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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this letter Truman is attempting to craft the post-war narrative along the lines of the early Compton and Stimson PR. He cites the conversation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff that we examined above, inflating casualties to up to a million American and Japanese lives. He dismisses the Russian invasion of Japanese occupied Manchuria as irrelevant to the end of the war. Furthermore, he asserts that he was the one who “ordered atomic bombs dropped.” Truman succinctly concludes for the history books, “Dropping the bombs ended the war, saved lives, and gave the free nations a chance to face the facts.” One can see the PR campaign underway from the very beginning to long after the war, to shape the understanding of the atomic bombings on the American public that remains pervasive to this day.

There are three things that are important to note. First, Truman did not make the “decision” to drop the bombs, his was one of noninterference, to not disrupt existing plans to drop the bombs. Second, bomb or invade was set out as a binary choice, neglecting the plan to do all of the above and negating the role of the Soviet invasion in Japanese decision-making to end the war. Third, the PR campaign by Truman, Stimson, Compton, and others began to steadily inflate the numbers of anticipated casualties. Bernstein cites MacArthur, US commander in the Pacific, who believed that the casualties and deaths would not be as high as the rate at Normandy and Okinawa."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I used to be able to understand 99% of the dialogue in Hollywood films. But over the past 10 years or so, I've noticed that percentage has dropped significantly — and it's not due to hearing loss on my end. It's gotten to the point where I find myself occasionally not being able to parse entire lines of dialogue when I see a movie in a theater, and when I watch things at home, I've defaulted to turning the subtitles on to make sure I don't miss anything crucial to the plot.

Knowing I'm not alone in having these experiences, I reached out to several professional sound editors, designers, and mixers, many of whom have won Oscars for their work on some of Hollywood's biggest films, to get to the bottom of what's going on."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When you go to watch an opera like Bohème in a big opera house, there’s an unavoidable irony: in so many of these works – from The Marriage of Figaro to Tosca to Wozzeck – money, disempowerment (particularly of woman) and social inequality are repeated themes, and yet the contexts they’re so often seen in – at large opera houses with expensive tickets and dressed-up audiences – are rich and privileged. The rituals surrounding going to operas, its entire reputation as an art form, seem to me now so at odds with the spirit of the stories and the music."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When you think about it, OpenSea would actually be much “better” in the immediate sense if all the web3 parts were gone. It would be faster, cheaper for everyone, and easier to use. For example, to accept a bid on my NFT, I would have had to pay over $80-$150+ just in ethereum transaction fees. That puts an artificial floor on all bids, since otherwise you’d lose money by accepting a bid for less than the gas fees. Payment fees by credit card, which typically feel extortionary, look cheap compared to that. OpenSea could even publish a simple transparency log if people wanted a public record of transactions, offers, bids, etc to verify their accounting.

However, if they had built a platform to buy and sell images that wasn’t nominally based on crypto, I don’t think it would have taken off. Not because it isn’t distributed, because as we’ve seen so much of what’s required to make it work is already not distributed. I don’t think it would have taken off because this is a gold rush. People have made money through cryptocurrency speculation, those people are interested in spending that cryptocurrency in ways that support their investment while offering additional returns, and so that defines the setting for the market of transfer of wealth."]]></description>
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    <title>Is web3 bullshit? - by Max Read - Read Max</title>
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    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So I suppose I'm presenting this little crypto opinions matrix as an effort to carve out a space for skepticism that's unconnected to a predictive position — skepticism not necessarily of the likelihood of a web3 future, but of the culture, values, and especially the backers of the web3 world. (The only falsifiable prediction I'm willing to make is that ten years from now, Chris Dixon and the Winklevoss Twins will be much richer than me, and my quality of life will be the same, or worse.) You find a lot of writers right now asking, essentially, why bet against Andreessen Horowitz? Which I understand! But my feeling is also: Why do I have to bet at all?! Why am I in this awful, ugly, unfun casino in the first place?? Is there a way out of the casino?? And if not, can I at least just get slowly tanked on free booze and annoy people with a reminder that the house always wins?"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sohothedog.com/2020/06/08/once-upon-a-time/">
    <title>Once upon a Time | Soho the Dog</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-11T20:46:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sohothedog.com/2020/06/08/once-upon-a-time/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you have any familiarity with comic-book fandom, you know that continuity is a big deal. And the peculiarity of that continuity—immutable and mutable at the same time—is recapitulated in classical music. Classical music has a similar demand for both myth and novelty, after all. And the “timelessness” of the canon rather depends on a certain temporal haziness not unlike that which Eco cites. If you reframe classical music’s supposed devotion to nostalgia as a cultivation of a particular continuity, and realize that said continuity is, in fact, selectively and purposefully discontinuous, a lot about the nature of classical music in history and the 21st century makes more sense."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://popula.com/2018/09/13/canon-fodder/">
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    <dc:date>2021-06-11T04:04:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://popula.com/2018/09/13/canon-fodder/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/12/16/aquarium-drunkard-2020-year-in-review">
    <title>Aquarium Drunkard : 2020 Year In Review : Aquarium Drunkard</title>
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    <link>https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/12/16/aquarium-drunkard-2020-year-in-review</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/favorite-albums-of-2020/">
    <title>Favorite Albums of 2020 – Raven Sings The Blues</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-19T04:59:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/favorite-albums-of-2020/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/10/the-white-nostalgia-of-the-ccc">
    <title>The White Nostalgia of the CCC - Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-14T03:54:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/10/the-white-nostalgia-of-the-ccc</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I like the CCC as much anyone who likes to spend time in the forest. But we need to recognize it for what it was. The CCC was a program to find work for poor people. In the 1930s, those people were mostly white. In 2020, they are not. What do you think would happen if large numbers of Black and Latino people were sent to rural Idaho and Montana to dig fire lines and plant trees? Actually, we have a good idea. It’s not the first time someone has thought of this. Part of the expansion of the safety net in the 1960s and early 70s was the Youth Conservation Corps. A friend of mine has a book coming out that explores these very questions and I will do a podcast about it when it is published. But here’s the short version–Black kids from Watts really did not want to go Idaho. And white Idaho really, really, really did not want these Black kids around. There was a lot of tension and some violence. The program just didn’t work."]]></description>
<dc:subject>history racism conservation newdeal erikloomis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/01/browsing-the-madmans-library-edward-brooke-hitching">
    <title>From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world's strangest books | Books | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T15:06:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/01/browsing-the-madmans-library-edward-brooke-hitching</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Following up anecdotes, talking to booksellers and librarians and trawling through auction catalogues, he came across stories like that of the 605-page Qur’an written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. “If that was on a shelf, what could possibly sit next to it?” he asks. “I mentioned it to a bookseller and they told me about a diary that they’d had, from the 19th century, written by a shipwrecked captain who only had old newspaper and penguins to hand. So Fate of the Blenden Hall was written entirely in penguin blood.”

