Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 2

Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated ... And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the—for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads"... 🤪

Skee Mask just released yet another lovely collection of unmastered tracks. Not available on Spotify, but as a free download at Bandcamp:
https://skeemask.bandcamp.com/album/d
#electronic #music #ambient #dub

Die versteckten Arbeitskräfte hinter der #KI erzählen ihre Geschichten #DataWorkersInquiry

Ohne Millionen Datenarbeiter:innen würden weder sogenannte Künstliche Intelligenz noch Content-Moderation funktionieren. In einem neuen Projekt erzählen sie ihre Geschichten: von Plattformarbeiter:innen in #Venezuela und #Syrien über Angestellte von Outsourcing-Firmen in #Kenia bis zu Content-Moderator:innen in #Deutschland.......

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/data-workers-inquiry-die-versteckten-arbeitskraefte-hinter-der-ki-erzaehlen-ihre-geschichten/

#KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #AI #Ausbeutung #Technology #Digitalisierung #Überwachungskapitalismus #Daten #Netzpolitik #DataWorkers

"The measurement of inflation and the dark side of the digital economy"

That's the title of a new research project in economic history that me and my colleague Daniel Berg will work on during the coming three years.
It will build on our previous project which had a stronger empirical focus on 20th century Sweden.
This project will be somewhat more contemporary, international and theoretical. But still centered on how economic statistics deals with the need to define "constant utility" in a world of qualitative change. And also, how it tries to uphold ideas of "consumer sovereignty" when digital entertainment products are designed to foster compulsive consumption.
Includes one sub-study on gambling (and its inclusion in the Consumer Price Index), one on digital zero-price services, and one on "neoliberalism and the consuming subject".

Very happy that Riksbankens Jubileumsfond just decided to fund this!
https://www.rj.se/en/grants/2024/inflation-measurement-and-the-dark-side-of-the-digital/

"Nyege Nyege Festival ... in Jinja, Eastern #Uganda ... continues to face staunch opposition from religious leaders": https://nilepost.co.ug/lifestyle/222743/kadaga-clashes-with-busoga-bishop-over-nyege-nyege

"Official statement on calls to ban Nyege Nyege Festival": https://www.instagram.com/p/DBoe_E0tg7R/

https://nyegenyege.com/

"For many American leftists, comrades abroad who ask for help are a nuisance; they interfere with our self-absorption. There is a leftist argument, sometimes articulated, more often assumed, which holds that America, the global hegemon, is responsible for most of the bad things that happen in the world. The task of the American left, therefore, is to oppose the activist policies of the hegemon and press for U.S. disengagement from international politics. America is the agent that counts in the world, and we (leftists) are the necessary opposition. Everything else is just peripheral noise.
It is very difficult to acknowledge that there are other agents in the world who are responsible, entirely on their own, for bad things."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/learning-listen-foreign-policy-international-solidarity-michael-walzer/

@konkrit here's the tracklist you asked for, I'm glad that you seemingly liked some stuff in it:

The Kamkars – Movement 7 [1999]
DJ Gerard – Level Playing Field [2024]
Rainstick – Draco Beat [2020]
Destrata – Tributaries (Pluralist Remix) [2022]
Brainwaltzera – Buggy Isotope V2 [2019]
Vox Vulgaris – cuts of percussion and recorder taken from an unreleased track*
Oma Totem – ER 5 [2023]
Destrata – Tributaries [2022]
Pluralist – Ballin [2024]
Robotalco – Callisto [2019]
Beta Librae – Urras [2018]
Om Unit – Side Quest [2024]
Linkwood – Love Lost [2018]
Cosmic G & Laars – Trancia [2021]

* to be released in late 2024 on the album "Early music for late humanity"

Lite drygt trettio minuter kring mitten av oktober.wav (36:47)

The Kamkars – Movement 7 [1999]
DJ Gerard – Level Playing Field [2024]
Rainstick – Draco Beat [2020]
Destrata – Tributaries (Pluralist Remix) [2022]
Brainwaltzera – Buggy Isotope V2 [2019]
Vox Vulgaris – cuts of percussion and recorder taken from an unreleased track*
Oma Totem – ER 5 [2023]
Destrata – Tributaries [2022]
Pluralist – Ballin [2024]
Robotalco – Callisto [2019]
Beta Librae – Urras [2018]
Om Unit – Side Quest [2024]
Linkwood – Love Lost [2018]
Cosmic G & Laars – Trancia [2021]

* to be released in late 2024 on the album "Early music for late humanity"

@konkrit All right, it will come!

