Tag: paranoia
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The Racism Game – Baratunde Thurston TED Talk
Amazing, funny and thought-provoking look at how racism is reported by Baratunde Thurston, but also how we can flip the script, and change the system by each of our actions. How gentrification and white (and usually cis/straight) fears lead to ‘drone strikes’ on those who look or act different, but that it doesn’t have to…
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Paranoia in America
As you might have guessed from the last post I’ve been revisiting past eras to find music of resistance for today – the UK and Trump situation isn’t a new one, resisting Thatcher, Nixon, Reagan and Bush v1 and v2 created a lot of music pertinent to today. One of those is The Au-Pairs with…
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Megaupload gets a better song, WW3 doesn’t happen (yet)
I’m sure most people have been haunted by that Megggaaa MEgaaaUpploaddd… song that reportedly cost 3 million (!!! Was it extra for a decent tune? Apparently Kim dotCom is releasing an album? Not sure how he’d do that from prison, then again rappers have managed it in the past…) but Dan Bull comes up trumps…
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Welcome to Digital Britain, a drowned economic kitten
Great anti-Mandy and anti-paranoia song ‘Only Idiots Assume’ by Broken Dongles who are Liam Mullone and “Blue Remembered” Hils Barker. Love the kitten line, the BBC Micro comparison and ‘your dad’s got a beard! I bet he’s in Al Qaeda!’ 😀 Maybe their followup should be a cover/version of EMI about the blight that is…
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Know Your Rights: great(bear) overview
Greatbearmd again has a cool overview article on rights and DRM and the technological advancements that brought us to this overly licensed, non-skippable and downloadlably litigious future. Can’t wait for the second part – many articles have been written about IPR and technology in the past, not so much about where we are going now;…