Neither sleep nor death will sever your connection. But it wasn't always this way... I spoke to the pioneers of dial-up, as well as Dr Lui Gough and @coletteshade.bsky.social about internet nostalgia. And Geert Lovink about how it could all come to an end. www.the-independent.com/tech/gen-z-n...

🚨 LISTENCORP 007 IS HERE 🚨 Octa Sheffner (@gerogerigaygaygay.bsky.social) reveals why it's over after 850+ releases and we dive into their 8-hour masterpiece, LUX. Baths (@bathsmusic.bsky.social) gives insight into his new album and its brutal poetry... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/listenc...

Wrote about FBI raids on bootleg Bart Simpson shirts, @alansiegella.bsky.social’s fantastic new book on it, and how an animated show helped shape our modern times for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Wrote about Charlie Kirk, Cracker Barrel and the politics of pain substack.com/@limbamurphy...

‘Cry more lib!’ I cry, as I force the woke mob to write Charlie Kirk on my Starbucks coffee

A prolific online visual style brought to life… 🌈 🎠 🏘️ Crossing Bridges’ Dreamcore OST draws out the strange familiarity of nightmarishly idyllic cul-de-sacs and endless green hills. @forestcorp.bsky.social

In a week where UK vs US discourse grew – a debate both invigorating and fatiguing – Jim Legxacy is busy flicking through his Blackberry, laying a patchwork of disparate influences over a nucleus of Black London musicality My review for @clashmusic.com www.clashmusic.com/reviews/jim-...

Anybody else up loving their music?

Luke, I am your drum and bass father

Like booting up some strange PC game… w o r l d 2 0 0 0 by International Telecom, out on Deep Sea deepsea-nostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/--6

Great piece by Liam Murphy @the-independent.com on how AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internethttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deepfake-scams-chatgpt-b2775006.html

From Jean Baudrillard’s ‘The Evil Demon of Images’: ‘It is precisely when it appears most truthful and most in conformity to reality that the image is most diabolical…’ ‘There is … a seduction, a force of diversion and distortion. There is a kind of fatal strategy of conformity.’

I didn’t see the spaghetti but I have commented nonetheless 😀 As we are engulfed by Israel/Iran deepfakes, the threat of unreality gets ever nearer.

They made Will Smith eat spaghetti. What can AI make you do? ‘Personal misinformation’ is growing, fuelled by bad actors, but also by our own habits. Spoke to @lilianedwards.bsky.social and @swachter.bsky.social for this piece in @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deep...

The Bidenification didn’t really take long, did it? BREAKING: Trump is reportedly very ticked off with Netanyahu 😡 told them NOT to do that!!! Trump angy at Putin, per Reuters

Instagram doing incredible things

I spoke to @jcz.bsky.social about his album Horizons™ and what it can tell us about the metaverse and its strange, empty spaces For @digital-frontier.bsky.social www.digitalfrontier.com/articles/metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds-john-zobele

👁️ FEATURE ANALYSIS 👁️ A new dawn arrives. We dive into the new album from t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 on @geometriclullaby.bsky.social, with the help of @desertsand.bsky.social to understand what it means for slushwave and to explore the beauty of the genre www.listencorp.co.uk/post/spirit-...

Those houthis messed with the wrong guys 😎 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Only just realised how much I need to see Casey Frey dance to a song from James Ferraro’s BEBETUNE$ album

It’s 25 years since a signed sci-fi book shoved into a young John Travolta’s mailbox hit the big screen, powered by Scientology. So how come we’re not eating popcorn out of novelty e-meters? My piece on the Dutch-angled disaster, Battlefield Earth for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/articles/bat...

A true masterpiece of the internet age has been analysed and I’m honoured to tell you about it!

📕 FEATURE INSIGHT 📕 BUY NOW’s BRILLIANCE IS CLEARER WITH EVERY PAGE We look at @jingajik.bsky.social brand new book on @disasteradio.bsky.social’s MIDI masterpiece, and how incredible it is to see it celebrated Released via @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/eyeline...

‘Such is life at a paranormal convention, where everyone is looking for a story that might provide a gateway into the unknown.’

