diff --git a/2024_music.html b/2024_music.html index feb97c3..49a1c83 100755 --- a/2024_music.html +++ b/2024_music.html @@ -313,6 +313,18 @@ Florence + The Machine The copy I borrowed from MNLink was pretty banged up; I couldn't rip track 5 and 6. + + 2024-W47 + Party Bangers: Volume 1 + Bad Waitress + + + + 2024-W48 + TRY + SAVE ME + Bec Sandridge + + diff --git a/identity/index.html b/identity/index.html index e56b8bb..d655a85 100755 --- a/identity/index.html +++ b/identity/index.html @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 -as of 2024-08-04: +as of 2024-12-01: I have full administrative control of the following domains and their subdomains: - - mayvane.day @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ The following Tor hidden services are mine, and I have sole access to the privat - - sabladem4rxv5p34qcpz6sxitmftvmzmlzi4cjmmh5a3phcvdi3k2wad.onion (MayVaneDay) - - meynethaffeecapsvfphrcnfrx44w2nskgls2juwitibvqctk2plvhqd.onion (MayVaneDay, deprecated) - - hikariu7kodaqrmvu3c3y422r6jc7gqtpvvbry6u7ajvranukx6gszqd.onion (Let's Decentralize) -- - xanthexikes7btjqlkakrxjf546rze2n4ftnqzth6qk52jdgrf6jwpqd.onion (Let's Decentralize, deprecated) - - blapi36sowfyuwzp4ag24xb3d4zdrzgtafez3g3lkp2rj4ho7lxhceid.onion (Dead End Shrine Online) The following I2P "eepsites" are mine, and I have sole access to the private keys: @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzhvyd.onion/cetra/mayv http://yylovpz7taca7jfrub3wltxabzzjp34fngj5lpwl6eo47ekt5cxs6mid.onion/cetra/mayvaneday http://pmo2bva2xhlxydq7zfswb6v4x4e32p3mj446tblj3hfi2rygh3lraqyd.onion/lethe/mayvaneday http://qt5vr747phiq55ubqip4hflmpygzl374mum2zbyqdxg6sqbngmzlqhid.onion/lethe/mayvaneday -http://gitshn5x75sgs53q3pxwjva2z65ns5vadx3h7u3hrdssbxsova66cxid.onion/lethe/mayvaneday https://gitea.phreedom.club/lethe/mayvaneday Finally, my GPG public key is: @@ -106,15 +104,15 @@ Ipzl6ecL3upkGrfo0MVNDVcpFiq1t7kh81pi - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- -iQFOBAEBCgA4FiEEq2j4OrvQF4SeDEtjVj/VgT2D7rUFAmawFBMaHHZhbmV2YW5k -ZXJAbWF5dmFuZWRheS5hcnQACgkQVj/VgT2D7rVhsAf/fJ9vlXycCBMvomhoG8HT -3YoWdGWOO3L67i4nKmNdbN4b/qUogrTqIhBXqcAYPHCWz7P9iVcdc292bJrdeczi -5j9qIqNOmQFcEDd2/NE1AzTa1mkQy6etIUiE/LE6DQO/lkWsDZ6akHhtkr8nRtqC -HY95bu+7k6BfpZL8DyOrc2o9HlJXSqyTeaDJSZsiZ3F88WvlvqZU/C+QhnXIwvJ5 -MoDljeoxthYBVWQ5gwC7exs1Ac47jK0r+Vm+kF2pxu+zv5gM5DRJRNF6CQcQuAs9 -Pon25CT3NUj3uByY9i3tbTeM5n6vAaxZ7RbDc6zOcMzoxO4bGahRlskCaOgjnC/i -EQ== -=gsOM +iQFOBAEBCgA4FiEEq2j4OrvQF4SeDEtjVj/VgT2D7rUFAmdNIX8aHHZhbmV2YW5k +ZXJAbWF5dmFuZWRheS5hcnQACgkQVj/VgT2D7rUvJAf+LFmML4CXkbAnLJM6v71d +TEw0IHyU68/b6U5WQ0U6KUcGfp+0kUYK46ls4H7IHk8hdY+mFFzlBzHb7wVtyqwz +9I3TyrK4qIUNZXOutXpM7QSoyLqGl9tTYVM4emqAZ9uFCrP4ynD0WUhWiW0kRJQb +LAd4cDlRd1HVZdEx+xr1JL8/SU7Vit9zreE7KGheX/S3VQNi4zCDz4Wh1oK93b60 +FWiYWykHnNjEy1OcrnFmYBBdweEi+sPAtBZhOKgOwMKAWesRstnafdQZmfUSbWD7 +oFuDma7AophLnu0r++HrnYUSw1XPaMZWIFmBNLFOAzARH/cDvI815tDtZqQjn0EA +7Q== +=elKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- diff --git a/recs/consumerism.html b/recs/consumerism.html index 3619ffe..81950af 100644 --- a/recs/consumerism.html +++ b/recs/consumerism.html @@ -39,70 +39,74 @@
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AffluenzaJohn de GraafCasual
The more real wealth we have - such as friends, skills, libraries, wilderness, and afternoon naps - the less money we need in order to be happy.
