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    <dc:date>2026-03-27T16:07:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The developers of Griid, the Ableton Live controller on iPad created in association with Richie Hawtin, have shared photos and screen captures early with CDM to give us a look at the upcoming app. This also makes me wonder what may be possible with Renoise’s pattern editor, which also uses colored blocks to show off units of patterns and the like (and could similarly be controlled from new input devices thanks to its API).]]></description>
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    <title>(500) http://ow.ly/2H4Wd</title>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[®
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nozinja, inimitable performer (just watch the video below) and studio mastermind behind innumerable street-level hits in his homeland, will headline the European tour with the masked Tshetsha Boys, Tuiselani and Nkata Mawewe plus “the fastest Shangaan dancers around”. The tour’s stops will include the Sónar festival in Barcelona, Rich Mix in London, Manchester’s Islington Mill and Berlin’s Berghain.]]></description>
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"I also think there's tremendous value in creating a dedicated music graph (as opposed to a social network that also has music); it's in your best interest to follow (or unfollow!) someone regardless of whether you're strangers or best friends. I don't follow the list of people I follow everywhere else; I follow people who make my playlist of music better/worse.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kynd uses openFrameworks to create pencil-like drawings of photographs:
Pencils has been the most primitive or the most basic drawing and writing tool since around the last century. Trying to simulate the tone of pencil sketches with programing codes, I reacknowledged that the beauty of of the tool lies in the delicate control of the blackness, strength and thickness of of lines, which I could hardly achieve in some of my attempts so far.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After publishing Norwegian Wood in 1987, a book often called “the Japanese Catcher in the Rye,” Murakami’s notoriety exploded to such an extent that he felt forced out of his homeland, a country whose traditional ways and — to his mind — conformist mindset never sat right with him in the first place. I myself once spent a month doing nothing but reading Murakami’s work, and this BBC documentary Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer makes a valiant attempt to capture what about it could raise such a compulsion.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everything, that is, except for hip hop. So maybe it should be less about saying to hip hop, “Oh now you dig grime?” and more hearing hip hop saying, “Maybe it’s time to check out the rap music in the rest of the world.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Make it clear to them.’
‘The book I’m describing is the book I’ve always said I would write.’
‘It wasn’t the book you were writing when you stayed up with me all night telling me your stepfather was an alcoholic.’
‘That’s not going in the book. The morning after Julian’s press release, Jamie wanted me to refute Julian’s claims and I said that he was just doing the same thing as Julian.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Any one of the following, you’d think, might have been the news story of the year, or the decade: the revelation that America’s biggest spy agency, the NSA, has information on every phone call made in the continental United States as well as abroad; that it claims to have direct access to the servers of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and all the other major web companies; that GCHQ, the NSA’s British equivalent, is siphoning off the entire internet and storing some of it for thirty days; that online encryption has been subverted and nothing is safe from government spies. In his book Harding describes the moment when Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian journalist who travelled to Hong Kong along with Greenwald and Poitras to meet Snowden for the first time, took out his iPhone and asked Snowden whether h]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is poly something you are, or something you do? I realise now that it will take a lot more time and energy than I initially expected, but that doesn’t mean poly can’t work.”
The boomerang
“Poly is just really important to me,” Claire says.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Suddenly, the picture the reality managers have fed us for the last few years – the three ‘big’ parties each offering a slightly different version of capitalist realism, with Farage and UKIP offering capitalist realism with even more ultra-nationalism – was interrupted, and it was possible to imagine that Britain was “headed, in its nuanced way, leftward”. Yet it’s perfectly plausible that a Labour-SNP coalition could now achieve what Jeremy Gilbert and I argue that New Labour could have been expected to attempt: “make some efforts to change the strategic situation in the long-term: to rebuild the unions, to re-energise local government, to facilitate the growth of an alternative media sector”.]]></description>
<dc:subject>labour politics uk capitalist-realism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://skynetandebert.com/2015/04/22/music-was-better-back-then-when-do-we-stop-keeping-up-with-popular-music/">
    <title>&quot;Music was better back then&quot;: When do we stop keeping up with popular music?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://skynetandebert.com/2015/04/22/music-was-better-back-then-when-do-we-stop-keeping-up-with-popular-music/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[- … at any age, people with children (inferred from listening habits) listen to a smaller amounts of currently-popular music than the average listener of that age. - To identify likely parents, I first identified listeners with notable 2014 listening for genres including “children’s music”, “nursery” , “children’s christmas”, “musica para ninos”, “musique pour enfants”, “viral pop” or ” antiviral pop”, then subsequently removed that music when calculating the user’s median artist popularity rank.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music technology spotify information-retrieval data-science</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:409e2014e2ff/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/stopping-the-home-office-deporting-illegal-immigrants-anti-racist-activists">
    <title>On Patrol with Brixton's Black Revs: The Radicals Fighting for the UK's Illegal Immigrants | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/stopping-the-home-office-deporting-illegal-immigrants-anti-racist-activists</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It got off to a bad start after a list of the operation’s targets was leaked to pretty much the last people in the world that the Home Office would have liked it leaked to – a newly formed anti-racist group called the London Black Revolutionary Socialists, or Black Revs for short. Since they got their hands on the documents – which the Mail reckoned must have come from a Home Office mole – the Black Revs and other activists have been tearing up and down the country, using UKBA’s own intelligence to inform the identified businesses that they might want to disappear for a couple of weeks, and what their legal rights are in the event of a raid.]]></description>
<dc:subject>activism politics immigration radical solidarity socialism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:686acf0be636/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/04/platform-cooperativism-vs-the-sharing-economy/">
    <title>Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/04/platform-cooperativism-vs-the-sharing-economy/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The sharing economy is portrayed as harbinger for the post work society and path to ecologically sustainable capitalism, Google will conquer death itself, and this brave new “disruptive” economy will rid us of Jurassic forms of labor, which might well include what David Graeber refers to as “bullshit jobs.”[2]
But by now, only few people still fall for the solidarity theater of the “disruptive sharing economy,” its deceptive “peer” rhetoric when referring to individual workers and consumers, as well as its constant talk of changing the world (HBO’s Silicon Valley anyone?). People understand that it is the modus operandi of the “community managers” of the sharing economy to conflate multimillion-dollar commercial entities like Uber with non-market, peer-to-peer projects like Wikipedia or Fo]]></description>
<dc:subject>future politics sharing_economy platforms cooperatives circular-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:35fa60ce1639/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html">
    <title>The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was “our national experiment in extermination.” Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that’s due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible.”
