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When Spotify entered the podcast world, audio producer Alex Sujong Laughlin was wary — and with good reason, since back when she was a social media editor working at The Washington Post, she saw the devastating effect some private tech companies have had on media and journalism. She's sad to be proved right. "Spotify — along with many other companies — wants to create a closed ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and consumption of podcasts, bypassing RSS technology altogether because that would allow them to harvest more listener data to leverage with advertisers," she writes in this story for Defector. Luckily, she says it's not too late to take back our feeds. "You don’t have to understand the technology of RSS to choose to listen to your podcasts on an open app. You can just choose to do it." [Story may be paywalled]

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#Podcasts #Podcasting #Spotify #Tech #Technology #RSS #Journalism #Media #BigTech

The writers of "Sesame Street" have authorized a strike if they don't reach a contract by tomorrow. Thirty-five WGA members are asking Sesame Workshop for industry standard raises, improvements to residuals and more. Picketing outside the New York City office could start as soon as next Wednesday. "Millions of parents and families around the world are going to have a lot of questions," WGA East President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said. "They might ask why the bosses at Sesame Workshop are ignoring their company's own messages of kindness and fairness." Variety has the full story.

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#Television #Entertainment #SesameStreet #WGA #UnionStrong

The reaction on Chinese social media to Netflix's adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem" has been mixed, but Vox's Aja Romano argues that depictions of nationalistic outrage are probably exaggerations. She unpacks the response to this adaptation, the book trilogy, and Tencent's "Three Body," and says this time around, the problem is Netflix, not Chinese viewers.

https://flip.it/LwLAQp

#Television #Netflix #Tencent #ThreeBodyProblem #ThreeBody #China #Culture #Books @bookstodon

@HauntedOwlbear Hoping that this story ends with, "Readers: I married them."

@seanbala This whole idea seems a little out-there — it will be interesting to see what a "Joker" musical looks like (and sounds like) though with Gaga on board it could be great!

M. Emmet Walsh has died at 88. IndieWire describes him as "one of the most recognizable 'oh yeah, that guy!' performers in the industry." Here's their tribute to the character actor, who had notable roles in "Blade Runner" and "Blood Simple." "There was something timeless about Walsh: He could have died ages ago, or he might have lived forever," writes Christian Blauvelt.

https://flip.it/ZHcvsD
#Film #Movies #MEmmetWalsh #RIP #InMemoriam #Actors #Culture #Entertainment

For more stories like this, follow @IndieWire's Film Magazine, @film-IndieWire.

A new documentary, "Grand Theft Hamlet," is filmed within Grand Theft Auto Online, and tells the story of the first staged production of a Shakespeare play in a multiplayer online video game. "The doc is an impressive piece of machinima, a niche but increasingly utilized method of filmmaking that exclusively utilizes in-game graphics to create a cinematic experience," writes Allegra Frank for Daily Beast. Here's the full story (may be paywalled).

https://flip.it/KN33rU

#Movies #Documentaries #GTA #Videogames #GrandTheftAuto #Shakespeare

Nine months before Rosa Parks, when Claudette Colvin was just 15, she refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Ala., and was arrested. However, Colvin's case wasn't taken up by the NAACP and her efforts were not publicized by Black leaders because she was young, dark complexioned, and pregnant, she believes. MSNBC tells the story of what happened, and how she and four other women sued the city of Montgomery, leading to its public transport segregation being declared unconstitutional.
https://flip.it/OwOSMM

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon @histodons #History #USA #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement

For more stories like this, follow @theculturedesk's Stories of Black America Magazine @stories-of-black-america-theculturedesk and its Women's History Magazine @women-s-history-and-inspiring-women-theculturedesk.

Wendy's has clarified its dynamic pricing strategy, saying that surge pricing (where prices increase when demand is highest) will not be implemented. "Digital menu boards could allow us to change the menu offerings at different times of day and offer discounts and value offers to our customers more easily, particularly in the slower times of day,” a spokesperson told NBC in an email.

https://flip.it/zX6ySV

#Food #Economics #Wendys #FoodCulture

Funny lines, flubs and a brief power outage. Entertainment Weekly brings us the best and worst moments from the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards. https://flip.it/4qO0cm
#Culture #Entertainment #SAGAwards

West Virginia and Georgia are eyeing laws that would allow criminal charges against school librarians for distributing books that contain "obscene matter." This material often includes books on gender identity and sexual orientation. @axios has created this @Flipboard Storyboard, which also includes information on proposed book bans in Oregon, Florida and Texas.

