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From a foreigner's point of view there seems to be a hard-core group of conservative constituents who will vote anything and everything not Democrat; they're not voting for a candidate, they're simply voting against the other candidate, the Democratic party, bleeding-heart liberals, gays, people of color, everything that's not them. They don't care as long as the other side doesn't win, and yes, that's just stupid, but that's how divided the US is at the moment, and Trump and his cohorts of sycophants have done their utmost to make the divide as wide and deep as possible. It has nothing to do with intelligence or reason, it's just a knee-jerk reaction based on crisis of identity. Then again, there's Hanlon's Razor - never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Moderate and even staunch conservatives are facepalming in embarrassment as much as the rest of the non-Trumpists, but the kakistocracy has spread so deep within the echelons of political, monetary and judicial power that it's getting harder and harder to get rid of the civic rot. I really fear for the stability of the US social structure, not least because Trump is pushing one more conservative christian in the Supreme Court, allowing the moral majority to start challenging decisions like Roe vs. Wade, denying women the right to abortion - and try to overturn other human rights legislation. I don't think you're stupid, we just lack the capacity to process the way the hard-core Trumpists behave because it seems so idiotic, but that's how I think the they reason their way out of the ultimate disaster their presidential nominee is. I would probably have a massive aneurysm and die from the cognitive dissonance if I tried to do the same.
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Facebook rebuts ‘The Social Dilemma,’ a popular Netflix documentary (CNBC)
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V/A - Decima Circuits: Cottage Industries 10 (Neo Ouija)
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I concur - I've discussed Spotify and YouTube with the younger generation of DJs and music enthusiasts a lot, because it needs to be understood that streaming services are without a doubt giving people the impression that music is best consumed in bulk and that it has to be as cheap as possible for the consumer, as if it was an inalienable right. I definitely understand the value of the services as a tool to find new music by association and recommendations, but it really grinds my gears that e.g. Spotify is now integrated with Recordbox and people can DJ without a personal music collection and no respect whatsoever towards the artists and labels making it possible. I know I'm a cretaceous fossil because I'm saying that out loud, but as a long-time DJ, music enthusiast and collector I couldn't imagine life without buying records - physical or digital. I'll blatantly refer to myself earlier in this thread.
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Many Rights, Few Responsibilities: What Does It Mean To Be an American Citizen? (Ru Freeman/LitHub)
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I've known both of them longer than Morphology has existed, we've hung around in the same social circles for a long time, they're both really nice guys and they take Morphology very seriously and work really hard at it - their live shows are all hardware and they're really skilled at what they do. There aren't that many Finnish electro acts and Morphology is way up there with the best, alongside Imatran Voima, Mr. Velcro Fastener (Mesak is the solo project of Tatu Metsätähti from the Velcros), Mono Junk and New York City Survivors. There is also a very Finnish (part Swedish) subgenre of electro called Skweee, a slower, funkier style dreamed up by drunken electronic musicians, that may be of some interest, too.
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Digital is out.
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The disruption con: why big tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense (Guardian) What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (Adrian Daub/FSG Originals)
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Voting is Still One of Our Most Powerful Tools For Change (John Freeman/LitHub)
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The Haunted Generation (Bob Fischer)
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Kiyoaki Iwamoto - Sougi +
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The Social Dilemma was also discussed in another thread:
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Tenth installment of Neo Ouija's absolutely amazing compilation series. Also available in limited edition double CD and crystal clear double vinyl. All previous installments also extremely highly recommended.
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Greys, like that scale's polar opposites, black and white, are achromatic - colourless - so how can they be true colours if they're... not?
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Here's some I've been enjoying lately - though I just noticed that the thread was about classics. Oh well.
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What if All End is a truncation of be-all-end-all - defined as something or someone who is considered to be a perfect specimen or the best and most desired; a thing or person regarded as being the ultimate or utmost; chief or all-important element?
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Gantz Graf.
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The Election That Could Break America (The Atlantic)
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The Hidden Costs of Streaming Music (The New Yorker) - a review of Kyle Devine's Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music (MIT Press).
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Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’ (OneZero/Medium)
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Two sets of 7-12 on black vinyl still available for 90 € from Thee J. Johanz, some Furthur Electronix releases as well.
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I recently saw Ken Burns' thorough documentary miniseries, Country, and liked it immensely. Burns' previous music documentary series, Jazz, was mentioned in the jazz thread, also highly recommended. I think both can be watched on YouTube.
