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oblivion remastered faithfully restored the part where the corpse disappears
I bought Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 for the soothing combination of open-world wandering and half-watching television. The game responded by misplacing a corpse required for a Mages Guild recommendation.https://tacobout.online/2026/09/04/oblivion-remastered-cheydinhal-mages-guild-corpse-bug/
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“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…
Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.
The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…
… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.
In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse.
We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.
This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.
Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)
See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)
And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.
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As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902. One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)
Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).
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Sweet (celebrity) oblivion awaits you, creeper
Nobody wants to pay for your podcast Dan.
https://www.mediaite.com/uk/dan-wootton-exits-gb-news-unveils-plans-for-independent-media-venture/
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Sweet (celebrity) oblivion awaits you, creeper
Nobody wants to pay for your podcast Dan.
https://www.mediaite.com/uk/dan-wootton-exits-gb-news-unveils-plans-for-independent-media-venture/
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Sweet (celebrity) oblivion awaits you, creeper
Nobody wants to pay for your podcast Dan.
https://www.mediaite.com/uk/dan-wootton-exits-gb-news-unveils-plans-for-independent-media-venture/
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Sweet (celebrity) oblivion awaits you, creeper
Nobody wants to pay for your podcast Dan.
https://www.mediaite.com/uk/dan-wootton-exits-gb-news-unveils-plans-for-independent-media-venture/
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I'm playing a little Oblivion (PC, 2006) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . Doing a short session to close out my time with this character. #streaming live in a few minutes.
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Sadak and the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin
A wonderful painting from #Arabian #Mythology, buff.ly/DEqeDz3
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Medya News (Fréderike Geerdink): *Long way to go to score the Grey Wolves into oblivion*
"The Grey Wolves, founded in the 1960s, and the hand gesture that emerged in the early 1990s, could only become as influential as they did because there was a fertile soil in which the seed was planted. That fertile soil is Turkish fascism since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923."
https://medyanews.net/long-way-to-go-to-score-the-grey-wolves-into-oblivion
#GreyWolves #GrijzeWolven #fascism #fascisme #UltraNationalism #nationalism #Turkey #Turkije
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Medya News (Fréderike Geerdink): *Long way to go to score the Grey Wolves into oblivion*
"The Grey Wolves, founded in the 1960s, and the hand gesture that emerged in the early 1990s, could only become as influential as they did because there was a fertile soil in which the seed was planted. That fertile soil is Turkish fascism since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923."
https://medyanews.net/long-way-to-go-to-score-the-grey-wolves-into-oblivion
#GreyWolves #GrijzeWolven #fascism #fascisme #UltraNationalism #nationalism #Turkey #Turkije
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Medya News (Fréderike Geerdink): *Long way to go to score the Grey Wolves into oblivion*
"The Grey Wolves, founded in the 1960s, and the hand gesture that emerged in the early 1990s, could only become as influential as they did because there was a fertile soil in which the seed was planted. That fertile soil is Turkish fascism since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923."
https://medyanews.net/long-way-to-go-to-score-the-grey-wolves-into-oblivion
#GreyWolves #GrijzeWolven #fascism #fascisme #UltraNationalism #nationalism #Turkey #Turkije
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Medya News (Fréderike Geerdink): *Long way to go to score the Grey Wolves into oblivion*
"The Grey Wolves, founded in the 1960s, and the hand gesture that emerged in the early 1990s, could only become as influential as they did because there was a fertile soil in which the seed was planted. That fertile soil is Turkish fascism since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923."
https://medyanews.net/long-way-to-go-to-score-the-grey-wolves-into-oblivion
#GreyWolves #GrijzeWolven #fascism #fascisme #UltraNationalism #nationalism #Turkey #Turkije
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Ça faisait longtemps que je n’avais pas écouter de Death… et je découvre Oblivion.
Oblivion - True Awakening
https://obtainoblivion.bandcamp.com/track/true-awakening
Issu de l’album Oblivion, sorti en 2019.
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What yearning looks like...
Costumes by @Twinsofdestruction EXCELSIOR! :) #fantasy #fantasybooks #Medieval #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #characterdesign #cosplay #OblivionRemastered #Elderscrolls #Halloween #HalloweenCostumes #Horrorcore #Shorts #Horrormovies #Twinsofdestruction
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CW: Protest Crackdowns
Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/solidarity-vital-to-freeing-imprisoned-human-rights-defenders/
Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.
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CW: Protest Crackdowns
Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/solidarity-vital-to-freeing-imprisoned-human-rights-defenders/
Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.
