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2026-07-20 10:16:25 UTC

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/20/everything-i-know-about-evil-i-learned-in-that-small-town-john-carpenter-on-terrifying-the-world-with-halloween-the-thing-and-the-fog
'Then there’s They Live, from 1988, which seems to have taken on a life of its own. The story concerns a homeless worker (played by wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper) who discovers some sunglasses that reveal subliminal propaganda messages beneath every advert, magazine and piece of packaging he sees: “Obey”, “Marry and Reproduce”, “Stay Asleep”. Even the dollar bills secretly say: “This is your God.” The glasses also reveal the aliens who walk among us undetected, controlling humanity.
Not exactly subtle, and They Live is by no means his best film (Piper is no Kurt Russell), but it has become part of the culture, endlessly mimicked, turned into memes and even co-opted into a successful clothing brand by the graphic artist Shepard Fairey – the ultimate irony, perhaps. Just last week, pranksters doctored billboards for Meta’s AI glasses They-Live-style, revealing Kylie Jenner to be an alien and the ad’s subliminal slogan to be “We’re always watching”.
Carpenter was specifically targeting the Reagan era in They Live, he says, the hyperconsumerism, but also the inequality – contrasting Piper’s homeless community with the affluent heights of 80s Los Angeles. “It’s a documentary, and it didn’t end. It’s still going on now, even worse.” He stops himself. “You’ll get me ranting here, and that’s not a good thing.” But, almost needless to say, he’s depressed by the state of his country. “Things are bad here. I guess you guys realise that over there?”
Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher, called They Live “one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood left” in his 2012 documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, which saw the film as a metaphor for not just consumerism but ideology as a whole: “When you put the glasses on, you see dictatorship in democracy. It’s the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom.”
“I don’t know if I’d go that far,” says Carpenter (he has never heard of Žižek, and asks me to send him the clip). “It’s actually democracy under pressure from the dictator. I’m a real sucker for American values. There’s a lot of people like me and we’re constantly fighting, but we’re doing it within the system. I vote. That’s the only power I have. I’m not a rich guy like these guys. And I keep believing that we’ll fight them off one day. We’re all going to be like Roddy Piper, we’re going to give ’em the finger at the end there.”'
#JohnCarpenter #TheyLive #SlavojZizek #film #video #philosophy

2026-07-17 15:04:44 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs on the AI bubble.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBubble #economy #Nvidia #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft #Oracle #Google #ElonMusk #Grok #capitalism #grift
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2026-06-22 18:21:39 UTC

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence
'A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.'
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence @npub1fdr…lvhs #CoryDoctorow

2026-04-23 05:38:22 UTC

I miss Kim Kierkegaardashian intensely.
#KimKierkegaardashian #philosophy #lunacy #fun #funny @npub1q60…kp90 #books #reading #Kierkegaard #KimKardashian
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2026-04-15 20:15:06 UTC

Ticketmaster and Live Nation lose antitrust trial in New York: https://apnews.com/article/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-trial-f0ffdd20dd4f64e8b4bb9d97134b826f
#LiveNation #TicketMaster #monopoly #crime

2026-04-15 12:18:42 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/15/arc-raiders-players-stopped-shooting-started-talking
'So it has come as a jolt to the game’s developers at Embark Studios in Sweden that many players are not shooting at each other at all. “It caught us a little bit by surprise,” says executive producer Aleksander Grøndal, who has found that many people play “a more peaceful version of the game than we anticipated”. He is quick to add: “Pleasantly surprised, just to be clear.”
Unintentionally, the game has become a sort of social and psychological experiment, raising questions about game design – and the human condition – that have intrigued social scientists, psychologists and criminologists. Roughly one in five players have never knocked out another raider, and half have knocked out fewer than 10.'
#gaming #peace #EmbarkStudios #ArcRaiders

2026-04-02 06:29:24 UTC

https://amiatechbro.com/
I am not, according to the test. I agreed with 11% of tech-bro sentiments. Thank Bog.
#TechBro #tech #sexism

