, win, lose over the not very long run. The cheaper wages paid to drivers, and thus the cheaper rides, also drive business with capital structures which make social sense out of business. They can’t compete with “drive your car into the ground, make less than minimum wage”.
·ianwelsh.net·
Ian Welsh: The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft
Goodhertz: What does hearing loss sound like?
Goodhertz: What does hearing loss sound like?
As we age, our hear­ing slowly but surely slips away. Time turns down the deci­bels. But what, ex­actly, does that ag­ing-of-the-ears sound like? What would it sound like to go, in an in­stant, from the hear­ing of a 20-year-old to the hear­ing of a 90-year-old? In the vo­cab­u­lary of fre­quen­cies and deci­bels, what does nor­mal hear­ing loss sound like? After find­ing a set of hear­ing data avail­able on­line,1 we de­cided to de­velop a small web-based sim­u­la­tor to help you ex­pe­ri­ence, in re­al­time, the re­sults of nat­ural hear­ing loss.
·tonal.goodhertz.co·
Goodhertz: What does hearing loss sound like?
Sky Walk by Franek Architects (Arch Daily)
Sky Walk by Franek Architects (Arch Daily)
A tower of walkways on top of a mountain in Czech Republic. A unique 55 meter high building near the cottage Slaměnka at Dolni Morava, Czech Republic. Sky walk is located very close to the cottage Slaměnka, at the top station of chair lift Sněžník, at an altitude of 1,116 meters above sea level. Its height is 55 meters and the summit can be easily reached along a wooden path with strollers and wheelchairs. More adventurous visitors can use unique 101 m long stainless slider with windows.
·archdaily.com·
Sky Walk by Franek Architects (Arch Daily)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration (The Atlantic)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration (The Atlantic)
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it's time to reclaim his original intent.
·theatlantic.com·
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration (The Atlantic)
Todd Van Luling: The Michael Jackson Video Game Conspiracy (Huffington Post)
Todd Van Luling: The Michael Jackson Video Game Conspiracy (Huffington Post)
Jackson toured the facility. "He didn't moonwalk," Hector said. "He was walking around on crutches and he was apologetic about that -- he said 'I'm really sorry' and all that. But he didn't have to apologize. We were just happy to have him." Then, as Hector tells it, one of the Sonic 3 developers asked whether Jackson would like to write the music for the new game. What happened next is still in dispute.
·testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com·
Todd Van Luling: The Michael Jackson Video Game Conspiracy (Huffington Post)
Ireny: The Beginner‘s Guide to Chinese Lion Dance
Ireny: The Beginner‘s Guide to Chinese Lion Dance
so quite a lot of people expressed interest in a guide to lion dance! and since the lunar new year is coming up in a couple weeks, which means everyone’s exposure to lions is probably going to increase, i figured i’d go ahead and make it! right click + open in new tab to fullview, etc etc, i hope it’s helpful, although if you only take one thing away from this powerpoint, it’s this: lions are not dragons
·irenydraws.tumblr.com·
Ireny: The Beginner‘s Guide to Chinese Lion Dance
Woke
Woke
An Amazon.com Wishlist by Erica Joy (@ericajoy) with books about black America. Added to GoodReads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3519627-matthew-mcvickar?shelf=erica-joy-woke-list&view=table
·amazon.com·
Woke
Anil Dash: Making Makerbase
Anil Dash: Making Makerbase
Makerbase was built to allow anyone to edit it — here’s how we’ve tried to stop abuse of that power before it starts. The biggest lesson here is that it is possible to build social platforms where abuse and harassment are not the norm.
·making.makerbase.co·
Anil Dash: Making Makerbase
Chantal Jandard: Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words
Chantal Jandard: Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words
Designers must be aware of their role in social UIs and give the same thought to social dynamics that they would to legibility, scalability and others. They must be aware of what social friction they are introducing or reducing, and they need to ask themselves, “How will this UI make my user look to others?” and “How will this UI affect the quality of social interactions?”
·medium.com·
Chantal Jandard: Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words
STAMP
STAMP
Move from (Spotify, Rdio, Google Music, Deezer, YouTube, Apple Music) to Apple Music, Spotify or Google Music!
·stampapp.io·
STAMP
Love hertz: Scientists find fatal attraction 'sex' frequency to lure male mosquitoes to their death
Love hertz: Scientists find fatal attraction 'sex' frequency to lure male mosquitoes to their death
Scientists have hit upon the fatal attraction frequency that mimics the sound of a deadly disease-carrying female mosquito's wings beating, in order to lure the male of the species to their death. Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine researchers Brian Johnson and Scott Ritchie discovered a tone of 484 hertz, the frequency of a female Aedes aegypti's wings flapping, attracted male mosquitoes of the species in large numbers.
·abc.net.au·
Love hertz: Scientists find fatal attraction 'sex' frequency to lure male mosquitoes to their death
Tahirah Hairston: What ‘Making A Murderer’ is teaching white people (Fusion)
Tahirah Hairston: What ‘Making A Murderer’ is teaching white people (Fusion)
But it seems that Making A Murderer is teaching white people around the country—from reporters for mainstream media, to Facebook friends, to co-workers—to see. The crime series focuses on the invisibility that comes with being white, poor and lower class—a position that, in many ways, parallels the invisibility that comes with being a person of color. It allows white people in denial of the injustices of the judicial system and police enforcement to become aware of (and informed about) what people of color have known all of their lives.
·fusion.net·
Tahirah Hairston: What ‘Making A Murderer’ is teaching white people (Fusion)