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music Video for Patti Smith's gorgeous tribute to avant-garde poet/dramatist Antonin Artaud David Pescovitz

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art This artist uses jigsaw puzzles, with the same die cut pattern, to make these terrific mashups Rusty Blazenhoff

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politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

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gender The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow

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