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CW: Protest Crackdowns
Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/solidarity-vital-to-freeing-imprisoned-human-rights-defenders/
Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.
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CW: Protest Crackdowns
Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/solidarity-vital-to-freeing-imprisoned-human-rights-defenders/
Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.
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CW: Protest Crackdowns
Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/solidarity-vital-to-freeing-imprisoned-human-rights-defenders/
Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.
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Haven't done
@neurothing #ThursdayFiveList for a long time. So let's go.
Topic is #AntiFrustration1/5
All Senses
Under Attack
Oblivion
Penultimate
Anticipation
Fills Your Soul
At The Limit
Beyond Control#BoltThrower - No Guts No Glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29z5zvPmo4
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🎧 An impossible murder. Corrupted young mages. A mathematics teacher obsessed with Oblivion. And a hole in reality that keeps growing. We explore a Spanish-language M20 one-shot designed to introduce new players to Mage. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/tomes-of-magick-the-other-side-of-the-coin/ #magetheascension #m20 #tomesofmagick #worldofdarkness #wod
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Death Obvious – Death Obvious Review
By Andy-War-Hall
Back in August, I went goo-goo over an avant-black duo under Transcending Obscurity called Hexrot and, as a lowly N00b, awarded their debut Formless Ruin of Oblivion a “Great” designation.1 Flash forward, and sloshing through the promo sump comes an avant-black duo under Transcending Obscurity called Death Obvious, offering their self-titled debut. Composed of vocalist Lea Lavey and everything-else-er Sima Sioux,2 this Finnish duo reveal high aspirations with claims of “crafting music as it suits their demented vision in a recklessly intuitive manner” while pitching Death Obvious for fans of visionary acts like Blut aus Nord, Deathspell Omega, Veilburner and—looky!—Hexrot. My excitement in snagging Death Obvious was, like Death Obvious’ apparent expectations, quite high. Does Death Obvious live up to either?
With Death Obvious, you can pick out distinct moments of black, death and doom metal bubbling to the surface of Death Obvious’ style-soup. Death Obvious is sworn chiefly to the blackened arts, communicating primarily through Lavey’s hideous rasps and Sioux’s tremolo riffs and blast beats, with second-wave inspired ragers “The Third Eye Burning” and “Mercury Off Axis” making no bones about their caustic, reverb-heavy attack. Death and doom are the more secondary sounds of Death Obvious, with death appearing on the chunkier, mid-paced moments of songs like “Sanctuario” and doom manifesting into spacier, drawn-out passages like the start of “The Great Gate Theory,” which put me in mind, surprisingly, of Khemmis’ Hunted. When Death Obvious’ songwriting clicks, like on album highlight “Sanctuario” or portions of closer “Catechismus for the Plagued,” sounds really do hurtle in exciting, dangerous manners that makes Death Obvious a killer listen.
Most of Death Obvious is indistinct, however, due to Death Obvious’ directionless songwriting and murky production. Death Obvious relishes in dissonance both clean (“Total Heavenly Desolation”) and dirty (“Suffer the Spectacle”). But instead of building tension or suspense, Death Obvious creates tedium through dissonance, leading to neither release nor deeper discomfort but to a monotonous drone of black metal murk. This is exacerbated by Sioux’s guitar tone, which in Death Obvious’ faster moments can sound like a totally nebulous melange of reverb. To their credit, Death Obvious’ bass-forward mixing helps mitigate this somewhat, providing plucky, crunchy bass riffs like on “The Great Gate Theory.” It does nothing, however, for the busy, opaque mix that, damn the DR score, sounds boxed-in and flat. Death Obvious’ noise problem is encapsulated right off with “Mercury Off Axis,” opening with an excruciating, high-pitched drill sound that puts me in mind of the dentist and carries on well past its intro. It’s not pleasant, Obviously the point, but it’s not interesting either.
Death Obvious falters because Death Obvious simply doesn’t bring enough to the table. Not only is structure neglected on Death Obvious, but individual songs largely have little going for them beyond the black metal basics; over-repetition is chronic on tracks like “As Absence Expands over Everything,” and monotony abounds because of it. Beyond rare instances of effective piano and non-dental sound effects, Death Obvious blurs together in limited patterns played ad nauseam, making it an effort for the listener to stay focused throughout. Like how Death Obvious’ style issues were made plain by its opener, its songwriting woes are exemplified by its eight-minute closer, “Catechismus for the Plagued.” Half of “Catechismus…” anyway: the half that is one (1) riff, two (2) chords sharing one (1) root note hammered on and off at straight eighth notes with zero variation in dynamics or accent.3 The other half with creepy keys and an otherworldly soundscape shows what Death Obvious can be when playing inspired material. The one riff is what Death Obvious mostly offers: after a while, it doesn’t really sound like anything.
