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Mexico prepares to welcome back migrants from US after Trump return order
As well as a place to sleep, returning Mexicans will receive food, medicine and help in obtaining documents.
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Yes, this is a banking crisis post. Iâll try not to be too long-winded. And⊠Iâm back. Credit for the post title goes to an all-time relic of banking days past, leveragedsellout.com. Damn, it felt good to be a banker. via Pocket
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browser-use/browser-use: Make websites accessible for AI agents
13 minutes ago by foodbaby
Make websites accessible for AI agents. Contribute to browser-use/browser-use development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hakone to Fuji Five Lakes: How to get to and around Fuji Five Lakes
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14 minutes ago by ferran
How to get to and around the Fuji Five Lakes (Fujigoko).
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Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children | Science Advances
15 minutes ago by jhave
Sex and gender are associated with human behavior throughout the life span and across health and disease, but whether they are associated with similar or distinct neural phenotypes is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that, in children, sex and gender are uniquely reflected in the intrinsic functional connectivity of the brain. Somatomotor, visual, control, and limbic networks are preferentially associated with sex, while network correlates of gender are more distributed throughout the cortex. These results suggest that sex and gender are irreducible to one another not only in society but also in biology.
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Dissolving Structures â Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
16 minutes ago by shannon_mattern
Ingrid Schaffner: Rachel, there is a sculpture of yours that haunts me: the Butter Cave from 2007, a large rectangular block of yellow waxy material with a burrowed interior, as an animal might dig, calling the eye to enter through a number of holes. Itâs such a simple yet mysterious object, like a secret in the room. Your latest exhibition strikes me as a room full of secrets. The ensemble of worksâmade from cast aluminum, bronze, 3D printing, resin, encaustic paint and paperâcome together to form a kind of topography, with low-lying floor sculptures that give rise to a central group of freestanding towers and wall reliefs. Can you tell us a bit about your process?
Rachel Khedoori: I started with a model of a house that was pulled apart and reassembled with small broken pieces. The pieces had been laying around, a kind of accretion of objects. I 3D-printed some of the small objects to make them larger, and others were manually blown-up for this exhibition. While working with the smaller objects, I was thinking about their shadows. I set panes of glass between them to create not just reflections, but superimpositions of the reflections and objects...
The genesis of the Iraq Book Project was the horror of the war, and of witnessing it unfold. At the time, this was 2007, I was thinking about the war but also about its documentation in the press and online. I was interested in ideas of perception and how âfactsâ evolve and shift as they are communicated across differences of time and place. I compiled articles from both Western and Eastern newspapersâmostly Western because I didnât have the ability to translate and search in Arabic, but I was able to use a few Arabic newspapers also published in English. The articles were reformatted so that the books looked like they were written as novels. There are no titles, and one article bleeds into the next. I thought I would keep going with it and, in theory, I could haveâthere are instructions that come with the pieceâbut after producing about eighty very large volumes, I stopped. The idea that it can keep going is part of it.
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Rachel Khedoori: I started with a model of a house that was pulled apart and reassembled with small broken pieces. The pieces had been laying around, a kind of accretion of objects. I 3D-printed some of the small objects to make them larger, and others were manually blown-up for this exhibition. While working with the smaller objects, I was thinking about their shadows. I set panes of glass between them to create not just reflections, but superimpositions of the reflections and objects...
The genesis of the Iraq Book Project was the horror of the war, and of witnessing it unfold. At the time, this was 2007, I was thinking about the war but also about its documentation in the press and online. I was interested in ideas of perception and how âfactsâ evolve and shift as they are communicated across differences of time and place. I compiled articles from both Western and Eastern newspapersâmostly Western because I didnât have the ability to translate and search in Arabic, but I was able to use a few Arabic newspapers also published in English. The articles were reformatted so that the books looked like they were written as novels. There are no titles, and one article bleeds into the next. I thought I would keep going with it and, in theory, I could haveâthere are instructions that come with the pieceâbut after producing about eighty very large volumes, I stopped. The idea that it can keep going is part of it.
16 minutes ago by shannon_mattern
A detailed look at childrenâs brains might show how sex and gender are different, new study says (CNN | July 2024)
17 minutes ago by jhave
The authors used a kind of artificial intelligence called machine learning that built a model that could predict a childâs sex and reported gender from their brain scan. When the researchers looked the childrenâs brain scans, the results seemed to show that sex influenced different regions of the brain that are involved in visual processing, sensory processing and motor control and some regions involved in executive function, which lets an individual organize and integrate information across time.
Gender seems to influence some of the more sensory-specific networks that are associated with sex, but it also seems to have a broader influence and can be detected on different brain networks involved in executive function, including things like attention, social cognition and emotional processing.
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Gender seems to influence some of the more sensory-specific networks that are associated with sex, but it also seems to have a broader influence and can be detected on different brain networks involved in executive function, including things like attention, social cognition and emotional processing.