His department issued warnings to citizens, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: “[P]ractically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic,” read one 1928 ]]></description>
<dc:subject>alcohol drugs government US</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:5ced720ace4d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/mental-health-and-recreational-drugs-875">
    <title>What Are Recreational Drugs Actually Doing to Our Mental Health? | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/mental-health-and-recreational-drugs-875</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I asked Liz Hughes, a mental health nurse who writes for the blog Mental Elf and is also a professor of mental health at the University of Huddersfield, what factors can tip people over the edge from regular drug use into the kind of drug use that can lead to mental illness. But some people will start with an empty bucket and can take a lot of drugs before they become ill.”
She says that if drug use is affecting your day-to-day functioning, like being unable to work, eat, sleep or socialize properly, then this could be the sign it is developing into mental illness.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture drugs policy politics society uk</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/04/27/visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust/">
    <title>Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust - Ethereum Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/04/27/visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unlike traditional (financial or other) systems, where you need to trust a particular entity to maintain the database of who holds what quantity of funds, who owns a particular internet-of-things-enabled device, or what the status is of a particular financial contract, blockchains allow you to create systems where you can keep track of the answers to those questions without any need to trust anyone at all (at leastintheory). Trust
First, it is important to point out that distrust is not nearly the only reason to use blockchains; I mentioned some much more mundane use cases in the previous part of this series, and once you start thinking of the blockchain simply as a database that anyone can read any part of but where each individual user can only write to their own little portion, and wher]]></description>
<dc:subject>blockchain distributed trust systems internet ethereum</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:b25929857748/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/666-mckenzie-wark-the-logic-of-riots">
    <title>McKenzie Wark: 'The Logic of Riots'</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:51:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/666-mckenzie-wark-the-logic-of-riots</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The flames of Watts consumed consumption." In the spectacle of consumer society advertises a life in which all that is good appears on television and all that appears on television is good. The looter takes desires for necessity, and necessity for their desires, but freeing the commodity from exchange does not expunge exchange from the commodity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>london police politics riots philosophy space</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-asked-an-expert-happen-if-eu-opened-borders-to-everyone-584">
    <title>We Asked An Expert What Would Happen if the EU Opened Its Borders to Everyone | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-asked-an-expert-happen-if-eu-opened-borders-to-everyone-584</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The research we have shows that immigration has had a positive effect on economic growth in Europe overall. So if we’re talking about immigration policy, the question “Does migration substantially harm low-income countries?” is the same as the question, “Does forcibly stopping people from leaving low income countries substantially help those countries?” To put it mildly, social science has absolutely no evidence of such a effect.]]></description>
<dc:subject>immigration politics EU sociology society</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2015/apr/30/porn-data-visualising-fetish-space">
    <title>Porn data: visualising fetish space</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2015/apr/30/porn-data-visualising-fetish-space</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BDSM clips in the last few months have averaged around $1.10 per minute, whereas Foot Fetish videos have been over $1.20 for a while now, but that pales in comparison to the difference in length – BDSM clips average around 11-12 minutes, but Foot Fetishists have to make do with clips averaging barely 7 or 8 minutes. Let’s explore fetish-space some more, starting with the Top 40 most popular list:]]></description>
<dc:subject>sex data visualization kink</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/inside-guildfords-cannabis-cafe-420">
    <title>Inside Surrey's New 'Cannabis Cafe and Hotel' | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/inside-guildfords-cannabis-cafe-420</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Located in the middle of a Guildford housing estate, Jonathan refers to his flat as a “Cannabis Café and Hotel.” But, inside, it looks less like a fledgling business initiative intent on getting UK cannabis laws changed—or a hotel of any description—and more the home of a man who very much enjoys smoking weed. It’s not intended to make a lot of money, just to be friendly to the cannabis community.”