Death Obvious embodies the obtuse nature of avant-garde music with little of the adventurousness of its best practitioners. Instead of sounding unbound, it feels as though Death Obvious let the songs get away from them. I’m not sure if Death Obvious needs more editing, further drafting or both, but as is I can hardly pay attention for the entirety of one listen through. Death Obvious are a talented duo, and I believe they’ll have better material down the line, as moments throughout their debut hint at better things to come. However, not only did I not go goo-goo over Death Obvious, but I’m sure I won’t be returning to it much at all.
Rating: Bad
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Websites: deathobvious.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/DeathObvious
Releases Worldwide: December 5th, 2025#15 #2025 #avanteGarde #blackMetal #blutAusNord #deathMetal #deathObvious #deathspellOmega #dec25 #doomMetal #finnishMetal #hexrot #khemmis #review #reviews #transcendingObscurityRecords #veilburner #vomitheist
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@Free_Press Why should any people accept only Judeo-Christians serve an axis of oligarchs fascist cults, so they can bomb the poor and defenceless into oblivion? Their’s is a losers game. The Asian tiger will soon awaken, knowing they are being played by their programme of divide and conquer; land grab and ecocide for non-renewable resources will fail! #EmpiresEnd #Pakistan #India #China #NihilistsEnd #FascistCultsAreLosers #FascistsEnd #OligarchsAreOutnumbered #DivideAndEcocide #OligarchsEnd #JudeoChristianResistors #PeopleResist #HinduResistors #MuslimResistors #AtheistResistors …..etc.
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I just finished editing a new episode of "For the Record," in which we discuss the fantastic new proto-punk project from the Osees' Jonn Dwyer and Bow Wow Wow drummer David Barbarossa, Chime Oblivion: fortherecordpodcast.tumblr.com/post/7826605... #osees #chimeoblivion #music
For the Record #232: Chime Obl... -
We’re playing The Seance in Brighton on June 8th from 3 - 11pm alongside some crazily talented people…come and see us and say hi and wig out and dance yer acid pants off or stroke yer beard or shake yer booty or nod yourself into oblivion - link here (it’s only £15 for all these treats) http://bit.ly/3TVJx0M #psychedelic #slurfolk #PsychedelicDuelling #agneshaus #kempernorton #magick #seance
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Big publishing houses often buy out small, independent publishers, just to push them (and their books) into oblivion! The #internetArchive was helping to keep those books from being lost to history!
The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?
Tom Engelhardt 09/28/2022
"After all, like Pantheon, at the moment of its demise, it was a lively, deeply progressive operation, churning out powerful new titles — until, that is, it was essentially shut down when Sara, a miraculous publisher like André, was shown the door along with her staff. Bam! What did it matter that, thanks to her, Metropolitan still occupied a space filled by no other house in mainstream publishing? Nothing obviously, not to Holt, or assumedly Macmillan, the giant American publishing conglomerate of which it was a part, or the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that owns Macmillan.
"How strange that we’re in a world where two such publishing houses, among the best and most politically challenging around, could find that there simply was no place for them as progressive publishers in the mainstream. André [Schiffrin], who died in 2013, responded by launching an independent publishing house, #TheNewPress, an admirable undertaking. In terms of the #DispatchBooks I still put out from time to time, I find myself in a similar world, dealing with another adventurous independent publishing outfit, #HaymarketBooks.
"Still, what an eerie mainstream we now inhabit, don’t we?
"I mean, when it comes to what capitalism is doing on this planet of ours, book publishing is distinctly small (even if increasingly mashed) potatoes. After all, we’re talking about a world where giant fossil-fuel companies with still-soaring profits are all too willing to gaslight the public while quite literally burning the place up — or perhaps I mean flooding the place out. (Don’t you wonder sometimes what the CEOs of such companies are going to tell their grandchildren?)."
#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #IndepedentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers
https://www.juancole.com/2022/09/progressive-publishing-monopoly.html
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Trump threatens to cut off trade with all of the USA's trading partners with which it has a trade deficit unless the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. That's China, Canada, Mexico, Germany and many more.
What's next: Trump promises he will order the USA to bomb itself into oblivion?
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One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia.
And my brother lays upon the rocks
He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you
He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
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Oh, and we were gone
Kings of oblivion -
One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia.
And my brother lays upon the rocks
He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you
He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
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Oh, and we were gone
Kings of oblivion