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  • Musical Interlude: NEW MODEL ARMY – I DID NOTHING WRONG

    As a result of the recent ITV dramatisation, the UK Post Office Scandal is finally front page news in our country. But this monstrous tale of corporate arrogance and cruelty has actually been going on for years. ‘I Did Nothing Wrong’ is from our new album ‘Unbroken’, which will be released on Jan 26th, but…

  • The Cult of Mac

    Apple’s most valuable intangible asset isn’t its patents or copyrights – it’s an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple’s shareholders.

  • Why We Need Socialism

  • AI “Completes” Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting and Controversy Erupts

    “The A.I.-generated image doesn’t appear to be faithful to Haring’s style, which often included images of human figures,” writes Julia Binswanger at Smithsonian.com. “These kinds of figures are visible in Haring’s original piece, but the image generator wasn’t able to replicate them.” The algorithmically filled-in Unfinished Painting may be without aesthetic or intellectual interest in itself, but consider…

  • How Fossil Fuels Found Their Influencers

    The world’s largest public relations firm has used insights from its lauded annual global survey of consumer trust and corporate credibility to help fossil fuel and petrostate clients to promote climate obstruction. According to a new briefing from the Clean Creatives, an advocacy group focused on cutting the public relations industry’s ties with fossil fuels,…

  • A Knotted Octopus Carved Directly into Two Pianos Entwines Maskull Lasserre’s New Musical Sculpture

    The resulting sculpture connects through a tangled, textured knot of octopus tentacles, of which the eight arms correspond to the eight notes of the octaves available within the keyboard. Chiseled into the bodies of both pianos—the right features a lively Minoan-style marine illustration on its surface—the mollusk camouflages a miter joint, or an angled cut between two…

  • Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn’t fall off

    In further “Boeing is a metaphor for neo-liberalism has run out of steam” commentary. For those that don’t know… here is the 2 sentence history that plots the descent of Boeing… “boeing was reverse acquired by McDD and that company was full of Welch trained dipshits. they ousted all the engineer trained managers that made…

  • This high-tech sex toy syncs its vibes with music

    Oh! can also work interactively with The Handy. Both devices can also be controlled remotely to help long-distance couples stay connected, or help someone with limited dexterity or mobility use the devices. But all of this raises the eternal question with the Internet of Dongs: privacy. “We don’t gather any personal data and we’re bound…

  • Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God

    “Tab is not an assistant, period. I’m not building something that’s going to connect to Notion or your emails any time soon. I’m solely building . . . a friend that morphs into your creative partner, life coach, [or] therapist as needed,” he says. “What I’m trying to do is create a new relationship in your life;…

  • The Proud Boys are collapsing: Surprise! Legal consequences do hurt authoritarian movements

    There’s a few things going on. As Owens notes, it’s common for extremist groups to fall apart fairly quickly.  They are composed of nasty people who seek conflict, so it’s inevitable that they fight and splinter over time. There’s evidence some Proud Boys are decamping to neo-Nazi groups. I’d argue that the Proud Boys are…