🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Hailu Mergia and The Walias:
🎵 Tche Belew
#HailuMergiaandTheWalias
https://wirkkalassecretestash.bandcamp.com/track/yemiasleks-fikir-hailu-mergia-the-walias-with-mulatu-astatke-tche-belew
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BxCRD3CZ65suyXj6KeGuU
New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/
So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end
'Unprecedented': Judge says Trump admin 'unequivocally' acted unlawfully in unilaterally shuttering Job Corps youth job training program
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/naked-attempt-to-evade-clear-law-federal-judge-says-trump-admin-unequivocally-acted-unlawfully-in-unilaterally-shuttering-job-corps/
Lewd, crude and politically astute: South Park’s history of controversy https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/26/south-park-history-controversy-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- Wild Aesthetic
Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today’s most exciting genre-defying artists.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g3p0
Dahlias, Eryngium, Verbena bonariensis, Agapanthus and Crocosmia, all in June rather than July onwards.
#ClimateChange #Gardening.
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
TARRANT: Orac, is it possible for a living person to pass through a solid hatch without there being any material disturbance.
ORAC: The process is called teleportation.
DAYNA: Oh, well, nothing like stating the obvious.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/256
So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end