For more on weed, watch our doc ‘King of Cannabis’:As he gives me a tour of the two rooms, piled full of stuff from previous lodgers, he tells me that the plan is to charge people “around a tenner” to stay the night, plus free tea, and coffee.]]></description>
<dc:subject>drugs uk weed</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry">
    <title>Should art respond to science? On this evidence, the answer is simple: no way</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That seems to be the less than enlightening message the Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda – creator of the massive light beam Spectra that took over the sky in London last year to commemorate the first world war – took from a residency at Cern in Geneva. Ikeda’s installation Supersymmetry, staged in the darkened uppermost level of a multistorey car park, is apparently what you get when you introduce an artist to the world’s most advanced particle research insitute and its renowned Large Hadron Collider.]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics art experimental music artists</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/over-50000-families-shipped-out-of-london-in-the-past-three-years-due-to-welfare-cuts-and-soaring-rents-10213854.html">
    <title>Welfare cuts and soaring rents have pushed 50,000 families out of London in the last three years</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/over-50000-families-shipped-out-of-london-in-the-past-three-years-due-to-welfare-cuts-and-soaring-rents-10213854.html</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At least 25 councils have received homeless families without being properly notified by the councils that sent the families. The data maps out the movement of tens of thousands of homeless families from inner London to outer London, with east London receiving the most families.]]></description>
<dc:subject>government housing policy politics welfare</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:8685d33f55f1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24488/1/how-to-be-an-artist-without-going-to-art-school">
    <title>How to be an artist without going to art school</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24488/1/how-to-be-an-artist-without-going-to-art-school</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In honour of this year's Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award, the list below attempts to forge an alternative route through the art world, from watching art comedian Casey Jane Ellison’s ultra-awkward-but funny YouTube show to following Instagram’s finest art troll. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWhy did Satan start to possess girls on screen in the 70s?Learn the art of photo storytelling and zine making at Dazed+Labs Nike The unexpected history of Nike’s Air Max8 essential skate videos from the 90s and beyond with Glue SkateboardsThe unashamedly queer, feminist, and intersectional play you need to seeParis artists are pissed off with this ‘gift’ from Jeff KoonsA Seat at the TableVi]]></description>
<dc:subject>art school education learning class</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://observer.com/2015/04/yale-art-dean-rob-storr-on-how-todays-art-critics-suck-especially-jerry-saltz/">
    <title>Yale Art Dean Robert Storr on How Today's Art Critics Suck, Especially Jerry Saltz</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://observer.com/2015/04/yale-art-dean-rob-storr-on-how-todays-art-critics-suck-especially-jerry-saltz/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Respected curator and Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr sat down for a chat about art criticism with artist Brainard Carey on Yale Radio / WYBCX recently, and in a nutshell, it wasn’t pretty. Storr’s own art:
“Dave Hickey is a very able essay writer who is actually not a very good art critic at all and has devolved from being interestingly, a spoiler in the context of the art world, to being a tea partier, basically.]]></description>
<dc:subject>art critique writing culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/adam-ramsay/how-tories-and-lib-dems-have-ensured-voters-aren%27t-hearing-from-their-most-po">
    <title>How the Tories and Lib Dems have ensured voters aren't hearing from their most powerful critics</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/adam-ramsay/how-tories-and-lib-dems-have-ensured-voters-aren%27t-hearing-from-their-most-po</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[However, as one person involved told me, they “had to make a decision that they wouldn’t say or do anything on fracking during the election period.”
I’m told that another charity, one which supports people with a common and life changing illness, used to organise hustings in general elections - giving patients and their families a chance to grill candidates about what they would do. But, as one senior campaigner at a major anti-poverty charity put it to me, “It’s galling to see the heads of the biggest, richest organisations in the UK speaking out, but those who represent the poorest and most vulnerable are not able to speak out.”
The de-politicisation of charities and NGOs is a much longer story than this one Act.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics uk Tories LibDems</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/01/blair-selfie-peter-kennard-political-dynamite">
    <title>The man who made Blair’s Iraq selfie: why Peter Kennard is political dynamite</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/01/blair-selfie-peter-kennard-political-dynamite</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kennard defines his role as that of a “communicator” and is determined to make art that exists outside the confines of the art world, once stating that: “For me, getting the work out into the world and used is as important as its production.”
This has served as both maxim and method for Kennard and since the early 1970s he has brought his art to street level, either as fly posters, protest placards or T-shirts in support of a variety of groups, including the CND and Amnesty International. Boardroom will debut at the Imperial War Museum London as part of its retrospective exhibition Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist.]]></description>
<dc:subject>art artists media</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:ff56a472afa0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://codemyroad.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/2048-ai-the-intelligent-bot/">
    <title>2048 AI - The Intelligent Bot</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://codemyroad.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/2048-ai-the-intelligent-bot/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The score function of game state can then be written as
Score function at terminal states
The following score function will be used instead when the recursive calculation described above reaches a termination state:
where
- : A square weight matrix to be defined by the programmer. Score function formula and decision function
Putting the recursive score function and terminal score function together, we have our combined score function
The above score function can then be used to decide which move to make at each turn after a new tile has been spawned.]]></description>
<dc:subject>programming python games algorithms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:36e7e2e3f129/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-kind-of-porn-that-texts-you-after-937">
    <title>The Kind of Porn That Texts You After | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-kind-of-porn-that-texts-you-after-937</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a lot of these situations, it seems like the women don’t even
necessarily want to be in a committed relationship with the men. I feel like
it takes a lot of confidence to be in the seductress role, as you are in]]></description>
<dc:subject>porn technology human</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:11b6298171f7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:human"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://modelviewculture.com/news/lets-talk-about-pay">
    <title>Let’s Talk About Pay</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:50:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://modelviewculture.com/news/lets-talk-about-pay</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Discussions of pay need to be happening, not only within individual companies to discourage pay inequality at that level, but across the discipline so incoming people, particularly minorities, have realistic expectations of what their skills can earn. Unless people have realistic expectations of what they can make based on open pay discussions, existing pay inequality will continue to be perpetuated in our field.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk wages inequality class society</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:2110acd6cae9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:society"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/objects-of-derision/">
    <title>Objects of Derision</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:49:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/objects-of-derision/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It does this by splitting him into two “incompatible” but separate parts (the good cop and the bad cop, the neat cop and the messy cop, the black cop and the white cop, the human cop and the K-9 cop), thereby attempting to stabilize him through the context of the binary set. Nothing to see here.”
