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Дорожные впечатления
Сегодня на дороге 99, идущей из Пенсильвании в Мэриленд, увидела билборд со следующим текстом:
Equality=America
Equity=communism
Learn the difference!
Сегодня на дороге 99, идущей из Пенсильвании в Мэриленд, увидела билборд со следующим текстом:
Equality=America
Equity=communism
Learn the difference!
Сколько же повсюду этих дур
A Spanish Art Professor and Her Students Staged a Silent Protest at the Picasso Museum to Raise Awareness of the Artist’s Treatment of Women
The group showed up with custom t-shirts calling out Picasso’s behavior.
The group arrived on May 27 at the Barcelona institution with black-and-white t-shirts that read “Picasso, women abuser” and “Picasso, the shadow of Dora Maar.
The goal of the protest, Llopis said in an email to Artnet News, was “to speak out. To talk about what really happened. To say the truth about many women artists who can not develop their creativity.”
(Стало быть, это Пикассо им кислород перекрыл.)
НЕ первоапрельская шутка
Пару недель назад газета 'Фигаро' сообщила, что Лувр и музей истории Парижа Карнавале решили отказаться от римских цифр при нумерации веков и монархов.
То есть, теперь будут Людовики 13, 14, 16, Генрихи 2, 4, Карлы 2, 4, 5, а если обратиться к русским царям, то Александры 1, 2, 3 и т.д.
Причина: иностранцы(!) и большинство (!!) французов римских цифр не знают (!!!).
Вот как выглядят новые таблички:
Но в надписях на испанском крамолу пришлось оставить, ибо в испанском языке это была бы орфографическая ошибка (такие у испанцев правила).
https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/musees-la-chute-des-chiffres-romains-20210315
То есть, теперь будут Людовики 13, 14, 16, Генрихи 2, 4, Карлы 2, 4, 5, а если обратиться к русским царям, то Александры 1, 2, 3 и т.д.
Причина: иностранцы(!) и большинство (!!) французов римских цифр не знают (!!!).
Вот как выглядят новые таблички:
Но в надписях на испанском крамолу пришлось оставить, ибо в испанском языке это была бы орфографическая ошибка (такие у испанцев правила).
https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/musees-la-chute-des-chiffres-romains-20210315
Так не доставайся ж ты никому (с)
Boston Public Schools Suspend Advanced Program Because Officials Were ‘Disturbed’ By The Number Of Asian And White Students
70% of students in the program were white and Asian, while nearly 80% of all Boston public schools are Hispanic and black, a detailed study found.
Интересная нынче в Бостоне демография - 80% (!) школьников латиноамериканцы и черные.
А Воннегут еще 60 лет назад все предсказал:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
текст:
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
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В ожидании варваров
Businesses in major cities across the country including Washington, D.C. have started to board up storefronts as they prepare for post-election civil unrest.
Чем каждый раз прибивать, а потом снимать деревянные щиты, проще (и, возможно, дешевле, поскольку нужны они нынче часто) поставить постоянные стальные двери/ставни, которые легко опустить, как только в воздухе запахло жареным.
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O tempora!
Во Франции лицей в городе Thionville, носивший имя Кольбера (финансиста, одной из самых выдающихся фигур при Людовике XIV), переименован в лицей имени Розы Паркс.
Заслуги Кольбера (известного читателям Дюма по роману "Виконт де Бражелон") перед Францией многочисленны и разнообразны. В частности, он основал Академию наук, Академию архитектуры, Академию Оперы, Парижскую Обсерваторию и пр.
Но, видимо, Роза Паркс сделала для Франции больше.
Buyer's remorse, sort of
Three Museums Have Cancelled Planned Jon Rafman Exhibitions Following Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
The artist has also been dropped by his Montreal gallery.Three museums around the world have cancelled exhibitions by Jon Rafman in response to complaints on social media of alleged sexual misconduct by the acclaimed Canadian digital-media artist.
The museums—the Kunstverein Hannover; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal—had each scheduled separate solo shows this year.
The museums took action after three women shared their recollections of sexual encounters with Rafman on the Instagram @surviving_the_artworld, which publishes allegations of abusive behavior in the art world.
The accusers are artist Anne-Marie Trépanier and arts administrator Emily Cadotte, both 28, and a third woman who has remained anonymous.
Each of the accusers suggest that the relationship with Rafman was characterized by a power imbalance that left them feeling uncomfortable.
In a post on the @surviving_the_artworld Instagram, Trépanier said she added Rafman as a Facebook friend in 2014, when she was 21. Later, at his invitation, she says she went to dinner with the artist, his mother, and an unnamed curator, after which she and Rafman slept together. She alleges that later sexual encounters (то есть продолжала есть кактус) left her feeling “disgusting, soiled… embarrassed, so embarrassed.”
In her accusations, Cadotte said she continued messaging with Rafman after an “uncomfortable” sexual encounter “because I saw him as a gatekeeper in the Montreal art scene that I so desperately wanted to be a part of.”
(В самом деле, могла ли она поступить иначе, когда на кону такие ставки?!)
То есть насилия не было, принуждения не было, обмана не было, харассмента тоже не было. Просто дамам не понравилось, причем не сразу, а спустя, как водится, некоторое количество лет. Дамы задним числом ощутили 'power imbalance' и почувствовали себя 'uncomfortable', и теперь художнику хана.
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Бедные POC, с кем им приходится иметь дело!
Literature from the National Museum of African American History & Culture says concepts like valuing hard word and time, and being polite and objective are all aspects of whiteness or white culture in the United States.
“The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more”
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
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Стучите, граждане, стучите!
Email from Airbnb (через них мы снимали жилье в нескольких европ. странах):
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