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Life Inc.Douglas RushkoffCasual
The efforts may be local, but the effects are global. Every gallon of gas we don't burn is a few bucks less going to exploit someone in the Middle East. Every student we educate properly has more potential to create value for us all. Every plate of chard we grow is another patch of top-soil saved, another square foot of room on a truck, and another nail in the coffin of Big Agra. Every Little League game we coach is an assault on the obesity epidemic, every illiterate adult we teach to read may become one fewer welfare case to fund, and every hour we spend with friends is that many eyeballs fewer glued to the TV. The little things we do are big, all by themselves.
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Culture JamKalle LasnCasual
Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. From the moment your radio alarm sounds in the morning to the wee hours of late-night TV, microjolts of commercial pollution flood into your brain at the rate of about three thousand marketing messages per day. Every day, an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America's collective unconscious.
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The High Price of MaterialismTim KasserAcademic
...we need to feel autonomous and authentically engaged in our behavior. We constantly strive for increased freedom and more opportunities to experience life in a self-directed manner. These needs are most apparent in our strong motivation to express ourselves and to follow our own personal interests. Rather than feeling pressured or burdened by our circumstances, we need to pursue activities that provide us with challenge, interest, and enjoyment. By doing so, we can feel ownership of our own behavior, and thus feel both authentic and autonomous.
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BrandwashedMartin LindstromCasual
...the minute we're born, we may already be biologically programmed to like the sounds and music we were exposed to in utero.
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The Hacking of the American MindRobert LustigCasual
Now look at the corn-fed steak. See all that marbling? We love it, because that's where the flavor is. And after grilling, it practically cuts with a butter knife. That marbling is fat in the muscle. That's muscle insulin resistance. That cow had metabolic syndrome; we just happened to slaughter it before it got sick, and now we're consuming the aftereffects in each and every Big Mac.
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AffluenzaJohn de GraafCasual
The more real wealth we have - such as friends, skills, libraries, wilderness, and afternoon naps - the less money we need in order to be happy.
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Life Inc.Douglas RushkoffCasual
The efforts may be local, but the effects are global. Every gallon of gas we don't burn is a few bucks less going to exploit someone in the Middle East. Every student we educate properly has more potential to create value for us all. Every plate of chard we grow is another patch of top-soil saved, another square foot of room on a truck, and another nail in the coffin of Big Agra. Every Little League game we coach is an assault on the obesity epidemic, every illiterate adult we teach to read may become one fewer welfare case to fund, and every hour we spend with friends is that many eyeballs fewer glued to the TV. The little things we do are big, all by themselves.
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Culture JamKalle LasnCasual
Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. From the moment your radio alarm sounds in the morning to the wee hours of late-night TV, microjolts of commercial pollution flood into your brain at the rate of about three thousand marketing messages per day. Every day, an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America's collective unconscious.
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The High Price of MaterialismTim KasserAcademic
...we need to feel autonomous and authentically engaged in our behavior. We constantly strive for increased freedom and more opportunities to experience life in a self-directed manner. These needs are most apparent in our strong motivation to express ourselves and to follow our own personal interests. Rather than feeling pressured or burdened by our circumstances, we need to pursue activities that provide us with challenge, interest, and enjoyment. By doing so, we can feel ownership of our own behavior, and thus feel both authentic and autonomous.
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BrandwashedMartin LindstromCasual
...the minute we're born, we may already be biologically programmed to like the sounds and music we were exposed to in utero.
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The Hacking of the American MindRobert LustigCasual
Now look at the corn-fed steak. See all that marbling? We love it, because that's where the flavor is. And after grilling, it practically cuts with a butter knife. That marbling is fat in the muscle. That's muscle insulin resistance. That cow had metabolic syndrome; we just happened to slaughter it before it got sick, and now we're consuming the aftereffects in each and every Big Mac.
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diff --git a/recs/evil_social_media.html b/recs/evil_social_media.html index c7af2ba..e17df6c 100644 --- a/recs/evil_social_media.html +++ b/recs/evil_social_media.html @@ -50,93 +50,108 @@
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The Stars in our PocketsHoward AxelrodCasual
Curiosity as an approach to the world, as a means of orientation, is becoming obsolete. I don't just mean Google curiosity - with questions that can be instantly searched, instantly answered - or online news curiosity - with questions that get asked for you - but the kind of curiosity that originates with negative capability, with following your deepest affinities...
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Digital MadnessNicholas KardarasCasual
Internal emails showed that there was a discussion at Facebook about modifying their harmful algorithm, but that was firmly rejected by the decision-makers. The company's response to the data indicating that their product was killing teens? Cost of doing business... Facebook was apparently willing to accept that some teenage girls may have to die and be collateral damage in the quest for obscene profitability.
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The Net DelusionEvgeny MorozovAcademic
Apparently, nothing bad ever happens on the Internet frequented by the editors of Wired; even spam could be viewed as the ultimate form of modern poetry.
