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AI com­pa­nies are bulk-buy­ing phys­i­cal antique books, using indus­tri­al equip­ment to scan and destroy them for train­ing data, exploit­ing legal loop­holes around first-sale doc­trine and fair use while keep­ing pur­chas­es secret to avoid neg­a­tive pub­lic­i­ty.

KEXP is a lis­ten­er-sup­port­ed radio sta­tion fea­tur­ing live music per­for­mances, in-stu­dio ses­sions, and pod­casts. The site offers live stream­ing, an archive of past broad­casts, and upcom­ing pub­lic events includ­ing artist per­for­mances and Camp KEXP pro­gram­ming in Seat­tle.

Radio Par­adise streams high­ly curat­ed, eclec­tic mix­es of music — cho­sen by real humans — with unpar­al­leled audio qual­i­ty.

The Atlantic arti­cle exam­ines the ​“oral­i­ty the­o­ry of every­thing,” which argues that human com­mu­ni­ca­tion is revert­ing from lit­er­ate cul­ture to oral char­ac­ter­is­tics, with pro­found impli­ca­tions for how we think, orga­nize soci­ety, and process infor­ma­tion. Draw­ing on mid-20^th-cen­tu­ry media the­o­rists like Wal­ter Ong and Mar­shall McLuhan, it explores how the rise of social media and dig­i­tal con­ver­sa­tion mir­rors pre-lit­er­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion pat­terns and reshapes human con­scious­ness.

He burned bright and left us at the age of 38. If he’d stuck around, on 20 July 2024 Lar­ry Lev­an would be cel­e­brat­ing his 70^th birth­day. In the his­to­ry of DJing, he epit­o­mised the young craft’s pos­si­bil­i­ties and inspired a gen­er­a­tion. As the DJ became a force for record pro­mo­tion, as the DJ entered

Dai­ly curat­ed links from the Bluesky com­mu­ni­ty

A les­son sched­ule fea­tur­ing his­tor­i­cal fig­ures (US Pres­i­dents & First Ladies) and the promi­nent indi­vid­u­als who stud­ied them. Orga­nized by week.

This Inter­net Archive page offers free stream­ing, down­load, or bor­row­ing of Sec­ond City Tele­vi­sion (SCTV) — Sea­son 1. It pro­vides access to the clas­sic com­e­dy series.

This Ama​zon​.com page prompts users to con­tin­ue shop­ping. It fea­tures a ​“Con­tin­ue shop­ping” but­ton and links to Con­di­tions of Use and Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

Uncan­ni­ly and cre­ative­ly envi­sioned, you did­n’t just walk into a Time Out ‑you were pulled in by feel­ings that you were rid­ing a sen­su­al con­vey­or belt, instant­ly enveloped by low-light shad­ows, mul­ti­col­ored walls and ceil­ings that gave you the sen­sa­tion that your sen­so­ry per­cep­tions were slight­ly askew. It was like you were high on elec­tron­ic…

Grady Hen­drix rereads every Stephen King book.

We have reached a tip­ping point in the for­mat wars, with UHD poised to over­take stan­dard def­i­n­i­tion DVDs for first place. Now, there’s a new species of repl …