Plantation owners loved the music enslaved people made. They loved the food enslaved people cooked. They loved the labor enslaved people provided. They still enslaved them. Cultural consumption was never evidence of racial respect. It was the mechanism of extraction.
Not trying to be weird…but why are we circling the moon? Like what’s the point?
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Jamie Oliver geeking out about vinegar is one of the best things I’ve seen on Substack in a long time. JO was one of my first food heroes and a big reason I longed to get into food professionally. We are all the richer for him being here.
Vinegar part two and general chats and extreme hair on a beautiful spring day yay thank you to the 1900 subscribers let’s see where this goes xx happy cooking and good health to you folks
Toro Donburi. A very simple tuna rice bowl. Full recipe and long form video now up 🍣
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In today’s article I run through the full method for this tuna donburi. This one lets the tuna do all the talking and consists of three key components: a bowl of seasoned sushi rice, a few cuts of high-quality tuna (served in three different ways) + a b…
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Ok there have been some super cute baby mascs* applying for to be the second Beguiler but I’m going to do a final call for OLDER butches or trans guys. Is this you or your friend?? You can live in any city, doesn’t have to be LA or NY. DM me soon….!
thx,
Miranda “Runs An Occasional Dating Service” July
*Not that we don’t appreciate you — especially the one who said they wouldn’t even consider dating someone who wasn’t older than them.
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I have been following the 16z media fellows loosely because i was curious about the paradigm shifting brand new alpha that Silicon Valley’s most twisted minds would come up with. This morning one of the fellows posted a photo of San Francisco looking nice with the caption ‘sf might be back’….i’m beyond disappointed. It’s like breaking into the Death Star and finding out its made of Lincoln logs
The AI horror story for musicians gets worse. An AI scammer not only imitated Murphy Campbell, and released deepfake impersonations of her work—the scammer then made copyright claims on her actual music. So she got demonetized on YouTube.
After this story went viral, YouTube backed down. But these scams are proliferating rapidly. Just in …
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This week’s blog explores a new but increasingly frequent phenomenon: What happens when an influencer or Bravolebrity gets a brand deal at the exact same moment they’re revealed to be an extremely shitty person?