This explains the tendency across the cop-comedy genre — and cop dramas and action flicks — to allow suspects to fall off a building edge (despite the cop’s best efforts to hold on), slip off a building edge while trying to punch the cop, land on their own knife because they were trying to stab a cop, crash the boat, the car, the helicopter, the plane, the motorcycle, be consumed in flames not lit by the cop but by the anxious combustibility of the modern metropolis.]]></description>
<dc:subject>dissent london police riots surveillance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:230276893a5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:riots"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://gizmodo.com/the-information-age-is-over-welcome-to-infrastructure-1701477972">
    <title>The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to Infrastructure Age.</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:49:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gizmodo.com/the-information-age-is-over-welcome-to-infrastructure-1701477972</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Information tech isn’t dead — it has just matured to the point where all we’ll get are better iterations of the same thing. But in the infrastructure age, physical space has been irrevocably transformed by cyberspace.]]></description>
<dc:subject>information-society bigtech infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:13b6658820de/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:infrastructure"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/the_dangers_of_letting_algorithms_enforce_policy.html">
    <title>The Dangers of Letting Algorithms Decide Who Is Eligible for Welfare</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:49:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/the_dangers_of_letting_algorithms_enforce_policy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to legal scholar Danielle Keats Citron, automated decision-making systems like predictive policing or remote welfare eligibility no longer simply help humans in government agencies apply procedural rules; instead, they have become primary decision-makers in public policy. The algorithms that dominate policymaking — particularly in public services such as law enforcement, welfare, and child protection — act less like data sifters and more like gatekeepers, mediating access to public resources, assessing risks, and sorting groups of people into “deserving” and “undeserving” and “suspicious” and “unsuspicious” categories.]]></description>
<dc:subject>privacy surveillance Jobs algorithms human work</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:9d0d57386de9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:human"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://network23.org/antiraids/2015/04/23/gentrification-immigration-raids-report-of-raid-on-deptford-high-street/">
    <title>Gentrification &amp; immigration raids: report of raids on Deptford High Street |</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:49:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://network23.org/antiraids/2015/04/23/gentrification-immigration-raids-report-of-raid-on-deptford-high-street/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I asked employees at a shop whether they thought immigration officers were focusing on any types of people in particular, they told me clearly that the officers only targeted black and asian people, and generally ignore white people. The Project is planned to include “132 new homes, 14 artisan arch space workshops, 7 commercial units, 2 restaurants and a new market square.” This new build, one of a large number over the previous decade, will dramatically reconfigure the racial and class make-up of the area, and is a potential drive for the new businesses opening on the High Street (a skate shop, a bike shop/cafe, a coffee shop, the Job Centre pub, an art shop, &c).]]></description>
<dc:subject>london police privacy gentrification immigration</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:1b54718a431c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:gentrification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:immigration"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/internet-trolls-convinced-a-kid-to-cook-his-laptop-424">
    <title>Internet Assholes Convinced a Kid to Cook His Laptop and Destroy His Xbox | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:49:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/internet-trolls-convinced-a-kid-to-cook-his-laptop-424</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The tormentor drops a pithy ‘you just got trolled!’ and tells the kid to go eat his toasted computer. But then, unsatisfied with ruining this kid’s mom’s laptop, these monsters walk the kid through bricking his Xbox One as well, before asking him to switch the Skype camera to see his “sad face.” Then, of course, the tormentor drops a pithy “you just got trolled!” and tells the kid to go eat his toasted computer.]]></description>
<dc:subject>security internet social-engineering</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:2b2d7baa80d7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:social-engineering"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/society-is-awful-to-girls-part-one-million">
    <title>Growing Up as a Girl Surrounded by Fuckweasels | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:48:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/society-is-awful-to-girls-part-one-million</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fuckweasels lived and breathed heavily and said disconcerting things, but we didn’t quite know how to talk about them, and so we giggled, uncomfortable and angry and unable to explain how or why. Fuckweasels lived and breathed heavily and said disconcerting things, but we didn’t quite know how to talk about them, and so we giggled, uncomfortable and angry and unable to explain how or why.]]></description>
<dc:subject>human women feminism patriarchy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:b117c0c6a5ab/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:patriarchy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-05-05-white-afrikaner-repent-or-be-damned/">
    <title>White Afrikaner, repent or be damned | Daily Maverick</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:48:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-05-05-white-afrikaner-repent-or-be-damned/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It armed Zulu impis to kill train commuters; mine hostels became mini-military bases from where anti-Apartheid protestors were attacked and often butchered; the Civil Cooperation Bureau and Vlakplaas operatives (sometimes called part of the SADF’s ‘special operations’) employed known criminals to kill ‘enemies of the state’; opponents of White minority rule were assassinated over the world; the Apartheid government built weapons of mass destruction and paid doctors to prepare toxins to kill opponents; tens of thousands of young white men were conscripted and indoctrinated to hate Black people, communists, liberals, and homosexuals, not necessarily in that order. [May the trees remain green/and the stars white/and may there always be people who/can look each other in the eyes without shame-]]></description>
