🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🎵Apologies if this is a repeat - search doesn’t seem to be working for me today 😢
Yesterday ‘someone’ posted a bandcamp link to a band I did not know … ‘Hum’.
Friggin awesome stuff.
🔗 A songwhip link to the album … shades of ‘Secret Machines’?
🔗 The most consequential politics story in the US isn’t the Trump arraignment.
Once again - following the easy meat, so we take our eyes off the ball and the real game.
Deflection and Misdirection - keep your eyes open.
🔗 Why did Sanna Marin lose Finland’s election?
It only seems like yesterday (last November!) when she met with Jacinda Ardern and they had to defend attacks on them suggesting that they were just meeting because they were women of a similar age.
Jacinda went first. Now it’s Sanna.
Oh WOW
🔗 Mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape.
Invent? Or do they mean discover? I mean - the shape has always been there.
Still, looking forward to seeing magazines like Architectural Digest feature photographs of kitchens, bathrooms, patios et al using the tile.
🔗 Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?
I don’t know - but I like the idea!
🔗 Staten Island, Forgotten Borough .. I wonder how many NYC visitors think they have ‘been to New York’, when in fact they have likely only ‘been to Manhattan’ (riding in from JFK or La Guardia or even Newark aside). That said it is easy to forget the island, even if you do think of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx - the island would be the last - if at all - on most lists. (Full disclosure - for all the times I have been to NYC, ‘the island’ remains the only Borough I have never been to.)
That all said, it does seem an interesting - if not ‘complicated’ - place with multiple contradictions. Great read.
🔗 Does it matter if Substack is in financial trouble?
TL;DR : No - and I agree.
But - in there are some great links from @adders that are there regardless of Substack’s survival that allow you to seamlessly move off Substack and on to Ghost, Buttondown or Beehiiv. Nice.
I haven’t thought about this album for years - and then Tedium wrote about it at length ….
🔗 🎵 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The Rock Opera That Shaped the Form
I relistened to some of it earlier today. I still enjoyed it - but to my ears it hasn’t aged well. Not yet put my finger on why - but I suspect a new listener might not engage with it in the same way.
I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …
Sharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.
Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.
Via Doc Searls
… aims to make individuals become more aware of the risks and benefits of data trading and sales, and take steps to protect their own data … …. is the first step towards unpacking and untangling the complex world of data exchanges. … we hope to provide guidance on how industry groups and associations can develop better codes of conduct and best practices for data exchanges.
My first visit to the ‘sevens’.
UPDATE: 230427
… and immediately went back into the eights - until 7th April.
Sculpture
“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh-and-blood object [are] up against the thing that isn’t. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happens in a flash.
To me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you—so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that’s what I think we do when we’re interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is, [is] not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. [It’s] a state of affairs that we’re assessing.”
💬 Phyllida Barlow
🔗 At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree.
… because even donkey’s deserve to know their roots.
I will share the recording link when it is available … but just listening to Doc Searls’ Ostrom workshop with Cory Doctorow .. if he’s half right … good luck with the future.
UPDATE, March 21st, 2023
“Alas, the beginning is missing due to a technical glitch.”
💬 Doc Searls
Society is way behind in adapting its rules to this new liquid culture. It makes everything precarious for everyone. Sam Bankman-Fried went from the Forbes 400 to a jail cell in a few weeks. I don’t think he has yet to get his head around how destroyed his life is. (Have a suicide watch ready when he figures it out.) There are a few industries that still resist this facet of Moore’s Law. Education is one. Health care is another. Law is a third. We have yet to see Trump’s perp walk, and legal delays make new infrastructure almost impossible to build.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn