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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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Out now.
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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.- 5 replies
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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.
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Roel Funcken's three hour Autechre megamix. Lather, rinse, repeat until you get the Sign.
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The Long Golden Age of Useless, American Crap (LitHub)
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Here's a recent profile of Lanier, and I also suggest you take a look at his books, including his autobiography. He's an interesting one, right up there with Ted Nelson and other technology luminaries.
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Trump promises America we will never see him again if Biden wins (Raw Story) Promises, promises...
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I think these tech ex-bros are sincerely remorseful, but it's going to be an uphill battle because the critical mass is on the side of the extraction capitalists. Most people in the documentary have fuck you money and nothing to worry about even if they don't succeed, but nevertheless it's semi-admirable that they're feeling a smidgen of regret about their ex-employers and going oh sorry that we fucked up a couple of generations of people psychologically and rewired the social fabric around the world to be at the beg and call of technology to line the pockets of the very few. It's not a bad documentary, though, only too little too late. If you're smart enough to implement things that have become dark patterns (which supplant "user value...in favor of shareholder value"), you should be by definition be smart enough to understand the negative psychological and social ramifications of those technologies. It's not like you can't imagine the negative repercussions of some of the biggest tech innovations out there. There are some of them in use even here in WATMM, baked in to the core of the site software. I've been working on web (backend) stuff for over 25 years, so I have a modicum of knowledge about these things. Here's an interesting review of the documentary. You should also watch The Great Hack, if you haven't already done so. I love Jaron Lanier to bits, he's a true treasure; I expected to see Yevgeni Morozov as well, but I don't think the producers wanted to go that deep into it. Besides Zuboff's landmark book on the subject there are some lesser known tomes touching the same subject, I can provide a reading list if you're interested. That shit is wack, yo.