<dc:subject>human politics race southafrica white Afrikaners</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:334766e9c091/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32551856">
    <title>The tech that helps techno artists get paid - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:48:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32551856</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of music for which Berlin's clubs are famed - making up 75% of all tracks played by one estimate - but it was the hardest for Gema to identify. "There you have inspectors from organisations like PRS who go to events and recognise music manually," says Gavin Burke, the English CEO of Berlin-based software company GTI, which has developed a different kind of music recognition software.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music clubs artists data-mining business</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:a8a2b435a32d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/michael-lewis-flash-boys-one-year-later">
    <title>Michael Lewis Reflects on His Book Flash Boys, a Year After It Shook Wall Street to Its Core</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:47:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/michael-lewis-flash-boys-one-year-later</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[brokerage firm, Interactive Brokers, announced that, unlike its competitors, it did not sell retail stock-market orders to high-frequency traders, and even installed a button that enabled investors to route their orders directly to IEX, a new alternative stock exchange opened in October 2013 by Brad Katsuyama and his team, which uses technology to block predatory high-frequency traders from getting the millisecond advantages they need. fined UBS for creating order types inside its dark pool that enabled high-frequency traders to exploit ordinary investors, without bothering to inform any of the non-high-frequency traders whose orders came to the dark pool.]]></description>
<dc:subject>algorithms computing economics finance trade</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:7da3dbb94f95/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pitchfork.com/news/59489-vince-staples-announces-debut-album-summertime-06/">
    <title>Vince Staples Announces Debut Album &lt;i&gt;Summertime '06&lt;/i&gt;</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:47:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pitchfork.com/news/59489-vince-staples-announces-debut-album-summertime-06/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Vince Staples put out a new song called "Señorita", the first single from his new album. Now, Staples' formal debut album has a title: Summertime '06.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hip-hop music</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:0896928829ef/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/chinas-manufacturers-are-shifting-towards-zero-labor-fa-1702000971">
    <title>China's Manufacturers Are Shifting Towards Zero-Labor Factories</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:47:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/chinas-manufacturers-are-shifting-towards-zero-labor-fa-1702000971</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To start, private company Everwin Precisions Technology Ltd is expecting to deploy 1,000 robots by the end of the first phase of the zero-labor project. The zero-labor factories in China are likely just the start of what’s going to be a global trend.]]></description>
<dc:subject>future technology robotics manufacturing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:e4ef90745f7c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24630/1/tweeting-texasattack-before-a-shooting-is-creepy-internet">
    <title>#TexasAttack: how the Garland shooters gamed Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:47:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24630/1/tweeting-texasattack-before-a-shooting-is-creepy-internet</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interesting - this account (@atawaakul) appears to pre-claim the #Texas attack & announce #IS allegiance: pic.twitter.com/5EpB0Xi7Vq— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) May 4, 2015 As anyone reading will no doubt know, hashtags are metadata tags used to drive engagement on Twitter or Instagram, making it easier for people to search for specific topics online. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWhy did Satan start to possess girls on screen in the 70s?Learn the art of photo storytelling and zine making at Dazed+LabsZimmermannZIMMERMANN celebrates trailblazing women for AW26 8 essential skate videos from the 90s and beyond with Glue SkateboardsThe unashamedly queer, feminist, and intersectional]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture social-software violence</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:beb9d370749d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/06/the-beatles-didnt-revolutionise-music-hip-hop-did-claims-study/">
    <title>The Beatles didn’t revolutionise music – hip-hop did, claims study</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/06/the-beatles-didnt-revolutionise-music-hip-hop-did-claims-study/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The notion that The Beatles revolutionised pop is a truism the boomer generation loves to hang on to, but a new study claims that the Fab Four’s influence on music is dwarfed by the impact of hip-hop. Their findings suggest that far from the “British invasion” of the 1960s causing a revolution in the pop charts, the musical style of those bands – measured by elements like chord changes and tone – was already established.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hip-hop music technology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:38eed75a7463/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://genius.com/Sameoldshawn-rap-stats-breaking-down-the-words-in-rap-lyrics-over-time-annotated">
    <title>SameOldShawn – Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://genius.com/Sameoldshawn-rap-stats-breaking-down-the-words-in-rap-lyrics-over-time-annotated</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You can use Rap Stats to perform your own searches at http://rapgenius.com/rapstats
This graph shows the popularity of the term “crunk” in rap lyrics over time
Rap Stats lets you explore, in surprising detail, the histories of regional genres, slang, trends, and more. How Rap Stats, our brand-new tool, can help you figure out the migratory patterns of drug dealers, when hip-hop became big business, and whether money really is over bitches
Perform your own searches at http://rapgenius.com/rapstats and tweet your favorites with the #RapStats hashtag!!]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture hip-hop music language linguistics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:44fd170f033e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32599916">
    <title>Evolution of 50 years of pop music tracked - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32599916</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is not an overall trend for the composition, the musical ingredients of the charts, to become less diverse."
