Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

Okay, I've made a Spotify 'mixtape' called 2600 Mixtape #1 || Features myself, a handful of artists you may find familiar ;D and other stuff I liked

https://open.spotify.com/user/12155979573/playlist/3lEgY7KUlxm81cCOmtKQCY

Harry Potter and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

https://social.mecanis.me/media/qLIUqPgmTakT8W-Lm0Q

Nurses are good people. Cops are not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/09/01/nurses-are-good-people-cops-are-not/

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/no-longer-tropical-storm-harvey-leaves-texas-reeling#comment-3496862894

Wunderground commenter:

"Harvey is the worst disaster in US history. We're only beginning to come to grasp with that. Fall out will be far worse than any can currently imagine unless you are in it. With 40% of southern oil supply shut down, likely over one hundred thousand needing long term housing, and health concerns growing on any number of fronts; we've only just begun. The media is behind big time in getting up to speed on the actuality of the long term impacts."

here's the platform for nazis we really need https://sanguine.merylscarlett.info/media/UEq9AjcjYm_fig-HqRg

1992: hey so we made a game called "wolfenstein" where you kill nazis, cause you know, you can't feel empathy for the bad guys if they are nazis

2017: hold my beer

omfg this is beautiful
fcc.gov has an api for uploading attachments to proceedings
and they get hosted on a .fcc.gov subdomain
and uh
it's really not secure
and uh
you can upload anything, and it doesn't look like there's a filesize limit

https://hackernoon.com/the-fcc-gov-website-lets-you-upload-documents-and-host-them-there-bdcd5c1a5b8b

oh dear looks like wikileaks got hacked. *worlds smallest violin plays*

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/31/wikileaks-hacked-ourmine-group-julian-assange-dns-attack?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

(Okay so not ACTUALLY hacked, just DNS rerouted elsehwere, but still. more trouble for wikileaks is pretty much universally good. Fuck assanage tbh)

For every twenty books of theory you read about socialism you should have to canvass poor communities for at least an hour.

The book quoted: Frances Stonor Saunders' 'The Cultural Cold War', 2000.

Think about how the CIA's mission was attacking the cultural roots of Communism by promoting 'individuality'.

Think about how much of the 1950s was about who gained control of Hollywood.

Now think about how much Silicon Valley is influenced by US military and intelligence needs.

Now think about how incredibly useful it is that Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook control so much of the Internet.

https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters/dp/1565846648

A really interesting angle here:

"While Hoover and his FBI men were busy red-baiting, tapping phones, and compiling dossiers on just about any American with even the most minuscule of leftist leanings, the CIA was simultaneously funding and promoting art by many of the same people the FBI was watching"

A 50s-70s cultural war *between the FBI and the CIA*.

CIA leaning "libertarian", FBI leading "authoritarian".

We've heard a lot about the FBI. Not so much about the CIA.

Adam Krause's answer is "there's no direct evidence", but... there does seem to be compelling circumstantial evidence that if the CIA *wasn't* funding rock, it *should* have been. It would have been central to its 1950s cultural mission.

And that could explain a lot of complicated things about the US music industry.

Not secret but little commented-on fact: look at the history of audio tape, radio recording and broadcasting. Most of the main actors involved were in the US intelligence services.

Cool, someone else has asked (in 2013) the question that immediately comes to mind after reading about the CIA funding Abstract Impressionism:

https://www.theawl.com/2013/12/did-the-cia-propagate-rock-n-roll/

"More obviously, rock ’n’ roll is also much more affordable. Not everyone can purchase a Pollock, but just about anyone can buy a record. Mass produced with mass appeal and relative affordability, rock ’n’ roll reaches the proletariat, thus stealing communism’s target market. It’s perfect.

Could the CIA possibly miss this?"

I want a podcast which is like This American Life human interest stuff but NO bummers. Just people talking about their passions and other chill stuff.

Anyway, do you know any good wholesome podcasts I should check out?

A thought for highly motivated political Millennials:

* capitalism is broken and doing a 1930s Great Depression
* but maybe don't do Hitler again?
* but also maybe don't do Stalin again?
* also maybe don't do Mao
* also maybe don't do Pol Pot

The Alt-Right started at Herbert Hoover and went full Adolf Hitler.

But the emerging Alt-Left, which does appear to be a thing, could start at FDR and end up at Josef Stalin.

Please just let's not do Stalin/Mao again, okay?