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  1. 8 hours ago, Nebraska said:

     

    Donald Trump's net worth has fallen by just over $2 billion after the value of shares in his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns his Truth Social website, dropped dramatically over the space of just eight days.

    The value of each TMTG share reached a high of $71.9 on March 27 before its profit and loss figures were released.Trump owns 78.75 million TMTG shares, meaning their total value at this point was about $5.7 billion. However the new financial information, and concerns over the TMTG's long-term future, saw the value of each share fall to $46.2 when markets closed on April 4, reducing the total value of Trump's portfolio to $3.6 billion, equating a total loss of about $2.1 billion. source

    There’s no way it’s even worth that much. 

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  2. 16 hours ago, ignatius said:

    there's a chunk of Neal Stephenson's book "Fall or Dodge in Hell" that takes place in such a seceded state in the USA that's based on religious doctrine/extremism and it's hilarious and kinda terrifying. also, he said when he wrote this book.. trump got elected snd he realized this chunk of the book wasn't crazy enough and he had to rewrite it or it wouldn't make sense. so, he reads part of it in this talk.. 

     

    That was great - and a very interesting update to the book (which was also great). The idea of curated social media feeds is basically happening right now with the algorithms, though they aren't quite as extreme as in the book yet.

    If Trump gets convicted and serves prison time (big ifs I know), do you think we'll see a receding of such public displays of racism and bigotry or will it get even worse?

  3. Finally got to see Part 2 (came out late in Japan) and gotta say, that was some of the most satisfying 3 hours I’ve spent in the cinema in a long time. 

    Part 2 >Part 1 IMBBQO

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  4. 3 hours ago, purlieu said:

    One of the things that makes those early records so great is the collaging together of often quite disparate elements.

    It's funny, in the BBC interview linked above, he talks about that precise topic, the share house in Battersea and how it was just a mad collection of DJs/musicians that all were contributing.

    I think The Heavens stands alone well enough and haven't listened to SETI enough yet to form a real opinion, but agree on the rest of those things all having nuggets that could make up a good Orb album.

    3 hours ago, purlieu said:

    Also the first review currently on BC describes this as being "reminiscent of their all-time classic Orblivion". Ah, yes, Orblivion, that album full of acoustic drums, emotive piano and 10 minute droney ambient tracks.

    lol let's be generous - there were drums on Orblivion and it was produced by one of the same people....

  5. On 3/10/2024 at 11:40 PM, th555 said:

    Ohh, I have those, no idea it was the same guy. Thanks for the list ^^

    It's Schmidt and Tetsu Inoue, but yeah. His list of aliases on discogs is rather extensive, and his catalogue is huge, which makes sense since he's basically been releasing records at a frantic pace since like 92. Just dig in to the discography, it's never dull.

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  6. On 3/11/2024 at 3:31 AM, Alcofribas said:

    his use of stereo in this era (~94-95) is very unique. in addition to Ondas, albums like Silver Sound, Semiacoustic Nature, and BASS have really cool stereo production, sometimes with such different things happening in each side of stereo you can listen to the channels independent from each other (the BASS album is the best example of this) . if this is not to your liking he did an entire album in mono in 96 lol.

    he has such an insanely creative catalogue. 

    Yeah listening to some of that on headphones can produce interesting effects on a person, the stereo imaging is intense.

    mono is king, all my homies love mono.

  7. On 3/9/2024 at 4:55 AM, th555 said:

    Pretty nice so far. Lot of stuff on that bandcamp, if anyone has some other recommendations I'm all ears.

    Datacide I + II and Ondas (worth it just for Stereo Kiss)

    Mu - Masters of Psychedelic Ambiance

    All the Senor Coconut stuff but especially Yellow Fever and Around the World

    Anything with Pete Namlook

    Most of the Lisa Carbon Trio stuff. 
     

    and if you want straight banging techno, all the Live albums he did with Tobias.

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  8. 10 hours ago, dr lopez said:

    yes this is the biggest issue with doing that sort of stuff. not worth it.

     

    however, best way forward is to just never apologize. don't double down either; just move on.

    oh god he's replying to everyone... NOOOOO

    NGL that Dale Cornish person seems like an insufferable twat, but Uwe should have taken your advice. Never go into Twitter battle unless you’re fully unemployed. 

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