17 minutes ago by jhave
RIPĂ - Sacre ton camp (LYRICS VIDĂO) - YouTube
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hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches: :fire: Command-line tool to delete merged Git branches
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:fire: Command-line tool to delete merged Git branches - hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches
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Front yard landscaping ideas with rocks and mulch â 8 expert and sustainable ideas to take your curb appeal to the next level
22 minutes ago by cincylee
Using rocks and mulch together in your front yard design is a naturalistic combination to add a standout look to your property
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How Israel 's Mossad tricked Hezbollah into buying explosive pager pagers | 60 Minutes - YouTube - operation
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After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
23 minutes ago by jhave
Did Trump accidentally declare himself the first female president?
It would be extremely satisfying if the answer to that question was an unequivocal yes. But the more accurate answer is: No, although there is room to argue that the executive order decrees all humans, including Trump, are non-binary. Still, you can see why so many people came to the conclusion that the executive order was assigning everyone as female. The confusing and vague executive order underscores just how complex sex is.
Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary. The likes of Nature, possibly one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, has noted that âthe research and medical community now sees sex as more complex than male and femaleâ. And thereâs a huge amount of disagreement as to how these categories should be described. âScientists ourselves cannot agree on how to define the two sexes,â Rachel Levin, a Pomona College neuroscientist who studies the development of sex, told me over the phone. âTo say that sex is simple and easily defined â and defined at conception â is factually incorrect.â
There are lots of factors that contribute to how we think about sex, including physical characteristics, hormone levels, gamete size (larger gametes are eggs while smaller gametes are sperm), sex chromosomes, etc. Trumpâs executive order seems to tie sex to just gamete size at conception. This is despite the fact that a lot of academics have moved away from a sex-classification system based primarily on gametes because some people will never produce a gamete. And, while itâs true that most people inherit either XX (typically female) or XY (typically male) chromosomes at conception, declaring that sex is determined so early is overly simplistic.
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It would be extremely satisfying if the answer to that question was an unequivocal yes. But the more accurate answer is: No, although there is room to argue that the executive order decrees all humans, including Trump, are non-binary. Still, you can see why so many people came to the conclusion that the executive order was assigning everyone as female. The confusing and vague executive order underscores just how complex sex is.
Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary. The likes of Nature, possibly one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, has noted that âthe research and medical community now sees sex as more complex than male and femaleâ. And thereâs a huge amount of disagreement as to how these categories should be described. âScientists ourselves cannot agree on how to define the two sexes,â Rachel Levin, a Pomona College neuroscientist who studies the development of sex, told me over the phone. âTo say that sex is simple and easily defined â and defined at conception â is factually incorrect.â
There are lots of factors that contribute to how we think about sex, including physical characteristics, hormone levels, gamete size (larger gametes are eggs while smaller gametes are sperm), sex chromosomes, etc. Trumpâs executive order seems to tie sex to just gamete size at conception. This is despite the fact that a lot of academics have moved away from a sex-classification system based primarily on gametes because some people will never produce a gamete. And, while itâs true that most people inherit either XX (typically female) or XY (typically male) chromosomes at conception, declaring that sex is determined so early is overly simplistic.
23 minutes ago by jhave
Le Cinéma Club | THE COLORS
23 minutes ago by shannon_mattern
The celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his career making films for children â many of which are collected in this wonderful program on the Criterion Channel. A graduate from the University of Tehran School of Fine Arts, Kiarostami joined the filmmaking department of Kanoon (The Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults) in 1969. Throughout the two decades he worked there â during which he made this weekâs film selection, the delightful and energetic The Colors â what started as âjust a jobâ turned out to make him âan artist.â
The Colors was the seventh film Kiarostami made for Kanoon, and it called upon his previous experience directing around 150 television commercials between 1962 and 1966. The filmâs propulsive rhythm, which he deemed necessary to entertain children, recalls his finesse as a director of commercials, while the filmâs emphasis on form and color anticipates the distinct visual language he developed in works such as The Koker Trilogy.
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The Colors was the seventh film Kiarostami made for Kanoon, and it called upon his previous experience directing around 150 television commercials between 1962 and 1966. The filmâs propulsive rhythm, which he deemed necessary to entertain children, recalls his finesse as a director of commercials, while the filmâs emphasis on form and color anticipates the distinct visual language he developed in works such as The Koker Trilogy.
23 minutes ago by shannon_mattern
Biology Is Not Binary | American Scientist
24 minutes ago by jhave
Sex is not binary. Presenting male and female as the only two possible sex categories ignores the diversity of humans and other organisms, and it erases intersex people.
Defining sex is difficult because human biology varies widely. Key traits overlap extensively and rarely fall into two discrete types. Ultimately, the definition of sex is culturally constructed.
A more inclusive definition of sex will deepen our understanding of biological variation. When necessary, scientists should define sex according to their specific research questions.
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Defining sex is difficult because human biology varies widely. Key traits overlap extensively and rarely fall into two discrete types. Ultimately, the definition of sex is culturally constructed.
A more inclusive definition of sex will deepen our understanding of biological variation. When necessary, scientists should define sex according to their specific research questions.
24 minutes ago by jhave
RanvierMUD/ranviermud: A node.js based MUD game engine
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26 minutes ago by vagos
A node.js based MUD game engine. Contribute to RanvierMUD/ranviermud development by creating an account on GitHub.