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The Death Of TruthSteven BrillCasual
As with building codes requiring adequate exit access in a crowded theater, the FTC rule would include a requirement that the platform demonstrate that it has the capability to adhere to these terms of service - in this case to screen the volume of its content in a way that actually ensures that while the screening process meant to achieve its terms of service may not be perfect, it is designed to be near perfect. If this means that a platform has to cut its profit margins to hire thousands of people to screen all content before it is posted, or that it has to drastically lower the volume of users or the amount of content that it can post, so be it.
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Facebook SocietyRoberto SimanowskiAcademic
A main thesis of this book is that social networks and diary apps prompt their users to engage in more or less unconscious and unreflective self-narration of a kind that favors implicit over explicit self-revelation and that prefers mechanical presentation (via photography or automated sharing) to mindful representation (via textual statements or the creation of a narrative structure).
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You Are Not A GadgetJaron LanierCasual
So a better portrait of the troll-evoking design is effortless, consequence-free, transient anonymity in the service of a goal, such as promoting a point of view, that stands entirely apart from one's identity or personality. Call it drive-by anonymity.
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowJaron LanierCasual
...women and girls who attempt to express themselves online find that their words and images are sexualized or incorporated into a violent or manipulative framework. Women's online presences have often been grotesquely transformed for the purposes of humiliation, shame, and harassment.
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Stand Out of Our LightJames WilliamsCasual
If you wanted to train all of society to be as impulsive and weak-willed as possible, how would you do it? One way would be to invent an impulsivity training device - let's call it an iTrainer - that delivers an endless supply of informational rewards on demand. You'd want to make it small enough to fit in a pocket or purse so people could carry it anywhere they went. The informational rewards it would pipe into their attentional world could be anything, from cute cat photos to tidbits of news that outrage you (because outrage can, after all, be a reward too). To boost its effectiveness, you could endow the iTrainer with rich systems of intelligence and automation so it could adapt to users' behaviors, contexts, and individual quirks in order to get them to spend as much time and attention with it as possible.
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The Stars in our PocketsHoward AxelrodCasual
Curiosity as an approach to the world, as a means of orientation, is becoming obsolete. I don't just mean Google curiosity - with questions that can be instantly searched, instantly answered - or online news curiosity - with questions that get asked for you - but the kind of curiosity that originates with negative capability, with following your deepest affinities...
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Digital MadnessNicholas KardarasCasual
Internal emails showed that there was a discussion at Facebook about modifying their harmful algorithm, but that was firmly rejected by the decision-makers. The company's response to the data indicating that their product was killing teens? Cost of doing business... Facebook was apparently willing to accept that some teenage girls may have to die and be collateral damage in the quest for obscene profitability.
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The Net DelusionEvgeny MorozovAcademic
Apparently, nothing bad ever happens on the Internet frequented by the editors of Wired; even spam could be viewed as the ultimate form of modern poetry.
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The Death Of TruthSteven BrillCasual
As with building codes requiring adequate exit access in a crowded theater, the FTC rule would include a requirement that the platform demonstrate that it has the capability to adhere to these terms of service - in this case to screen the volume of its content in a way that actually ensures that while the screening process meant to achieve its terms of service may not be perfect, it is designed to be near perfect. If this means that a platform has to cut its profit margins to hire thousands of people to screen all content before it is posted, or that it has to drastically lower the volume of users or the amount of content that it can post, so be it.
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Facebook SocietyRoberto SimanowskiAcademic
A main thesis of this book is that social networks and diary apps prompt their users to engage in more or less unconscious and unreflective self-narration of a kind that favors implicit over explicit self-revelation and that prefers mechanical presentation (via photography or automated sharing) to mindful representation (via textual statements or the creation of a narrative structure).
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You Are Not A GadgetJaron LanierCasual
So a better portrait of the troll-evoking design is effortless, consequence-free, transient anonymity in the service of a goal, such as promoting a point of view, that stands entirely apart from one's identity or personality. Call it drive-by anonymity.
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowJaron LanierCasual
...women and girls who attempt to express themselves online find that their words and images are sexualized or incorporated into a violent or manipulative framework. Women's online presences have often been grotesquely transformed for the purposes of humiliation, shame, and harassment.
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Stand Out of Our LightJames WilliamsCasual
If you wanted to train all of society to be as impulsive and weak-willed as possible, how would you do it? One way would be to invent an impulsivity training device - let's call it an iTrainer - that delivers an endless supply of informational rewards on demand. You'd want to make it small enough to fit in a pocket or purse so people could carry it anywhere they went. The informational rewards it would pipe into their attentional world could be anything, from cute cat photos to tidbits of news that outrage you (because outrage can, after all, be a reward too). To boost its effectiveness, you could endow the iTrainer with rich systems of intelligence and automation so it could adapt to users' behaviors, contexts, and individual quirks in order to get them to spend as much time and attention with it as possible.
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Terms of ServiceJacob SilvermanCasual
How easily they've assimilated themselves to this lifestyle, tending to their profiles, little gardens of personality in which only pleasantries bloom and life's setbacks, even a death in the family, are presented with such overwrought sentimentality that it's possible to think that such tragedies are welcomed, because they offer an opportunity to share and be embraced by the social-media cocoon.
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