Sound & Music
This web app lets you search a song on #spotify and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. #echonest 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 #masseylectures 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