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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton - Percy Shelley

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Manchester Digital Music Archive is an online community archive established in 2003 to celebrate Greater Manchester music and its social history.

https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk

https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/map_home/the-lapsed-clubber-audio-map

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https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/tag/4317/Autechre

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In secondary schools, such as the state-run college in Helsinki where Kivinen is head teacher, multi-platform information literacy and strong critical thinking have become a core, cross-subject component of a national curriculum that was introduced in 2016.

In maths lessons, Kivinen’s pupils learn how easy it is to lie with statistics. In art, they see how an image’s meaning can be manipulated. In history, they analyse notable propaganda campaigns, while Finnish language teachers work with them on the many ways in which words can be used to confuse, mislead and deceive.

“The goal is active, responsible citizens and voters,” Kivinen said. “Thinking critically, factchecking, interpreting and evaluating all the information you receive, wherever it appears, is crucial. We’ve made it a core part of what we teach, across all subjects.”

How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools (The Guardian)

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3 hours ago, dcom said:

dcom is a spook. my own conspiracy theory.

just kidding 

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
     —Pearl Buck

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This obsession with absence, the intentional erasure of self and surroundings, is the apotheosis of what I’ve come to think of as a culture of negation: a body of cultural output, from material goods to entertainment franchises to lifestyle fads, that evinces a desire to reject the overstimulation that defines contemporary existence. This retreat, which took hold in the decade before the pandemic, betrays a grim undercurrent: a deepening failure of optimism in the possibilities of our future, a disillusionment that Covid-19 and its economic crisis have only intensified. It’s as if we want to get rid of everything in advance, including our expectations, so that we won’t have anything left to lose.

How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted (NYT)

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A source has provided another data set, this time following the smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump’s political rally turned into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.

They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. (NYT)

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1 hour ago, Nebraska said:

 massachusetts picked podokesaurus holyokensis as the first official state dinosaur. congrats to mass. on this accomplishment and finally joining the big leagues

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so they went with the podunkesaurus

 

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