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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare

Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate t...

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August 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM

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August 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Test Pressing #418 / Moonboots

Tracks include unreleased music from Cantoma, Jupiter & Mars, Steve Cobby, and Penny Antena. For more details please check / http://testpressing.org/2016/03/mix-moonboots-jutro-the-sunrise-sessions/

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July 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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Test Pressing 302 / Payfone

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July 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You [The Knowledge Project Ep. #238]

We discuss how to think clearly in a world full of noise, why more information doesn't equal better thinking and so much more.

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July 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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The Manual by The KLF

THE TIMELORDS T H E M A N U A L (HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY) THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN. KLF 009B 1988 (YOU KNOW ...

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June 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/u...

Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem

“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”

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June 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM

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Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

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June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-ro...

From ski star to GC hope: Florian Lipowitz's convoluted journey to becoming Germany's biggest cycling talent

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's young German didn't start out cycling, but he showed promise from the moment he first started taking the sport seriously. Now he's one of the team's most important riders

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June 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM

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www.wallpaper.com/travel/vinyl...

Take a turn around Tokyo’s most ambitious record shop

Vinyl Delivery Service in east Tokyo’s Skwat Kameari Art Centre is spinning a new narrative for the traditional record store model

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May 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM

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We Are Rewind brings back the boombox with the deliberately retro GB-001 cassette recorder

This cassette player, recorder and portable Bluetooth speaker system all-in-one splices classic looks with digital tech and analogue sounds

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May 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?

Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

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April 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM

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“I need to build the room I want to play in”: Floating Points has created his very own sound system that he'll use at this summer's festivals – here's why

Electronic artist Floating Points is bringing his very own sound system with him to festivals this summer. He explains why.

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April 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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March 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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ANDREW WEATHERALL & BILL BREWSTER Live at Kindergarten 6th birthday, October 2005

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of the events of the last few weeks is a friend unearthing this mix of Andrew and I playing together 15 years ago. I hadn't even realised it had been recorded u...

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February 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM

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Fail we may, sail we must

February 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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After an historic Munich Security Conference for Europe-US relations, it’s worth putting the event in context.

Read former UK ambassador to Russia Laurie Bristow on why Putin’s 2007 speech at Munich set the stage for today’s events.
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