Category: issues

“A warning message will now pop up any time a user tries to log into an account believed to be targeted by a ‘nation-state.’ According to a screenshot of the new warning, it reads: ‘We believe your Facebook account and your other online accounts may be the target of attacks from state-sponsored actors.’ It then instructs the user to switch on login approvals, which require the user to enter a security code sent by phone.”

“While I hope I don’t offend anyone, I find the alternative – the idea that I ought to stay in the cultural lane I was born into – outrageous. … There are legitimate reasons to step carefully when dressing ourselves with the clothing, arts, artifacts, or ideas of other cultures. But please, let’s banish the idea that appropriating elements from one another’s cultures is in itself problematic.” Jenni Avins offers seven dos and don’ts.

“The U.S. sites tell an interesting story about the period of Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest. Both churches were built by indigenous labor for Spanish colonizers and together capture two distinct periods of the Spanish colonial era’s architecture.”

“Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 189 , a measure empowering the California Arts Council to designate areas as Cultural Districts in a competitive application process. … AB 189 charges the Council to formulate a plan to foster Art Districts throughout the state, thereby enhancing creativity, and in the process, reinventing the landscape of cities throughout the state.”

“The idea is to present an alternative to mainstream coverage of the country’s fractured state, with its focus on conflict and destruction. ‘Our first enemy is pity,’ Charif Kiwan, the group’s spokesman and only active named member, said in an interview at the New School in Manhattan. ‘Since the beginning, we tried to say that we are fighting for freedom, for dignity.'”

“As a current student puts it in her video A Love Letter to My Art School: ‘We have too much stuff and take up too much space, and apparently being an artist or a craft isn’t enough to survive in this university. You have to be able to just work in a classroom.'”

“The writers’ revolt, which began in September after a 76-year-old critic of Hindu idolatry was gunned down in his home, rapidly gained strength this month when Mr. Modi failed to promptly condemn the killing of a Muslim man, Mohammed Ikhlaq, by a Hindu mob because they suspected he had killed a cow and eaten its meat.”

“The show’s critical success reflects some of the ways in which modern mainstream audiences are encountering ASL anew, but it also presents a vision of how culture can be simultaneously inclusive, revelatory, and thrilling, giving audiences a space to encounter both deaf and hearing experiences of the world.”

“‘I don’t know where it’s changing otherwise but that’s something that I could do,’ Cooper said. ‘Usually you don’t talk about the financial stuff, you have people. But you know what? It’s time to start doing that,’ he added.”