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    Biosphere - Substrata (Alternative Versions)

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    These are alternative takes from the studio sessions. From Bandcamp

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    Here are ten alternative versions picked from the Substrata recordings sessions that took place between 1995 and 1996.

    So, how I figure out is that Geir played a series of live controlled takes in the studio and then some were picked for the album, and these alternative versions are just alternative takes on the same tracks from the same studio sessions. I think this was a pretty common strategy back in the 90s before sequencing the whole track in a DAW became the norm? Like The KLF's Chill Out in which case the whole album was recorded multiple times live and then the best version was picked.

    Anyway, for a person like me who has heard the original Substrata about a million times, this is a pretty interesting release. I like some of these versions better than the original release and some original versions better.

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    Cryptocurrency as the next significant stage for computing technology, not just an investment

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    Nature research article: "Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold"

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-18686-8

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    This paper provides economic estimates of the energy-related climate damages of mining Bitcoin (BTC), the dominant proof-of-work cryptocurrency. We provide three sustainability criteria for signaling when the climate damages may be unsustainable. BTC mining fails all three. We find that for 2016–2021: (i) per coin climate damages from BTC were increasing, rather than decreasing with industry maturation; (ii) during certain time periods, BTC climate damages exceed the price of each coin created; (iii) on average, each $1 in BTC market value created was responsible for $0.35 in global climate damages, which as a share of market value is in the range between beef production and crude oil burned as gasoline, and an order-of-magnitude higher than wind and solar power. Taken together, these results represent a set of sustainability red flags. While proponents have offered BTC as representing “digital gold,” from a climate damages perspective it operates more like “digital crude”.

     

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    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

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    5 hours ago, zkom said:

    I bought my ticket for the Helsinki gig from Ticketmaster and I haven't received any emails about codes or anything.

    So, if someone has the info where to send the ticket information etc by email to get a code could you just kindly PM me?

    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

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    I hadn't heard any of the recordings from the previous sets before I went to the Helsinki show so I have no idea what was part of the actual music :cisfor: But I guess the high snapping sound shouldn't have been there?

    I also hadn't heard Ilpo's solo stuff before so that was interesting.

     

     

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    3 hours ago, cichlisuite said:

    I'm always happy to take a good book that was discarded by its previous owner. Last time I found Neitzsche's Thus Spoke Zaratustra, someone left it in a box on top of a dumpster. A couple of months ago I salvaged a crate of books, among them big color art books, folk arts decoration patterns collections, a book about Cossacks and some construction DIYs. People just give them away? I am happy to take it. It would be so good to have a place for a big study room of my own.

    The two books I randomly found in the book recycling shelf are set in some kind of cyberpunk alternate history/future where the Ottoman empire never disappeared. I've never heard of them. Might be shit but the premise sounds interesting at least.

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    54 minutes ago, dcom said:

    You can tell a lot from a person's bookshelf, or the lack thereof. I have about 40 shelf-metres of physical books and a few hundred electronic ones, and that's not counting comics and graphic novels, which add quite a bit more.

    I don't own much books anymore because I've either given away or sold most of them. I still have a few boxes of books stashed away in a storage room. The problem was that I've moved a lot and I didn't even have a permanent residence for a long time so I just got rid of hundreds of books. Mostly I read ebooks now. And even comics I read mostly electronically.

    This week I went to drop off a book I just had finished to a book recycling point at a library and then ended up picking two books to go with me. I'm not sure how I keep accumulating more of them when I'm trying to get rid off them :facepalm:

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    2 hours ago, zero said:

    just the fact remains that in institutions of higher education, it is still books that dominate the academic landscape. no clue if youtube videos are used in classes now to pass along knowledge to students. been a minute now since I was in university.

    How much books you read really depends on the field you are in. I was in engineering so I read very few text books for my master's degree. I bought three, I think, and then maybe loaned around 5 books. I don't think I read any of them from front to back, just the relevant parts to pass the courses. Mostly I got the information from lectures, lecture notes, labs and exercises. When I started on the PhD I was just reading tons of research articles. I can only remember one book. But I never finished that degree.

    Anyway, watching a video of the lecture and sitting at the lecture aren't really that different in my opinion. If you have questions you can just email the professor or go visit during the visiting hours. And if you've ever been in a lecture in Finland you know the students generally ask very few questions, publicly at least. God, if I had had the option to just watch the lecture being streamed instead of going to the uni back then I would've been doing it all the time.

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    10 hours ago, cruising for burgers said:

    BTW I've only read 2 books in my life... the DaVinci Code and Siddhartha... obviously obvs it's not a surprise to most of you...

    My grandfather never went to a proper school, but to a kind of mobile school that would stop in his village now and then. That's where he learned to read and write. The funny thing is that, to everyone's knowledge, the only book he ever read in his life was Victor Hugo's Les Misérables which is absolutely massive brick of a book. Decades later my family is still talking about how he read Les Misérables. The story of him reading the book has become an epic in itself.

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    17 hours ago, zero said:

    I think one of the reasons society feels so fucked up right now is because nobody reads books any more. books are how we know virtually everything regarding our history on this planet. actions and events recorded and edited in text. reading internet all day has really done a number on a bunch of people's brains. so much bullshit online, nonsense designed to pit people against each other.

    I read about 30-40 books per year but honestly some of them are such trash that the youtube videos I also watch are way more educational and mind opening. So I don't think there is any inherent value in just reading books. They can be pure trashy entertainment or bigoted hate mongering or whatever.

    Yesterday I was reading a book in a Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu series and watched a Youtube video of a Slavoj Žižek vs Yuval Noah Harari discussion on the nature of, well, nature. The book was just pure entertainment and the youtube video was actually the educational and intellectually stimulating, and so on and so on.

    What I mean is just that books are one medium and it's the contents that are important. I don't think anyone got much more intelligent by reading the billion books in the Warrior Cats series.

    17 hours ago, zero said:

    another reason I think society feels off at this present time is the phenomenon that everyone's free time must be occupied by starring at a screen. like don't people know how to sit and do nothing any more?

    I've actually freaked out my friends by just staring at the emptiness in a train and bus for hours even before the mobile internet was everywhere, lol. My ex also hated it when I did that.

    Something like this:

     

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