Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)

@konkrit I'm not really sure, but I guess there could be a variety of different scenarios where they could softly and gradually transform NTS until they could make a profit (not necessarily on the pure basis of music rights). Would love to hear some more qualified speculations!

So apparently NTS Radio has secured some kind of loan with Universal, which is already a minority owner. So even if Universal does not currently control NTS, it might be a matter of time. That's truly sad, given the current importance of #NTS as a global, independent music institution.
https://networknotes.motiveunknown.com/p/exclusive-universal-tightens-its

https://www.reddit.com/r/NTSradio/comments/1kf6h9e/nts_radio_pledges_all_of_its_assets_as_collateral/

@Nickiquote Swedish cinemas are the offering autism-friendly screenings. With certain features (i.e. no ads) which perhaps should be presented as just "friendly".
https://www.filmstaden.se/tillganglig-bio/autismvanlig-bio/

"This dissertation examines the dynamics of Black Open Access, a pirate-driven phenomenon, addressing inequities in academic publishing through shadow libraries and text piracy."
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1953321&dswid=1680 📖
Zakayo Kjellström (Umeå University): "Black open access: shadow libraries and text piracy"
#piracy #openaccess #shadowlibraries #mediapiracy

Shawn Reynaldo, "The Trouble with 'Tribal'"
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-tribal

"An artist might use a preset called 'Sleng Teng' or pull a few drum sounds out of a sample pack that’s been branded as 'dembow', but doing so doesn’t require any real engagement with the genre, its history or those who represent its current brain trust. In that context, who knows where the sounds even came from in the first place? It’s not like there’s some internationally recognized certification of musical authenticity
...
Using a catch-all word like 'tribal' may not be fashionable at the moment, but more politically and culturally palatable alternatives with a similar level of utility have yet to emerge. (Saying something like 'global rhythms' might be more socially acceptable, but it’s still patronizing and offers little in the way of additional accuracy.) Encouraging listeners to increase their knowledge levels and be more exact in their descriptions is admirable, but who’s going to do that teaching? The music press once would have been the obvious candidate, but it’s steadily losing relevance and actively struggling to survive.

Considering the frequency with which all of dance music is still described as 'EDM' or just 'techno', the chances of the average punter learning to distinguish between the drum patterns of batida, singeli and merengue are not great."

The posting was also quoted under the headline "Moth Lore" in Ontario Insects, journal of The Toronto Entomologists’ Association (Jan 2003, p. 13).

Moth Lore.

MOTH
LORE.

From: "John Acorn" <janature@compusmart.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: [Odonata-l] Range changes
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2001

The nocutuid moth Eurois occulta (L.), probably played a major
role here. I read about it in Louis Hanfield's book "Les Guide des
Papillons du Qu=C8bec." ... In short, he argues that the Vikings accidentally introduced the moth, and that the caterpillars became super abundant and ate every green leaf in sight. In support of this, there are reports of caterpillars so
thick on the rocks by the sea that kayaks could not be landed due to the slipperiness of their collective squished bodies. As well, there are layer's in Greenland peat bogs made up of almost nothing but the remains of Eurois pupae. Interesting, no?
...
I think that was in 1985. Back then, no one had heard of global warming. I was taught ... that the climate was cooling at the time I took the course.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060820162150/https://mail.ups.edu/pipermail/odonata-l/2001-November/003697.html
#greenland #moth #climate #history

@BhagwaMattick (meaning that I'm also open to edit a machine translation, if you're interested)

@johank76 Of course @pluralistic was first on that one too! (Thanks for the link.)

And what if the European Patent Office would de-register every patent belonging to Amazon, Microsoft or Meta?

I'm sure that would hit harder than any counter-tariff on imports from the US.

What if EU would just take "Tesla" off its list of protected trademarks?

The Pirate Bay as Sweden's anti-US killer weapon in a trade war?

No, but seriously: there might be a likelihood for the global IP regime to crackle. If the US does not respect WTO:s agreements on stuff like non-discrimination in tariff policies etc – how long would other WTO members respect the rules on patents, trademarks and copyrights in WTO:s TRIPS agreement which, after all, was very much designed to favor US interests?
Yet, I wouldn't say that any crackle in that global IP regime woule necessarily be a positive thing. Trade wars are usually far too cynical, nationalist and boring.

What if Sweden's reponse to US tariffs would be to legalize The Pirate Bay again.

You know, that search engine which once caused the US to threaten Sweden with sanctions.
#thepiratebay #piracy #copyright

@BhagwaMattick That would be a honour, anyway I maybe could check the translation first and probably make some edits?

Zakayo Kjellström:
"Patterns of piracy: Sci-Hub and Sweden 2011–2018"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2025.2482459?src=exp-la#abstract
#piracy #shadowlibraries

Here's a text (in Swedish) on the council communist tradition, written last year for the Swedish magazine OEI.
It's largely based on Felix Klopotek's book Rätekommunismus, and it makes the point that we should distinguish between "councilism" (as the idealization of a historical form of organization) and "council communism" (as a kind of critique of the possible organizational forms within capitalism).

The text also discusses the concept of "prefigurative politics", broadly characteric of anarchism, trying instead to think what could be meant with an "inverted prefiguration".

https://copyriot.se/om-radskommunismens-relevans-2/
#communism #anarchism #marxism #kommunismus

Sad to hear about the passing of media historian Jonathan Sterne (@jonathansterne), author of books like "The audible past" and "MP3: The meaning of a format".
https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/farewell-to-jonathan-sterne/
His MP3 book was certainly an inspiration for our Spotify book (and more generally for the critique of today's digital media landscape). I also wrote a theoretical critique of the way Sterne (as well as others) used the concepts of commodity and commodification. But never met him.

"It is not just that people making AI slop are spamming the internet, it’s that the intended “audience” of AI slop is social media and search algorithms, not human beings.
...
there is a near total collapse of the information ecosystem and thus of 'reality' online."
https://archive.is/5GT1H

Eamon Harkin – Special Sympathy (Sobolik's Parasympathetic Dub) [US, 2023]
Om Unit – Strange Brew (Amy Kisnorbo Remix) [UK, 2023]
Siete Catorce – Todo [MX, 2021]
Kaval – Drum Fila [FR, 2021]
Klahrk – MF.MT [UK, 2021]
Hieroglyphic Being – The Moon Dance [US, 2023]
Mucho Sueño – Heart of Glass [CL, 2020]
Gacha Bakradze – Daraji [GE, 2019]
Ayesha – Infinite Space [US, 2020]
Fluid Matter – Have You Seen My Friends? [FR, 2022]
STATE OFFF – Soundbwoy Killa [NL, 2024]
Kaval – Bongoness [FR, 2022]
Oyubi – 140yaku [JP, 2021]
Skee Mask – Bandprobe Dub [DE, 2023]
DJ Plead – Ambush [AU, 2019]
Brandon Braun – Search For Peace [US, 2024]
Enayet – চক্কর [BD/US, 2021]
Noria Lilt – Shadows Left [CH, 2024]
obese.dogma777 – Stupid Tình, tình, tình, tang, tang (Salbakuta x See Tình mashup) [PH, 2023]

#gqom #budots #bass #techno #machinejazz #brokenbeat #breakbeat #dubtechno #dubstep #140 #percussive

machine jazz, dub techno, broken beats in this hour-long mix, ending with some uplifting filipino pop. enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/baltic-baile-belt-marsmixen-2025