A brand new 🔗🎵 Album Whale List that is three times as large as my 2nd largest list.
Back in January …
🔗🎵Announcing “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” from The Waterboys | Sun Records
The announcement wasn’t very clear …
“Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” releases from The Waterboys on April 4th.
Today is the 4th. Not here. I guess it will be tomorrow - when it is the 4th in America.
🔗🎵💿 Cambridge St/ation - Pink Floyd
The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
I’ve started a new AlbumWhale list (and I haven’t even finished the others! Still.) The new list is called ‘Formative Years’ …
I’m an ‘artist’ guy, then an ‘album’ guy and then a singles/track guy. I like my music ‘in context’ The lists in here are way behind what I see in my mind’s eye - BUT the topics provide a clue to how I relate them all.
This new list is all about albums that ‘formed me’ and contributed to the music world I am today. At the time I might not have recognised it - but in the rear view mirror - absolutely.
First Up: Odessey and Oracle By The Zombies
We are told that AI will assist us, that platforms will adapt to us, and that services will respect what we want. But we are not being asked what we want. We are being modeled, approximated, and acted upon. Once that system achieves high enough fidelity and the simulation of our intent is “good enough,” our actual presence becomes redundant.
This is not empowerment. It is erosion.
🔗 The whole piece is on LinkedIN - via Doc Searls.
Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.
But the reward on the other side is second to none; the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn don’t need to work anymore, he added. Microsoft purchased the professional networking platform for $26.2 billion in 2016.
.. so why is he still working?
🔗 If you are happy and need something to take you off your high … - don’t worry - its not that you don’t know l this - it’s just when you see it summarised and ending with …
But the public is too dumb and too uninformed to wake up and smell the coffee.
It ain’t morning in America, it’s closing in on midnight.
If you speak up, no one will rally to your defense, like the law firms sitting on the sidelines and refusing to defend 🔗 Perkins Coie
But you’ll compete with other influencers for the last buck, listening to mindless drivel .. happy that you’re still alive.