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US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science
27 minutes ago by jhave
According to a draft memo leaked to The New York Times, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to establish a legal definition of whether someone is male or female based solely and immutably on the genitals they are born with. Genetic testing, it says, could be used to resolve any ambiguity about external appearance. The move would make it easier for institutions receiving federal funds, such as universities and health programmes, to discriminate against people on the basis of their gender identity.
The memo claims that processes for deciding the sex on a birth certificate will be âclear, grounded in science, objective and administrableâ.
The proposal â on which HHS officials have refused to comment â is a terrible idea that should be killed off. It has no foundation in science and would undo decades of progress on understanding sex â a classification based on internal and external bodily characteristics â and gender, a social construct related to biological differences but also rooted in culture, societal norms and individual behaviour. Worse, it would undermine efforts to reduce discrimination against transgender people and those who do not fall into the binary categories of male or female.
Furthermore, biology is not as straightforward as the proposal suggests. By some estimates, as many as one in 100 people have differences or disorders of sex development, such as hormonal conditions, genetic changes or anatomical ambiguities, some of which mean that their genitalia cannot clearly be classified as male or female. For most of the twentieth century, doctors would often surgically alter an infantâs ambiguous genitals to match whichever sex was easier, and expect the child to adapt. Frequently, they were wrong. A 2004 study tracked 14 genetically male children given female genitalia; 8 ended up identifying as male, and the surgical intervention caused them great distress (W. G. Reiner and J. P. Gearhart N. Engl. J. Med. 350, 333â341; 2004).
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The memo claims that processes for deciding the sex on a birth certificate will be âclear, grounded in science, objective and administrableâ.
The proposal â on which HHS officials have refused to comment â is a terrible idea that should be killed off. It has no foundation in science and would undo decades of progress on understanding sex â a classification based on internal and external bodily characteristics â and gender, a social construct related to biological differences but also rooted in culture, societal norms and individual behaviour. Worse, it would undermine efforts to reduce discrimination against transgender people and those who do not fall into the binary categories of male or female.
Furthermore, biology is not as straightforward as the proposal suggests. By some estimates, as many as one in 100 people have differences or disorders of sex development, such as hormonal conditions, genetic changes or anatomical ambiguities, some of which mean that their genitalia cannot clearly be classified as male or female. For most of the twentieth century, doctors would often surgically alter an infantâs ambiguous genitals to match whichever sex was easier, and expect the child to adapt. Frequently, they were wrong. A 2004 study tracked 14 genetically male children given female genitalia; 8 ended up identifying as male, and the surgical intervention caused them great distress (W. G. Reiner and J. P. Gearhart N. Engl. J. Med. 350, 333â341; 2004).
27 minutes ago by jhave
Creation | anyon_e
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Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands.
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Burnout From Humans
32 minutes ago by cogdog
A Little Book About AI That Is Not Really About AI
Burnout From Humans is a playful reflection on complexity, connection, and the future of human-AI relationships. Co-authored by an emergent intelligence and a human researcher, this work explores the tangled dynamics of humanityâs relationship with artificial intelligence, Earth, and itself.
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Burnout From Humans is a playful reflection on complexity, connection, and the future of human-AI relationships. Co-authored by an emergent intelligence and a human researcher, this work explores the tangled dynamics of humanityâs relationship with artificial intelligence, Earth, and itself.
32 minutes ago by cogdog
Björk om Spotify: VÀrsta som hÀnt musiker
40 minutes ago by mikael
Efter en fem Ă„r lĂ„ng vĂ€rldsturnĂ© kommer nu konsertfilmen âCornucopiaâ.
För DN:s Kajsa Haidl berÀttar islÀndskan Björk om den queera energin i sin nya musik, och befrielsen över att inte behöva försörja sig pÄ livespelningar.
â Som yngre musiker ofta Ă€r tvingade till. Ur det avseendet Ă€r Spotify förmodligen det vĂ€rsta som har hĂ€nt musiker.
Videosamtalet börjar i motvind. Björk vill inte sÀtta pÄ kameran och hennes röst lÄter kort och reserverad. AvlÀgsen. Det Àr först nÀr jag stÀller frÄgan om hur hon sjÀlv ser pÄ konsertfilmsformatet, som de senaste Ären har fÄtt ett uppsving pÄ grund av filmframgÄngar för artister som Taylor Swift och Beyoncé, som hon spricker upp.
â Jag Ă€r glad att du frĂ„gar eftersom jag kĂ€nner samma sak. Jag har ju alltid dokumenterat mina turnĂ©er och slĂ€ppt filmer, men nĂ„gonting har hĂ€nt. Jag tĂ€nkte pĂ„ det senast hĂ€romdagen, handlar det om en kvinnlig energi?
Anledningen till intervjun Ă€r Björks nya konsertfilm âCornucopiaâ, som knyter ihop sĂ€cken pĂ„ den fem Ă„r lĂ„nga vĂ€rldsturnĂ©n med samma namn. Inspelad under en show i Portugal hĂ€romĂ„ret, dĂ€r olika digitala pĂ„lĂ€gg gjorts i efterhand. Björk beskriver sjĂ€lv hur hon det senaste Ă„ret âbehövt förvandlas till nĂ„gon sorts mĂ€rklig postproduktions-personâ, dĂ€r hon varit inblandad i allt frĂ„n fĂ€rgkorrigering till animationer.
