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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 1d

"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by Negativland + SUE-C

Friday, Oct 31, 2025 | 7:30–9:30 PM 
Yale University
CCAM Sound Art Series 
149 York St. New Haven, CT 
Free + open to the public 
(limited capacity, first come first serve)

ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-s...

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 11d

Over The Edge, 25 Sept 2025

This week, we interview Yan Jun, lynchpin of the Chinese experimental music scene, discussing feedback and influences, and playing as much of his music as is possible without also compromising it, which might not be possible

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 15d

Animal Electronic

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INTERRUPTIONS #1 Pastoral V.2 | Podcast | Radio Web MACBA | RWM Podcasts

Curated by Jon Leidecker “Pastoral V.2” is a curated overview hoping to underline the history of those classic works of electronic and concrète music which sought to mimic and extend the voices and…

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

LLMs are not a suitable technology for information access. Here is a quick summary of why not:

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

But to take the SIFT framework, LLMs cannot be a source. They are synthetic text extruding machines, that's all. Text without accountability.

Information literacy and chatbots as search

By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Sep 7

the news is better outside than on-feed; good luck Chicago

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 29

last minute add to this weekend’s Woodstockhausen West festival in the Santa Cruz mountains: Wobbly & Shatter Pattern, saturday night’s closing set

www.woodstockhausen.net/artists-1-1

Artists — Woodstockhausen

www.woodstockhausen.net

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 28

Over The Edge
“Significantly Less Deceptive”
Negativland, 21 August 2025

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Fragments from rehearsals & in concert, Bellingham WA, 7-9 August 2025. Thanks to Kelly Sorbel and Make Shift Art Space.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 23

Culture Jamming assumed a monoculture; in a siloed media environment, even the most cutting parody runs the risk of becoming merely further amplification. Their most ratioed posts still carry the poison; do not sample their voices

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Henry Cow – Viva Pa Ubu

This is a song for all you Ubists / Fat & loathsome / Rich Unscrupulous / Horrible, ghastly to be with / Ye Gods! What a bashing! You'll get what you deserve / Ye Gods! What a

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 21

After our many years of advocating for unlimited transformative use only to see corporate platforms slowly walk away with owning everything online, we deeply related to Marc’s Content rant; the Left and the Right, inverted. All we can say is: the wrong pioneer is retiring from podcasting.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 21

Peter Conheim plays our sample of Marc’s podcast, for Marc, on his podcast, thereby creating more content: shout out to the legendary @marcmaron.bsky.social

Peter’s work in the Bay Area extends well beyond his decades with Negativland; the larger story’s all here

Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · Aug 21

Today I talk to Peter Conheim on the show! Culture jamming, sonic art, Negativland, film archiving, Devo. Great talk! Listen up! wtfpod.com

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 20

Can Discernment Be Tolerated

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 9

NEGATIVLAND IS LIVE AND STREAMING FROM BELLINGHAM, WA, AUGUST 9th, 2025

Tune in live to KZAX FM at 7pm west coast time to hear us do Over The Edge live and on stage from Bellingham WA. A free one-off show (we are not touring) with a special tele-appearance by The Weatherman

kzaxradio.org

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Aug 8

Over The Edge 7 Aug 25
“Enemy Of Enemy Is”

Today’s episode: Substantially Less Deceptive than previous models. Especially on the subject of what to do about cancer

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Tom Krattenmaker @tjkratt.bsky.social · Jul 31

Public gullibility was a problem in the 1980s when I was caught up in a famous media hoax. It’s worse today.

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Negativland and me: Why we fall for hoaxes

Public gullibility was a problem in the 1980s when I was caught up in a famous media hoax. It’s worse today.

onlys.ky

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 28

After decades of not wanting anyone to confuse recordings with music, the legendary Laetitia Sonami has released a compilation on Lovely Music Ltd. Negativland’s Jon Leidecker contributes liner notes, available online.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 25

contemporary media literacy update

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Why AI chatbots lie to us

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

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Hollow Earth Radio 🎶 📻 (KHUH-LP) @khuh.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hollow Earth Radio is grateful that KZAX invited us to participate in Radio Forever Festival on August 9th in Bellingham at the Make.Shift Art Space, where you can see legends @negativlandland.bsky.social, Fantasy A, and Cat Valley! This is going to be FUN! Equally stoked for “Stand By for Failure”!

Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 21

RADIO FOREVER! NEGATIVLAND LIVE AND OVER THE EDGE IN BELLINGHAM, WA! AUG. 9th!

With a showing of "STAND BY FOR FAILURE" directed by Ryan Worsley, Aug. 7th.
(with Negativland in person Q & A afterwards)

Free live show tickets -
makeshiftartspace.org/events/radio...

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 21

RADIO FOREVER! NEGATIVLAND LIVE AND OVER THE EDGE IN BELLINGHAM, WA! AUG. 9th!

With a showing of "STAND BY FOR FAILURE" directed by Ryan Worsley, Aug. 7th.
(with Negativland in person Q & A afterwards)

Free live show tickets -
makeshiftartspace.org/events/radio...

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 20

Over The Edge 17 July 25
‘Factions’

Left and Right inversions: 10 years ago, 250 years ago, 40 years ago, now

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Rare lineup in LA this friday

ra.co/events/2209803

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 5

Over The Edge, July 3rd:
‘Exapted Skin’

These automated transcriptions are something else

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · Jul 4

A thoughtful and emotionally intelligent response to what has just happened, and she asks the right questions. If you're feeling traumatized and crushed right now (we sure as hell are), this might be helpful...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGM5...

Today is devastating. What do we do?

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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