#ListeningTo
"The Vallum"
by #RobertDallasGray (@rdg_music)
https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/the-vallum
Released June 20, #2025
#ThankYouPeople!

incommunicable contemplations

#Philippines: Stop union-busting at #Lululemon supplier

https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5662

#Solidarity #WorkersRights

It's launched:
"The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding"

From the abstract:
"A call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S."

I'm glad I could contribute a bit.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510834
or: https://sks.to/autocracy

Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism

A fateful visit to a market in Moscow entirely upended Tolstoy’s view on life and society—and changed the trajectory of his work and purpose.

By: Ben Woollard

https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/

Tolstoy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136

#books #literature

#ListeningTo #HollyNear & #RonnieGilbert – No More Genocide (on "Lifeline") https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=mHa-tVI1pCU #Word! #RedwoodRecordsRR404 #USofA #1983 #Rock #Folk #SoftRock

#ListeningTo #FrankMills – You Don't Love No More (on "Music Box Dancer") https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IJ5NTA7VMqc #Whee! #CapitolRecordsST512388 #Canada #1983 #Jazz? #EasyListening

[ #ListeningTo #RobMcConnell & #TheBossBrass – No More Blues (on "Big Band Jazz Volume 2") https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7Ccq_NWXCzg #Yeh! #PausaRecordsPR7141 #USofA #1983 #Compilation? #Jazz #BigBand ]

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed

Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣

We have delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on
@EU_Commission to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,—in ye, men yet may roll

Lo de lo imprevisible https://ctxt.es/es/20250601/Politica/49516/Guillem-Martinez-corrupcion-gobierno-Pedro-Sanchez-Abalos-Santos-Cerdan.htm

#ListeningTo #JPWest – Don't Wanna Dance No More (on "J.P. West") https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xj_pFQDAIZg #AlsJijHetZegt!! #Polydor815_688_1 #PowerRecordsPOWLP101 #Netherlands #1983 #Pop

#ListeningTo
"Music For A Revolution Vol 1 : Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967-1973)"
by #VariousArtists (i.e. #Compilation via #RadioMartiko)
https://radiomartiko.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-revolution-vol-1-guineas-syliphone-recording-label-1967-1973
Releases June 27, #2025
#MerciÀVousTous!

I try all things; I achieve what I can.

🖼Marcha a Gaza, por javitxuela para El Salto.

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

More research adding weight to my hunch that, in the future, software developers who *haven't* been relying on LLMs will be in highest demand.

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

What does a 2000 photo of Edward Said throwing a rock at the wall separating newly-liberated southern Lebanon and Israel have in common with the LA protests?

A few thoughts on how 'violence' if framed.

Article version (support if you can) https://www.hauntologies.net/p/framing-violence

🧵 below

SIN AGUA Y SIN AIRE. La IA generativa es una factoría de ilegalidad y violación de todos los derechos humanos. Funciona a base de robo, extractivismo, explotación y contaminación. El puñado de tecno-oligarcas que las manejan se sigue enriqueciendo a costa de envenenar el planeta 🚨

Nota completa de Esteban Magnani.
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/833828-la-supercomputadora-supercontaminante

The most USian image description ever: "A law enforcement officer points a taser at a person wearing a hot dog costume during a protest."

Nationwide photos of no kings protests | AP News.

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577