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href weekly | April 28 – May 4 2025

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“At https://tv.garden we value simplicity, reliability, and a seamless viewing experience. Our aim is to connect you with engaging content from around the world without clutter or broken links. By focusing on channels that actually work, we’re here to spare you the hassle of buffering and frustration—letting you simply tune in and enjoy.”

Chad won’t stop talking about . Shut him up with the right answer or lose health https://playchadgpt.com

“In a world saturated with technology, we already have to remind ourselves to put down our phones; to go outside; to see friends in person; to go places instead of staring at them on our screens; to have non-technological experiences, such as boredom. If we’re not careful, then our minds will do less as computers do more, and we will be diminished as a result.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/why-even-try-if-you-have-ai

Music & Sound

The Unstoppable Mike Watt .. “There is no reason to think that great artists stop being great artists as they age, and we do them a disservice to celebrate their past output while ignoring their present. What follows is a list highlighting some of Watt’s most impressive recent releases, to inspire you to listen to his body of work in full as he continues to redefine what punk rock means.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/mike-watt-album-guide

“10 of the best Peel-focused collections on plus a bonus pick that digs into a particular corner of the Peel Session universe.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/peel-sessions-album-guide

Great tribute from Fabio https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=151429&archive=269384&starttime=0:41:01

A release from my son & daughter https://punchtheband.bandcamp.com/track/vanilla-string

Local artist sums up the feeling of a homesick Maritimer https://acadianembassy.bandcamp.com/track/gone

— first as marketing material, then as pure creative expression — turned an audio-only medium into a multi-sensory experience. https://matthewstrom.com/writing/album-art/

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/whats-happening-to-the-internet

“It was never a terrible idea, at least, to use computers to connect to one another on occasion, for justified reasons, and in moderation (although the risk of instrumentalizing one another was present from the outset). The problem came from doing so all the time, as a lifestyle, an aspiration, an obsession. The offer was always too good to be true, but it’s taken us two decades to realize the Faustian nature of the bargain.” https://archive.ph/US4Na

A conversation with CEO Jay Graber https://www.wired.com/video/watch/social-media-reboot-a-conversation-with-jay-graber

..” is a platform that resolutely wishes it wasn’t. And that has profound implications for what its users want the platform to be, and what it can’t; in short, why it will not save us. … excessive dependence on platforms creates an ugly feedback loop that can swallow our dreams whole.” https://www.liberalcurrents.com/bluesky-wont-save-us/

Film & Video

“It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.”

“In short, Sun Ra had a religious cult. Only instead of killing people, or drinking Kool-Aid, or committing mass suicide in preparation for some comet flyby, or trying to take over society through covert operations and all-out extortion of members … Sun Ra’s cult played jazz. They played jazz constantly, they played jazz with determination and fervor, and they played jazz in hats made of tin foil, sequins, duct tape, and purple rayon.” https://www.metafilter.com/79781/The-Sun-Ra-Quilt-of-Joy#2479221

Sound & Music

What we have now is a perverse, frictionless vision for art, where a song stays on repeat not because it’s our new favorite but because it’s just pleasant enough to ignore.” https://archive.ph/5Lx61

Politics & Economics

“I think of our move as being more than just ‘protest’, which implies that we academics lack the power to change the publication system directly … by starting new journals that are open, not-for-profit, and have high academic standards.” https://carbonchemist.com/journal-editor-mass-resignations-what-do-they-achieve/

“.. the only tool that can secure economic justice for workers who truly can’t help but do their jobs is solidarity.” https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/#vocational-awe