digitalyn:

LastFM denied, but still it’s no good.

Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?

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future disorder

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Presenting Haile – the robotic drummer:

Haile is a robotic percussionist that can listen to live players, analyze their music in real-time, and use the product of this analysis to play…

robot/hippie drum circles are coming

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As cnawan tweeted: “I’ll bet in a year or two this won’t qualify as a joke any more”

iScreener *

iScreener – Abtruse Goose on the future of dating

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Juan Enriquez’s TED talk is online now and very, very pertinent. It’s also hilarious!

So sit down for 18mins and watch him run through the reasons for the Economic Crisis, and then show how…

Juan Enriquez on the coming Great Reboot

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Thirty eight years ago, in 1970 there was a hundred year anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who inspired Russian people to overthrow the previous Tsar government in Russia in 1917……

Russian space-viewable graffiti

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digitalpill:

“Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.”

cunts

Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”

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David Forbes, journalist and Coilhouse contributor, whom we’ve linked to a few times, has written a very thoughtful response to my recent rant “It’s going to get worse,…

“This time, let’s get it right” a response to my recent rant by David Forbes

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From Mother Jones:

Many successful biological invasions capitalize on mayhem. Both melaleuca and lionfish are what biologists call drivers of ecosystem changes—causing, for instance, changes…

Climate change and globalisation = radical nature/wildlife change too

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There’s no wonder the latest Seminar About Long Term Thinking was sold-out well in advance; screw the Long Now, this was all about The Now!

During the Bush Era it seemed to me (as an outsider…

Dmitry Orlov on Managing Social Collapse

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