@transduction.bsky.social
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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1970s field recordings of musicians in their natural valley habitat—The Nimbin Folk Club. Nimbin is Australia’s Woodstock or Yellow Springs or Eugene. The influence of the US can be heard but there are other, older, strands.
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
George at Nimbin Town Hall and Pruul's Party
nwt.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
1970s field recordings of musicians in their natural valley habitat—The Nimbin Folk Club. Nimbin is Australia’s Woodstock or Yellow Springs or Eugene. The influence of the US can be heard but there are other, older, strands.
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
#musicology I like this track: nwt.net.au/mp3_player/G...
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Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The end of optimization
Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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New substack post. George Henderson. New Zealand voice and mind. The New Existentialists. New album, Bad Astrology. open.substack.com/pub/davegran...
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New substack post. George Henderson. New Zealand voice and mind. The New Existentialists. New album, Bad Astrology. open.substack.com/pub/davegran...
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Took the solar powered ultra light from ‘just west of Easter Island’ to see #DaveGraney. Great gig! Voice in splendid form. Watching band stick to album track listing was Lars Von Trier’s ‘Five Obstructions’ Goes on Aussie Pub Crawl. He signed me merch. Dates below. Worth it! #auspol #livemusic
Tomorrow night - Friday 24th October, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary Soft n Sexy Sound tour is happening at Freo Social in Fremantle WA www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dav...
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Took the solar powered ultra light from ‘just west of Easter Island’ to see #DaveGraney. Great gig! Voice in splendid form. Watching band stick to album track listing was Lars Von Trier’s ‘Five Obstructions’ Goes on Aussie Pub Crawl. He signed me merch. Dates below. Worth it! #auspol #livemusic
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With libraries, proper search engines, encyclopedias and the like, if they didn't have the answer, you would get a blank in return. You knew they didn't have the answer.
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
With libraries, proper search engines, encyclopedias and the like, if they didn't have the answer, you would get a blank in return. You knew they didn't have the answer.
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
Chatbots just make things up.
This isn't groundbreaking but "no entries found" being replaced with an invented answer is...
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
www.lighthousereports.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de
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Marmalade Kerfuffle rules.
October 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Marmalade Kerfuffle rules.
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A hard-biting, standout film about ‘nice guys’. #PromisingYoungWoman #EmeraldFennell
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A hard-biting, standout film about ‘nice guys’. #PromisingYoungWoman #EmeraldFennell
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very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Robert Glasper’s Blue Note debut “Canvas” was released 20 years ago today in 2005! The album proved the pianist had jazz chops in abundance while a hip-hop sub-context lay just beneath the surface hinting at future directions he would take. Listen or get the Classic Vinyl robertglasper.lnk.to/Canvas
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robert Glasper’s Blue Note debut “Canvas” was released 20 years ago today in 2005! The album proved the pianist had jazz chops in abundance while a hip-hop sub-context lay just beneath the surface hinting at future directions he would take. Listen or get the Classic Vinyl robertglasper.lnk.to/Canvas
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On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence.
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Douglas Fairbanks makes his leap as a duels Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO. The slightly lowered table adds pizzaz to Doug's already graceful jump.
September 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Douglas Fairbanks makes his leap as a duels Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO. The slightly lowered table adds pizzaz to Doug's already graceful jump.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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tomcannonphotography
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
tomcannonphotography
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
Ocean | Australia | Wildlife
"The Bait Ball Of a Lifetime
Filming this moment will forever be one of the highlights of my career as a wildlife filmmaker.
A truly once in a lifetime experience on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia"
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#TheGuardian is zeroing in on ‘performative males’, but only here do you really experience one of them perform manhood. Give it a minute.
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#TheGuardian is zeroing in on ‘performative males’, but only here do you really experience one of them perform manhood. Give it a minute.
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...
www.patreon.com/posts/squatt...
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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A conwoman on the lam gets a perfect disguise from Harry Langdon in HIS FIRST FLAME
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A conwoman on the lam gets a perfect disguise from Harry Langdon in HIS FIRST FLAME
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I was once told that a sign of a good singer is the ability to sing without accompaniment. And this man wrote ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and ‘Dirty Old Town’. That’s range!
#EwanMaccoll
m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1U8...
#EwanMaccoll
m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1U8...
Ewan MacColl - Four Loom Weaver
YouTube video by knowndwarf
m.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I was once told that a sign of a good singer is the ability to sing without accompaniment. And this man wrote ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and ‘Dirty Old Town’. That’s range!
#EwanMaccoll
m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1U8...
#EwanMaccoll
m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1U8...
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It’s funny how cyberpunk turned out to be both prophetic and totally off base because the substance was largely correct but the aesthetic ended up being Idiocracy meets Supersize Me rather than sexy techno-noir.
Today's archive.org find: this sensational Deus Ex key art from a 2000 Eidos press kit. The pure essence of the turn of the millennium.
📀 archive.org/details/Deus...
📀 archive.org/details/Deus...
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It’s funny how cyberpunk turned out to be both prophetic and totally off base because the substance was largely correct but the aesthetic ended up being Idiocracy meets Supersize Me rather than sexy techno-noir.
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Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes
Artist · 14.2K monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Propaganda: #Valerie (Valkyrie) didn’t want to be ‘rescued’ by the wowsers. She wanted to ride her Triumph forever. She said the ‘tireless volunteers’ are manic missionaries. I wasn’t ‘fugitive’, but just at a friend’s house for a sandworm and nasturtium salad.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island
Rescuers on Kangaroo Island off South Australia say they are ‘overjoyed’ after the dog walked into one of their traps
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Propaganda: #Valerie (Valkyrie) didn’t want to be ‘rescued’ by the wowsers. She wanted to ride her Triumph forever. She said the ‘tireless volunteers’ are manic missionaries. I wasn’t ‘fugitive’, but just at a friend’s house for a sandworm and nasturtium salad.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...