href weekly | Dec 3 – Dec 9

Sound & Music

This web app lets you search a song on and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. https://jukebox.davi.gq/jukebox_index.html

Holiday music for 2023: snethyxmasparty https://rushad.bandcamp.com/album/snethyxmasparty

Did the old songs taunt or cheer you? And did they still make you cry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQNNjXztsI

Politics & Economics

Excellent from @AstraTaylor “It’s a paradox — we live in the most prosperous era in human history, but it’s also an era of profound insecurity. In the third 2023 CBC Massey Lecture, Astra Taylor suggests that history shows that increased material security helps people be more open-minded, tolerant, and curious. But rising insecurity does the reverse — it drives us apart.” https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor

“Money is abstract, absurd. It’s a belief system, a language, a social contract. Money is trust. But the rules aren’t fixed in stone.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.noemamag.com%2Fwhat-if-money-expired%2F

 

href weekly | Nov 26 -Dec 2

Bits

Art provides discrete, meaningful experiences. Content doesn’t end. https://bloodknife.com/apples-strange-days/

The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it’s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3035-the-internet-con

Politics & Economics

What remains as the drugs fade is the everyday world, the set, setting, and matrix for ordinary consciousness, the trip that lasts the longest and matters the most. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23972716/psychedelics-meaning-science-psychedelic-mushrooms-ketamine-psilocybin-mysticism