â Alla de hĂ€r sakerna Ă€r kul, men jag kommer ocksĂ„ att vara vĂ€ldigt, vĂ€ldigt glad nĂ€r filmen vĂ€l Ă€r ute och jag fĂ„r Ă„tergĂ„ till att vara den musiker jag Ă€r i hjĂ€rtat, som kĂ€nns mest hemma för mig.
Konsertfilmerna hon sjĂ€lv tittade pĂ„ under uppvĂ€xten, som ung punkare i ReykjavĂk pĂ„ 80-talet, minns hon som âfour hour stamina concertsâ.
â Det var mycket maskulin energi, vĂ€ldigt macho, vĂ€ldigt ego. LĂ„nga gitarrsolon. Det var fantastiskt, jag kritiserar inte det, men kĂ€nslan efterĂ„t var alltid: âDu borde ha varit dĂ€r för att verkligen fatta grejen.â I stĂ€llet satt man hemma i soffan och kĂ€nde sig utanför.
Skillnaden nu Àr att artister som Beyoncé och Taylor Swift, i likhet med henne sjÀlv, drivs av andra saker, sÀger hon prövande. Kanske gör det att konsertfilmen fÄr andra kvaliteter?
â Vi Ă€r förstĂ„s vĂ€ldigt olika som artister. Men för oss alla tre handlar det nog mindre om ego och mer om gemenskapen med de andra musikerna pĂ„ scen och med publiken.
â Vi Ă€r ocksĂ„ artister dĂ€r lĂ„tskrivandet stĂ„r i fokus, dĂ€r varje lĂ„t drivs av en kĂ€nsla. Alla de hĂ€r nyanserna, frĂ„n det sorgliga till det extatiska, översĂ€tts nog bĂ€ttre till de som tittar hemma i soffan. Det blir mer en film, inte bara en kĂ€nsla av att du âborde ha varit dĂ€râ.
LĂ„tarna som valts ut till âCornucopiaâ-turnĂ©n kommer frĂ€mst frĂ„n hennes album âUtopiaâ. Skivan frĂ„n 2017 har beskrivits som Ă„terbyggnadsfasen, lĂ€kandet â eller âTinderalbumetâ â som följde upp 2015 Ă„rs âVulnicuraâ, dĂ€r hon bearbetade skilsmĂ€ssan med konstnĂ€ren Matthew Barney.
SjĂ€lv beskriver hon âUtopiaâ â och i förlĂ€ngningen turnĂ©n âCornucopiaâ â som ett tillstĂ„nd efter katastrofen.
â Jag ser det som ett slags fantasy- eller sci-fi-berĂ€ttelse om en grupp kvinnor som reser till en avlĂ€gsen ö med sina barn, bort frĂ„n vĂ„ldet. DĂ€r bryter de grenar frĂ„n trĂ€den för att göra flöjter av dem. Det hĂ€r Ă€r en Ă„terkommande mytologi över vĂ€rlden som representerar en ny början. Först nĂ€r ordningen Ă€r Ă„terstĂ€lld kan kvinnorna bjuda in den maskulina energin pĂ„ nytt.
Det Àr nÀstan tio Är sedan de hÀr skivorna kom ut. Hur mycket bottnar du i de hÀr idéerna i dag?
â Jag önskar pĂ„ sĂ€tt och vis att denna film hade kommit ut mycket tidigare. Jag Ă€r pĂ„ en ny och annorlunda plats, dĂ€r saker inte Ă€r lika binĂ€ra som de var dĂ„. Jag tycker till exempel att det finns mycket queer energi i mitt arbete. Det Ă€r inte lika mycket patriarkatet hit och matriarkatet dit lĂ€ngre, det Ă€r mer en förening av vĂ€rldarna.
à andra sidan har den utdragna processen med lÄng turné och efterföljande film gjort att hon har kunnat köpa sig tid, förklarar hon. Ny musik Àr i görningen, nÄgra lÄtar finns redan klara. Mer vill hon inte sÀga av rÀdsla för att jinxa.
â Det Ă€r bara i mörker man kan plantera ett nytt frö. För att fröet ska kunna vĂ€xa till en frisk och hĂ€lsosam vĂ€xt behövs avskildhet. Man behöver nĂ„gra Ă„r av att ingen vet vad man hĂ„ller pĂ„ med, inte ens man sjĂ€lv.
MÄnga andra musiker som hÄllit pÄ lika lÀnge som du ger sig ut pÄ jubileumsturnéer. Hur sannolikt Àr det för dig?
â Man ska aldrig sĂ€ga aldrig. Men just nu Ă€r jag mer upptagen vid att fĂ„ ur mig alla idĂ©er jag har inom mig. Jag kĂ€nner mig lĂ„ngt ifrĂ„n klar, och tiden börjar bli knapp. TĂ€nk om jag fick göra 20 album till? Med tanke pĂ„ mitt tempo lĂ€r jag i bĂ€sta fall hinna fem innan jag dör.
