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The Great American Breakup (B. Duncan Moench @ Tablet Magazine)
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This is one of the most bizarre US things I've come across - the requirement to register to vote; from my point of view, it seems more like a pre-planned way to disenfranchise people without means to register and limit the ability to vote to those capable of getting registered, the humongous leaks of voter registrations during the past years notwithstanding: millions of people have had their PII (personally identifying information), their voting history and whatnot leaked and most probably abused because the registrars' complete lack of operational security know-how. I remember Deee-Lite's Vote Baby Vote because in 1992 I turned 18 and thus became eligible to vote and I had to do some actual research in a library to understand that in the US you have to register to be able to vote; in Finland, everyone of age (currently 18) is eligible to vote (with just a couple of exceptions, like being under guardianship or a ward of the state) - even prisoners have the right and get to vote without exception - the fact that millions of people in the US are not eligible to vote because they're in prison or not able to register to vote because of a criminal record is perplexing. In Finland vote secrecy is absolute and it's rather unusual for people to divulge the person they voted; party affiliation is usually announced, but even that is something that a lot of people want to keep to themselves, especially those older than my generation (X). Our elections are direct, even the presidential vote.
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On the Clearing of Lafayette Square, and the Coward Donald Trump (Timothy Denevi @ Lithub)
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Umberto Eco on Donald Trump: 14 Ways of Looking at a Fascist (Lithub, 2016)
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American Autocracy and the End of Meaning - Trump, Putin, and the Corruption of Language (Masha Gessen, Lithub)
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How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change -- Barack Obama @ Medium
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Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is a rather wordy tome but definitely worth checking out; I'll also recommend Evgeny Morozov's To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism and Adam Greenfield's Radical Technologies. But what do I think? Although I still rebel and revolt against the extraction of behavioural surplus (see Zuboff), the battle against the technology behemoths and pervasive (commercial) surveillance has been lost and a lot of people have just given everything and then some away willingly, because social media, construction of identities, people calling themselves influencers, Metcalfe's Law and other pests of our networked world where straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it and countries governed by kakistocracies. So yeah, I loathe the surveillance economy and despise the people who willingly work to invent, build, manage and maintain the surveillance networks - to quote Jeff Hammerbacher "the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads - that sucks."
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The full run of the series is currently available in digital from Humble Bundle for 16,5 €/$18, four days left to get them
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Quoting without attribution, eh? And there's an error as well, don't know if it's intentional or not. Illuminated Displays is an amazing track.
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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read (journal of a grumpy old man)
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CBM 8032 AV (roberthenke.com)
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I was almost sure that posting about a (proto-)trance artist would be met with either silence or mild derision, so it's nice to see F.E.O.S. getting appreciated.
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May 28th, straight from the horse's mouth - I got myself a test pressing of the album, it's fantastic. Nye's album will also be the first Childhood Intelligence that will get a full digital release with an accompaniment of remixes from other very interesting people, so be on the lookout.
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Influential German DJ/Producer Pascal F.E.O.S. Has Died (BigShot) I still have a soft spot for things Resistance D and Edenhouse.
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Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 (Rolling Stone)
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How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief (The New Yorker)
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Bloom, Bio-Dome (1996). I dislike Pauly Shore even more than Adam Sandler.
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The Medical Front (The Baffler; a series reporting on the experience of doctors at the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus)
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Invisible Enemies (Real Life Magazine) - "The 5G–coronavirus conspiracy fusion reveals that all paranoia today tends toward techno-paranoia"
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(Couldn't find the original WuMo version.)