The US is so hilarious

Me at the Rahat Fateh Ali Khan concert if he plays Chaap Tilak or Rabba Main Toh Mar Gaya Oye

I followed James Ferraro’s steps to try and understand his album ‘Far Side Virtual’! open.substack.com/pub/limbamur...

No soy-drenched totopos. No sashimi tacos. Just genuine imaginative fusion of Japanese and Mexican cuisine at Los Mochis and Juno Omakase. I spoke to the creators of the restaurants and others about the unlikely pairing for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...

Sir Matthew Rycroft outlining the difference between Conservative and Labour policy on migrant hotels. Conservative plan: big barges to stick people in Labour plan: slightly smaller places to stick people in www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I know politicians are naturally funky looking people. But I don't think anybody is out here doing it like Javier Milei

'The more one considers the American Century, the more it resembles a historical aberration. Geopolitical circumstances are unlikely to allow another to become as powerful as the US has been...' @dbessner.bsky.social in @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2022...

Really love this part by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social, the analogy of biopics and Burke's X Factor 'Hallelujah' cover... "...struck by how remarkable the transformation is, how deadening the result." They often feel like a cinematic version of a wax model. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

The best cinema in the world needs your help! @princecharlescinema.com you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

A pleasure to bring out another edition of listencorp 🐠 Shoutout to @mxhdroom.bsky.social for the fantastic @catsystemcorp.bsky.social as well, a wonderful secondary feature. And thanks to everyone else involved in its production or who has picked one up.

“There were people dancing together who had been having beef for years…" Lovely little piece in @statmagazine.org statmagazine.org/the-kids-are...

"To anyone who knows the reality of privatisation, their dogmatic refusal to look at the evidence is the very definition of ideology itself." @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Labour's privatisation playbook www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...

Starting one of those technostalgia TikTok’s where you’re holed up in the woods using outdated gadgets and listening exclusively to this

So proud to bring out this feature, where friends shout out friends and write about some of their favourite music from 2024

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴏʏ ᴛᴏɴɪɢʜᴛ? ɪ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ʜᴇ'ꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ʟᴀɴᴅꜱ. ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ʜᴇ ᴡᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ... 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖓 🌹🖤💀

WHO REMEMBERS PLAYING THIS GAME?

Big bandcamp friday selections: ꜰ​ʀ​ɪ​ᴇ​ɴ​ᴅ​ʟ​ʏ ᴅ​ᴇ​ᴠ​ɪ​ᴄ​ᴇ ｓ​ʏ​ｓ​ᴛ​ᴇ​ᴍ .​ᴡ​ᴀ​ᴡ – HUi! LUX [Unmastered] – Asleep Country (Octa Möbius Sheffner) Bedtime for Ravers – Tim Six (from @seasidebliss.co) SKYLIVE 2024 – @agnar.bsky.social

Can't believe the hawk tuah girl was just trying to make a quick buck. I'm so disillusioned

Don't know if there I can think of a movie more worthy of being a mandatory watch than Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue

Called 'Somebody Told Me' the thinking man's 'Mr Brightside' last night

Psst, want a free copy of our most recent magazine? We explored the music of WipEout with the help of @coldstorage.bsky.social, interviewed @jcz.bsky.social and explored some incredible music. And… we’re giving one away! Just follow us and repost this, we’ll announce the winner on Wednesday…

Saw them pop up in my notifications and have to shout them out. @trndytrndy.com's EP Virtua is one of the top releases this year, the album equivalent of living in Microsoft Encarta trndytrndy.com/virtua/

Enthralled by 00s technology and the retrospective explorations of it atm. Researching Frutiger Aero and talking to the person that coined the phrase, she said it was the most 'funded' aesthetic there's ever been. But it has such an inviting positive sheen of progression to it...

Calling all fans of vaporwave, slushwave and signalwave out there on bluesky, what would you say is your favourite release this year?

Great piece in @thedialmag.bsky.social by @imogenwk.bsky.social. Talking to my Mexican in-laws was a whole different world than that of Duolingo. Learnt more in 10 minutes of talking to them than I had in my whole streak. Duolingo's great but there's a limit! www.thedial.world/articles/new...