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href weekly | May 26 – June 1 2025

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Brock University’s Senate formally approved and adopted an ethical framework for educational technologies. https://mastodon.social/@rajiv@scholar.social/114597401223608167

Gardening

All my Spring seeds in the ground this week (bit later than usual this year) – garlic planted in October is thriving!

Film & Video

Tales From The Loop .. some compelling storytelling in these episodes

Music & Sound

fans rejoice .. a collection of 40 home recorded tapes https://archive.org/details/ajpa_20220828

“Segall has taken cues from pre-punk rock styles before—most notably on his eclectic 2018 record, Freedom’s Goblin—but on Possession they’re focused into a tight 10 songs. That brevity is effective. Stripped of filler, the album’s highlights hit harder, keeping them on target in a context where execution is especially important.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/ty-segall-possession-review

Humour

“And when you need to pass, you don’t need to yell, “WITNESS ME!” A simple honk of your horn is just fine.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-only-person-on-the-fury-road-who-still-drives-a-sensible-car

href weekly | May 19 – May 25 2025

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“Users were granted a somewhat awkward email address of username@davidbowie.com, along with 5MB of personal web hosting.” https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/remembering-the-isp-that-david-bowie-ran-for-eight-years/

“Jazz must swing – musicians agree on that. However, even a century after the beginnings of jazz, there is still no general agreement what exactly constitutes the swing feel. With a dedicated experiment and data analyses on more than 450 well-known jazz solos, we have tried to unravel some secrets of swing.” https://www.ds.mpg.de/swing

Music & Sound

It ain’t the banks
And it ain’t the taxes
It ain’t the pay day loans and the high rent homes
And predatory fees and practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vjaimSK4E

Fascist Discotheque https://soundcloud.com/desdemonas/fascist-discotheque

“a triumphant return for echoing past glories while remaining analytical, steadfast, and inquisitive.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/stereolab-instant-holograms-on-metal-film-review

“Over the last four decades, McCaughey has been the Mad Hatter at an eternally rocking tea party where pals from Wilco, The Decemberists, The Bangles, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, NRBQ, The Dream Syndicate, The Posies, and others help bring his slightly skewed visions to life.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/scott-mccaughey-album-guide

Comics

“Those who see journalistic neutrality as an aspirational myth will value the narrative and moral force of the work and appreciate how openly the artist journalists reveal their own values and conflicted perceptions.” https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/22/Comics-Power-Moral-Horror-Spiegelman-Sacco-Gaza/

Politics & Economics

“Get in the room with other people (more D.I.Y. and I.R.L.). Embrace the analog, which can’t be surveilled by artificial intelligence. Reach out to unexpected, even problematic (I prefer “problemagic”), allies, with different but compatible definitions of justice.” https://archive.ph/85QND

“Psychedelics have been swept up into the well-rehearsed capitalist playbook where private players are fabricating exclusionary rights over what are ultimately the products of collective human struggle and intellectual achievement.” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/05/22/Rise-Psychedelic-Capitalism/