WE ARE GOVERNED BY A MIXTURE OF THE EVIL AND THE BRAINDEAD?
How can the failure of English water companies be addressed?
The Guardian has an article addressing the above issue today in which they look at alternatives to private ownership if the U.K. water supply and
Read the full article…
The Guardian has an article addressing the above issue today in which they look at alternatives to private ownership if the U.K. water supply and
Read the full article…
The International Response To The U.S. Tax Haven
Crackdown slated for $3 billion illegal tobacco trade
On January 9, this publication reported Inspiring Vacations, a major Australian travel company, had suffered a data leak from a vast trove of unprotected traveller data. In November last year, more than 112,000 client records were leaked online.
The breach was discovered by Jeremiah Fowler, a technology and security consultant with Security Discovery, a cybersecurity and research collective.
Fowler alerted the company as well as the newspapers that subsequently broke the story. Most of this data related to Inspiring Vacations’ Australian customers but personal information belonging to customers from Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK was also accessed. Investigations are ongoing to try and determine who the hackers were, what information was stolen and if it has been used.
Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’ A Court Says ‘Who Cares?’ Wall Street Journal
Real Estate ‘Visionary’ Allegedly Behind Massive, Viral Airbnb Fraud Charged Court Watch
$100 Private Jets Have Arrived Thanks To Revolutionary ‘Uber-Style’ App DMARGE (David L)
Mainstream Economics’ Medieval Inflation Medicine Project Syndicate
Wayfair’s CEO Wants Staff to Work Harder. Your Boss Probably Agrees. Wall Street Journal
Why is cheddar so delicious? Science now has the answer — and it’s all in the microbes ZME Science
What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World?
Wired: “Kindle libraries; troves of infinitely streamable songs on Spotify and Apple Music; scores of shows and films on Netflix, Max, and Hulu. Even the Criterion Collection is online now.
Cultural archives now live on server farms, so much so that the value of physical media seems ever-shifting. While there’s some benefit to it—the ineffable experience of flipping through a book, owning DVDs of your favorite show to watch when it disappears from streaming—the logistical issues involved in preserving massive archives of these things feels astronomical. Especially now, when many shows, comics, and albums aren’t even released as Blu-rays, bound editions, or LPs.
While physical media faces an increasingly uncertain and unsympathetic future, its defenders do all they can to protect what they see as an invaluable resource. Nowhere is that more evident than at the ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC), a New York-based nonprofit that keeps and maintains the largest popular music collection in the world.
Encompassing more than 3 million recordings, including the personal holdings of collectors like Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, businessman Zero Freitas, late director Jonathan Demme, and A-Square Record label founder Jeep Holland, the ARC holds an impressive array of everything from signed LPs to blues 78s to Brazilian and Haitian music.
It’s also taken in recordings, books, and papers from music icons like David Byrne and journalist Jon Pareles, and reportedly holds some of the world’s biggest collections of Broadway, African, punk, jazz, country and western, folk, hip hop, and experimental recordings. It’s become an important resource for researchers doing work in music history, graphic design, or cultural heritage—and it’s in jeopardy…
A Warning
America survived the first Trump term, though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, if there is one, will be much worse.