https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/librarians-could-face-criminal-charges-over-obscene-books-in-some-states-cjmrjuh6808h1970

#Books @bookstodon #Reading #LGBTQ #HumanRights #USA #Libraries #USPolitics

For more stories like this, follow @ElectionCentral's State and Local Magazine, @state-and-local-ElectionCentral

“Oppenheimer” won best film, Emma Stone took the best actress award, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph moved the crowd with her best supporting actress acceptance speech at Sunday’s Bafta Film Awards. Here’s a two-minute highlight clip from BBC News. https://flip.it/nGHPXC
#Culture #Entertainment #Film #Bafta

Attention, U.S.-based folk who are looking for restaurant reviews and other food news that is relevant to where they live! @Eater has federated all of its local Magazines. Here's how to discover all their stories.

For Atlanta, follow @eater-atlanta-Eater

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For San Francisco, follow @eater-san-francisco-Eater

For Seattle, follow @eater-seattle-Eater

For the Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul), follow @eater-twin-cities-Eater

For Washington D.C., follow @eater-dc-Eater

#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #Food #Restaurants #FoodCulture #USA

It's vacation-planning time (and also Travel Tuesday), so here are a few federated Magazines to follow, whether you're looking for gear recommendations, ideas for family travel, outdoor adventures, restaurant suggestions in the world's best cities (we want to visit NYC) or hotel tips.

@hotel-news-and-inspiration-AfarMedia
@outdoor-adventure-outside
@family-travel-FrommersMag
@eater-new-york-Eater
@travel-products-travelleisure

#Travel #TravelTuesday #Lifestyle #Flipboard #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

For over a decade, @Flipboard has been curating the best content around the clock. Today we're taking the next step toward making all that excellent curation available to everyone in the Fediverse. With the federation of The Culture Desk account on Flipboard, you can now follow the specific Magazines you want on Mastodon. To avoid confusion, we're renaming our flipboard.social account to "Flipboard Picks in Culture." We recommend you follow both our Mastodon account and our newly federated Flipboard Magazines for the latest in culture. Here are just four great Magazines to follow:

https://flipboard.social/@stories-of-black-america-theculturedesk@flipboard.com — Stories about the history and culture of Black people in the USA.
https://flipboard.social/@the-home-front-theculturedesk@flipboard.com — From decor trends and reno tips to organization and cleaning advice, this Magazine has you covered.
https://flipboard.social/@what-to-hear-music-theculturedesk@flipboard.com — Music news, reviews, highlights and recommendations.
https://flipboard.social/@trending-trailers-theculturedesk@flipboard.com — Take a peek at current and upcoming movies.

#Culture #Entertainment #Music #Lifestyle #Flipboard #Federation

Black Americans who are attempting to trace their roots can get help from the Smithsonian. The institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) offers free genealogy sessions, both in person and online, teaching people how to interpret census records, find useful sources of information, and more. Here's more from @Smithsonianmag's Tracy Scott Forson, who got answers about her own family history from an NMAAHC session.

https://flip.it/V4-Qs0

#History #Culture #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

The 66th Grammy Awards are here. Follow the winners with live updates from Variety. Plus, a link to streaming the show live online.
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#Grammy2024 #Culture #Entertainment #Music #TaylorSwift #SZA

E. Jean Carroll has had a long and illustrious writing career dating back to the 1980s — she was an Emmy-nominated SNL writer and contributing editor for magazines like Outside, Esquire and Playboy before she launched her Ask E. Jean advice column, and wrote a biography of Hunter S. Thompson in 1993. Here's a piece she wrote for Outside in 1981 about Miss Rodeo America.

https://flip.it/auc3iK

#Lifestyle #Culture #EJeanCarroll #Writing

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold lacquer, the idea being that the flaws make the ceramics more beautiful and unique. It has its roots in the wabi-sabi philosophy of embracing imperfection. Here's a story from Gathered explaining how to try the technique at home.

https://flip.it/0U2zmq

#Art #Craft #Lifestyle #Ceramics #WabiSabi #Culture

Every year, Grist runs a climate fiction short story contest, Imagine 2200. Writers are invited to imagine a future in which solutions to the climate crisis flourish, and our world is a better place. Here are all the finalists, including the winning story, which is about a beekeeper who develops a warning system for floods and in doing so, finds community.

https://flip.it/wddT05

#Fiction #Writing #ClimateChange #ClimateFiction