Clarke's Mysterious WorldRoxy Music – AvalonLangston Hughes – Ballad of the GypsySerge Gainsbourg – BaudelaireDavid Linx – Becoming StreamsThe Divine Comedy – Bernice Bobs Her HairBon Iver – Beth/Rest - Rare Book RoomJay Farrar – Big SurMorrissey – Billy BuddThe Decemberists – Billy LiarSmooth Toad – Bixby CanyonDeath Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon BridgeBilly Bragg – Blake's JerusalemBlossom Dearie –… [read post]

Clarke's Mysterious WorldRoxy Music – AvalonLangston Hughes – Ballad of the GypsySerge Gainsbourg – BaudelaireDavid Linx – Becoming StreamsThe Divine Comedy – Bernice Bobs Her HairBon Iver – Beth/Rest - Rare Book RoomJay Farrar – Big SurMorrissey – Billy BuddThe Decemberists – Billy LiarSmooth Toad – Bixby CanyonDeath Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon BridgeBilly Bragg – Blake's JerusalemBlossom Dearie –… [read post]

  For stories that tell of the ‘rise of the machines’ with foreboding are not about man v. machines at all, but about conflict within humanity, and whether it possesses the collective self-love needed for its own self-preservation, or whether shame, greed, and ignorance shall produce division and ruin.[3] And so, making space for human agency requires we supplement the goal of efficiency (at which machines may often excel) with other goals. [read post]