2026-02-09 05:25:02 UTC

A quote from Clare Carlisle's 'Transcendence for Beginners' about biography and life:
'Biography is a humble literary genre, rooted in our natural curiosity about other people. This desire to know already carries the seed of a philosophical quest that arises, according to Plato, in the gap between appearances and reality. I meet someone, see how she presents herselfand then I wonder, what's she really like? What is she not telling or showing me? But while Socrates went around Athens asking, 'What is a human being?', I want to know who this singular person is.
A biography's subject matter is typically a whole life. One whole human life, from birth to death that's a lot. Not just a lot of time, but a lot happening. And, for a philosopher, a lot to think about. This subject has special ethical weight: people often say that a human life is precious, even sacred. According to Aristotle, ethics is concerned with whole lives, because happiness or flourishing 'requires a complete life'. If you believe in God, you might imagine how he will judge your life as a whole, once it is finished. So the concept of a whole life is on the horizon of ethics, and on the horizon, I think, of our day-to-day experience. This concept seems ready and waiting to spring into thoughts like, What am I doing with my life? or, Oh my God I'm at least halfway through my life.
Yet being on the horizon also means that it is elusive. It very hard, if not impossible, to pick out the entity captured by the concept of one whole life. Right now, for each of us, our whole life is a mystery. Perhaps biographies, like fictional life stories, appeal to such a wide reading public because they offer the chance to move at lightning speed through a life that has clearer contours than our own, and thereby gain some sense of a wholeness that usually eludes us - a metaphysical impulse, spurred on by love of gossip. Moreover, and this troubles a philosopher, the very concept of a life is difficult to pin down. It seems somewhat different from adjacent concepts such as that the concept of a person includes everything that has person, individual or self- unless you think, like Leibniz, happened and will ever happen to him, as well as all the , is and will be connected to other things, so ways he that each human soul contains 'traces of everything that happens in the universe, even though God alone could recognise them all.'
The practice of life writing brings into view this concept of a whole life. Of course, a biographer need not enter directly into metaphysical speculations. Rather, in grappling with technical and aesthetic questions that arise while writing a life - questions about literary form, authorial judgment, narrative voice - she draws closer to the question of the *being* of a life. Truth becomes especially salient. Another person's *whole* life is a weighty subject: even if the biographer does not appoint herself as its judge, she is making it available for public judgement. So her account must be truthful and fair. But what does that entail?
This question was posed by André Maurois, biographer of Shelley, Byron, Voltaire, George Sand, Balzac and Proust, when he gave the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge about a hundred years ago. His theme was biography considered as both an art and a science. He urged that a life must be written 'with a strict care for the truth - a care not only for the truths of fact (so far as the unfortunate biographer can attain them) but for that profounder truth which is poetic truth.' As Maurois discovered, life writing turns out to be a rather elastic genre in which distinctions between fact and imagination, between description and interpretation, between fiction and non-fiction, are not easily drawn. In the effort to choose words that minimize the constant risk of lapsing into untruth, the biographer runs into the deep question of the truth of a life.'
https://bookwyrm.social/book/2215992/s/transcendence-for-beginners
#ClareCarlisle #quote #books #reading #philosophy #biography @npub1q60…kp90
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2026-02-08 09:12:59 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/excerpts-from-clare-carlisles-transcendence-for-beginners/
I've written a blog post with excerpts from Clare Carlisle's wondrous philosophy book 'Transcendence for Beginners'.
As great philosophy books come, Carlisle writes clearly and simply about something that could easily be hard to digest; Carlisle makes the reader's journey easy and explosive. I really recommend this book.
https://bookwyrm.social/book/2215992/s/transcendence-for-beginners
#ClareCarlisle #book #reading #philosophy #transcendence #BookWyrm @npub1q60…kp90 [@[email protected]](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon )
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2026-01-12 08:19:11 UTC

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Många gillar Hachyderm: https://hachyderm.io. Från beskrivningen:
"Hachyderm is a safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide. Note that many non-user account types have restrictions - please see our About page."
#Hachyderm

2025-12-20 15:51:28 UTC

Via @npub1fdr…lvhs:
[...] Jenkins and Boyle published the 2026 edition of their Public Domain Day omnibus:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
There are some spectacular works that are being freed on January 1:
Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon
Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple's debut)
The first four Nancy Drew books
The first Dick and Jane book
TS Eliot's Ash Wednesday
Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents (in German)
Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale
Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness
That's just a small selection from thousands of books.
#PublicDomain

2025-12-16 13:26:21 UTC

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AISlop #slop #sloperator
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2025-12-04 13:19:41 UTC

https://thoughts.pivic.com/camera-obscura-lloyd-im-ready-to-be-heartbroken
Indie-pop perfection.
#music #MusicTips #CameraObscura #LloydCole #blog
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2025-12-02 11:41:21 UTC

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
How to quit Spotify: a guide from Brian Merchant.
He's gone with Qobuz, a platform that I'm also running with. I'd love to try Coda, as they claim to give artists the most money; I've listed my favourite music-streaming platforms on a page: https://garden.pivic.com/music/music-streaming-platforms - please let me know if I've missed a good platform that treats musicians like human beings.
While places like Spotify and Tidal are overrun by AI slop, Qobuz feels *clean*.
#BrianMerchant #spotify #BrokenRecord #Björk #Qobuz #capitalism #greed #DanielEk
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2025-10-01 19:50:25 UTC

Jane Goodall dead: Trailblazing naturalist studied chimpanzees - https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead
Rest in power. Love and mercy.
#JaneGoodall

2025-09-30 16:26:18 UTC

I love Cassetteboy.
#Cassetteboy #KierStarmer #Palestine #SlimShady #Eminem #FreePalestine
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2025-09-21 06:52:41 UTC

