Interesting Links for 20-05-2012
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andrewducker- An industrial band stands up against racism and sexism in the genre - watch the video halfway down. Really.
- Alain de Boiton talks a lot of nonsense about sex and porn
- Warren Ellis , IRON MAN 3 and IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
- It turns out the aborigines may still own Australia
- The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
- Why Would Google Offer $1B For Music Rights? Because The Return Could Be Much Bigger
- Dan Harmon reacts to being sacked from Community
Dan
- How Facebook made only the rich even richer
- Pretty much everyone has a rare genetic variant. (You'd expect that, with the number of genes we have)
- Will Smith's kid asked Obama about aliens. And the president said ... | Blastr
- All photography set to be banned on Glasgow’s Subway
- Fiat brilliantly punks VW on Google Street View
- Government backtracks on fracking
- Africa is experiencing some of the biggest falls in child mortality ever seen, anywhere
- Is This Feminist? (I laughed)
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Date: 2012-05-26 10:28 am (UTC)I can't help but suspect there is a bit of truth in that article despite how over the top it sounds, but then I'm very bitter how the state of music coming from the big labels went downhill during the mid to late-90's in general. Emphasis on the big labels, great music is easy and easier to find these days, at least if you're in to making some type of minor effort, such as using a search engine.
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Date: 2012-05-20 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-20 11:46 am (UTC)I mean, could you imagine getting a bunch of people you've never met into a room together, making a ridiculous conspiracy, and then hoping that none of them would talk about it afterwards?
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Date: 2012-05-20 11:47 am (UTC)I wonder what kind of drugs you have to take in order to become so paranoid you'd believe this story.
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Date: 2012-05-20 01:53 pm (UTC)The claims "the lyrical content of recent hip-hop encourages people, especially young black men, to commit crimes" and "some very rich people have an interest in the continued incarceration and disenfranchisement of a substantial number of people, and for those people to be part of a visible, exploitable, minority" are both supportable positions (the latter far more than the former). That industries work towards the interests of their owners is self-evident. Given that, you can say "the music industry is organised so as to encourage young black men to be imprisoned" *without having to posit a conspiracy at all*. The mere existence of incentives is enough to provide co-ordination without anyone ever having to discuss it with anyone else.
I *don't* think the music industry is causing crime, but if it were, it would be a structural problem with American society as a whole, not something caused by evil bad men getting together and saying "mwah ha ha ha, let's be evil!"
In fact, were I the kind of person to believe in conspiracy theories of that nature, I would believe that the article *itself* was planted by a conspiracy, to get people chasing after a small number of scapegoats rather than taking political action to fix the causes of the problem ;)
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Date: 2012-05-20 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-21 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-21 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-21 12:51 pm (UTC)In preference order.
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Date: 2012-05-21 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-21 12:57 pm (UTC)The beer is an added attraction.
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Date: 2012-05-20 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-20 05:07 pm (UTC)http://yoisthisracist.com/
(in case you haven't seen it.)
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Date: 2012-05-20 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-21 04:10 am (UTC)getting your mind off some guy's record
he makes his money off fools like you
singing about killing like it ain't no thing but
you do the time when you live it for real
paying his way from your death row cell
you're the last one to see, you got sold out
The story does sound somewhat BS, but only because it was in the open rather than a closed CIA session.
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Date: 2012-05-21 09:40 am (UTC)time for another look
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Date: 2012-05-21 11:44 am (UTC)