There’s the American civil war soldier who inscribed his journal of the conflict on to the violin he carried. There’s the memoir of a Massachussetts highwayman, James Allen, which he “requested be bound in his own skin after his death, and presented to his one victim who had fought back as a token of his admiration”. Or the diary of the Norwegian resistance fighter Petter Moen, pricked with a pin into squares of toilet paper and left in a ventilation shaft; although Moen was killed in 1944, one of his fellow prisoners returned to Oslo after it was liberated from the Nazis and found the diary. Or the entirely fabricated book An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa: its author George Psalmanazar, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned man with a thick French accent, arrived in London in about 1702 and declared himself to be the first Formosan, or Taiwanese, person to set foot on the European continent. (“Obviously no one had been there and nobody knew what Taiwanese people looked like, and he became the toast of high society,” says Brooke-Hitching.)

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<dc:subject>books</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map">
    <title>How a Cartographer Drew a Massive, Freehand Map of North America - Atlas Obscura</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T03:05:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>maps art drawing usa isaacschultz</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/">
    <title>The Scourge of Hygiene Theater - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T02:46:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New York City’s decision to spend lavishly on power scrubbing its subways shows how absurd hygiene theater can be, in practice. As the city’s transit authority considers reduced service and layoffs to offset declines in ticket revenue, it is on pace to spend more than $100 million this year on new cleaning practices and disinfectants. Money that could be spent on distributing masks, or on PSA campaigns about distancing, or actual subway service, is being poured into antiseptic experiments that might be entirely unnecessary. Worst of all, these cleaning sessions shut down trains for hours in the early morning, hurting countless late-night workers and early-morning commuters.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>covid19 transit cleaning derekthompson theater</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://davesredistricting.org/maps#">
    <title>DRA 2020</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T02:45:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://davesredistricting.org/maps#</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>maps usa politics gerrymandering</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/">
    <title>The Case for Letting Malibu Burn</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T02:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ironically, the richest and poorest landscapes in Southern California are comparable in the frequency with which they experience incendiary disaster. This was emphasized tragically in 1993 when a May conflagration at a Westlake tenement that killed three mothers and seven children was followed in late October by 21 wildfires culminating on November 2nd in the great firestorm that forced the evacuation of most of Malibu.

But the two species of conflagration are inverse images of each other. Defended in 1993 by the largest army of firefighters in American history, wealthy Malibu homeowners benefited as well from an extraordinary range of insurance, land use, and disaster relief subsidies. Yet, as most experts will readily concede, periodic firestorms of this magnitude are inevitable as long as residential development is tolerated in the fire ecology of the Santa Monicas.

On the other hand, most of the 119 fatalities from tenement fires in the Westlake and Downtown areas might have been prevented had slumlords been held to even minimal standards of building safety. If enormous resources have been allocated, quixotically, to fight irresistible forces of nature on the Malibu coast, then scandalously little attention has been paid to the man-made and remediable fire crisis of the inner city.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>fire california climatechange mikedavis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-gentry">
    <title>American Gentry - Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future, by Patrick Wyman</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T02:42:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-gentry</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This kind of elite’s wealth derives not from their salary - this is what separates them from even extremely prosperous members of the professional-managerial class, like doctors and lawyers - but from their ownership of assets. Those assets vary depending on where in the country we’re talking about; they could be a bunch of McDonald’s franchises in Jackson, Mississippi, a beef-processing plant in Lubbock, Texas, a construction company in Billings, Montana, commercial properties in Portland, Maine, or a car dealership in western North Carolina. Even the less prosperous parts of the United States generate enough surplus to produce a class of wealthy people. Depending on the political culture and institutions of a locality or region, this elite class might wield more or less political power. In some places, they have an effective stranglehold over what gets done; in others, they’re important but not all-powerful.