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Massive Attack and Kneecap.
#MassiveAttack #Kneecap
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2025-09-19 18:41:06 UTC

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/18/massive-attack-remove-music-from-spotify-to-protest-ceo-daniel-eks-investment-in-ai-military
'Unconnected to this initiative and in light of the (reported) significant investments by its CEO in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories.
In our view, the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music for Genocide campaign imperative.
In the separate case of Spotify, the economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral and ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans and the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies.
Enough is more than enough.
Another way is possible.'
#MassiveAttack #spotify #DanielEk #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #music #MusicBusiness

2025-09-18 13:57:32 UTC

Today I've submitted more than seven separate reports of AI slop on Tidal, a music-streaming platform.
This happens to most music-streaming platforms. As far as I know, only Deezer label AI-generated audio.
Tidal should have checks in place to make sure that AI-generated and/or fradulent BS isn't uploaded for well-known artists.
For example, on average, I get one release alert per week for TORRES and Underworld, and I *know* it's going to be fake. This waters down the entire 'Just released!' experience which used to be enjoyable.
AI is ruining a lot of things but these companies should easily implement some checks to make sure this BS is stopped before being released.
#tidal #MusicStreaming #music #UX #CX #AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

2025-09-16 06:50:35 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/who-pay-for-the-ai-payouts/
I just published a blog post: who pays for the AI payouts?
I've briefly dissected Elon Musk's recent possible one-trillion-USD bonus that would make him earn around two million times the median for an average American.
I also dig into whether AGI is slavery, AI grift, and how AI 'wins' take jobs from mainly young people.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ElonMusk #billionaire #wealth #USA #AndreasCervenka #money #economy #philosophy #slavery
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2025-09-05 12:47:12 UTC

Every company with AI.
Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.
#EleanorMorton #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour #NonFiction
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2025-09-04 04:39:47 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/2088122/s/bless-me-father
Finally... I've started Kevin Rowland's memoir.
#KevinRowland #memoir #book #books #reading @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-26 11:39:19 UTC

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?
Monopoly monopsony...
#google #sideloading #enshittification @npub1fdr…lvhs #monopoly #android

2025-08-21 05:17:27 UTC

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hilfe plz @npub1zww…wvjz

2025-08-21 05:16:41 UTC

Yo alla vänstervänner, tipsa mig gärna så att en kompis kompis kan maxa sin Stockholmsvistelse. Retoota gärna!
"Odd request: a friend of mine is attending a conference in Stockholm soon, and is both a rabid leftist and historian - any recommendations off the top of your head that might interest him historically in the city? I [mentioned] LO Borgen to see Hjalmar Brantings statue, but other than that I don't have anything specific"
#Stockholm

2025-08-18 13:33:08 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/17/waterstones-strong-sales-younger-adults-book-buying
This is good to see:
'“People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain.'
#bookstore #books #reading #BookTok @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-15 06:02:43 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/2067808/s/the-tesla-files
Finally to be published in English on 2025-09-09, this book looks to be very interesting!
'When an anonymous whistleblower and former Tesla employee approached Germany’s business newspaper Handelsblatt in November 2022, the newsroom was stunned. The allegations were astounding. Months of relentless investigation confirmed them to be true.
In The Tesla Files, Handelsblatt journalists Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden tell the full story. Drawing on 23,000 leaked documents, 100 gigabytes of confidential data, and hundreds of interviews with employees and customers, they deliver an unprecedented look inside the world’s most secretive automaker.
This is a portrait of a company that values hype over substance, and a CEO who demands devotion while ruling through fear. It also traces Elon Musk’s ascent into the highest echelons of politics—marked by a pattern of obfuscation and manipulation.'
#ElonMusk #tesla #twitter #Steerforth #whistleblowing #NonFiction #corporation #chaos @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-12 13:33:24 UTC

https://lithub.com/read-the-final-message-sent-by-murdered-palestinian-journalist-anas-al-sharif/
#israel #genocide #journalism #AntiJournalism #censorship #murder #Palestine #Gaza #AnasAlSharif
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2025-08-11 18:37:28 UTC

Finally! Today I start reading the galley of @npub1fdr…lvhs 's to-be published book, 'Enshittification'. I long to review the book.
https://bookwyrm.social/book/1982321/s/enshittification
#enshittification #CoryDoctorow #book #reading @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-06 08:33:20 UTC

