Chinese Film

Ang Lee (Taiwan)

1992, Pushing Hands 

1993, The Wedding Banquet

1994, Eat Drink Man Woman 

1995, Sense and Sensibility 

Siao Yu 

1997, The Ice Storm 

1999, Ride with the Devil 

2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 

2002, The Hire 

2003, Hulk 

2005, Brokeback Mountain 

2007, Lust, Caution 

Hollywood Chinese 

2009, Taking Woodstock 

2012, Life of Pi 

2016, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 

Chen Kaige

1984, Yellow Earth, 黃土地, 

1986, The Big Parade, 大閱兵, 

1987, King of the Children, 孩子王, 

1991, Life on a String, 邊走邊唱, 

1993, Farewell My Concubine, 霸王別姬, 

1996, Temptress Moon, 風月, 

1999, The Emperor and the Assassin, 荊柯刺秦王, 

2002, Killing Me Softly 

2002, 100 Flowers Hidden Deep in Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002, Together, 和你在一起, 2

2005, The Promise, 無極, 

2007, Zhanxiou Village inT o Each His Cinema

2008, Forever Enthralled, 梅兰芳, 

2010, Sacrifice, 趙氏孤兒, 

2012, Caught in the Web, 搜索, 2015, The Monk

Clara Law

2015, The Unbearable Lightness of Inspector Fan (2015)

2010, Red Earth Short

2009, Like a Dream 

2004, Letters to Ali Documentary

2000, The Goddess of 1967

1996, Floating Life

1994, Wonton Soup

1993, Temptation of a Monk 

1992, Autumn Moon

1991, Fruit Punch 

1990, Farewell China

1989, The Reincarnation of the Golden Lotus 

1988, The Other Half and the Other Half

1981, Faces and Places

1980, Police Drama 

1977, Below the Lion Rock

Tsai Ming-liang

1992, Rebels of the Neon God

1994, Vive l'Amour

1997, The River

1998, The Hole

2001, What Time Is It There?

2003, Goodbye, Dragon Inn

2005, The Wayward Cloud 

2006, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

2009, Visage (Face)

2013, Jiaoyou (Stray Dogs)

Wong Kar Wai

1988, As Tears Go By, 旺角卡門

1990, Days of Being Wild, 阿飛正傳

1994, Chungking Express, 重慶森林

1994, Ashes of Time, 東邪西毒

1995, Fallen Angels, 墮落天使

1997, Happy Together, 春光乍洩

2000, In the Mood for Love, 花樣年華

2004, 2046, 2046

2007, My Blueberry Nights, 藍莓之夜

2013, The Grandmaster

Zhou Kong

1996, The Emperor's Shadow

Walk the streets of Japan with Rambalac

Walk the streets of Japan on YouTube with Rambalac
"Not a vlog, no intrusive faces or talking, pure Japan."
Global Voices / Posted 21 July 2019 21:37 GMT
https://globalvoices.org/2019/07/21/walk-the-streets-of-japan-on-youtube-with-rambalac/



 shibuya at night
Screencap from ‘Walking in Tokyo Shibuya at night‘, from the YouTube video channel Rambalac.

If you've ever wanted to explore the streets of Japan from the perspective of a pedestrian, YouTube vlogger Rambalac is for you. A non-Japanese resident of Japan, Rambalac has uploaded dozens of videos taken on walks throughout the Tokyo area as well as other parts of Japan.

“Not a vlog, no intrusive faces or talking, pure Japan only,” states Rambalac as in introduction to all of his videos. He simply walks the streets of Japan recording his videos with a Panasonic Lumix GH5 mirrorless camera mounted on a Zhiyun Crane V2 gimbal stabilzer. There is no background music and no commentary, although Rambalac will sometimes ask his subjects for permission to keep filming.

【4K】Backstreets of Japan at night - 3 - Heavy rain
https://youtu.be/Hndf5JRwUL0
Published on Sep 20, 2018

Kurt Vonnegut Report Card

Kurt Vonnegut Report Card


Kurt Vonnegut Creates a Report Card for His Novels, Ranking Them From A+ to D
in Books, Literature, Television | September 4th, 2015  14 Comments
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/kurt-vonnegut-creates-a-report-card-for-his-novels.html



Graded

Player Piano, 1952, B
The Sirens of Titan, 1959, A
Mother Night, 1961, A Cat’s Cradle, 1963, A-plus
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, 1965, A
Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969, A-plus
Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968, B-minus
Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1971, D
Breakfast or Champions, 1973, C
Wampets, Forma & Grandfalloons, 1974, C
Slapstick, 1976, D
Jailbird, 1979, A
Palm Sunday, C

Ungraded

2BR02B, 1962, P
Deadeye Dick, 1982, P
Galapogos, 1985, P
Blue Beard, 1987, P
Hocus Pocusj, 1980 P.

The 10 Best Kurt Vonnegut Books
By Marc Leeds | Nov 11, 2016
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/72006-the-10-best-kurt-vonnegut-books.html

The Rise of the Computer State

b The Rise of the Computer State

Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
4/28/19, 2:01 AM
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1122380315710803968

1/3 This new book on "Automating Inequality" puts for the thesis (according to the published excerpt) that 40 years ago computers did not help with decisions.
"The Rise of the Computer State" was published in 1980. All of the same, but without "AI", literally only "databases." pic.twitter.com/f8XIBeR66L 

[image] David Burnham, 1980. The Rise of the Computer State
[image] Virginia Eubanks, 2019. Automating Inequality

2/3 I suppose one could say it was right thought it took 40 years and was not the phone company and would happen in a completely different way that put forth.  