Efter Ă„ren i USA bor 59-Ă„ringen numera pĂ„ heltid i ReykjavĂk, dĂ€r hon Ă€r djupt rotad i det lokala musiklivet. PĂ„ skivaffĂ€ren som hon en gĂ„ng jobbade pĂ„ som ung, och numera Ă€r med och driver, anordnas konserter och dj-kvĂ€llar vid varje fullmĂ„ne. Ofta med henne sjĂ€lv i dj-bĂ„set.
â Jag lever och verkar i ett slags community med folk frĂ„n olika generationer, dĂ€r alla delar musik med varandra. Jag gör nya spellistor konstant och spammar vĂ€nner med olika tips. NĂ€r kompisar kommer över pĂ„ middagar spelar jag alltid musiken jag köpt senaste mĂ„naden. Att hĂ„lla koll pĂ„ ny musik har alltid varit en stor del av mitt liv.
Det lÄter fantastiskt.
â Det bor 200 000 personer i ReykjavĂk. Det Ă€r den perfekta storleken för att en stad ska kĂ€nnas levande. Jag gillar verkligen min livsstil. Min familj och mina vĂ€nner finns hĂ€r, mĂ„nga av dem har jag kvar sedan skoltiden. SĂ„ ja, det Ă€r ett perfekt liv pĂ„ sĂ€tt och vis.
I en intervju i DN, som gjordes runt pandemin, beskrev du det som en lyx att slippa turnera?
â Livedelen Ă€r och kommer alltid att vara en stor del av vad jag gör. Men jag Ă€r lyckligt lottad eftersom jag inte lĂ€ngre behöver dra in pengar pĂ„ turnerandet, som yngre musiker ofta Ă€r tvingade till. Ur det avseendet Ă€r Spotify förmodligen det vĂ€rsta som har hĂ€nt musiker. Strömningskulturen har förĂ€ndrat ett helt samhĂ€lle och en hel generation artister.
Det Àr svÄrt att hitta bilder pÄ Björk dÀr mÀnniskan syns. PÄ bilder gömmer hon sig ofta bakom masker och digitala animationer. Under intervjun Àr hon överraskande konkret och frisprÄkig.
Det mĂ€rks ocksĂ„ i musiken. HĂ€romĂ„ret slĂ€ppte hon protestlĂ„ten âOralâ, som specifikt ville vĂ€cka uppmĂ€rksamhet runt den industriella laxodlingen pĂ„ Island. IntĂ€kterna frĂ„n den lĂ„ten finansierar just nu fyra juridiska processer kopplade till frĂ„gan, berĂ€ttar hon.
â Jag har varit aktiv i miljökampen i 25 Ă„r. Numera har jag mer instĂ€llningen âvi ses i rĂ€ttenâ. Jag tror tyvĂ€rr inte lĂ€ngre pĂ„ att det rĂ€cker med att predika för den redan frĂ€lsta kören. Vad som behövs Ă€r nya lagar som skyddar vĂ„r natur.
I âCornucopiaâ tar sig klimatengagemanget ett nĂ€rmast plakatpolitiskt uttryck. 30 minuter in i konsertfilmen bryts den ljuva musiken och de pastellfĂ€rgade bilderna â Björks eskapistiska safe space â av ett handskrivet manifest som rullar i bild över svart botten.
âIt is an emergencyâ, inleds texten. Och sen: âIn order to survive as a species / we need to define our utopia / the Paris climate accord is a modern utopia / impossible to imagineâ.
â Parisavtalet Ă€r i sig en utopi, eftersom vi inte ens kan förestĂ€lla oss att vi kommer att nĂ„ mĂ„len. Men nĂ€r det gĂ€ller klimatfrĂ„gan sĂ„ mĂ„ste vi prova allt. Det Ă€r dĂ€rför fantasin Ă€r sĂ„ viktig. Med hjĂ€lp av den kan vi förestĂ€lla oss framtiden och tillĂ„ta oss att fortsĂ€tta vara optimistiska.
Björk pratar vidare, engagerat, och kommer in pÄ hur trenden med post-apokalyptiska filmer och tv-serier stör henne.
â De Ă€r ofta sĂ„ deprimerande och sjĂ€lvömkande. Narcissistiska. Typ âĂ„h nej, stackars oss, vi kommer alla att döâ. Budskapet i dem Ă€r ofta att detta kommer att ske nĂ„gon gĂ„ng i framtiden.
â Min energi handlar mer om att försöka ta mig ur de hĂ€r kĂ€nslorna, inte mata dem. Apokalypsen har redan hĂ€nt, vi lever i efterdyningarna. Nu mĂ„ste vi resa oss, plocka upp bitarna och göra nya saker med dem. Göra vĂ€rlden till en beboelig plats för vĂ„ra barn.
Fakta.Björk
Björk Gudmundsdottir föddes 1965 i ReykjavĂk, dĂ€r hon numera ocksĂ„ bor.
Började sin musikbana i jazzfusiongruppen Exodus och punkband som KUKL. Slog igenom i popgruppen The Sugarcubes i slutet pĂ„ 80-talet. Soloalbumet âDebutâ frĂ„n 1993 rĂ€knar hon sjĂ€lv som sin debut. Nio album har följt dĂ€refter, dĂ€r âFossoraâ frĂ„n 2022 Ă€r det senaste.