A quote from 'Strangers and Intimates' by Tiffany Jenkins: https://bookwyrm.social/book/2002747/s/strangers-and-intimates
"Under the headline ‘This Is Why You Should Care About Privacy,’ Shoshana Zuboff, author of Surveillance Capitalism, urged New York Times readers to be alarmed: ‘The last 20 years have seen, especially the last decade, the wholesale destruction of privacy.’
She warned that big tech’s vast knowledge of individuals, stemming from their massive accumulation of data, allows them to do more than just target advertising; they can create sophisticated targeting mechanisms. She provided several examples, including subliminal cues, psychological microtargeting, real-time rewards and punishments, algorithmic recommendation tools, and engineered social comparison dynamics.
All of these tactics are designed to capture users’ attention, maximize their time on platforms and keep them engaged in order to influence their decisions. Zuboff emphasized the dire consequences of such omniscient power, linking it to the spreading of disinformation on social media, unnecessary Covid deaths and the storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of the Republican president Donald Trump. ‘These are all connected points in one process,’ Zuboff asserted, ‘and the process is called “how knowledge becomes power.”’
In a similar tone and with a similar message, in Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data (2020), the philosophy and ethics scholar Carissa Véliz states: ‘They are watching us. They know I am writing these words. They know you are reading them. Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you and me, and everyone we know. Every minute of every day.’ Véliz highlights that these entities are not just passive observers: ‘They want to know who we are, what we think, where we hurt. They want to predict and influence our behaviour.’
All of which sounds like the hyperbolic claims advanced by the tech giants themselves, such as when Eric Schmidt, then Google CEO, said that Google ‘more or less’ knows what people are thinking: ‘With your permission, you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.’
These warnings encapsulate the flavour of the contemporary discussion about privacy. Through accessing our data, corporations and governments can know what we are thinking and feeling, and even change our minds. Elections are fought and lost, democracies die, and so do people. There is a lot at stake. But many of the claims don’t stand up."
#SurveillanceCapitalism #ShoshanaZuboff #TiffanyJenkins #privacy #advertising #surveillance #tech #google #EricSchmidt #privacy @npub1ny7…uv57 #books #reading
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2025-07-31 04:11:26 UTC

This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why: https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/
'Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL.
So, why is Lyon making this move? Well, it's not due to something in the water. Like the other European entities, Lyon's move is part of a broader strategy to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on Microsoft software. The simple truth is that many European-based governments no longer trust their data or software to American-based companies under President Donald Trump.'
#microsoft #Lyon #France #MicrosoftOffice #windows #Linux #OnlyOffice #NextCloud #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #USA

2025-07-30 18:51:19 UTC

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/
The next step in surveillance capitalism...
This is not for anybody's benefit but that of the top Spotify shareholders. They want to own and sell your face, possibly to Daniel Ek's customers regarding his other venture: AI drone-warfare industrial company Helsing.
#spotify #BrokenRecord #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #security #advertisement

2025-07-16 07:16:59 UTC

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This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:
'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.
Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'
#google #layoffs

2025-07-16 07:08:33 UTC

When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai
A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @npub1fdr…lvhs. A quote:
'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."
But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'
Don't use Google for search.
#google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #CoryDoctorow #search #slop

2025-07-14 14:48:47 UTC

Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go
'Think DuckDuckGo keeps you safe from Google? Well think again. A new study shows that even with a privacy-focused search engine, Google's trackers follow you around the web (mostly through analytics, ads, and video embeds). The research by SafetyDetectives compares four countries and reveals just how hard it is to avoid Google online.'
#DuckDuckGo #google #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #search

2025-07-05 05:54:42 UTC

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Lord, New York Times...
#TedBundy #NewYorkTimes #CarolineFraser
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2025-07-03 19:59:20 UTC

https://reviews.pivic.com/caroline-fraser-murderland
I've reviewed Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland', a wondrous book about different types of serial killers.
#books #reading #review #SerialKillers #CarolineFraser @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-06-30 07:24:29 UTC

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash/
'The negative response online is indicative of a larger trend: Right now, though a growing number of Americans use ChatGPT, many people are sick of AI’s encroachment into their lives and are ready to fight back.'
#ArtificialIntelligence #duolingo #protest #AI

2025-06-26 12:41:07 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/two-kinds-of-serial-killer
I've written about two kinds of serial killers: the one who murders people with their own hands and the one that murders people from behind their desk.
Parts of my simple comparison include bits from Caroline Fraser's great book on different kinds of serial killers, Benjamin Nathans's brilliant book on Soviet dissidents, and Ed Zitron's recent blog post and podcast mini-series on 'the business idiot'.
#blog #metaphor #comparison @npub1ny7…uv57 #CarolineFraser #BenjaminNathans #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #EdZitron
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2025-06-26 04:31:46 UTC

Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/25/orwell-prize-for-political-writing-victoria-amelina-ukraine
The winners are Victoria Amelina and Donal Ryan. Amelina won for her unfinished book: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/political-writing/looking-at-women-looking-at-war/
#OrwellPrize #VictoriaAmelina #DonalRyan #books #reading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-06-17 05:11:25 UTC

https://reviews.pivic.com/wendy-erskine-the-benefactors
I've reviewed Wendy Erskine's new fiction book 'The Benefactors'.
It's an astonishing piece of writing that contains dialogue that knocks kitchen sink on its ass.
#WendyErskine #book #books #review #BookReview @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-06-11 04:38:23 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/user/pivic/quotation/7665384
Rights are not granted, they're taken.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #dissidence #USSR #SovietUnion #book #reading #rights
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2025-06-11 03:28:43 UTC

Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza https://scheerpost.com/2025/06/10/chris-hedges-the-last-days-of-gaza/
'This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.
In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Mossad, is weaponizing starvation. It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food or aid hubs. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them.
What comes next? I long ago stopped trying to predict the future. Fate has a way of surprising us. But there will be a final humanitarian explosion in Gaza’s human slaughterhouse. We see it with the surging crowds of Palestinians fighting to get a food parcel, which has resulted in Israeli and U.S. private contractors shooting dead at least 130 and wounding over seven hundred others in the first eight days of aid distribution. We see it with Benjamin Netanyahu’s arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza that loot food supplies. Israel, which has eliminated hundreds of employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), doctors, journalists, civil servants and police in targeted assassinations, has orchestrated the implosion of civil society.'
#ChrisHedges #Palestine #FreePalestine #israel #Gaza #genocide

2025-06-10 03:13:00 UTC

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police | HaymarketBooks.org: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-the-border-abolish-the-police
#ebooks #books #free #FreeBook #HaymarketBooks #police #USA #ICE #protest @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-06-04 20:49:23 UTC

#FountainPens #Pelikan #M200
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2025-06-04 13:07:56 UTC

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/edmund-white-novelist-dies
'White was a major influence on modern gay literature, with LGBTQ+ writing prizes named after him and authors including Garth Greenwell, Édouard Louis, Ocean Vuong, Brandon Taylor and Alexander Chee all noting his importance. Having come up in the late 1970s, he once said of his generation: “Gay fiction before that, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote, was written for straight readers. We had a gay readership in mind, and that made all the difference. We didn’t have to spell out what Fire Island was.”'
#EdmundWhite #author #RIP @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-06-02 19:37:28 UTC

Get in, we're happening.
#NoamChomsky #JoseMujica #book @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-31 05:10:32 UTC

Amy guess about what Pelikan model this is? I have no details about anything, I'm afraid.
#FountainPens #Pelikan
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2025-05-31 05:07:52 UTC

‘24/7 transgression? That would be exhausting!’ Cosey Fanni Tutti on radical art, gardening and Kneecap’s ‘power and strength’ | Cosey Fanni Tutti: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/may/29/throbbing-gristle-cosey-fanni-tutti-on-radical-art-gardening-and-kneecap-power-and-strength
'Your ultra-radical art projects during the COUM Transmissions era [in the 1970s] shattered every conceivable boundary – from the ethical to the bodily. Even now, viewed through the lens of history, it feels as though you broke through everything that could be broken, before crossing over into pop culture. Has society become any freer? Has art become any less commodified?
I think it has become more commodified. Nothing comes to my attention that would make me think that art has become anything other than a business. That’s down to people wanting a career. I can understand that in today’s economic climate, as opposed to in the 70s, where there was nothing – you could squat or get very low rent, so you just did what you wanted. You don’t have those opportunities now. But I think about art being about self-expression before thinking: can I sell it? That’s why what Kneecap are doing is uncomfortable for people. There’s such power behind them because the motivation is true and honest. That’s the difference. If your art or music is true and honest, it does hold a power and strength that some people might find uncomfortable, and therefore it gets hit.'
#music #art #CoseyFanniTutti #Kneecap #transgressive #FreePalestine #ThrobbingGristle

2025-05-28 04:16:33 UTC

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-letter-genocide-zadie-smith-ian-mcewan
#Gaza #FreePalestine #Palestine #israel #genocide @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-05-27 11:28:26 UTC

#MargaretAtwood #quotation #humanity #courage @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-26 10:10:55 UTC

For anybody who will need to have a fountain pen repaired, look no further. I'd like to recommend Björn Arebom, a very talented and skillful pen specialist who's been repairing pens since 1992.
https://pennspecialisten.se
I've had the pleasure to have had two different fountain pens repaired by him. No fuss, great communication, good pricing, excellent results.
Björn is available for international work. He sells fountain pens and accessories via his site.
Contact details: https://pennspecialisten.se/pages/contact
N. B.: I don't make any money or anything for saying this. I just want to make sure that others know about Björn's excellent services.
#FountainPens #pens #repair #Pennspecialisten
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2025-04-29 04:16:05 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1991114/s/fine-line-between-stupid-and-clever
This will be nice to read. A tie-in with the film sequel that's coming in September.
For you who've not seen the first Spinal Tap film: I envy you.
#books #reading #SpinalTap @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-23 06:30:01 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1979532/s/crumb
I've just started reading Dan Nadel's new biography 'Crumb: a Cartoonist's Life' about Robert Crumb.
Can't wait to dig in more. I've just scanned the first pages and those are nice.
#RobertCrumb #reading #books #book #biography #comics #GraphicNovel #cartoon @npub1ny7…uv57 #DanNadel
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2025-04-15 13:59:26 UTC

