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Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.

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Not much is known about this series except that it was produced by the CBC and broadcast at 10:30pm. Primarily thrillers adapted from classic horror stories, the series seems to have run between 1968-...

Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.

We're awash with emulations at the moment, but this one is on another level. The chip that powered everything from Yamaha’s little-known CX5M computer to the best 80s FM synths and video game masterpi...

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A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.

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Felix Petrescu Netlabels – Utopia digitală a anilor ’90 și moștenirea ei culturală — prezentare cu exemple sonore și deturnări istorice Vineri, 25 sept 17:00 / MX foto Petre Fall Netlabel-urile au ap...

Takuro Mizuta Lippit Urme paralele – Utilizarea ascultării ca armă în Japonia din timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial și prototipul turntablismului din spatele discursului împăratului Hirohito —...

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New sound technologies? Sure, okay, I guess. But haunted dolls of the 1890s as made by Thomas Edison? Oh, now you've got my attention.

I had the pleasure of being able to test Plogue's newest Plugin, chipsynthOPMZ! Here is what I made. chipsynthOPMZ will be available very soon, on https://www.plogue.com/ Plogue logo, chipsynthOPMZ a

In 1976, Suzanne Ciani reported back to the USA's National Endowment for the Arts with a report on her compositions, in the form of a modular cookbook. Now you can read her notes and follow along usin...

Marres returns to the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg to uncovers the origins of tech elites’ ambition to remake the world. Blumenberg traced that ambition back through modern experimental science ...

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After we released Enso, which is basically the looper Adam and I always dreamed of, a full creative looping environment with a deep workflow and abilities that were, at the time, unique in the plugin ...

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

Alex Gibney’s movie has an unfortunate twist.

Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fract...

Before I knew I was pregnant I would stand before the mirror and wonder why I was different why I was growing what was wrong with my too-small skin. “Probably,” (they said, with certainty in their voi...

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), a writer called “worthy of the Nobel Prize” by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short ...

Autodafe’s free Vintage Emulator Studio is a MAME-based plugin and standalone for Windows, Mac, and Linux, letting musicians play vintage synths, samplers, and drum machines with their own ROMs.

Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like ‘Foundation’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ It’s evident in their te...

Chandra Clarke Under Review:Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice. Eds. Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and Jordan S. Carroll. The MIT Pre…

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.