Wherever they live, their wealth and connections make them influential forces within local society. In the aggregate, through their political donations and positions within their localities and regions, they wield a great deal of political influence. They’re the local gentry of the United States."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://defector.com/think-of-how-easy-it-wouldve-been-for-donald-trump-to-not-catch-the-coronavirus/">
    <title>Think Of How Easy It Would've Been For Donald Trump To Not Catch The Coronavirus | Defector</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T02:41:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://defector.com/think-of-how-easy-it-wouldve-been-for-donald-trump-to-not-catch-the-coronavirus/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The open secret with Trump is that there is nothing underneath all of this—not just no actual values beneath the pretend ones or actual product behind the pitch, but nothing at all. There is just bottomless idiotic appetite and unstinting demand, the urgency and endlessness of which makes any number of outlandish cruelties not just possible but inevitable. Trump is not the only person who is like this, but it may be that no one is more like this than him."]]></description>
<dc:subject>davidroth trump covid19</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-invention-of-christopher-columbus-american-hero/">
    <title>The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T04:19:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/the-invention-of-christopher-columbus-american-hero/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The American Revolution created the Columbus most of us over the age of 30 learned in grade school. Prior to the late 18th century, he was a historical footnote with no connection to the 13 colonies. An Italian, he sailed under a Spanish flag and landed in no part of the modern-day mainland United States. Yet when the need to develop a national history with no discernible connection to Britain arose during the Revolution, early Americans seized upon him. He was a blank slate on whom post-Revolution Americans could project the virtues they wanted to see in their new nation."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/">
    <title>How to change the course of human history | Eurozine</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:55:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Overwhelming evidence from archaeology, anthropology, and kindred disciplines is beginning to give us a fairly clear idea of what the last 40,000 years of human history really looked like, and in almost no way does it resemble the conventional narrative. Our species did not, in fact, spend most of its history in tiny bands; agriculture did not mark an irreversible threshold in social evolution; the first cities were often robustly egalitarian."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://socialistreview.org.uk/259/tolkien-middle-earth-meets-middle-england">
    <title>Tolkien - Middle Earth Meets Middle England | Socialist Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:54:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://socialistreview.org.uk/259/tolkien-middle-earth-meets-middle-england</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/glenn-miller/">
    <title>Glenn Miller | THE ART MUSIC LOUNGE</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:54:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/glenn-miller/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20687434/amazon-sellers-nomad-merchants-products-malls-walmart">
    <title>Nomads travel to America’s Walmarts to stock Amazon’s shelves - The Verge</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:53:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20687434/amazon-sellers-nomad-merchants-products-malls-walmart</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys."]]></description>
<dc:subject>amazon.com capitalism consumerism shopping joshdzieza</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a28483247/is-it-possible-to-stop-a-mass-shooting-before-it-happens/">
    <title>This Top-Secret Investigator Infiltrates Hate Groups Online</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:53:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a28483247/is-it-possible-to-stop-a-mass-shooting-before-it-happens/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An elite investigator who tracks angry men online, she’s known to some in her field as the Savant because of her uncanny ability to suss out when, exactly, hate speech will morph into violent action."]]></description>
<dc:subject>hate police andreastanley</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/">
    <title>Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:52:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>uber business economics huberthoran</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit">
    <title>Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-19T03:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The question struck me as I watched one of the recent Star Wars movies. The movie was terrible, but I couldn’t help but feel impressed by the quality of the special effects. Recalling the clumsy special effects typical of fifties sci-fi films, I kept thinking how impressed a fifties audience would have been if they’d known what we could do by now—only to realize, “Actually, no. They wouldn’t be impressed at all, would they? They thought we’d be doing this kind of thing by now. Not just figuring out more sophisticated ways to simulate it.”
That last word—simulate—is key. The technologies that have advanced since the seventies are mainly either medical technologies or information technologies—largely, technologies of simulation. They are technologies of what Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco called the “hyper-real,” the ability to make imitations that are more realistic than originals."]]></description>
<dc:subject>capitalism creativity culture davidgraeber technology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151">
    <title>How to Not Die in America</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-22T04:15:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am lucky not for surviving the infection, but for being a member of a shrinking class of Americans whose lives can absorb a trauma of this magnitude, and for whom being thrown, insensible, into the system is actually a good thing. When people refer to me as a “survivor,” which they do often, they’re correct, but it’s not what they think it means: It has already been decided, especially now that it’s again fashionable to claim that healthcare is not a right, who is a designated survivor in this country. It has also been decided who is not."]]></description>
<dc:subject>health healthcare mollyosberg</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-memory/">
    <title>Over 150 People Tried To Draw 10 Famous Logos From Memory, And The Results Are Hilarious | Bored Panda</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-15T21:37:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-memory/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>logos design branding advertising</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.andyzax.com/goodbye">
    <title>&quot;Goodbye, 20th Century!&quot; — Andy Zax</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-01T02:33:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.andyzax.com/goodbye</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Goodbye, 20th Century!”: How Stupidity, Incompetence, Obsolescence, Carelessness, Greed, Malfeasance, Lazy Lawyers And A Basic Misunderstanding Of Physics Are—At This Very Moment!—Eviscerating What’s Left Of Our Musical Heritage

