What I saw on the web on 2024.5.4

[reblogarythm]

1. Let it Ride
   by BTO, covered by Big Sugar
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laz6kGaUM6E
   an excellent demonstration of Big Sugar's blend of hard rock and reggae
   via memory, earworming
   
   
2. Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman"
   by Cory Doctorow, appreciating Rosemary Kirstein
   https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/04/the-wulf/#underground-fave
   apparently Randall turned Cory on to the Steerswoman! yay!
   via rss
   
   
3. We Need to Rewild the Internet
   by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon
   https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
   (only started, but looks very good so far: sort of James C. Scott + Cory Doctorow analysis?)
   via Jonathan Crowe
   
   
4. Nuts about Clams
   by Samantha Grooters
   https://www.flickr.com/photos/113626553@N05/12239008245/
   see? pistachios look like clams!
   via wondering if anyone ever calls pistachios "clam nuts", and asking the internet
   
   
5. Porridge With Love
   by CBC
   https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7187882
   what a good idea
   via hearing this spot on the radio
   
   
6. In Search of Professor Precarious
   by Gerry Potter
   https://redheelermedia.com/portfolio-item/in-search-of-professor-precarious/
   this is an ongoing problem. need to watch the doc.
   via word of mouth
   
   
7. Here's the dirt on an Edmonton-area worm farm spreading soil far and wide
   by Annelida Soil Solutions
   https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4216960
   employing 80 million worms!
   via rss
   
   
8. Funeral for Justice
   by Mdou Moctar
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BonOLZPCl0
   in case you need some Nigerois guitar rawk
   via discord
   
   
9. "Here we would like to note that we find the game’s entire premise of play deeply problematic."
   by Luke Crane and Sam Roberts
   https://ludologicalalchemy.substack.com/p/a-dungeoneers-survival-guide#footnote-1-142994982
   spelling out the problems with the "kill the monster and take its stuff" murderhobo style of d&d play fairly explicilty. also, a footnote to a longer article about the reward cycle in basic d&d
   via rss
   
   
10. Beowulf: The Epic in Performance
    by the Beowulf poet, and Bejamin Bagby
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ
    a live performance, with mediæval harp
    via mention in a book's back-matter, and going looking