@ahltorp "Weird" can also mean very different things to different people and in different contexts.

Anyway, this made me think about the "raving as folk art" idea:
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/raving-as-folk-art

In the middle of this mix there is some unreleased stuff. To be precise, it's me playing solo recorder.
It also begins with one minute of Kurdish percussion.
The rest of it, however, is just electronic music, more or less weirdly layered.
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/en-dryg-halv-timme-i-mitten-av-oktober
#breakbeat #bass #dubstep #house #techno #medieval

"I wonder if I sometimes detect a note of puritanical moralism in the American #academisation of #rave? There seems to be a need to justify all this hedonism and excess pleasure as, in fact, an important technique of self-actualisation or community building or other meaning-making activity
...
That’s not to deny the possibility that raves can be zones of personal and political transformation, but I’m reminded of the wellness lingo that’s attached itself to the “psychedelic renaissance” in clinical and therapeutic settings.
...
Raves and trips exist in similar in-between zones, where two things can be true at once. Partying is political; partying changes nothing. Raving is reconstitutive; raving is self-destructive. Reconnect with your body; dissociate from your body."
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/clubbing-dancefloor-utopia-raving-academia/

Keywords: cultural policy, #degrowth, economic knowledge, economic metaphors, unbalanced growth, welfare state

I've got a new publication out in the open-access yearbook History of Intellectual Culture:

'Pathologizing the Economy: “Baumol’s Cost Disease” and the Circulation of Economic Knowledge in Sweden'
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111291383-004/html

Florida Man Sells Burning House
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3919-Alabama-Ave-NE-Saint-Petersburg-FL-33703/46978775_zpid/
"The pool remains undamaged, and the photo shown is from before the storm. ... Please note: cash"

@festal Auf den Punkt: «In the clip, Schmidt runs together different many different forms of AI. GenAI, which is consuming all the power, probably isn’t going to do a whole lot for addressing climate change, when it can’t even reason reliably about river crossing problems. Other forms of AI, that are more domain-specific and specialized might help; those aren’t actually the ones getting the massive funding – or doing the massive harm.»

"The Russian Economy in the Fog of War" – a new report on the current state of Russia's economy, commissioned by the Swedish government.
https://www.konj.se/download/18.443e2a2a19246dbc98a2c89/1727781967239/2024-10-01%20Report%20on%20the%20Russian%20economy.pdf
Potentially interesting:
"It also provides some alternative measures of inflation and growth that paints a very different picture of the Russian economy compared to the official numbers."

CTM: "Resynthesising the Traditional" (open call)
https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/open-calls/resynthesising-the-traditional
"Evoking resynthesis—a processing method in computer music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental components—as a guiding metaphor, the lab also invites participants to confront conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified, and generally untouchable, thus resistant to any transformative practices."

How come nobody has written a book-length biography of Evgeniya Lineva aka Yevgenia Linyova aka Евгения Линёва aka Eugenie Lineff aka Eugenie Papritz (1854–1919)?
Such a fascinating individual: opera singer, revolutionary (narodnik), introducer of Russian folk musik in the US. As an ethnomusicologist she was the first to use a phonograph to record folk songs while travelling in Ukraine and Russia; she developed new methods of rhythmic notation and became an important source for Stravinsky. At the same time, she exchanged letters with Friedrich Engels and translated works of Marx & Engels into Russian!
#musicology #ethnomusicology #music #history #Russia #Marx

🇩🇪+++Gute Nachrichten: Niederlande stimmen Orban's Vorstoß zur #Chatkontrolle nicht zu https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2024D35954&did=2024D35954 +++ Grund: Sicherheitsrisiken von Scannern auf jedem Smartphone "zu groß" +++ Aber nur eine "kleine Gruppe" von EU-Staaten habe noch Bedenken - reicht das zur Blockade? +++

Morgen beraten die Botschafter (AStV) die #Chatkontrolle +++ Alle Infos und was du tun kannst, um das digitale Briefgeheimnis und sichere Verschlüsselung zu retten: https://chatkontrolle.de