Wednesday Notes for September 25th, 2024
The Uristocrat Headlines for Wednesday, September 25th, 2024. This is an edition of Uristocrat Notes, a newsletter that explores what we are reading as it relates to cultural stories of the day.
This is an edition of Uristocrat Notes, a newsletter that explores what we are reading as it relates to cultural stories of the day.
Culture
A Haitian Immigrant in Springfield Experiences the Best and Worst of America
How the past few weeks have “kind of shifted” Viles Dorsainvil’s idea about the country.
MoMA: Lines of Belonging
“Love is the key that takes cultures from oppression to joy. As a political unifier, the contract—love—takes on a liberating force,” artist Sabelo Mlangeni has said. Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists weave personal stories within broader political histories to explore intergenerational memory. Others reimagine the idea of the archive to disrupt narratives of the past and imagine future communities.
Lines of Belonging highlights artists working in four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation-states in which they are presently situated. From Kathmandu to New Orleans, Johannesburg to Mexico City, these creative practitioners offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral, profit-driven speed of contemporary image consumption, metadata technologies, and artificial intelligence.
Senegal’s Young President Wants a New World Order
Bassirou Diomaye Faye said the United Nations has to change to reflect changing world demographics in his first interview with Western media since becoming president of Senegal.
Diddy’s Kids Reveal the Truth About Late Mom’s ‘Memoir’
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Kim Porter’s children have condemned a publisher’s claim that their late mother wrote a 60-page supposedly leaked memoir as “simply untrue.”
Sneakers
Nike Air Max 180 Shines in “Black/Opti Yellow”
ALD / New Balance 475
A modern take on a forgotten silhouette from 1986. The 475 features suede overlays, mesh underlays, an aged heel tab, and a chain-stitch N logo. Offered in two colorways.
Sports
They meet again: Three keys to Liberty-Aces WNBA semifinals clash
The New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces will meet again in the WNBA playoffs. Only this time, it's in the semifinals, 11 months after the Aces beat the Liberty in the WNBA Finals.
Top-seeded New York hosts No. 4 seed and two-time defending champion Las Vegas in a best-of-five series starting Sunday. Both teams advanced after sweeping their first-round opponents Tuesday.
Pep: City won't 'waste energy' on Carabao Cup
Pep Guardiola has said Manchester City will not "waste energy" on the Carabao Cup this season and will instead focus on the Premier League and Champions League.
Technology
A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of open-source multimodal language models, called Molmo, that it says perform as well as top proprietary models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
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