Three brand–new books that I want to read:
* Dan Nadel's 'Crumb: a Cartoonist's Life' - https://bookwyrm.social/book/1979532/s/crumb
* Meghan Daum's 'The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays' - https://bookwyrm.social/book/1979529/s/the-catastrophe-hour
* Gabe Henry's 'Enough is Enuf: our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell' - https://bookwyrm.social/book/1979534/s/enough-is-enuf
@npub1ny7…uv57 #books #reading #ReleaseTuesday #BookTuesday #DanNadel #RobertCrumb #GabeHenry #MeghanDaum
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2025-04-14 11:08:07 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads
I'm a middle-aged white male. I'll say this about censorship of so-called LGBTQIA+ books:
If you're offended by books about sexuality, perhaps especially other sexualities than what you feel is your own, you're the problem. Sexuality isn't a problem. Trying to limit other peoples' choices is a problem.
This has nothing to do with 'oh, they're older, things were different then' or any other kind of psychobabble to excuse this type of censorship.
This is xenophobia, nothing else; it's about trying to forbid what you've perhaps not experienced or considerably thought through, which is appalling and anti-intellectual.
We should always speak out when people try to limit the rights of others.
#FreeSpeech #censorship #USA #books #reading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-11 11:21:43 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1400113/s/war-made-invisible
This book by Norman Solomon says many illuminating things about the military-industrial complex.
It's very good. I wholeheartedly recommend reading this book.
#books #reading #NormanSolomon #war @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-10 11:52:21 UTC

#NoamChomsky #propaganda #CriticalThinking :chomsky: @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-10 11:47:45 UTC

Wearingeul author inks:
Oscar Wilde - The Young King: https://archive.ph/EkFre
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear: https://archive.ph/9c4m9
#FountainPens #ink #Wearingeul #OscarWilde #ArthurConanDoyle
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2025-04-04 05:26:18 UTC

I'm reading Mark Oliver Everett's memoir 'Things the Grandchildren Should Know' and it's breathtakingly Live and seemingly honestly written.
Check out the quotes I've rattled off from the book via this page: https://bookwyrm.social/book/593708/s/things-the-grandchildren-should-know
@npub1ny7…uv57 #book #memoir #books #reading #MarkOliverEverett
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2025-03-25 08:06:56 UTC

Pilot Iroshizuku ink. I think this is the Murasaki-Shikibu ink.
#FountainPens #ink #Pilot #Iroshizuku #PilotIroshizuku
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2025-03-23 11:36:22 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/348212/s/beastie-boys-book
I love Beastie Boys. I don't like Rick Rubin. I love Run-DMC. I don't like Aerosmith.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #BeastieBoys #RickRubin #book #reading #RunDMC #Aerosmith
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2025-03-21 10:07:16 UTC

https://niklas.reviews/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people
I've reviewed Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'.
This is a wild, self-protecting ride next to Mark Zuckerberg and his genuflecting gaggle of executives as they help commit genocide in Myanmar, selling ads to anti-semites, and deciding the fates of political elections.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #book #reading #SarahWynnWilliams #MarkZuckerberg #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #review #BookReview
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2025-03-20 13:00:15 UTC

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science, what twaddle!

2025-03-20 08:46:40 UTC

https://niklas.reviews/csaba-szabo-unreliable
I've just reviewed Csaba Szabo's ''Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'.
It's a tour-de-force through how most biomedicine research results are impossible to reproduce, how the field is corrupted by fraud, and what some real scientists are doing to counter all of this.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #book #reading #CsabaSzabo #BookReview #reviews #books #science #biomedicine #papers #research #NonFiction
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2025-03-18 12:50:36 UTC

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Some quotes from the book.
#meta #facebook #MarkZuckerberg #SherylSandberg #book #reading #kleptocracy #capitalism
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2025-03-18 08:35:28 UTC

https://github.com/weph/obsidian-bookshelf
This is a new Obsidian plugin that allows you to keep track of your reading, produce nice-lookin' graphs, stats, etc.
The plugin doesn't import data from sites, as far as I can tell. Would be great to do that.
I've not tested the plugin, but it's nice to see. I love https://bookwyrm.social to keep track of books I want to read, create lists, and other things, but that's all online.
#books #reading #Obsidian @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-14 11:47:05 UTC

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what absolute twaddle... I'm buying her book. @npub1ny7…uv57 #reading #meta #facebook

2025-03-14 03:42:21 UTC

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-trying-to-stop-a-former-employee-from-promoting-her-book-about-facebook-004938899.html
#book #reading #meta #facebook #MarkZuckerberg @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-11 10:02:10 UTC