(Text as delivered at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle, 4/27/14)]]></description>
<dc:subject>music preservation recording andyzax</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/">
    <title>New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. – Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-02T22:30:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Far from the dud it’s been made out to be, New Coke was actually delicious—or at least, most people who tried it thought so. Some of its harshest critics couldn’t even taste a difference. It was done in by a complicated web of interests, a mixture of cranks and opportunists—a sugar-starved mob of pitchfork-clutching Andy Rooneys, powered by the thrill of rebellion and an aggrieved sense of dispossession. At its most fundamental level, the backlash wasn’t about New Coke at all. It was a revolt against the idea of change. That story should sound familiar. We’re still living it."]]></description>
<dc:subject>business food culture coke marketing taste conservative</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/juror-revisits-murder-trial-20-years-later.html">
    <title>In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:28:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/juror-revisits-murder-trial-20-years-later.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>law ethics culture sethstevenson justice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/parent-child-pretend-play-expectations.html">
    <title>Parent-child play: It’s constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:27:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/parent-child-pretend-play-expectations.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["John Watson’s Psychological Care of Infant and Child, published in 1928, famously counseled mothers to stay away from their children’s play altogether, because they’d ruin it. “The child is alone putting his blocks together, doing something with his hands, learning how to control his environment,” Watson wrote. “The mother comes in. Constructive play ceases. The child crawls its way or runs to the mother, takes hold of her, climbs into her lap, puts his arms around her neck … Blocks and the rest of the world have lost their pulling power.” Watson’s prescription for avoiding this kind of parental inference with play is one of the most stunning paragraphs in American child-rearing advice and deserves to be quoted in full:

"If you haven’t a nurse and can’t leave the child, put it out in the backyard a large part of the day. Build a fence around the yard so that you are sure no harm can come to it. Do this from the time it is born. When the child can crawl, give it a sandpile and be sure to dig some small holes in the yard so it has to crawl in and out of them. Let it learn to overcome difficulties almost from the moment of birth. … If your heart is too tender and you must watch the child, make yourself a peephole so that you can see it without being seen, or use a periscope."

If people were ever truly drilling fence peepholes to catch glimpses of their children cavorting (and Hulbert, as well as other historians of child-rearing advice, seriously doubt they were), that “frosty” style was out of fashion by the postwar period."]]></description>
<dc:subject>parenting play history rebeccaonion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.furious.com/perfect/audiomemes.html?curator=MusicREDEF">
    <title>Perfect Sound Forever: Beyond Vaporware- How Memes Became the Folk Music of the New Weird Internet</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:26:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.furious.com/perfect/audiomemes.html?curator=MusicREDEF</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The remixes are heard by millions. They go viral, shooting across Twitter and Facebook, influencing others to try their own hands. And yet recordings like "Africa (Vocals 1 Step Out of Key & Off Beat)" or "Smells Like Teen Spirit In A Major Key" barely register as hits, let alone as music. Soon relegated to the dustbin of forgotten memes, if they're taken seriously at all, they're generally classified on the outer fringes of the flourishing YouTube Poop scene, where media sources get treated with funny sounds and goofy processes.
And yet, these aren't merely punchlines. The results actually are music. And the recordings--like John Cage's ideas of indeterminacy or Lee Scratch Perry's stoned-out dubs--will go on to shape future generations of musicians, having already warped a generation towards understanding the true mutability of music. Like Woody Guthrie, they are musicians that have discovered that a song isn't a fixed set of words or chords or melodies or beats, just an idea that exists in the air at whatever moment anybody feels like grabbing it, and that they might take any song and change it around in absolutely any way they feel, to serve what purpose, and by whatever method.
Without marquee artists, though, the new hitmakers are less YouTube stars than they are the semi-anonymous balladeers yodeling in the content mines. Throw away any images of folk musicians strumming acoustic guitars or banjos, or even updating it with freaky lyrics or strange augmentations."]]></description>
<dc:subject>music folk internet jessejarnow remixes</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/incel-plastic-surgery.html">
    <title>The Incels Getting Extreme Plastic Surgery to Become ‘Chads’</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:25:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/incel-plastic-surgery.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“I hope everything goes well and this will be a real change,” he wrote on the forum. “But where do I need to begin? I need women, lots of women, to make up for my miserable life. I need a new social circle, a new identity, a new life. I’ve been thinking of leaving my country. I want to live in hotels in tropical countries and live a playboy life there, only fucking hot blonde European girls. I have the money, I have the freedom. I need to go and leave this goddamn rotten place, need to leave everything behind, my old life.”
“I think you are expecting too much from just some jaw implants,” replied another user.]]></description>
<dc:subject>incels men faces beauty surgery psychology alicehines</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/">
    <title>Heaven or High Water – Popula</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:24:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The decor was beige and white or stainless steel except for the books on the nightstand, which were jewel-toned; one of them was written by someone I dislike. I walked around the apartment as if I already owned it, as if within my lifetime the lobby beneath us would not be decorated with kelp.
We rendezvoused again on the balcony. He gestured at the unusual rainy day, for this time of year, late March. “Usually at night, you will be looking at the best spectacle of a sunset here,” he said. He was framed by Biscayne Bay, and made me think of expensive butter sitting on a blue ceramic dish. I ooohed and ahhed over the view, quite genuinely, because if you don’t think about the fact that it’s filled with thousands of pounds of post-Hot Pilates ceviche poops, Biscayne Bay is breathtaking.
I asked how the flooding was.
“There are pump stations everywhere, and the roads were raised,” he said. “So that’s all been fixed.”
“Fixed,” I said. “Wow. Amazing.”
I asked how the hurricanes were.
He said that because the hurricanes came from the tropics, from the south and this was the west side of Miami Beach, they were not that bad in this neighborhood. “Oh, right,” I said, as if that made any sense."]]></description>
<dc:subject>climatechange environment miami florida sarahmiller realestate</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homework-research-how-much/585889/">
    <title>Does Homework Work? - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:22:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homework-research-how-much/585889/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America has long had a fickle relationship with homework. A century or so ago, progressive reformers argued that it made kids unduly stressed, which later led in some cases to district-level bans on it for all grades under seventh. This anti-homework sentiment faded, though, amid mid-century fears that the U.S. was falling behind the Soviet Union (which led to more homework), only to resurface in the 1960s and ’70s, when a more open culture came to see homework as stifling play and creativity (which led to less). But this didn’t last either: In the ’80s, government researchers blamed America’s schools for its economic troubles and recommended ramping homework up once more.
The 21st century has so far been a homework-heavy era, with American teenagers now averaging about twice as much time spent on homework each day as their predecessors did in the 1990s. Even little kids are asked to bring school home with them. A 2015 study, for instance, found that kindergarteners, who researchers tend to agree shouldn’t have any take-home work, were spending about 25 minutes a night on it.
But not without pushback. As many children, not to mention their parents and teachers, are drained by their daily workload, some schools and districts are rethinking how homework should work—and some teachers are doing away with it entirely. They’re reviewing the research on homework (which, it should be noted, is contested) and concluding that it’s time to revisit the subject."]]></description>
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    <title>Why we have grass lawns - Curbed</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:18:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.curbed.com/2019/3/13/18262285/mcmansion-hell-kate-wagner-lawn-care-mowing</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lawns, by acreage, are the nation’s largest irrigated crop, surpassing corn. Lawns consume resources, including fresh water (especially in those lawns cultivated in desert climes), fertilizer, pesticides and other chemicals, fossil fuels for mowing, and a mind-numbing amount of time, on an immense scale. Much hand-wringing goes on about the use of pesticides in industrial farming and the effect it has had on the worldwide population of pollinators, but less about its destructive use in lawn care. Lawns have introduced some of the country’s most invasive species, including English ivy, Japanese and Chinese wisteria, and decorative trees such as princess tree, Bradford pear, and mimosa. Second only to deforestation, invasive species are the largest threat to the world’s biodiversity.
And all this for what?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>lawns suburbia ecology monoculture climatechange katewagner</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://grist.org/politics/the-road-forward-from-cap-and-trade/">
    <title>The road forward from cap-and-trade | Grist</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T22:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://grist.org/politics/the-road-forward-from-cap-and-trade/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Theda Skocpol’s magisterial new assessment of the cap-and-trade fight gets the diagnosis basically right: The radicalization of the Republican Party doomed the inside-game, partner-with-business strategy. Everything else followed from that.
When Skocpol pivots from diagnosis to prescription, however, things go a little hinky.
Much of her piece involves a comparison of the cap-and-trade bill with the healthcare reform bill (“Obamacare”), which moved forward at roughly the same time. One failed and one succeeded. Why?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>climatechange capandtrade davidroberts politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1">
    <title>Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T05:33:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.
They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.
Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”...
They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time...
Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our own humanity have much better options available to us. We don’t have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways. We can become the individual consumers and profiles that our devices and platforms want us to be, or we can remember that the truly evolved human doesn’t go it alone.
Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together."