The researchers looked at the different characteristics of music, including harmony, chords changes and timbres (the tonal quality of the music), and then analysed how they changed over time. Dr Mauch said: "A lot of hair metal and stadium rock, like Bon Jovi and Bruce Spingsteen, came into the charts, and they had a bigger share of the overall charts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture music harmony chords history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:609db0b62aab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.weareplanc.org/about/">
    <title>We are Plan C</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.weareplanc.org/about/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of 2009, in a now-classic statement, the prime minister’s spokesperson told us “it is quite normal for government officials to be thinking about alternative scenarios [but] ministers haven’t asked for advice on ‘plan B’ because they are very clear that the plan we have is the right plan.” This plan, Plan A, is the plan that involves massive cuts to public spending, tripling of university fees, the ‘remodeling’ of labour and environmental policy, and tax breaks for the wealthy. So, we suggest a new plan, Plan C (perhaps centred on commons).]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics activism collective socialism communism uk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:5143cf473bcc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:communism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/03/jammers-top-grime-clashes-featuring-wiley-kano-skepta-devilman-and-more">
    <title>Jammer's top grime clashes: featuring Wiley, Kano, Skepta, Devilman and more</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/03/jammers-top-grime-clashes-featuring-wiley-kano-skepta-devilman-and-more</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Back in the day, a lot of clash lyrics were based on old lyrics, but now MCs research lyrics and tailor them specifically for the clashes. For example, Soz made fun of Kozzie for driving a Smart car: “I was like, ‘Wagwarn with your Smart car?/ That’s slow/ Would have been better if you got a Volvo.’” In general, clashes for some people are an outlet to either be funny or to express anger without being angry in the physical – Kozzie uses his presence to make that point, and I think it works.]]></description>
<dc:subject>grime music artists</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://qz.com/193708/your-reality-is-15-seconds-in-the-making/">
    <title>Your reality is 15 seconds in the making</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:46:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://qz.com/193708/your-reality-is-15-seconds-in-the-making/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When you really focus your attention on something, you’re said to be “in the present moment.” But a new piece of research suggests that the “present moment” is actually a chunk of the recent past, and it’s about 15 seconds long. His research, published with his co-author David Whitney, suggests that when we focus on something, the image we perceive isn’t a snapshot of it at that moment, but rather a sort of composite—a product mostly of what we’re seeing now, but also influenced by what we’ve been seeing for the previous 15 seconds or so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>beinghuman human psychology cognition philosophy neuroscience</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:044baab33402/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-fbis-secret-air-force-watched-the-streets-of-baltimore/">
    <title>The FBI’s secret air force watched the streets of Baltimore</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-fbis-secret-air-force-watched-the-streets-of-baltimore/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As tensions eased and protests continued this past weekend in Baltimore, a small squadron of aircraft circled neighborhoods affected by the riots and other violence of April 27—providing Baltimore City Police with an eye in the sky to monitor the protests and other “possible criminal activity,” as an FBI official told the Washington Post. In a response to an inquiry from Ars, an FBI spokesman said, “During the recent unrest, the FBI provided aircraft to the Baltimore Police Department for the purpose of providing aerial imagery of possible criminal activity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>surveillance police drones UAV</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:c800e6e8f984/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:drones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:UAV"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2015/05/guitar-drag-by-christian-marclay.html">
    <title>PREPARED GUITAR: Guitar Drag by Christian Marclay</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2015/05/guitar-drag-by-christian-marclay.html</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The video Guitar Drag (2000) features a Fender Stratocaster being dragged behind a pick-up truck along rough country roads in Texas. Guitar Drag: An Allegory of Destruction in Art and Popular Music
Guitar Drag begins as an unidentified man methodically secures an electric guitar—a red Fender Stratocaster—with duct tape and a piece of rope to the back of a pickup truck and then plugs the instrument's cable into an amplifier on the bed of the vehicle.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music instrument</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:cc643911d64d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/08/facebook_fesses_up_to_running_an_ideological_echo_chamber/">
    <title>Facebook 'fesses up to running an ideological echo chamber</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/08/facebook_fesses_up_to_running_an_ideological_echo_chamber/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When the authors considered the likely sharing of political positions among friends, they found “24 per cent of the hard content shared by liberals’ friends are cross-cutting, compared to 35 per cent for conservatives.”
There's also consideration of what Facebook members actually click on, and the study suggests that 20 per cent of content clicked on by liberals is cross-cutting, compared to 29 per cent for conservatives. Facebook analysis of how much 'cross-cutting' content it exposes that run contrary to users' political views
The wrap on the study suggested “we conclusively establish that on average in the context of Facebook, individual choices more than algorithms limit exposure to attitude-challenging content.”