Today is the most interesting book-release day in a long time for me, at least when checking out the LitHub list of releases...
https://lithub.com/karen-russell-torrey-peters-joan-didion-24-new-books-out-today/
#books #reading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-06 21:19:33 UTC

the person who made this is a genius
#unabomber #capitalism #fun #meme #corporations #TedKaczynski
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2025-03-05 12:04:55 UTC

XIU XIU PRAYER BOOK v. 2 - COLLECTED LYRICS (2002 - 2024): https://xiuxiu.bigcartel.com/product/xiu-xiu-collected-lyric-2002-2021
'Updated version of XIU XIU PRAYER BOOK originally published in 2022 as a part XIU XIU 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET.
This newly printed cigarette box sized prayer book includes all lyrics from first Xiu Xiu's album (Knife Play, 2002) to the very last one (13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, 2024).
This book includes all lyrics for:
Knife Play (2002), A Promise (2003), Fabulous Muscles (2004), La Foret (2005), The Air Force (2006), Women As Lovers (2008), Dear God I Hate Myself (2010), Always (2012), Nina (2013), Angel Guts (2014), Unclouded Sky (2014), Xiu Xiu Plays The Music of Twin Peaks (2016), Forget (2017), Girl With Basket of Fruit (2019), Oh No (2021), Select 7 Inches, Digital Singles & EP Tracks (2002-2020), Ignore Grief (2022), 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (2024).
223 pages, size 7 x 11 cm.
2024 edition of 400 copies.'
#XiuXiu #book #lyrics #music @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-05 06:32:27 UTC

I just thought of William Blum's excellent book 'America's Deadliest Export: Democracy': https://bookwyrm.social/book/642535/s/americas-deadliest-export-democracy
This quote is about the NATO bombing of Serbia, an illegal attack that the USA (who basically are the force behind NATO) would interpret as terrorism.
#NATO #USA #Serbia #book #reading #politics #bookwyrm @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-03 19:16:16 UTC

https://www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut
'These numbers heavily suggest that Microsoft — the biggest purchaser of NVIDIA's GPUs and, according to TD Cowen, "the most active [data center] lessee of capacity in 2023 and 1H24" — does not believe there is future growth in generative AI, nor does it have faith in (nor does it want responsibility for) the future of OpenAI.'
#EdZitron #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #grift #capitalism

2025-03-01 22:54:58 UTC

RIP David Johansen.
'David Johansen passed away peacefully at home, holding the hands of his wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, in the sunlight surrounded by music and flowers.
After a decade of profoundly compromised health he died of natural causes at the age of 75.
David and his family were deeply moved by the outpouring of love and support they’ve experienced recently as the result of having gone public with their challenges. He was thankful that he had a chance to be in touch with so many friends and family before he passed.
He knew he was ecstatically loved.'
https://www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohansenfund.html
#DavidJohansen #RIP #TheNewYorkDolls #legend #music

2025-02-23 06:34:29 UTC

'Elon Musk Threatens FBI Agents and Air Traffic Controllers With Forced Resignation If They Don't Respond to an Email': https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-forced-resignation-email-twitter/
I hope the NSA acts against this obvious threat against the USA (and everywhere else). Doesn't this count as abuse?
#ElonMusk #corruption #usa #kleptocracy #abuse

2025-02-21 06:32:53 UTC

Feels like there are loads of ways one can tell an author is Irish ❤️
#WendyErskine @npub1ny7…uv57 #Ireland #books #reading
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2025-02-17 07:03:46 UTC

https://niklas.reviews/adam-plunkett-love-and-need
I've reviewed 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry', Adam Plunkett's insightful and astute book about Robert Frost, the legendary North American poet.
It contains quite a few twists and turns and even helps a Frost neophyte like myself to dig Frost's work and to appreciate the stories about his family, his colleagues, and Plunkett's brilliant analyses of Frost's poetry.
#book #reading #books #RobertFrost #poetry #biography #AdamPlunkett @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-12 11:24:35 UTC

A short excerpt from Gabriel Byrne's fine autobiography. 🐴
#books #autobiography #riding #acting #horses @npub1ny7…uv57 #GabrielByrne
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2025-02-11 11:31:06 UTC

#FountainPens #handwriting
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2025-02-11 06:45:40 UTC

Some workers are already outsourcing their brains to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_study_ai_critical_thinking/
'"Confidence in AI is associated with reduced critical thinking effort, while self-confidence is associated with increased critical thinking," the paper states, adding "This duality indicates that design strategies should focus on balancing these aspects."'
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #CriticalThinking #stupidity

2025-02-04 11:15:29 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1813136/s/unreliable
#research #fraud #CsabaSzabo @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-02-04 09:50:57 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/an-excerpt-from-laurence-reess-the-nazi-mind/
I've written a blog post that mainly consists of an excerpt from Laurence Rees's great new book: 'The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History'.
The post shows how the Nazis tried to spin the horrors of war into heroism.
#books #reading #LaurenceRees #nazi #nazism @npub1ny7…uv57 #politics #history #WW2 #WorldWar2 #WorldWar1 #war #propaganda
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2025-01-30 12:18:03 UTC