]]></description>
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    <link>https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/most-international-borders-are-surprisingly-young</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This map was put together by Reddit user PisseGuri82, who traced each currently existing border to the earliest codification he could find. The map does not take into account older borders that were not officially defined, nor more recent border corrections that were relatively minor. That is an imperfect method, leaving much room for discussion, and improvement.

“However,” says the mapmaker, “I'm hoping this overview gives an interesting look into how the concept of modern borders has spread throughout the world, in which regions they've meandered, where they've settled in and where they were simply imposed once and for all.”]]></description>
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    <title>100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T05:21:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://gizmodo.com/100-websites-that-shaped-the-internet-as-we-know-it-1829634771</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>web history lists</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jessie-kindig-wildfires-western-myth">
    <title>Defensible Space | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T05:20:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jessie-kindig-wildfires-western-myth</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The idea of defensible space strikes me as an intrinsically western one. It has taken a tremendous amount of government money, environmental engineering, and colonial violence for there to be such a thing as “private property” in the West, and for people to live out their—historically speaking—absurd fantasies of independence and self-reliance, to create their own western defensible space. And yet still, for the one third of the United States that lives in the wildland-urban interface, each house in each subdivision attempts to surround itself by its own barrier of self-created defensible space, each pretending to be self-reliant yet in need of massive federal funds for power, water, roads, and firefighting.
I don’t want my parents’ home to burn. I spent part of my trip home this summer helping them water the lawn and flower beds around the house and mow the dried pasture grass—all the while contemplating the stumps of larches that had been cut down outside my bedroom window. And yet I recognize that the demand and the desire to live in the West, as it has long been practiced in this country, is destroying the possibility of actually doing so. Defensible space is the present lodged securely within its own narrowed future. If the western narrative stays in this future anterior tense%]]></description>
<dc:subject>wildfires thewest oregon ecology forests climatechange jessiekindig</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/2/17923050/self-checkout-amazon-walmart-automation-jobs-surveillance">
    <title>Self-checkout is terrible: why Walmart, Target, and others still do it - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T05:16:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/2/17923050/self-checkout-amazon-walmart-automation-jobs-surveillance</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Unexpected item in the bagging area” is a shared cultural reference like no other. It is recognizable by demographics so broad, the only thing that connects them is that they have at one point attempted to buy something at one of the nation’s largest grocery stores, pharmacies, or fast-food restaurants...This constant frustration and humiliation is a contributing factor to the absolute stupidest thing about self-checkout, which is that a full 4 percent of the would-be sales that pass through them are not actually paid for.
Grocery stores have extremely tight profit margins, so that’s a big deal...why all this trouble? Why contort to shuck jobs and replace them with technology (which currently costs $30,000 to $60,000 per station to install) if nobody likes them, the security measures are another source of confusion and expense, and they’re eroding the relationship between retailer and consumer to the point where people feel they are morally obligated to steal?
Andrew Murphy, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Loup Ventures, thinks he has the answer for me.
“My quick take to answer your question directly is that self-checkout is a stepping-stone technology to true automated retail that will quickly get passed by.” He pauses. “Quickly may be the wrong word.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>future automation shopping retail labor kaitlyntiffany</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/">
    <title>Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto's Nouveau Riche</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T05:11:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the ways men bond is by demonstrating collective power over women. This is why business deals are still done in strip clubs, even in Silicon Valley, and why tech conferences are famous for their “booth babes.” It creates an atmosphere of complicity and privilege. It makes rich men partners in crime. This is useful if you plan to get ethically imaginative with your investments. Hence the half-naked models, who are all working a lot harder than any of the guys in shirtsleeves.
The cruise’s panelists all tout decentralization’s promises of shared responsibility, community, and freedom, but the version I see here means that nobody knows precisely who is responsible for all of this. It’s nobody’s specific fault that we’re trapped on a floating live-action walkthrough of how un-trammelled free-market capitalism can be bad for women, given that money and power are things women tend to have less of.
This is not how blockchain events usually go. I know this because enough people who have made very different life choices tell me so within the space of the week that I believe them. But look, I’m new here. This is all I’ve got to go on. And this is the most unimaginative, boringly chauvinist take on techno-utopia I’ve ever been paid to have a terrible time at."]]></description>
<dc:subject>bitcoin sexism marketing lauriepenny</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21">
    <title>I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. | HuffPost</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T04:55:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney."]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa work laurenhough</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-the-year-in-ideas-a-review-of-ideas_us_5c242fc1e4b05c88b6fd6011">
    <title>2018: The Year In Ideas: A Review Of Ideas | HuffPost</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T04:52:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-the-year-in-ideas-a-review-of-ideas_us_5c242fc1e4b05c88b6fd6011</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Verizon Media Group asked me to curate HuffPost’s 2018: The Year in Ideas: A Review of Ideas, I was honored. But I knew I couldn’t do it alone. So I asked 10 of America’s foremost thought leaders, authors and political figures to help me put together a definitive list.
All of them refused.
Undaunted, I forced a bot to review the collected writings of each person I asked, and then write essays for me. The bot instead crashed a Tesla into a Checkers. 
So I wrote them myself.
