#npr code switch

[nprshowdown]

Code Switch vs. Radio Ambulante

Listen to Code Switch here

Brief Description: "The fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between." (via npr.org)

Listen to Radio Ambulante here

Brief Description: "An award-winning Spanish language podcast that uses long-form audio journalism to tell neglected and under-reported Latin American and Latino stories." (via npr.org)

[npr-stan]

Listen to: What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone

Listen to: What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone - https://one.npr.org/i/1239428600:1268087249

[giftedpoison]

i started school again recently after taking a really long break to figure my shit out.

and my first assignment literally has me emailing the teacher because it feels like she's asking us to divulge trauma on a discussion board post for our peers to consume.

and that feels weird. and i'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt by emailing her to get more explanation about the assignment. but am excruciatingly terrified i'm gonna make an enemy out of her by mistake during my first week.

(also for context I'm taking an Intro to Literature course. No idea how that connects)

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens was on NPR's Code Switch to talk with co-host B.A. Parker, who is looking to find community as she learns to play the banjo and explore its Black roots. You can hear their conversation here.

[bremser]

One reason we keep repeating atrocities is a large swath of the population refuses to accept our history. Dorothea Lange’s photos are that history. 

Lange's body of work is unique among the photographers who documented the Japanese internment, because she created photographs around the San Francisco Bay Area before and during the round-up (called “evacuation”) and later documented life in the camps (called “resettlement”).

Calisphere (featuring the University of California's archive) has 6,867 photos from the internment. There are about 850 Lange images in the collection. There are various places online to see curated selections of these photographs, but having the source archive, with the original captions on the print's verso side intact, is essential. 

Lange was working for the government doing the round-up, but her portraits reveal empathy and the captions provide some editorial commentary. The government expected her to show that life in the camps wasn't too terrible, what they saw in the photos (and read in her captions) made them bury the archive for decades.

caption:  A close-out sale--prior to evacuation--at store operated by proprietor of Japanese ancestry on Grant Avenue in Chinatown. April 4, 1942.

With Lange's portraits of Japanese-Americans, you see a direct line of empathy to her Depression-era portraits. But the archive also has many topographical observations from San Francisco, signage and newspapers warning the Japanese of their imminent departure, newly vacant Victorians and Japanese restaurants given over to "new ownership." She notices details as small as a sign giving away kittens in the window of a home of a Japanese family. One of the most famous photos from the evacuation shows a Japanese-owned business in Oakland protesting with a large sign that reads: I AM AN AMERICAN.

After seeing city life in San Francisco, the Manzanar camp looks especially wind swept and isolated. Up to this point, nearly every photographer working in the Sierras had treated them as a scenic wonder, but in the background of Lange's photos from Manzanar, they are an impassable barrier to the residents' previous lives.

Other places online to see these photographs:

A curated selection from a 2017 NYT Lens blog post (RIP)

Excerpt from the American Masters documentary  on Lange (“Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning”) about her internment photographs

Library of Congress selection of War Relocation photos (277 total, 79 by Lange)

Oakland Museum of California holds the Lange archive and has a dedicated site to her work, with a page about the internment photographs

2016 NPR Code Switch segment about the photographs

Manzanar National Historic Site’s selection of photographs (including Ansel Adams)

[chronicallyqueercoining2]

Not a request but:

Transid “Transabled”, "transracial" (not in the adoption sense!)

What is the 'adoption sense' /gen

Happy to explain!

I would like to add that this topic is *incredibly* nuanced, and I am not adopted. I have included links at the end to explain a bit more about this topic, as well as some personal accounts of those who have experienced this, but I wanted to give a brief explanation in case you struggle to read articles!

"Transracial adoption" (also referred to as transcultural adoption) refers to when a person is adopted by a family of a different race than their own.

It is NOT being a different race than one was born, and that definition (the transid one) bastardizes the term referring to adoption.

Here are a few links with more info! (Please note that I attempted to provide various sources, as anything in depth I have to say about this doesn't apply because I am not adopted, myself)

NPR: Code Switch: Transracial Adoptees On Their Racial Identity And Sense Of Self

Harvard: Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions 

The Washington Post: ‘I know my parents love me, but they don’t love my people’

NPR: What stories are missing from the transracial adoption narrative?

PubMed: Racial Identity and Transcultural Adoption

Hopefully, this answers your question and explains more about this topic!