I've made a list of books that David Berman—the musician and poet—suggested. It's an exciting list of books!
Any more that I should add? Please send a reference to any proof that he suggested those books.
https://bookwyrm.social/list/3664/s/david-bermans-book-tips
#DavidBerman #PurpleMountains #SilverJews #books #BookList #Bookwyrm @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-30 05:51:23 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1648843/s/neu-klang
#book #music #MusicTips #KarlheinzStockhausen #LouisArmstrong #JohnColtrane #book #krautrock #reading #ManiNeumeier #Bookwyrm @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-29 16:47:54 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1854494/s/electronic-body-music
I can't wait to read this book about electronic body music, the music genre.
I loved bands like DAF, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, and countless others. I loved the friendships, the art, the aesthetics.
A nice book review and a music playlist: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/17/music-80s-ebm-electronic-body-music
@npub1ny7…uv57 #EBM #ElectronicBodyMusic #ElectronicMusic #books #reading #YumaHampejs #MarcelSchulze
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2025-01-29 16:08:46 UTC

Bookstore.org now offer ebooks!
The founder's next steps are to create an alternative to Goodreads; I recommend the already free, open-source, and existing Bookwyrm to everyone: https://bookwyrm.social
https://hyp.is/F6JlJN5bEe-BJ1Pe6ZsJCw/www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/books/indie-bookshop-e-books.html
#Bookstore #Bookwyrm #books #ebooks #reading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-24 08:05:47 UTC

I've just started reading Laurence Rees's latest book, 'The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History': https://bookwyrm.social/book/1806611/s/the-nazi-mind
The short book excerpt in this post says what this book is about.
Laurence Rees is one of my favourite historians. His books about Auschwitz, Hitler, and Stalin are among the most valuable ones I've read. Rees is gentle and carries a vast trove of knowledge.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #LaurenceRees #BookWyrm #Hitler #WW2 #nazism #fascism #NonFiction #books #reading #book
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2025-01-17 12:07:48 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/how-hermann-abs-created-a-capitalist-magna-carta/
I've written about how the banker Hermann Abs created a capitalist Magna Carta; my blog post is entirely based on an excerpt from Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's excellent book 'Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy'.
#book #reading #MattKennard #ClaireProvost #HermannAbs #capitalism @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-16 10:58:35 UTC

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/arts/music/neko-case-the-harder-i-fight-the-more-i-love-you-memoir.html
Dear Neko! Brilliant musician and songwriter. I want to read her memoir soon.
#NekoCase #TheNewPornographers #book #books #reading @npub1ny7…uv57 #music #musician #songwriter

2025-01-15 07:05:02 UTC

My handwriting, which can look very different.
#handwriting #FountainPens #Sailor
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2025-01-13 20:06:59 UTC

https://bookwyrm.social/user/pivic/quotation/6248968
#JakiLiebezeit #Can #book #Germany @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-13 13:15:19 UTC

https://pivic.blog/blog/an-excerpt-from-blake-butlers-molly/
I've just posted an excerpt from Blake Butler's memoir 'Molly', a harrowing, beautiful and open-eyed look into a relationship and oneself.
The start of this book is for me the least harrowing part of the book.
#book #reading #BlakeButler #relationship @npub1ny7…uv57 #memoir
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2025-01-10 07:05:02 UTC

I've just started reading 'Unreliable' by Csaba Szabo, about the unreliability of much published biomedical research and other types of so-called scientific work: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1813136/s/unreliable
#CsabaSzabo #reading #book #Bookwyrm @npub1ny7…uv57 #PhD #BioMedicine #science #PseudoScience #capitalism
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2025-01-10 05:51:55 UTC

#LosAngeles #fire #capitalism #nestle #ExxonOil #shell #memes
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2024-12-19 11:35:27 UTC

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Verkligen. Fan ta Meta som använder slavar.

2024-12-19 08:56:21 UTC

More than 140 Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD. Two new articles:
Booth, Robert. “More than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed with Severe PTSD.” The Guardian, December 18, 2024, sec. Media. Accessed December 19, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd.
Booth, Robert, and Caroline Kimeu. “PTSD, Depression and Anxiety: Why Former Facebook Moderators in Kenya Are Taking Legal Action.” The Guardian, December 18, 2024, sec. World news. Accessed December 19, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action.
#ArtificialIntelligence #facebook #meta #AI #PTSD #capitalism

2024-12-18 05:21:26 UTC

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#memes #capitalism #WorkerRights #politics
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2024-12-18 05:16:13 UTC

#memes #xmas #WorkerRights
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2024-12-16 15:13:48 UTC

#svpol #PonyHans #EbbaBusch #ElPriser
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