Yiannis Kalaitzis

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Studied Philosophy, prefers reading than writing, toots mainly on politics & ideology with a hint of psychoanalysis.
Wordpresshttps://ideologicalthesis.wordpress.com

Strongly recommended album.

Sound that offers a fresh mix of synth-brit-pop with some hints of a post-jungle lurking echo, nice aesthetics as well which add up to a very stylish album, and a title that cannot get out of your head.

"It's The Hope That Kills You”
by The Itch

https://theitch.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-hope-that-kills-you

It's The Hope That Kills You, by The Itch

11 track album

The Itch

"After centuries in which visionaries of all stripes dreamed of what humanity might achieve together, the only indubitable 'progressive' goal that humanity can pursue today, in view of ecological and other threats, is to simply 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒."

- Against Progress
Slavoj Zizek

Darkstar - Gold

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BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals

An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades of occupation and violence against Palestinians. Harriet Williamson reports.

Novara Media

Strawberry moon

#moon #photography

Reality's ruins illuminate at night...

#art #photography

As Massimo Airoldi argues in his book "Machine Habitus",

"machine learning systems are... socialized, via the computational experience of human-generated data contexts, and thus... acquire durable cultural propensities working as machine habitus".

A habitus reproducing the dominant ideology.

https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/650116/value-in-garbage-out-on-ai-art-and-hegemony

R.H. Lossin on AI art and hegemony - Criticism - e-flux

In 2023, Refik Anadol launched the digital artwork collection “Winds of Yawanawa.” In collaboration with the Yawanawa people of Brazil, Anadol

e-flux

Reading or, the cultural logic of staying up late at night...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E1y2kB7LKfQ&pp=ygUSbW9vbiBsaXR0bGUgcGVvcGxl

Moon

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"The red tide that swept across the nation in our recent election marked many things. One of them was a right-wing triumph over social media." But, as Julia Angwin notes, the open social web is a part of the answer. #Fediverse https://werd.io/2024/the-right-triumphed-over-social-media-and-helped-elect-trump
The Right Triumphed Over Social Media and Helped Elect Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html [Julia Angwin at The New York Times]In an op-ed for The New York Times, Julia Angwin makes a strong argument for the open social

Werd I/O
Google to buy nuclear power for AI datacentres in ‘world first’ deal

Tech company orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power

The Guardian