[pinkchampagne]

daily podcast dive 🫧

as part of my plan, i have an entire section dedicated to knowledge and growth. the purpose of the knowledge and growth section is to help me stay informed and establish and embody the values that are important to me. as part of these goals, i've created a podcast playlist in the apple podcast app with shows to begin each day with, in order to stay up-to-date on u.s. and world news, and increase general knowledge.

my daily podcast playlist:

NPR Up First

BBC The Global Story

Al Jazeera News Updates

NPR News Now

TED Talks Daily

NPR Code Switch

NPR Life Kit

NPR Life Kit: Money

NPR Planet Money

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour

i organized this playlist in a way that makes the most sense to me. it flows from news, to short news updates, to difficult conversations, then money, and finally pop culture. as you can probably tell, i am partial to NPR; as a journalism major, i prioritize unbiased sources. i plan on listening to this playlist every weekday morning. 🫧

[auilix]

Happy Christopher Street Day y'all! I was inspired to make a drawing of Mary Jones from this NPR Code Switch episode last month about her... Jules Gill-Peterson was inspiring talking about solidarity! 🤍🖤🤎❤️‍🧡💛💚💙💜

[nprshowdown]

Code Switch vs. PBS News Hour

Listen to Code Switch here

Brief Description: "The fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between." (via npr.org)

Listen to PBS News Hour here

Brief Description: A daily television news program also broadcast in an audio-only version on many npr radio stations. The program has been applauded for providing in-depth and well rounded coverage of current events. (via wikipedia.org)

[utopicwork]

Due to how I've designed PierMesh what would be required to use a different protocol would be writing different transmission code because most of the logic is agnostic to the transmission interface. This means that if there's another protocol we want to use/switch to besides LoRa (such as npr, lorawan, etc) it would be relatively simple to implement (though if there's no interface library in python we'd need to implement running the code from python).

[protoslacker]

Songs are funny things

I'm not very dumb, but not very smart either. And I'm old and I work. So there's whole bunches of stuff that's important that I'm pretty ignorant about. I am glad to be curious. As ignorant as I am, I often fall into rabbit holes.

I was thinking about songs. I want people to sing songs. There's a quote by Pete Seeger about songs which I like very much:

“Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.”

I was mulling over the trouble with people singing other people's songs. And thought of a lecture that Lawrence Lessig gave a long time ago. Searching for it the very first google result was a link to Leonard Lin's blog random($foo). Lin had put the lecture on the Internet and it's kind of cool to see how it was done back then. I headed over to YouTube to watch Lessig's talk at the O.Reilly Open Source Conference in July of 2002.

The talk is still worthwhile. At the time some of my creative friends thought Lessig was a sort of villain, so his talks got talked about.

At Tumblr someone I am very pleased to have encountered is Dr. Damien P. Williams. Something about meeting him at first on here is knowing what a kind and good person he is prior to discovering his deep erudition about the social implications of technology. These days I follow him on Mastodon where he pointed to an episode of NPR'S Code Switch with Safiya Noble dealing with "the complex questions that arise when algorithms and AI intersect with race."

It's a wonderful interview which really does touch on complexities, but the part that really made an impression was her background in advertising before returning to graduate school and earning her Ph.D. It put the economics of enclosure front and center in discussing AI.

I'm describing my fall down a rabbit hole and I think the next thing I engaged with was a post by Andy Baio at WAXY, Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning. Songs are funny things.

After that I landed on a review of a new book by Yanis Varoufakis by Christopher Pollard at The Conversation, Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it. The book is entitled Techno-feudalism: What Killed Capitalism and will be available in print in the US in February. I listened to several interviews with Varoufakis and searched for literature on Neo-feudalism. It's certainly an idea I want to learn more about.

Back in the early oughts there was a book, Netocracy : the new power elite and life after capitalism by Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist. For a little while the ideas were discussed quite a lot online. Remembering those conversations I did not anticipate how incredibly concentrated the autocracy would become, i.e., how few feudal lords there would be. And I paid too little attention to Chinese technology. But Bard coined a term for a new underclass called the "consumtariat" which seems quite handy and has stuck with me over the years.

It's going to take me a long while to wrap my head around neo-feudalism. But I suspect it will be time well spent.

Wendy Grossman at net.wars has a recent post, The end of ownership. The provocation for the post is a garage door opener which among other evils forces an ad on you before you can open the garage door. Grossman points to Cory Doctorow, The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot. I'd laugh, but it telling how fast technology and the tech-lords are enclosing us.

Who can sing songs and whose songs can we sing are urgent questions.

[know4life]

The vast majority of Black smokers smoke menthols. Why? : Code Switch : NPR

[ausetkmt]

'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing In White America : Code Switch : NPR

[afrotumble]

Muhammad Ali And Malcolm X: A Broken Friendship, An Enduring Legacy : Code Switch : NPR

[ca1iban]

A look at the many ways our digital world is being erased : NPR

The revolution will be hacked before it even started