The following essays and articles are the result of that painstaking process. I hope they inspire you."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/01/23/william-tyler-new-age-windham-hill/">
    <title>Cosmic Pastoral: William Tyler on New Age, Windham Hill, and Emerging Sounds : Aquarium Drunkard</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T04:50:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/01/23/william-tyler-new-age-windham-hill/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There has been in the last decade a true revivalism and reappraisal of new age music amongst a new generation of younger listeners, although what linked the meditative and expansive electronics of, say, Iasos or Steven Halpern to the rather unadorned acoustics of Ackerman and George Winston, was, I’d argue, less a sonic affiliation and more a connection born out of the need to market this music. Windham Hill helped popularize the term “new age,” taking it from its countercultural context to the mainstream. New age would come to mean almost any sounds that could count as meditative or even just “quiet.” Soon, there was a “new age” section at Tower Records and in 1987, a catch-all Grammy category. But while there is a clear continuum from psychedelic music and minimalist avant-garde modernism into a certain strain of what is now thought of as ‘OG new age’ —Halpern, Laaraji, Vangelis, or Constance Demby—the pristine and placid universe that Ackerman and co. carved out with Windham Hill still stands curiously on its own. It deserves its own reappraisal, but also perhaps deserves a recategorization...
In the meantime, I always encourage Fahey devotees to go back revisit the early work of Ackerman, Hedges, and De Grassi. Just because one group of artists sold millions of records and the other championed his own brand of joyful disruption, and at times toiled in obscurity, doesn’t mean that they weren’t and aren’t all united in a kind of strange outsider brotherhood. I like to think of all of this music being connected by something other than “new age” or even “heavy mental.” I think of it as “Cosmic Pastoral”, a global and ever-growing network of artists from different backgrounds, playing on different instruments, striving to paint portraits in sound without resorting to pop and rock tropes. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>1980s music history genre newage williamtyler</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/researcher-counts-the-reasons-he-wants-cryptocurrency-burned-with-fire/">
    <title>Fire (and lots of it): Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency | Ars Technica</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T04:47:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/researcher-counts-the-reasons-he-wants-cryptocurrency-burned-with-fire/</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In conclusion, it is a dismal space. Private and permissioned blockchains are an old idea—a good idea—just with a new buzzword on it. The public blockchains are grossly inefficient. The cryptocurrencies don't work to provide anything against drugs and ransoms and stuff like that. Smart contracts are an unmitigated disaster unless you like comedy gold. And the field is just recapitulating 500 years of failures. So in the end, the only winning move is not to play—unless you like playing with flamethrowers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bitcoin nicholasweaver dangoodin</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/charles-howard-porta-potty-king-of-nyc.html">
    <title>The Porta-Potty King of NYC Faces a Threat to His Throne</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-28T04:36:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/charles-howard-porta-potty-king-of-nyc.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You can’t get denser routes than in New York City, which makes it a major prize. But the market is a nightmare to navigate — traffic, tolls, angry unions, toilets that need to be lowered by crane from skyscrapers. A small group of competitors controls the industry: “the big five.” Mr. John is clean-cut and corporate. Abe Breuer, a wiry Hasidic Jew, runs John to Go from Rockland County. A Royal Flush owns the special-events market and enjoys an enviable 7,000-toilet contract with New York Road Runners to clean up after nervous, caffeinated runners. Johnny on the Spot is now part of a national chain. Over a four-decade career, Charlie’s Call-a-Head has held its own."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>toilets newyork business davidgauveyherbert</dc:subject>
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    <title>We Are Not Living in a 'Video Game Simulation' - Justin Erik Halldór Smith</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-14T15:09:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2016/06/we-are-not-living-in-a-video-game-simulation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wouldn't it, I mean, be a remarkable coincidence to find ourselves alive at just the moment where technology finally shows itself to be adequate to reveal to us the true nature of reality? And how are we supposed to interpret the equally certain claims of people in other times and places, who believed that reality in fact reflected some device or artifice of central importance to their own culture (e.g., horologia, mirrors, puppets, tjurungas...)? Are we really to believe that it was not the light-and-shadow theatres of the ancients or the hydraulic automata of the early moderns that revealed the true nature of things, but that instead humanity would have to await the eventual advent of... Pong? And might the key cosmic-historical significance of this technological moment have something to do with the fact that it is simultaneous with the formative early experiences of the man-child Elon Musk?"]]></description>
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    <title>Aquarium Drunkard : 2018 Year In Review : Aquarium Drunkard</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-12T18:52:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/12/12/aquarium-drunkard-2018-year-in-review/</link>
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    <title>The 100 Best Recordings of 2018</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-02T23:13:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2018.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/11/27/565968260/within-the-context-of-all-contexts-the-rewiring-of-our-relationship-to-music">
    <title>Within The Context Of All Contexts: The Rewiring Of Our Relationship To Music : The Record : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-15T03:04:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/11/27/565968260/within-the-context-of-all-contexts-the-rewiring-of-our-relationship-to-music</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When I think about listening to those B.B. King records in 1986, I am thinking of a time when the role of music's present was usually surprise, counter-argument and probable oblivion. The role of music's past was confirmation, grounding, study and possible immortality. My sense is that these roles are being reversed. In 2014, Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, said to the New Yorker journalist John Seabrook: "We're not in the music space — we're in the moment space." This implies that music's past could become a sequence of brief, discontinuous moments, like quick-fading Snapchat pictures.