Aktuell med musikturnĂ©filmen âCornucopiaâ som har premiĂ€r pĂ„ Apple den 24 februari. Tillhörande fotoboken âCornucopia. The bookâ (Les Editions Braquage) gavs nyligen ut.
Tre snabba med Björk
Om sin mamma, miljöaktivisten Hildur RĂșna HauksdĂłttir, som gick bort 2018:
âHon skiljde sig frĂ„n min pappa redan pĂ„ sextiotalet, nĂ€r jag bara var ett Ă„r. I efterhand kan jag se hur mamma tog mig ur patriarkatet och in i matriarkatet. Hon var radikal och före sin tid pĂ„ mĂ„nga sĂ€tt. Mer Ă€n jag förstod dĂ„ â dĂ„ var det det normala.â
Om sin humor:
âDet finns en torr typ av humor i mycket jag gör, som ingen nog förstĂ„r fullt ut förutom mina vĂ€nner. Jag tycker till exempel att det Ă€r vĂ€ldigt roligt att ha en refrĂ€ng som gĂ„r âStĂ€m mig, stĂ€m mig, stĂ€m migâ (pĂ„ âSue meâ, reds. anm.). För mig Ă€r det ett sĂ€tt att förklara mig sjĂ€lvstĂ€ndig, samtidigt som lĂ„ten vill uppmuntra FĂ€röarna och Grönland att bli sjĂ€lvstĂ€ndiga frĂ„n Danmark.â
Om huruvida artister har ett ansvar:
âDet Ă€r viktigt att varje musiker fĂ„r göra ⊠[more]
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För DN:s Kajsa Haidl berÀttar islÀndskan Björk om den queera energin i sin nya musik, och befrielsen över att inte behöva försörja sig pÄ livespelningar.
â Som yngre musiker ofta Ă€r tvingade till. Ur det avseendet Ă€r Spotify förmodligen det vĂ€rsta som har hĂ€nt musiker.
Videosamtalet börjar i motvind. Björk vill inte sÀtta pÄ kameran och hennes röst lÄter kort och reserverad. AvlÀgsen. Det Àr först nÀr jag stÀller frÄgan om hur hon sjÀlv ser pÄ konsertfilmsformatet, som de senaste Ären har fÄtt ett uppsving pÄ grund av filmframgÄngar för artister som Taylor Swift och Beyoncé, som hon spricker upp.
â Jag Ă€r glad att du frĂ„gar eftersom jag kĂ€nner samma sak. Jag har ju alltid dokumenterat mina turnĂ©er och slĂ€ppt filmer, men nĂ„gonting har hĂ€nt. Jag tĂ€nkte pĂ„ det senast hĂ€romdagen, handlar det om en kvinnlig energi?
Anledningen till intervjun Ă€r Björks nya konsertfilm âCornucopiaâ, som knyter ihop sĂ€cken pĂ„ den fem Ă„r lĂ„nga vĂ€rldsturnĂ©n med samma namn. Inspelad under en show i Portugal hĂ€romĂ„ret, dĂ€r olika digitala pĂ„lĂ€gg gjorts i efterhand. Björk beskriver sjĂ€lv hur hon det senaste Ă„ret âbehövt förvandlas till nĂ„gon sorts mĂ€rklig postproduktions-personâ, dĂ€r hon varit inblandad i allt frĂ„n fĂ€rgkorrigering till animationer.
â Alla de hĂ€r sakerna Ă€r kul, men jag kommer ocksĂ„ att vara vĂ€ldigt, vĂ€ldigt glad nĂ€r filmen vĂ€l Ă€r ute och jag fĂ„r Ă„tergĂ„ till att vara den musiker jag Ă€r i hjĂ€rtat, som kĂ€nns mest hemma för mig.
Konsertfilmerna hon sjĂ€lv tittade pĂ„ under uppvĂ€xten, som ung punkare i ReykjavĂk pĂ„ 80-talet, minns hon som âfour hour stamina concertsâ.
â Det var mycket maskulin energi, vĂ€ldigt macho, vĂ€ldigt ego. LĂ„nga gitarrsolon. Det var fantastiskt, jag kritiserar inte det, men kĂ€nslan efterĂ„t var alltid: âDu borde ha varit dĂ€r för att verkligen fatta grejen.â I stĂ€llet satt man hemma i soffan och kĂ€nde sig utanför.
Skillnaden nu Àr att artister som Beyoncé och Taylor Swift, i likhet med henne sjÀlv, drivs av andra saker, sÀger hon prövande. Kanske gör det att konsertfilmen fÄr andra kvaliteter?
â Vi Ă€r förstĂ„s vĂ€ldigt olika som artister. Men för oss alla tre handlar det nog mindre om ego och mer om gemenskapen med de andra musikerna pĂ„ scen och med publiken.