While Facebook “exposes individuals to at least some ideologically cross-]]></description>
<dc:subject>algorithms facebook privacy social-software society culture-war</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:de62b664161e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:social-software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:society"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/last-nights-election-result-will-probably-end-up-changing-the-uk-forever-001">
    <title>The General Election Result Will Probably End Up Changing Britain Forever | VICE | United Kingdom</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/last-nights-election-result-will-probably-end-up-changing-the-uk-forever-001</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When you compare that to England, where UKIP and the Conservatives seem to have won around 50 percent of the popular vote between them, it’s difficult to see how such difference can be reconciled without major constitutional reform. On the one side are UKIP and the Greens, who could see millions of votes leading to only a handful of seats; on the other is a party, the SNP, which is the greatest democratic challenge to Westminster politics since the electoral success of Sinn Fein in 1918.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics tories uk political-parties government voting-systems green-party</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:4a31f8e66100/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:political-parties"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:voting-systems"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/08/facebook_echo_chamber_or_the_british_media_and_the_election/">
    <title>Facebook echo chamber: Or, the British media and the election</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/08/facebook_echo_chamber_or_the_british_media_and_the_election/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That then leads on to the observation that if the nation's largest circulation newspaper, aimed at the working class, likes a lass with a nice pair of tits and is, socially at least, small c conservative then the working class of this country is, in large portion, socially conservative and likes a lass getting them out for the lads. Daily Mail readers created the Daily Mail, not the other way round.]]></description>
<dc:subject>media uk algorithms facebook privacy social-software society culture-war</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:1aff83ac871a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/t:algorithms"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games">
    <title>Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you were to take $100 and play slots, you’d get about an hour of play, but video poker was designed to give you two hours of play for that same $100," Redd said at the time, instructing game designers to lengthen the time it took a poker machine to consume a player’s money. As long as the player had her Total Rewards card inserted in the machine, every time she hit the spin button the system recorded the size of her bet, what game it was spent on, at what time, how long she’d been playing for, and so on, until she hits the "Cash Out" button on the machine, at which point all the data is encapsulated in her file, along with all the other games she has ever played at a Caesar’s casino.]]></description>
<dc:subject>games addiction human</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:f9d3b3bc0c8c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/118397842211/crash-course-internet-art-twelve-minute-visual">
    <title>prosthetic knowledge — Crash course internet art Twelve minute visual...</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/118397842211/crash-course-internet-art-twelve-minute-visual</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
Crash course internet art
Twelve minute visual presentation on the subject by Vera Tan Hoveling, contextualized in relation to developments in communication technology from the 1960s to the 1990s:
A quick n dirty video on the history of internet art, freely following
the storyline provided by ‘Internet art’ by Rachel Greene.]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet art</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:b8b171c00476/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://leftfootforward.org/2015/05/comment-labour-didnt-lose-the-election-because-of-scotland/">
    <title>Comment: Labour didn’t lose the election because of Scotland</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://leftfootforward.org/2015/05/comment-labour-didnt-lose-the-election-because-of-scotland/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy is gone, and this election’s Portillo moment came when Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary and Election Coordinator Douglas Alexander lost his seat to a fresh-faced 20 year-old from the Scottish National Party. Nikki Williams
Let’s not also forget the ‘shy uneducated working class racists’ who deserted the Labour of their parents and placed their mark against UKIP and the proud Labour voters in Tory likely constituencies who could not stomach propping up the Liberals again after 2010 and votes Labour and making Labour the second party to the Tories in many consituencies where once second or first place was the Liberals.]]></description>
<dc:subject>labour politics uk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:a5fa2a04ef2e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/10-delusions-about-labour-defeat-watch-out">
    <title>10 delusions about the Labour defeat to watch out for</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/10-delusions-about-labour-defeat-watch-out</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CLEVER TORIES
It will be said that the Tories, in their ruthlessly efficient way, pinned the blame for austerity on Labour and Labour allowed it to stick. Given that the last time Labour won an election without Tony Blair was 1974 it’s hard to believe people still think the answer is to move left.]]></description>
<dc:subject>labour politics uk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:5850606f3071/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/galadriel-witch-queen-of-lorien/">
    <title>Galadriel, Witch-Queen of Lórien - The Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:45:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/galadriel-witch-queen-of-lorien/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Galadriel, Witch-Queen of Lórien
"Apart from the hobbits themselves, Galadriel probably represents the most supremely "good" character in The Lord of the Rings."
