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During the making of Psychonauts 2, Double Fine recorded the entire production as a part of their regular "making of" series, and released it as PsychOdyssey (previously) — a rare glimpse at what it takes to make not only a AAA video game, but also a sequel to one of the most beloved games of all time. Now they're back with a final epilogue that wrestles with the release of the game, but also the studio's attempts to learn from and reckon with the experience of reliving the troubled development process via documentary footage.
Indigitalization [slYT, 1h9m] is a talk by digital artist Jon Corbett (not that one) on the creation of a computing framework that honors and applies Indigenous culture to computing--including a new programming language and hardware using Cree syllabary.
In 2017, Hari Kondabolu created The Problem with Apu: a documentary that examined and criticized the character of Apu on The Simpsons, voiced by white actor Hank Azaria. Azaria, notably, did not appear in the film, and was not available for comment. Now, nearly six years later, Azaria and Kondabolu sat down with NPR's Codeswitch to discuss what came out of that callout.
In 2017, just after covering the inauguration, journalist Lewis Wallace wrote a piece struggling with the election as someone who is transgender and anti-racist: Objectivity is dead, and I'm okay with it. In response, Marketplace fired him. Refusing to sign an NDA, Wallace instead took two years to dive deep into the history of "objective" journalism, activism, and what it means to do reporting during an age of rising fascism and white nationalism. The result is The View from Somewhere, and its companion podcast. Descriptions and links of the episodes so far behind the jump.
One of the founding members of the NAACP, Ida B. Wells was at one point the most famous black woman in America. A fiery, exacting journalist, she's best known for her work on documenting lynching (and the false premises used to justify it) in her books Southern Horrors and The Red Record, the latter of which is now seen as a pioneering work of early data journalism. Now, a community group is working to create a monument to Wells in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, where she lived and worked.
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