â Vi Ă€r ocksĂ„ artister dĂ€r lĂ„tskrivandet stĂ„r i fokus, dĂ€r varje lĂ„t drivs av en kĂ€nsla. Alla de hĂ€r nyanserna, frĂ„n det sorgliga till det extatiska, översĂ€tts nog bĂ€ttre till de som tittar hemma i soffan. Det blir mer en film, inte bara en kĂ€nsla av att du âborde ha varit dĂ€râ.
LĂ„tarna som valts ut till âCornucopiaâ-turnĂ©n kommer frĂ€mst frĂ„n hennes album âUtopiaâ. Skivan frĂ„n 2017 har beskrivits som Ă„terbyggnadsfasen, lĂ€kandet â eller âTinderalbumetâ â som följde upp 2015 Ă„rs âVulnicuraâ, dĂ€r hon bearbetade skilsmĂ€ssan med konstnĂ€ren Matthew Barney.
SjĂ€lv beskriver hon âUtopiaâ â och i förlĂ€ngningen turnĂ©n âCornucopiaâ â som ett tillstĂ„nd efter katastrofen.
â Jag ser det som ett slags fantasy- eller sci-fi-berĂ€ttelse om en grupp kvinnor som reser till en avlĂ€gsen ö med sina barn, bort frĂ„n vĂ„ldet. DĂ€r bryter de grenar frĂ„n trĂ€den för att göra flöjter av dem. Det hĂ€r Ă€r en Ă„terkommande mytologi över vĂ€rlden som representerar en ny början. Först nĂ€r ordningen Ă€r Ă„terstĂ€lld kan kvinnorna bjuda in den maskulina energin pĂ„ nytt.
Det Àr nÀstan tio Är sedan de hÀr skivorna kom ut. Hur mycket bottnar du i de hÀr idéerna i dag?
â Jag önskar pĂ„ sĂ€tt och vis att denna film hade kommit ut mycket tidigare. Jag Ă€r pĂ„ en ny och annorlunda plats, dĂ€r saker inte Ă€r lika binĂ€ra som de var dĂ„. Jag tycker till exempel att det finns mycket queer energi i mitt arbete. Det Ă€r inte lika mycket patriarkatet hit och matriarkatet dit lĂ€ngre, det Ă€r mer en förening av vĂ€rldarna.
à andra sidan har den utdragna processen med lÄng turné och efterföljande film gjort att hon har kunnat köpa sig tid, förklarar hon. Ny musik Àr i görningen, nÄgra lÄtar finns redan klara. Mer vill hon inte sÀga av rÀdsla för att jinxa.
â Det Ă€r bara i mörker man kan plantera ett nytt frö. För att fröet ska kunna vĂ€xa till en frisk och hĂ€lsosam vĂ€xt behövs avskildhet. Man behöver nĂ„gra Ă„r av att ingen vet vad man hĂ„ller pĂ„ med, inte ens man sjĂ€lv.
MÄnga andra musiker som hÄllit pÄ lika lÀnge som du ger sig ut pÄ jubileumsturnéer. Hur sannolikt Àr det för dig?
â Man ska aldrig sĂ€ga aldrig. Men just nu Ă€r jag mer upptagen vid att fĂ„ ur mig alla idĂ©er jag har inom mig. Jag kĂ€nner mig lĂ„ngt ifrĂ„n klar, och tiden börjar bli knapp. TĂ€nk om jag fick göra 20 album till? Med tanke pĂ„ mitt tempo lĂ€r jag i bĂ€sta fall hinna fem innan jag dör.
Efter Ă„ren i USA bor 59-Ă„ringen numera pĂ„ heltid i ReykjavĂk, dĂ€r hon Ă€r djupt rotad i det lokala musiklivet. PĂ„ skivaffĂ€ren som hon en gĂ„ng jobbade pĂ„ som ung, och numera Ă€r med och driver, anordnas konserter och dj-kvĂ€llar vid varje fullmĂ„ne. Ofta med henne sjĂ€lv i dj-bĂ„set.
â Jag lever och verkar i ett slags community med folk frĂ„n olika generationer, dĂ€r alla delar musik med varandra. Jag gör nya spellistor konstant och spammar vĂ€nner med olika tips. NĂ€r kompisar kommer över pĂ„ middagar spelar jag alltid musiken jag köpt senaste mĂ„naden. Att hĂ„lla koll pĂ„ ny musik har alltid varit en stor del av mitt liv.
Det lÄter fantastiskt.
â Det bor 200 000 personer i ReykjavĂk. Det Ă€r den perfekta storleken för att en stad ska kĂ€nnas levande. Jag gillar verkligen min livsstil. Min familj och mina vĂ€nner finns hĂ€r, mĂ„nga av dem har jag kvar sedan skoltiden. SĂ„ ja, det Ă€r ett perfekt liv pĂ„ sĂ€tt och vis.
I en intervju i DN, som gjordes runt pandemin, beskrev du det som en lyx att slippa turnera?
â Livedelen Ă€r och kommer alltid att vara en stor del av vad jag gör. Men jag Ă€r lyckligt lottad eftersom jag inte lĂ€ngre behöver dra in pengar pĂ„ turnerandet, som yngre musiker ofta Ă€r tvingade till. Ur det avseendet Ă€r Spotify förmodligen det vĂ€rsta som har hĂ€nt musiker. Strömningskulturen har förĂ€ndrat ett helt samhĂ€lle och en hel generation artister.