By Robert T. Tolkien fans might object that Galadriel’s magic is not the same as “the deceits of the Enemy,” a distinction made clear by Tolkien and voiced by Galadriel herself in The Lord of the Rings.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:971718ac4274/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/open-gently/201310/36-questions-bring-you-closer-together">
    <title>36 Questions to Bring You Closer Together</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/open-gently/201310/36-questions-bring-you-closer-together</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[- Aron's results were published in "The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness" in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1997). These questions only take about 45 minutes to discuss—and they almost always make two people feel better about each other and want to see each other again, according to social psychology researcher Arthur Aron of the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University in New York, who published his results in "The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness" in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1997).]]></description>
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    <title>Comment: The myopic group-think of the left helped bring down Labour</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://leftfootforward.org/2015/05/comment-the-myopic-group-think-of-the-left-helped-bring-down-labour/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Until the left gets over who people are and begins to engage with what they are saying it won’t deserve power
Labour has been smashed. Labour, he notes, ‘had too little to say to the majority of people in the middle’ and ‘as the party that believes in government’s ability to make people’s lives better, we should have been the ones championing…a pragmatic “what works” approach to get things done.’ Good.]]></description>
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    <title>Where Labour went wrong – and what we must do to put it right</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/09/labours-first-step-to-regaining-power-is-to-recognise-the-mistakes-we-made</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fifth, as the party that believes in government’s ability to make people’s lives better, we should have been the ones championing a smart, efficient public sector that uses technology, co-operative and mutual principles and a pragmatic “what works” approach to get things done. Our vision as a party must start with the aspirations of voters: to get on and up in the world, to see their children and grandchildren do better than they did, to get that better job, to move from renting to owning, to take the family on holiday, to move from that flat to that house with a garden.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/">
    <title>Abandon hope (summer is coming)</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(See Jennifer M Silva’s heartbreaking Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty – a book to which I shall certainly return in future posts – for an account of the devastating impact of precarity on the emotional lives of young working class men and women in the US.)
Whereas hope and fear are superstitious (although they may have some hyperstitional effects), confidence is essentially hyperstitional: it immediately increases the capacity to act, the capacity to act increases confidence, and so on – a self-fulfilling prophecy, a virtuous spiral. It can give us the resources to behave, think and act differently at work (if it makes any sense to talk about being ‘at’ work any more), where capitalist realism has become second nature.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music philosophy politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Is Labour The Albatross Around The Neck Of Progressive Politics?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thequietus.com/articles/17844-labour-party-general-election</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Even as a pledge card boasting of ‘controls of immigration’ and the acceptance of austerity measures such as a welfare cap forgot Labour’s radical history, it continually gestured to the past, claiming counterintuitively that the party is left-wing because the party was left-wing. The success of the SNP at this election rests not only on Labour’s complacency but on the willingness of Sturgeon’s party to take their potential voters seriously and to treat them like adult political subjects, rather than attempting to woo them with revisionist tat about ‘hardworking families’ and ad hominem irrelevances.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics uk</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/built-for-humans/">
    <title>Built for Humans</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:44:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/built-for-humans/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But I think any New York City mayor is really stuck. There are working-class populations who live in those towns who have been just as impoverished by the closing of factories as have people like them in New York City.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nyc space cities human</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dear-lefties-stop-whining---5679192">
    <title>Dear Lefties, stop whining: you lost the election</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:42:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dear-lefties-stop-whining---5679192</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Labour voters didn’t want to vote for Labour. In Scotland 1.4m people voted for the SNP, and most of them were former Labour voters.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/without-a-doubt/without-a-doubt.html">
    <title>The New York Times &gt; Magazine &gt; In the Magazine: Without a Doubt</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:42:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/without-a-doubt/without-a-doubt.html</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kronic “We do not yet know what Cute can do ” █ Events+Special Projects Omnicide II: An Evening of Riddles, Poetry and a New Game New York, 27 Jan 2024 █ Documents Language Inhuman Vincent Garton “If all of this sounds unreal, it is because there is no solution that is not unreal.” █ Publications: Out Now Resynthesizers Florian Hecker “To enter Florian Hecker’s Resynthesizers is to be positioned at the end of aesthetics” █ Documents On Pleromatica and its Harmonics Gabriel Catren “Since the very beginning of my intellectual life I have had two great passions, science and philosophy” █ Publications: Out Now Omnicide II Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh “a contemporary Necronomicon” █ Publications: Out Now Pleromatica, or Elsinore’s Trance Gabriel Catren “The ark drifts through a pleromatic and imperso]]></description>
<dc:subject>critical_thinking</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.petethetemp.co.uk/">
    <title>Pete the Temp</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:42:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.petethetemp.co.uk/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This performance lecture combines music, comedy and ecstatic poetry to bring to life two poet-revolutionaries – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge – in a spellbinding history of riot, state oppression and psychedelic testing. Pete Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and the World Service.]]></description>
<dc:subject>art events london music</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://prajwaldesai.com/deploying-windows-7-using-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-part-2/">
    <title>Deploying Windows 7 Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Part 2</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:42:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prajwaldesai.com/deploying-windows-7-using-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-part-2/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Before you start deploying windows 7 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit please go through my previous posts on Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services, Integrating WDS with MDT, Importing Operating System to MDT and Creating Task Sequence. On the WDS services console, right click on Boot Images and click on Add Boot Image.]]></description>
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    <title>A brief history of Facebook as a media text: The development of an empty structure | Brügger | First Monday</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:41:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5423/4466</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><dc:subject>facebook programming social-software</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:wrrn/b:5b5fd41394dc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-there-too-few-teachers-or-too-few-good-ones/">
    <title>Are There Too Few Teachers, Or Too Few Good Ones?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T02:41:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-there-too-few-teachers-or-too-few-good-ones/</link>
    <dc:creator>wrrn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a nonpartisan research and policy organization, believes that the dip in enrollment in teacher training and education programs might be a good thing. Under that definition, 94 percent of classes in the 2006-07 school year had a highly qualified teacher at the helm, according to the Department of Education’s final report on teacher quality under NCLB.]]></description>
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