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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Marvin gaye:
🎵 Save the Children (Salaam Remi Remix)
#Marvingaye
https://remioz.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-save-the-children-remi-oz-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1RpoUhwpD8ZtpJhq41EU9k

A.G. Sulzberger encourages listeners "to support any news organization that's dedicated to original reporting", in his first ad running across most NYT podcasts (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.…

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Ann Peebles:
🎵 I Can't Stand The Rain
#NowPlaying #AnnPeebles
https://substanceofficial.bandcamp.com/track/ann-peebles-i-cant-stand-the-rain-substance-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CcL4kSHKIEwF3IW0BGgb6

Minus femton grader i Kyiv. Ingen el. Ingen värme. Liubov Tsybulska berättar om kognitiv krigföring så som den ser ut i vardagen, här och nu, i Ukraina. Hon talade till oss på RISE i januari. Nu delar jag hennes tal vidare, med hennes tillåtelse.
https://carlheath.se/den-kalla-hybridkrigf…

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The B‐52’s:
🎵 Roam (12″ remix)
#TheB52s
https://djrapha.bandcamp.com/track/the-b52s-roam-remix

#TIL that video game preservation website #Myrient is another casualty of the rising costs of RAM and SSDs caused by the #AIBubble. 😠

Retro Video Game Preservation Site Myrient Shutting Down
The impact of AI datacenters on hosting and hardware costs have made maintaining the site unsustainable, its founder said

'Plaintiff’s attorney argued that under the 2006 Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, DHS no longer has the authority to make FEMA employee decisions or “usurp FEMA’s authority” on how it runs its own agency. She accused DHS of breaking the law when it decided to not renew employment for approximately 300 temporary employees.'
Labor union urges judge to reinstate temporary FEMA employees | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/labor-union-urges-judge-to-reinstate-temporary-fema-employees/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sade:
🎵 The Sweetest Taboo
#NowPlaying #Sade
https://remioz.bandcamp.com/track/sade-the-sweetest-taboo-remi-oz-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sKfhhj6hYyJIXnTiZV9vf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 Radio Free Europe
#REM
https://theartsmixof.bandcamp.com/track/r-e-m-radio-free-europe-the-art-mix-edit-kzp-rms
https://open.spotify.com/track/6l6O0Q6pd1tc1DiE7GLy4u