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Dix, Objeto Amarelo

brazilian industrial stuff, stolen from my older brother.
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soon…
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Audio Bullys has the editorial quality of a blog rant.
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soon…
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incomplete, I still gotta write about the songs… the jukebox is working, tho.
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Amour Electronique

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Defend It

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Daft Punk

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Mirante (instrumental), Tati Quebra-Barraco

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Trashscapes, Ellen Allien

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I can’t talk about how i feel about bush’s reelection… but I can copy & paste what most ressonated with my feelings. this one is from metafilter. there’s other below, ranging from political to spiritual.
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> No, actually it’s a time to wake up and be more
> playful. To have our moods less intertwined with the
> evil being done in the world, less tied to the news
> cycle, and more intertwined with the people around us.
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> It’s a time to bring joy into our everyday lives. We
> should be cooking good foods, playing fun games,
> listening to each other’s struggles and triumphs,
> having great sex, following our dreams, dancing our
> dances, learning new things and enjoying good laughs.
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> That’s a challenge for many of us who have tied our
> identities and emotions directly to what happens in
> the world. We’re the folks who make the news and
> listen to it - we’re the ones who file the lawsuits,
> who organize the grassroots, who educate the ignorant,
> who lobby the bills, and who fight the election
> battles. That’s excellent, very important work. But
> when the day is done, we’ve got to have something else
> in our lives. Something that we, not some ignorant
> voters and bad people, control.

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my mourning technique has been frantically visiting forums to read their opinions about the reelection… some quotes below (and above).
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Dan Gillmor’s eJournal: “The latest word on climate change is that with the uncovering of sequestered carbon in the arctic by melting ice sheets, the rate of climate change will increase, not decrease. There’s a positive feedback loop in place now, and it will take even more to counteract it. Without added forests, greenbelts, and estuaries, there won’t be adequate photosynthetic activity to counteract the increased burning of fossil fuels. We could see 20 foot rises in ocean level in 50 years. Dan could be going to his office in San Jose by boat.

Ask yourself this: Why has the Bush administration fired scientists who won’t write biased papers to support the administrations pro-industry agenda? Why have lobbyists for energy and chemical companies been put in charge of our environmental protection, our public lands, especially our parks and precious remaining wilderness areas?

A: The large corporations, who owe no aliegance to any particular people of the world, are perfectly willing to corrupt the political system to boost their short-term profits, with no regard for our long-term welfare. You don’t have to work for any multi-national corporation for very long to see how that happens.

Perhaps the religeous right foolishly believe that god will take their faithful to heaven in the next four years, leaving the rest of us rot in a planet increasingly like Venus. It appears that their blissful ignorance, their reliance on one ancient book as the source of all truth, has made them sheep, lead by myopic executives with only quarterly profits in mind. They’ve blissfully carried us closer to our own destruction.

What we really need in technology policy is the principle that no costs be externalized. Companies and individuals must be responsible for the polution they create, the resources they extract, the health risks they cause. Tech policy should be based on true capitalism where products and services actually have to include the costs to the commons, not government subsidies to extractive and environmentally exploitive industries.”

from swayzak, just because you can’t find the lyrics that easily
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you know it makes no difference
whether we talk or not
and it`s much harder going in there sometimes
and jumping down from the top.
but if you talk to me,
i will listen to you
with my eyes, my ears, my heart
till we both reach a state of grace
i will pull you out of the model secrets
till we both trust the coast is clear
information goes to yourself
this information breeding danger
breeding danger

you know it makes no difference
if you remember times that i forgot
sometimes we meet nostalgia
but there`s a need for not
taking consciousness for granted
i need to hear your good self
so don`t expect me to give into it
i don`t want to go back down
my senses worth not one
till we both reach a state of grace
i will pull you out of the model secrets
till we both trust the coast is clear
information gets to yourself
this information breeding danger
breeding danger”

social niceties
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here in america, people are so polite that you have to use the thank you, i’m sorry and excuse me cards all the time.
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the good thing is that it really unties your karma, and makes you free to new heights. i know a lot of brazilian friends that prefer to die full of pride and regret than to recognize they’re wrong. the past haunts them precisely because they don’t accept it.
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below are some english/portuguese translations, classical and literal, side by side:
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in brazil, thank you is obrigado (or obrigada if you’re a woman). literally, it means i’m indebted to you. to thank means to recognize any good deed. to say obrigado says you admit you owesomething to the person. certainly nothing to be said carelesly. (some say arigato came from our obrigado, but i’m not sure)
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excuse me is com licença (the “ç” reads as “s”, like in french). so, grant me license (because obviously, you are in the way). for me, excuse means there’s something wrong with you to ask for some room, like if you are in an inferior position. although both agree the power is with the other one (hence the asking), in portuguese, you don’t apologize for the asking. in fact, you can ask as if it’s mandatory (dá licença), and you are just excercizing your right.
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i’m sorry is me desculpa. literally, unguilt me. come on, that’s sweeeeet. in english you are just relating your mood, but in portuguese, you are asking for forgiveness, to untie you and let you free again. you not only accept that you are guilty but understand and inform the only person that can set you free is the one you hurt. so, here in america you can say i’m sorry to nearly anything sad that happens to someone (because you are just showing that you are sympathetic to their loss). try to do it in portuguese, and it makes no sense at all - why should you apologize for something that’s is not your responsibility?

no wi-fi for you, sir
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[upset]
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it seems that although all RIT campuses have wireless connection (my computer sense it and i can almost smell it, too), i can’t get a temporary password.
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it’s like refusing a cup of water to a stranger. yeah, you can do this, but it’s gross.
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like, if you think in a technological point of view, you think about rules for this and for that. ok, procedures. but when you think politically, you have to have a reason why not to grant temporary access to visitors. is it fear of illegal use? is it because of $$$? lemme know.
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getting stuck in technologial have-nots and forget about the social implications of it is the blindness of computer users… the technical system as an end in itself…
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ok, i’m an addict in forced abstinence. tho i have a point, in fact i’ll find any justification to grant me access to my piece of noosphere.