A Happening on Friday 13th March, 2015

See this piece in the Guardian: Fire severely damages Battersea Arts Centre in London.





See David Jubb's blog piece: “There are some old-fashioned hierarchies inside our cultural spaces”

Can you imagine what sort of memorials arty people are going to be making about more recent events. See Aaron and Melissa Dykes on How History is Constructed These Days.



The great thing about wars is how they bring people together and make everybody's life meaningful and significant, isn't it?

The video is age restricted. See . Here is a comment from the owner of the channel:

This a new low in the post fact era. While we are strong advocates of no[t] allowing lies and falsehoods free range on the internet, this shows how tricky it is. What has probably happened here is that some British Nationalists find this offensive and have reported the content to YouTube. 

What will YouTube do when Holocaust deniers report videos about the Nazi death camps? And this is how academic fact gets another cut on the way to its demise by a thousands cuts - let Vox Populi decide what is correct and what isn't...

Here's YouTube's explanation:

YouTube has always had a set of Community Guidelines that outline what type of content isn't allowed on YouTube. These policies apply to all types of content on our platform, including videos, comments, links and thumbnails. Our Community Guidelines are a key part of our broader suite of policies and are regularly evaluated in consultation with outside experts and YouTube creators to keep pace with emerging challenges.

We enforce these Community Guidelines using a combination of human reviewers and machine learning, and apply them to everyone equally – regardless of the subject or the creator's background, political viewpoint, position or affiliation.

Our policies aim to make YouTube a safer community while still giving creators the freedom to share a broad range of experiences and perspectives.

So what is the difference between a set of community guidelines and a community? One would think a community was some actual people who posess some actual knowledge of the community of which they are a part. A community as far as YouTube are concerned is just a lie:

See Fran Blanche and Sabine Hossenfelder on Intelligent Systems and Aaron and Melissa Dykes on How History is Constructed These Days.

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