Ten years ago, I thought the effect of widespread, immediate access to so much of the history of recorded music would be that the past would come to merge with the present. It would simply become another room in the house. I liked that idea, and I imagine Mary Beard would too. But it seems, instead, that the more likely use of the past, and the more profitable one, is as a weird or uncanny diversion. It delivers you a punch in the neck and then retreats back into a flat, non-hierarchical landscape."]]></description>
<dc:subject>music culture psychology spotify benratliff youtube</dc:subject>
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    <title>Faking it – the great unmentionable of orchestral playing | Focus | The Strad</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-05T15:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thestrad.com/faking-it--the-great-unmentionable-of-orchestral-playing/2149.article</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Several musicians on several continents mentioned how impossible it is to practise faking without the orchestral sweep around them. Some principal players recommended soaking oneself in the surrounding harmony as essential to good faking, with one UK cellist stressing that skilful faking was integral to the ‘not drawing undue attention to oneself ’ part of being a solid orchestral musician. An American friend swore by years of attention to various studies, while a German violinist (still more impressively) urged the necessity of studying the complete orchestral score, in order to fake with conviction. A few fiddle players complained that Wagner is a doddle compared to the long, exposed bows required in the slow movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. There is also a widespread sense of annoyance that it is so often the way the pieces ‘lie’ on the instrument that causes the difficulty, though it is not deemed acceptable to fake just because you haven’t practised.

Many string players emphasise that good faking is an essential facet of really good sightreading, involving as it does that certain modest recognition that one’s personal genius must be sublimated to the good of the whole. Meanwhile, a player in a famous American orchestra, who cut his finger on an anchovy can and was thus obliged to fake perfectly playable bits of one concert, spoke with humility of realising how marvellous his orchestra sounded without him!"]]></description>
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    <title>Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: What happens after the global warming problem is solved?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-11T15:29:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-happens-after-global-warming.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With the massive deployment of Carbon Engineering's technology around the world in the early 2030s, heavily supported by the Gates and Bezos foundations, CO2 levels around the world begin to fall.  Based on international agreement, CO2 levels reached 350 parts per million in 2036, roughly where it was in 1985.  As expected, the earth is now starting to cool and should reach an equilibrium temperature around 2080, close to the observed conditions of the late 20th century.