Det Àr svÄrt att hitta bilder pÄ Björk dÀr mÀnniskan syns. PÄ bilder gömmer hon sig ofta bakom masker och digitala animationer. Under intervjun Àr hon överraskande konkret och frisprÄkig.
Det mĂ€rks ocksĂ„ i musiken. HĂ€romĂ„ret slĂ€ppte hon protestlĂ„ten âOralâ, som specifikt ville vĂ€cka uppmĂ€rksamhet runt den industriella laxodlingen pĂ„ Island. IntĂ€kterna frĂ„n den lĂ„ten finansierar just nu fyra juridiska processer kopplade till frĂ„gan, berĂ€ttar hon.
â Jag har varit aktiv i miljökampen i 25 Ă„r. Numera har jag mer instĂ€llningen âvi ses i rĂ€ttenâ. Jag tror tyvĂ€rr inte lĂ€ngre pĂ„ att det rĂ€cker med att predika för den redan frĂ€lsta kören. Vad som behövs Ă€r nya lagar som skyddar vĂ„r natur.
I âCornucopiaâ tar sig klimatengagemanget ett nĂ€rmast plakatpolitiskt uttryck. 30 minuter in i konsertfilmen bryts den ljuva musiken och de pastellfĂ€rgade bilderna â Björks eskapistiska safe space â av ett handskrivet manifest som rullar i bild över svart botten.
âIt is an emergencyâ, inleds texten. Och sen: âIn order to survive as a species / we need to define our utopia / the Paris climate accord is a modern utopia / impossible to imagineâ.
â Parisavtalet Ă€r i sig en utopi, eftersom vi inte ens kan förestĂ€lla oss att vi kommer att nĂ„ mĂ„len. Men nĂ€r det gĂ€ller klimatfrĂ„gan sĂ„ mĂ„ste vi prova allt. Det Ă€r dĂ€rför fantasin Ă€r sĂ„ viktig. Med hjĂ€lp av den kan vi förestĂ€lla oss framtiden och tillĂ„ta oss att fortsĂ€tta vara optimistiska.
Björk pratar vidare, engagerat, och kommer in pÄ hur trenden med post-apokalyptiska filmer och tv-serier stör henne.
â De Ă€r ofta sĂ„ deprimerande och sjĂ€lvömkande. Narcissistiska. Typ âĂ„h nej, stackars oss, vi kommer alla att döâ. Budskapet i dem Ă€r ofta att detta kommer att ske nĂ„gon gĂ„ng i framtiden.
â Min energi handlar mer om att försöka ta mig ur de hĂ€r kĂ€nslorna, inte mata dem. Apokalypsen har redan hĂ€nt, vi lever i efterdyningarna. Nu mĂ„ste vi resa oss, plocka upp bitarna och göra nya saker med dem. Göra vĂ€rlden till en beboelig plats för vĂ„ra barn.
Fakta.Björk
Björk Gudmundsdottir föddes 1965 i ReykjavĂk, dĂ€r hon numera ocksĂ„ bor.
Började sin musikbana i jazzfusiongruppen Exodus och punkband som KUKL. Slog igenom i popgruppen The Sugarcubes i slutet pĂ„ 80-talet. Soloalbumet âDebutâ frĂ„n 1993 rĂ€knar hon sjĂ€lv som sin debut. Nio album har följt dĂ€refter, dĂ€r âFossoraâ frĂ„n 2022 Ă€r det senaste.
Aktuell med musikturnĂ©filmen âCornucopiaâ som har premiĂ€r pĂ„ Apple den 24 februari. Tillhörande fotoboken âCornucopia. The bookâ (Les Editions Braquage) gavs nyligen ut.
Tre snabba med Björk
Om sin mamma, miljöaktivisten Hildur RĂșna HauksdĂłttir, som gick bort 2018:
âHon skiljde sig frĂ„n min pappa redan pĂ„ sextiotalet, nĂ€r jag bara var ett Ă„r. I efterhand kan jag se hur mamma tog mig ur patriarkatet och in i matriarkatet. Hon var radikal och före sin tid pĂ„ mĂ„nga sĂ€tt. Mer Ă€n jag förstod dĂ„ â dĂ„ var det det normala.â
Om sin humor:
âDet finns en torr typ av humor i mycket jag gör, som ingen nog förstĂ„r fullt ut förutom mina vĂ€nner. Jag tycker till exempel att det Ă€r vĂ€ldigt roligt att ha en refrĂ€ng som gĂ„r âStĂ€m mig, stĂ€m mig, stĂ€m migâ (pĂ„ âSue meâ, reds. anm.). För mig Ă€r det ett sĂ€tt att förklara mig sjĂ€lvstĂ€ndig, samtidigt som lĂ„ten vill uppmuntra FĂ€röarna och Grönland att bli sjĂ€lvstĂ€ndiga frĂ„n Danmark.â
Om huruvida artister har ett ansvar:
âDet Ă€r viktigt att varje musiker fĂ„r göra ⊠[more]
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