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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Why Gen Z want dial-up back – and how the internet could be driven to extinction

The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet...

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listencorp @listencorp.org · 10d

🚨 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...

The seventh edition of listencorp is here

Octa Mobius Sheffner! An exclusive cassette! Baths! Lucy Liyou! Ninjarachi and more!

www.listencorp.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to @alliegoertz.bsky.social and @juliaprescott.bsky.social for lending your voices and Simpsons expertise too!

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 10d

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...

The Simpsons didn’t predict the modern world – it shaped it

The record-breaking animation may be returning for a 37th season, but many fans have long switched off. If ‘The Simpsons’ is struggling to make an impact, it only has its own success to blame, writes ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 18d

Wrote about Charlie Kirk, Cracker Barrel and the politics of pain

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YEARS OF LARD: Cancel culture, but make it stupid

'CRY MORE LIB,' I cry, as the woke mob is forced to write 'Charlie Kirk' on my Starbucks coffee

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 20d

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

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listencorp @listencorp.org · Jul 29

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

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jul 21

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-...

Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

UK rapper charges a formidable first album with heart and quick-step style changes, aglow with Bluetooth-charged eclecticism… --- --- “A lot of shit

www.clashmusic.com

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jul 16

Anybody else up loving their music?

listencorp @listencorp.org · Jul 16

SO TRUE!

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hello Alan! Hope you're good and congrats on this incredible book. Wondering if I can chat with you about it for an article I'm writing, would love to speak with you.

Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 28

Luke, I am your drum and bass father

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listencorp @listencorp.org · Jun 11

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

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet

Most deepfake programmes need only one picture to create a semi-believable facial model, and experts say AI can make voices indistinguishable from the real thing with just a few minutes of audio. This...

www.independent.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 25

Read it here:

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 25

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.’

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet

Most deepfake programmes need only one picture to create a semi-believable facial model, and experts say AI can make voices indistinguishable from the real thing with just a few minutes of audio. This...

www.independent.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet

Most deepfake programmes need only one picture to create a semi-believable facial model, and experts say AI can make voices indistinguishable from the real thing with just a few minutes of audio. This...

www.independent.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · May 31

Instagram doing incredible things

Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · May 22

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

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listencorp @listencorp.org · May 14

👁️ 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-...

Spirit of slushwave: the return of t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力

With the help of slush aficionado desert sand feels warm at night, we dive into one of the new albums and what they mean for the genre

www.listencorp.co.uk

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · May 7

Those houthis messed with the wrong guys 😎

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Another $60M US Navy jet falls off USS Harry Truman and is lost at sea

Two aviators were forced to eject from the aircraft as it suffered an ‘arrestment failure’, said reports

www.independent.co.uk

Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

Psychlo killer: Battlefield Earth 25 years on

Scientology's spectacular flop went down in history for all the wrong reasons. A quarter-century on, what went wrong?

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

listencorp @listencorp.org · Apr 27

📕 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...

The brilliance of Eyeliner's BUY NOW

Dr Michael Brown's new book does the impossible, in drawing together every element that made this vaporwave touchstone

www.listencorp.co.uk

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