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hi everyone ~ here is a list of my favorite music stuff released on 2021! I’ll have a little blurb about each one in this thread. in the spirit of bandcamp friday I added links for purchasing the album digitally where I could find one
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#MWE Day 3: Aleksi Perälä - Spectrum 2 (2020) Very balanced, I enjoy how different components take turns keeping the 4/4 pulse. It all feels impressively focused, and the first track absolutely rips.
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#MWE Day 2: Oscean - Ideoma (2022) Solid techno tools for the arsenal, though the sound design and textures sometimes feel at odds with the groove (and vice versa). Side A tracks are nice for early in the set, while Side B is better suited for the sunrise over the rave.
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#MWE Day 1: Ryoji Ikeda - dataplex (2005) Like reading a good math textbook. The stripped-bare components of the first half are presented axiomatically for inspection. Then, as if by some cosmic order (but really Ikeda's brilliant composition), the pieces interlock and bloom
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all "labor shortages" can be solved with more money. Any sector, if they paid a $1M a year, could fill all its positions in a matter of months. $1 million too high? Great, let's negotiate. But now we're negotiating and thus acknowledging it's not a lack of humans willing to work
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this type of work takes so many forms, but I'm compelled to encourage folks to reach out to their local tenants union.
@LATenantsUnion
is fantastic and has tons of resources just on their website alone. the Ventura Tenants Union is on instagram @ venturatenantsunion
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there are many places where the fight for housing justice is immediate and visible, but even in the places where we’ve ostensibly lost, there is a lot of work that can be done!
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Ian’s work was a small but important part of humanizing those who do not have their humanity secured by their economic and social status, and more voices like his are necessary to combat the callous disposal of the unhoused
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at one meeting discussing fire safety in the community, an official who managed the open space in Oak Park insisted that we keep an eye out for “encampments” and call him to “relocate” anyone who draws suspicion.
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he detailed the community’s response to zoning and increased development as well as the challenges faced by the houseless population outside of “the bubble”
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for a community like Oak Park, where for many the housing crisis feels like a bad dream you can wake up from by checking your estimated home value on Zillow, the type of reporting that Ian provided was invaluable.
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the reporter who covered housing in Oak Park had to live in a van while working at the local paper. unfortunately this is unsurprising, given the soaring cost of living in CA (and everywhere else in the US), pushing those who don't already own property out of homes and into cars
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"Similar to musicians or actors who just haven’t made it yet, I think reporters (at least those early in their careers, like myself) tell ourselves stories as much as we do our readers. Yeah, the pay is crap and the hours are too long but who cares?" poynter.org/locally/2021/l
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I started watching David Harvey's lectures on Captial and he's describing one class where he had a bunch of comp lit students who read so closely they only got through one chapter the whole semester and it was because they had all studied under Derrida lol
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first Oak Park Fire Safe Council Meeting tomorrow shout out to my partner for hosting the zoom meeting bc I don’t have zoom premium or whatever!
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while a new community nonprofit like the OPFSC is not equipped to tackle climate justice in every arena, I hope it will play an important role as a conduit for broader community action to make the world a better place !!
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