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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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LIVE Presents _cite/site_ by == Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora == as part of it's inter-biennial online and mediated programming founded in 2021 Assembly - Repair and Care.
Works will be presented in their entirety on
LIVE on COOP Radio CFRO 100.5FM
Wed June 28th 21h PDST (GMT-7) Vanc
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"After decades of searching for an “Einstein tile”— a shape that would never repeat — researchers say they have identified one. The 13-sided figure is the first that can fill an infinite surface with a pattern that is always original." via @SmithsonianMag
smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
a/ anyone still here?
b/ interest in audio and speculative fiction?
if a & b then:
Try this hybrid event @ VPL Downtown, 2pm Sunday Nov 27.
newmusic.org/walking-festiva…
returning again to the @wetlandproject mixed with Locils' Endless Falls - mix your own with, loscil.bandcamp.com/album/en… & wetlandproject.com/stream
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One day, unless we can prevent it, this will be listened to as we can today, in wonder, but also with an unspeakable sense of loss. Don’t miss it today. Put it on in the background and let it seep into you. #PleaseRT
Sober 2nd Thought on the The Algorithm vs Googbook evils, and you need to know what "criti-hype" is.....
pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/m…
excerpt: "When someone tells you they won't trust vaccines because Big Pharma is full of profit-maddened murderers who don't care who they kill to make a buck, and their regulators are in on the scam – they're not wrong."
excerpt: "As I explained in my 2020 book, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism," the role that surveillance plays in conspiratorialism is in finding people, not convincing people." pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/m…
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Obama committed the sin of #critihype, @STS_News's useful term for criticism that repeat the self-serving myths of the subject of the critique. Every time we say that Big Tech uses machine learning to brainwash people, we give Big Tech a giant boost:
pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/e… 3/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/m… 2/
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Wishing everyone a mindful Earth Day. Thinking of Canadian composers whose music reflects the beauty of our world: Emily Doolittle, Harry Somers (Evocations), R. Murray Schafer, Leslie Uyeda (Whales), and so many more. @emily_doolittle @cmcnational #EarthDay2022
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A 15 year-old Dee Snider stands in the middle of a boisterous, passionate Earth Day crowd. A tall, gorgeous, flaxen-haired drag queen pumps a fist at the sky, yelling, “We’re not gonna TAKE it!” A light bulb goes off over Dee’s head.
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Just a program note from your friendly Saturna pacific chorus frog—the birds mostly have it here during the day but as the sun goes down we take over the choir, and we ARE LOUD.
#EarthDay22 #wetlands @wetlandproject
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‘A large, stable planetary rock is a much more secure foundation for reality than bits of a computer program that can be deleted at a whim.’ @eschwitz on David Chalmers’ version of the simulation argument schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co…
#BargeBlockingBridge (was #BargeChillingBeach (was GurlChillingPark (was #DudeChillingPark)))
globalnews.ca/news/8777231/f…
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I can't stop thinking about the prospect of artists or specific works that purposefully damage/destroy playback hardware.
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Take a break from the hard sell that is life & tune into @CJSR for the @wetlandproject ALL DAY #EarthDay2022


















