hacking at leaves, free books, ai shopping scam

Hi, happy Friday! Here’s some links for y’all to explore:

Media

The Yellow Nineties 2.0 is a digital collection of Victorian magazines, specifically “searchable digital editions of eight late-Victorian little magazines in the context of their production and reception between 1889, when the first issue of The Dial appeared, and 1905, when the last volume of The Venture was published.” I noted it for myself because it has copies of Pamela Colman Smith’s The Green Sheaf magazine as well as an excellent scholarly introduction to the series as a whole AND INDIVIDUAL ISSUES explaining the contents and how it was made, etc. Fantastic!

Hacking at Leaves is a recent documentary released via the Internet Archive and is available for free. Summary: “Hacking at Leaves is a 2024 Austrian documentary film directed and written by Johannes Grenzfurthner. It explores various themes including the United States’ colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement, through the lens of the story of a hackerspace in Durango, Colorado, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was produced by monochrom.”

Free books (and a few zines) from Cita, a feminist indie press.

Here’s a collection of public domain and/or Creative Commons films hosted on Wikimedia Commons. You can sort by year, genre, country, and there’s a few special lists like works by female or LGBTQ+ directors.

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puppetry, poetry, rewilding the web

Hello! Once again I found tabs and links I’d saved for way too long without sharing (this time since MAY), so here, for you:

Misc. Interesting Bits

I really liked this story of attempting to bicycle from Bangkok to Chiang Mai with a cat.

World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts fulfills my love of very detailed, very intensely documented weird subject matter, and now I share it with you all.

Opinion: Put Your Magic Where Your Mouth Is, activism from a witchcraft/pagan POV.

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