♫ ▶︎ How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Edgar Wright’s debut documentary THE SPARKS BROTHERS, which features commentary from celebrity fans Flea, Jane Wiedlin, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman, and more, takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers/bandmates Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
The Sparks Brothers will be in theaters on June 18.
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▶︎ Want an unvarnished window into the world of kids? Try cutting their hair.
In the Dutch documentary series Talking Heads, the host and seasoned children’s hairdresser Marko Suds provides a window into the eclectic worlds of the eight- to 12-year-old kids who populate his salon chair.
TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is promoting homophobia and anti-trans violence
(…)To test this, Media Matters reviewed and tracked which videos TikTok recommended after we liked anti-LGBTQ content that was fed to our “For You” page. After we clicked “like” on one anti-LGBTQ video, TikTok almost instantly began recommending more. As we liked similar videos, the “For You” page became progressively tailored to almost exclusively anti-LGBTQ content. In each case, this content was placed on the “For You” page and required no additional searching. (…)
Det ockulta är vardag i svenska waldorfskolor.
De har trott sig vara ensamma om sina upplevelser, eftersom de inte bara varit offer för övergrepp utan också för en tystnadskultur där samtliga inblandade – lärarna med sin ideologi, föräldrarna med sin naiva dröm, eleverna med sin utsatthet – gjorts blinda för missförhållandena och stått upp för varandra i en lojalitet så stark att varken Skolverket eller rättsväsendet kunnat tränga igenom.
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Den postmoderna klimatförnekelsen reducerar frågan om vår överlevnad till åsikter, förmodanden, tyckanden; till ideologi. Den gör det till ”vänster” att påpeka att det har blivit varmare; det är ingen slump att Sverigedemokraterna 2017 attackerade SMHI för att bedriva ”propaganda”.
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