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2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive. We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever

We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuvalu in the 1980’s, Rick Prelinger: saving old government films, Brewster Kahle and the foundation of the archive, origins and history of the Wayback Machine, weird fetishes, how sometimes multi millionaires do good things, bankrolling poor art bands and coed sororities, Eastern European hacker magazines, why the Internet Archive is not a front, company housing, preserving offline digital culture, the cost of lost memory, dealing with forged documents, procuring and authenticating 17th century manuscripts, the repair manual library, Argentinian political radio stations, The Wave (1981), why censorship is bad: the non rage-farming perspective, "Agnostic Ingestion", crappy playbooks on how to whip people up into a frenzy, thought leaders, running from past, technical issues of preserving software, Library of Congress, 4000 3-4 hour mixes of Brazilian Dance music, ‘the heroin of online life’, countercultural house organs, + much more...very inspiring and fun convo

Me and⁠ Ben Kellog⁠ speak with writer/director Ben Hopkins (Inside (2023) w/ Willem Dafoe, Simon Magus, Lost in Karastan) on dialogue-free scripts, armageddon, and more

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Interview with Corin Johnson on the unveiling of his pink marble sculpture of Lawrence (Felt, Mozart Estate) in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London and his fascinating upbringing in the Spiritualist Church. 

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Emmalea Russo is back to analyze the new Byung Chul Han book "In Praise of Inactivity", the 2024 content creator exodus, ethereal tiredness, and more  

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Reading R. Buckminster Fuller's No More Secondhand God and seeing how it holds up in today's omnicrisis.

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New show where Barrett and Alex (Coolwater) untangle geopolitics, news, and twilight as a neo-exotica PI themed music duo. 

Graphic by Anson Nguyen 

Music by the Ebenezer Group w/ The Rockford Files 

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Haiti, Jimmy BBQ Shevalier G9 Pierre Esperance NGOs Indigenous Symbolic power vs. Skyscraper building power Victoria Nuland resignation and replacement by Kurt Campbell, democratization of industry/backyard nuclear, SV Flannery group/California forward farmland purchases for new city, Gaza, Comely: danger of control through professional credentialing orgs, Oathtakers

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Part III of the non-cybernetics series focused on the little explored contributions of American Indian knowledge systems to the development of computation and algorithms. Mickey Newbury and songwriting, Navajo code-talkers during WWI/WWII, variations in native dialect, coyotes and stardust, sustaining genetic diversity, tricksters and their influence on probability studies, AIM takeover of the Fairchild semiconductor plant, indigenous anarchy and post-politics, Claude Shannon-Weaver method applied to Ojibwe scrolls, The Iroquois Confederacy as a model for the US constitution: symbolism of the arrows, the suspicious rise of Global Village Coffeehouse and tribal aesthetics in the early 90’s, the vanishing native, the phrase “standing on business”, KB’s postcard snail mail network, Marcel Mauss, Bataille, and the potlatch economy as a precursor to the feedback network, biodiversity in agriculture, multi-colored corn harvests, + more

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Episode on the history of non/anti-cybernetics (Game/Automata/Double Bind Theory) developed in the UK, US, USSR, and China and what that means for us today: cognitive autonomy, surveillance, breaking out of the cyberculture, etc. Throught the 20th century complexity studies were conducted globally by social psychologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in capitalist and socialist countries alike, and despite them all adopting the same trendy word at one point or another: "Cybernetics", that wasn't exactly what they were all just doing. And they certainly weren't aiming for the same outcome of streamlined logistical matrices--and depending on the cultural, social, and national context, sometimes aimed for the opposite!