#HatTip to Alternatives Airwaves, who featured Rebuffering in a Nov 2023 edition of their podcast. A mix of corporate rock, of which the podcast delivers only the intro and outro, and CreativeCommons tracks, played in their full glory;

https://pinecast.com/feed/alternative-airwaves

#podcasts #AlternativeAirwaves #CCMusic

#Listening to Rich People, a standalone track by Carsie Blanton from 2022;

https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/rich-people-digital-single

Licensed under CreativeCommons (BY-NC-ND 3.0), as is all the music she's released since on BC. Maybe everything there, but I didn't check every single release.

#HatTip to the @bsots Radio music podcast for introducing me to this song, in part 2 of the interview with @musicman;

https://radiobsots.blogspot.com/2023/07/bsots-180-in-conversation-with-douglas.html

#podcasts #BSOTS

If you'd like to follow the #Disintermedia blog from your fediverse account, I just set up an actor for my blog that can followed from both the fediverse and the ATmosphere;

@disintermedia.net.nz

I'm hosting the blog on Ghost, which I thought was federated out-of-the-box. But it turns out I need a separate ActivityPub module to plug my Ghost instance into. As a stopgap, I can use BridgyFed for this.

#HatTip to the #BridgyFed team at @anewsocial for making this possible.

#Ghost

"... when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all."

#CLLynch, 2019

https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/

I've been uncomfortable with the way people talk about the autistic s spectrum for ages, but couldn't put my finger on why. This one sentence absolutely nails it.

#HatTip to @dedicto for referencing the article in their bio.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticSpectrum

"... when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all."

#CLLynch, 2019

https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/

I've been uncomfortable with the way people talk about the autistic s spectrum for ages, but couldn't put my finger on why. This one sentence absolutely nails it.

#HatTip to @dedicto for referencing the article in their bio.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticSpectrum

"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."

https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism

#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.

#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

#Listening to Who Can You Trust? The opening track of the 5 song EP of the same name by Arden and the Wolves, released in 2018;

https://ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/album/who-can-you-trust

Hot take; most provocative album cover ever.

#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for introducing me to this band, by interviewing lead singer Ardern Leigh on his Team Human podcast;

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts

#music #rock #NewWave #ArdenAndTheWolves

"Advertising executives aren't 'creatives'. It's like calling landlords architects."

#DominicHoey, How to Lose Money

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep for exposing me to this righteous spoken word track.

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/17208338/freak-the-sheep-w-taylor-mcgregor-november-12-2025

Dominic is also known as Tourettes, maybe that track is here somewhere? Have a dig ...

https://tourettesone.bandcamp.com/

#podcasts #95bFM #FreakTheSheep #music #SpokenWord

#Listening to The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, specifically their 2012 album Twenty Dozen;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_yXkB5eD0

"I'm a dirty old man, and I feel like spanking somebody!"

Yeah, more or less 😁

#HatTip to @nevar23, whose October post linking to the Dozen's Cissy Strut introduced me to this fabulously spicy band.

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#music #jazz #funk #brass #DirtyDozenBrassBand

grApple and Goggle vetting developers for the privilege of having their apps available on the iThing and Android OS they control is a protection racket. It's not a legitimate business practice, it's a shakedown. This is not business, it's organised crime, and these tech mafia need to be prosecuted out of existence if they don't stop doing it.

https://www.eff.org/document/letter-bruce-schneier-senate-judiciary-regarding-app-store-security

#HatTip to @pluralistic for the link.

“This case targets our rights to protest, speak freely, and associate with anyone who disagrees with this government … I’ve spent my career fighting America’s backwards slide towards fascism and I’m not going to give up now.”

#KatAbughazaleh, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-democrat-running-congress

F'n legend. Fight the power Kat.

#HatTip to @theicarian for the link.

#ResistUSFascism

"There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was created to enable folks with common interests to connect with one another through interactive computing even when widely separated by geography.”

#BobTaylor, Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), #DARPA

https://internetmythen.de/en/index0258.html?mythen=myth-15-the-internet-was-invented-by-the-pentagon-and-designed-to-survive-a-nuclear-attack

#HatTip to @nethope for the debunk link

"Someone once told me art is like emotional nutrition.

That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.

And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."

@oatmeal,

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

#HatTip to @lightweight for the link.

#MOLE #AI #AIArt

#HatTip to philosopher Catherine Malibou, and the Disintegrator podcast, whose interview with Malibou clued me on to the existence of plastic chips.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-spirit-w-catherine-malabou--67301230

#podcasts #Disintegrator #CatherineMalibou #PlasticChips

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#HatTip to philosopher Catherine Malibou, and the Disintegrator podcast, whose interview with Malibou clued me on to the existence of plastic chips.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-spirit-w-catherine-malabou--67301230

#podcasts #Disintegrator #CatherineMalibou #PlasticChips

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"No wealthy democracy with nuclear weapons has ever fallen to fascism. The 1930s examples everyone cites were broken countries. Weimar Germany was weakened by World War I and hyperinflation. Italy was barely industrialized. Spain was largely agrarian. They didn’t have the world’s reserve currency. They didn’t have thousands of nukes. They didn’t have surveillance technology that would make the Stasi weep with envy."

#ChrisArmitage, 2025

https://scribe.rip/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-fascism-in-history-the-success-rate-is-0-a665e2e048a2

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#HatTip @jackyan for link

"Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was formed by the amalgamation of the New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, and the Television New Zealand Archive between 2012 and 2014."

https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/about-us/who-we-are/about-nga-taonga-sound-vision/#our-story

#HatTip to the audio-visual archivists, helping to defend us all from the Ministry of Truth and the memory hole, one recording at a time : )

#AudioVisual #archiving#NgāTaonga#NZFilmArchive#NZSoundArchives#TVNZ