https://stephenfollows.com/do-films-directed-by-women-have-more-women-in-the-cast
Last week I looked at the popularity of various first names in movies over the past two decades. The process involved building up a vast database of acting credits, noting both the gender of the fictional role and of the performer representing them on screen. This led to some readers getting in touch to ask...
https://youtu.be/5frn8TAlew0
Become a Member for exclusive perks and videos: https://bit.ly/ButtonMemberDenice Frohman, performing at WoWPS 2013 in Minneapolis, MN.Help us decide which v...
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Post-conference recording of the keynote for May 11 at the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 in New York, NY.How do Knowledge Graphs fit into the quickly chang...
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/01/27/the-return-of-russias-foreign-agent-paranoia-as-biological-imperative-a80064
Opinion | Every Friday, the Russian internet — well, its liberal part at least — waits with bated breath for communications regulator Roskomnadzor to announce which Russian citizens have been deemed "foreign agents" that week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vql-cyuGcPU
Does Soviet propaganda still influence russian people today? 00:00 – Modern russian war propaganda today.00:40 – George Orwell and propaganda in totalitarian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB62a_tOeuI
ЛИМАН, ДОНЕЦЬК (УКРАЇНА) - On November 1, I was asked to document an evacuation mission in Lyman, a town in northern Donetsk that was formally annexed by Rus...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/06/the-only-person-who-isn-t-fed-up-is-putin
2022 saw Russia’s emergence as one of the world’s most dangerous authoritarian regimes. This outward transformation reflects an internal political shift, whose main symptom in the course of the year has been the increasing concentration of power in the hands of Vladimir Putin. That is, Putin and no one else. Russia, as a result, is at the mercy of a president who refuses to be hampered either by formal “checks and balances” or by differences of opinion within his inner circle. Instead, the Kremlin has presented ordinary Russians and the elites alike with the same choice: they can consolidate around Putin and his “ideas,” prepare to land in prison, or leave the country entirely. Meduza special correspondent Andrey Pertsev looks back at 2022 — a year that opened up a chasm between the country’s political course and what its people really want and hope for.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russian-orthodox-christianity-and-the-roots-of-ideological-madness-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-02
Slavoj Žižek traces the religious and intellectual roots of the Kremlin’s increasingly morbid war propaganda.
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