The jacket copy and forward from "The Rise of the Computer State" are all too familiar.
[image] Forward by Walter Chronkite 

3/3 How can this dialog get to discussing the humans and institutions and not keep transfering accountability to tools? Inequality, bias, bad/evil/awful choices, bad people, and poorly run institutions have existed before databases and before AI.

2:01 AM - 28 Apr 2019

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Summer Reading 2013: “The Rise of the Computer State” by David ...
By Caroline O’donovan,   Nieman Labs, 8 Aug 2013, 10 A.M.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/summer-reading-2013-the-rise-of-the-computer-state-the-threat-to-our-freedoms-our-ethics-and-our-democratic-process-by-david-burnham-1983/

  David Burnham's The Rise of the Computer State came out in 1983, a time when, for the most obvious of reasons, making comparisons between George Orwell's 1984 and real life was coming into vogue. ... And yet Orwell, with his vivid imagination, was unable to foresee the actual shape of the threat that would exist in 1984.
 
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The rise of the computer state : Burnham, David, 1933- : Free ...
https://archive.org/details/riseofcomputerst00burn
Oct 7, 2010
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The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation’s corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 as a warning. Today it is a history. Most of its grim scenarios are now part of everyday life. The remedy proposed here, greater public oversight of industry and government, has not occurred, but a better one has not yet been found. While many individuals have willingly surrendered much of their privacy and all of us have lost some of it, the right to keep what remains is still worth protecting.

Superior: The disturbing return of scientific racism

The disturbing return of scientific racism ...

By Angela Saini, Wired (uK), 12 June 2019,
http://j.mp/2WAfSzk ...

The disturbing return of scientific racism
By Angela Saini, Wired, 12 June 2019
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/superior-the-return-of-race-science-angela-saini

Angela Saini's “Superior” charts the rise of race science that's being enabled by technology and genetics research. Discover the worrying new trend in this extract

This is an edited extract from Angela Saini’s new book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, published on May 30 (4th Estate)

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
By Lilian Anekwe, New Scientist, 22 May 2019
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204322-angela-saini-video-interview-the-return-of-race-in-mainstream-science/

  In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really moved on since the era of eugenics and the racialised scientific ideas that were popular before the second world war. Saini argues science, and society, has not moved on as much as we like to think. Racialised ideas about who we are still exist now, and we need to understand why.

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Is race science making a come back? Angela Saini: Superior on Apple Podcasts
Kathryn Ryan, RNZ: Nine To Noon:, 19 June 2019
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018699220/is-race-science-making-a-come-back

  Kathryn speaks with award-winning British journalist Angela Saini, whose latest book exposes and ... also an anti racism campaigner, Superior: The Return of Race Science looks at racial biases in science history. Angela Saini has been described as one of the world's best science writers, regularly presenting science programmes for the BBC. She writes for the Guardian, and the New Scientist. Holding a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, where she was also an anti racism campaigner, “Superior: The Return of Race Science” looks at racial biases in science history. Exposing the lie at racism's rotten core: that inequality is a result of genetics rather than political power, that race is a biological characteristic instead of a social construct.

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Race science: Angela Saini on the creeping resurgence of racism in science [interview]
By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Science Focus, 24 May 2019
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/race-science-angela-saini-on-the-creeping-resurgence-of-racism-in-science/

  We like to think of science as being balanced, accurate, and devoid of prejudice. Yet according to Angela Saini, racism is insidiously worming its way into research.

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Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – [review]
Alok Jha, The Guardian, M:on 27 May 2019 06.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/27/superior-the-return-of-race-science-by-angela-saini-book-review

  This timely book looks at the toxic origins of racism, which science continues to embrace

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Clive Cookson,  Financial Times, 30 MAY 2019
https://www.ft.com/content/92d2b56c-7ae5-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560

Superior by Angela Saini — are we all created equal?
Race science is undergoing a revival, after its horrific climax in the 20th century

A 19th-century British engraving depicting facial portraits from around the world — and European prejudice © Getty
The image of Neanderthals has been transformed over the past decade. These extinct hominins used to be regarded as stupid, brutish thugs. Now they are increasingly seen, at least in the western world, as intelligent and cultured people whom our aggressive human ancestors wiped out about 40,000 years ago.

The transforming event was the decoding 10 years ago of Neanderthal DNA extracted from fossilised bones, which showed that most living Europeans inherited about 2 per cent of their genome from Neanderthals through interbreeding, while Africans carry no Neanderthal genes. As Angela Saini writes in Superior, her brilliant analysis of race science past and present, the acceptance of Neanderthals as “people like us” is a recent example of a centuries-old European attitude — “casting humanity in our own image”.

Visitor from the Future

Visitor from the Future (Russian: Гостья из будущего, Gostya iz budushchevo) is a five-part Soviet children's science fiction television miniseries, made at Gorky Film Studio, first aired in 1985. It is based on the novel One Hundred Years Ahead (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд, Sto let tomu vperod) by Kir Bulychev.[1][2][3]

Visitor from the Future (Episode 1) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/4dt5RgA2fJY 

Visitor from the Future (Episode 2) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/qLRB0kMwaQI

Visitor from the Future (Episode 3) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/Wrpf7L49XB8

Visitor from the Future (Episode 4) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/Y3XGQtl_UY0

Visitor from the Future (Episode 5) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/famxbyLgQ9E

 Guest from the Future - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future

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