So today in 2038, the global warming crisis is over.  The planet's climate will stabilize.  Bill Gates was right:  the global warming problem was a technical one that could be solved by technical and scientific solutions.

But with the anthropogenic global warming problem solved, global environment crises did not end.  

In fact, the environmental threats to mankind have never been so serious and pervasive."]]></description>
<dc:subject>future environment climatechange cliffmass technology</dc:subject>
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    <title>Peter Margasak’s 40 favorite albums of 2017, numbers 10 through 1 | Bleader</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-07T05:42:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/01/05/peter-margasaks-40-favorite-albums-of-2017-numbers-10-through-1</link>
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    <title>The Grateful Dead: A Guide to Their Essential Live Songs | Pitchfork</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-20T18:06:35+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/duke-ellington-bill-evans-and-one-night-in-new-york-city">
    <title>Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and One Night in New York City | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-20T05:11:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/duke-ellington-bill-evans-and-one-night-in-new-york-city</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the nineteen-sixties, there have not been jazz musicians as artistically significant and generally popular as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, or Bill Evans. Today, jazz music is a miscellaneous collection of wide-ranging and disputed genres that stands to the side of American culture. How did the train go off the tracks? A listen to Ellington and Evans both playing an Ellington standard, “In a Sentimental Mood,” on the same hot Thursday night in New York City—August 17, 1967—offers a few clues...
The straight-ahead acoustic jazz that generally espoused the values of Ellington and Evans held on mostly as an art music. Masters in that idiom would perform to shrinking audiences in clubs but to bigger numbers in concert halls, especially in Europe. However, the basics of straight-ahead jazz were also being taught to incoming freshmen at an increasing number of American colleges. The influx of students mandated digestible rules. During the mid-seventies, a lead sheet of “In a Sentimental Mood” appeared in “The Real Book,” the most widely disseminated jazz manual ever made, a “fake book” of tunes and chord changes produced by students in the powerful jazz program at Berklee College of Music, in Boston.
If a student wanted to sound like Bill Evans on “In a Sentimental Mood,” he or she could quickly start getting close with the help of a chart in “The Real Book.” The sheet begins with four versions of D minor, “D-, D-(maj7), D-7, D-6.” These aren’t wrong, exactly, but they are far closer to Evans than Ellington, and suggest ways of articulating harmony in a blocky and unmusical fashion, one divorced from the idea and emotion of the original song.
Lead sheets generally offer mildly complex added-note harmonies that imply a sequence of chord scales. A novice can start cheaply rhapsodizing scales through pastel harmony instantly, summoning a basic imitation of modern jazz in the Evans mold. The great pianist and provocateur Paul Bley joked that every European jazz promoter, after first relaxing with a drink post-gig, would inevitably sit down at Bley’s instrument and play just like Evans."]]></description>
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    <title>Thelonious Sphere Monk Centennial: Primary and Secondary Documents | DO THE M@TH</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-20T04:48:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Aquarium Drunkard » Aquarium Drunkard :: 2017 Year In Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-18T18:00:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/12/18/aquarium-drunkard-2017-year-in-review/</link>
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    <title>textura</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-15T16:14:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.textura.org/archives/articles/2017top10s.htm</link>
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    <dc:date>2017-12-15T16:14:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/15/the-best-bandcamp-albums-of-2017-20-1/</link>
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    <title>The 100 Best Songs Of 2017 : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-14T17:47:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/2017/12/13/568725030/the-100-best-songs-of-2017</link>
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    <title>The Cool Kid’s Philosopher | Current Affairs</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-03T03:49:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-cool-kids-philosopher</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Having surveyed Shapiro’s work, and pointed out the various ways in which he is not terribly logical, not terribly consistent, and not terribly well-informed (in addition to being not terribly humane), it is worth asking why so many people think of him as a “principled” and “brilliant” dismantler of arguments. The answer, it seems to me, is largely that Shapiro is a very confident person who speaks quickly. If he weren’t either of these things, he wouldn’t seem nearly as intelligent. Because he doesn’t care about whether he’s right, but about whether he destroys you, he uses a few effective lawyerly tricks: insist that there’s “no evidence whatsoever” something is true, demand the other side produce such evidence, and when they stammer “Buh-buh-buh” for two seconds, quickly interrupt with “See? What did I tell you? No evidence.” Or, just pluck some random numbers from a study, even if they’re totally false or misleading, e.g. “40% of transgender people commit suicide and the risk doesn’t go down if they are treated better,” which was nonsense but sounded good. Cross-examine people with aggressive questions that confuse them: Are you a moose? I said: are you a moose? No? I didn’t think so. I rest my case. Use shifting burdens of proof: demand a wealth of statistical evidence before you will admit that black people face any unique hardships, but respond to every criticism of the Israeli government by calling the speaker a “proven” and “undeniable” anti-Semite. Disregard all facts that contradict your case, but insist constantly that the other side despises facts and can’t handle the truth. Call your opponents “nasty,” “evil,” “brainless” “jackasses.” All of these techniques work very well, and with them, you, too, can soon be Owning and Destroying your political opponents on camera. (I would probably lose a debate with Ben Shapiro quite badly, as my instinct in public conversations is to try to listen to people.)"]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics benshapiro debate logic nathanjrobinson</dc:subject>
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    <title>The 100 Best Recordings of 2017</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-02T15:12:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2017.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arosner</dc:creator><dc:subject>music lists 2017 tedgioia</dc:subject>
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