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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Noel Brass Jr.:
🎵 Midnight Morning
#NoelBrassJr
https://noelbrassjr.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-morning

Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Not a #social #media researcher, but this seems wrong on many levels.
https://fediscience.org/@tsch…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Kneel
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/kneel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zHlu8zTCOQ2R6nobGogKJ

Bob's Confetti: Phonetic Memorization Attacks in Music and Video Generation
Jaechul Roh, Zachary Novack, Yuefeng Peng, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Amir Houmansadr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17937

Bob's Confetti: Phonetic Memorization Attacks in Music and Video Generation
Lyrics-to-Song (LS2) generation models promise end-to-end music synthesis from text, yet their vulnerability to training data memorization remains underexplored. We introduce Adversarial PhoneTic Prompting (APT), a novel attack where lyrics are semantically altered while preserving their acoustic structure through homophonic substitutions (e.g., Eminem's famous "mom's spaghetti" $\rightarrow$ "Bob's confetti"). Despite these distortions, we uncover a powerful form of sub-lexical memorization: m…

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Kneel
#NowPlaying #NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/kneel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zHlu8zTCOQ2R6nobGogKJ

🔫 From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
#globalsouth

From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

Current episode of the Citations Needed podcast on the "Abundance" talking point is really good.
"Abundance" is Neoliberalism and trickle down economics with a new coat of (lead) paint.
https://pca.st/episode/c8a05dc1-3b04-4255-b978-cf76bf40e…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Cold Heart
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/cold-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WRdonm8caliL2JA6fT2fL