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By Alekhines Gun
Arguably more than any other subgenre, doom metal is as much about aesthetic as it is raw substance. The meshing of tone with riffs of tectonic heft to compensate the substitution of speed with glacial pace is key to the formula, with many a genre great being defined by the two elements in equal measure. Long running doom outfit Slowmatics, first founded in 2004, are here to drop their eighth LP Atomicult, and have opted to modify this approach a little by making a cosmic themed album. Being a sucker for space and all its aural manifestations, I was intrigued to see whether such a relatively rare framework could mesh well with the force and requisite black-hole summoning doom is known for. Strap on your jet packs and pack extra oxygen, and let’s take a quick dip through the cosmos!
Atomicult is an album of two blended flavors. The first is the doom traditional, with slow-moving riffs coated in meteor debris. Not quite as outlandishly bass-shaking as the best of Electric Wizard nor as immediately in your face as Weedeater, the tone offers adequate fuzz to carry the plodding tempo with enough depth to qualify for dooms requisite heaviness. The vocals of Marty (who also serves on drums) have a positive, uplifting quality to them, all cleans with a solid timbre, making them somewhat comparable to more simplistic power metal in their positivity and charm. “Relics” offers a break from the doom proper for a Panopticon-esque strummed and plucked interlude where guitarists David and Chris show off some different songwriting chops while Marty gets to drop an octave and show off a little more of his range. Anyone looking for a more oppressive or depressive quality won’t find such things here, as Atomicult reaches out for a much more celestial approach.
The second flavor helps in this presentation by drenching the majority of the album in synthscapes. If you were a stan for the last Blood Incantation release there’s a lot for you to enjoy here, with tracks like “Night Grief” and “Physical Witching” slathering the guitars in all kinds of electronic leads and ambient fillings. These elements are no mere flourish, but a main staple of the album (only missing in a handful of songs) emphasizing the attempt at a genuinely ethereal journey. Atomicult isn’t an album for you to wallow in your sorrow or declare war on your enemies, but instead sounds in theme like it would be a blast to hear live if you were baked off your biscuit at a laser light show.
The problem is I am neither baked off my biscuit1 nor at a laser light show, and stripped of its contextual placements Atomicult has absolutely nothing to recommend it over its peers. Riffs are boring, meandering, and far from catchy, with nothing to justify their repetition. The tone lacks the violence to carry the minimalism, and the synths only work to serve as a saccharine distraction rather than imbibe a true sense of heavenly beauty in the void, both guitar rooted and otherwise. It doesn’t help that Marty has a nice set of pipes but keeps his vocals constrained to the limited spaces of the riffs instead of carving out melodies for counterpoint or emphasis, with only his oft-repeated lyrical refrain of “Behold the moon, the sun, the stars, the sky”2 hitting a melody anyone could call sing-along inducing. Literally everything across this offering hits the target of “Just enough”. The tone is just heavy enough, the riffs just heavy enough, the synths just colorful enough, the vocals just pretty enough to prevent me from declaring anything bad, but absolutely nothing here is engaging enough for me to call anything good.
In the end, Slowmatics have presented an album of all aesthetic and very little of substance. It’s clearly doom, it’s clearly space themed, and it’s clearly pretty, but it doesn’t captivate, stimulate, or in any way command attention from song to song and nothing sticks to the listener when the album ceases to play. This is disappointing, as I like doom, space themes, and pretty things, but Atomicult manages to aspire to check off the labels in name only. If you’re still on the prowl for extraterrestrial music or need more doom in your life in general, there’s certainly more unlistenable out there, but nothing here to make me recommend it as anything worthy of attention but for the deepest of the genre aficionados.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Majestic Mountain Records
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: September 12th, 2025#20 #2025 #Atomicult #BloodIncantation #DoomMetal #ElectricWizard #MajesticMountainRecords #Panopticon #Review #Reviews #Sep25 #Slomatics #UKMetal #Weedeater
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By Alekhines Gun
Arguably more than any other subgenre, doom metal is as much about aesthetic as it is raw substance. The meshing of tone with riffs of tectonic heft to compensate the substitution of speed with glacial pace is key to the formula, with many a genre great being defined by the two elements in equal measure. Long running doom outfit Slowmatics, first founded in 2004, are here to drop their eighth LP Atomicult, and have opted to modify this approach a little by making a cosmic themed album. Being a sucker for space and all its aural manifestations, I was intrigued to see whether such a relatively rare framework could mesh well with the force and requisite black-hole summoning doom is known for. Strap on your jet packs and pack extra oxygen, and let’s take a quick dip through the cosmos!
Atomicult is an album of two blended flavors. The first is the doom traditional, with slow-moving riffs coated in meteor debris. Not quite as outlandishly bass-shaking as the best of Electric Wizard nor as immediately in your face as Weedeater, the tone offers adequate fuzz to carry the plodding tempo with enough depth to qualify for dooms requisite heaviness. The vocals of Marty (who also serves on drums) have a positive, uplifting quality to them, all cleans with a solid timbre, making them somewhat comparable to more simplistic power metal in their positivity and charm. “Relics” offers a break from the doom proper for a Panopticon-esque strummed and plucked interlude where guitarists David and Chris show off some different songwriting chops while Marty gets to drop an octave and show off a little more of his range. Anyone looking for a more oppressive or depressive quality won’t find such things here, as Atomicult reaches out for a much more celestial approach.
The second flavor helps in this presentation by drenching the majority of the album in synthscapes. If you were a stan for the last Blood Incantation release there’s a lot for you to enjoy here, with tracks like “Night Grief” and “Physical Witching” slathering the guitars in all kinds of electronic leads and ambient fillings. These elements are no mere flourish, but a main staple of the album (only missing in a handful of songs) emphasizing the attempt at a genuinely ethereal journey. Atomicult isn’t an album for you to wallow in your sorrow or declare war on your enemies, but instead sounds in theme like it would be a blast to hear live if you were baked off your biscuit at a laser light show.
The problem is I am neither baked off my biscuit1 nor at a laser light show, and stripped of its contextual placements Atomicult has absolutely nothing to recommend it over its peers. Riffs are boring, meandering, and far from catchy, with nothing to justify their repetition. The tone lacks the violence to carry the minimalism, and the synths only work to serve as a saccharine distraction rather than imbibe a true sense of heavenly beauty in the void, both guitar rooted and otherwise. It doesn’t help that Marty has a nice set of pipes but keeps his vocals constrained to the limited spaces of the riffs instead of carving out melodies for counterpoint or emphasis, with only his oft-repeated lyrical refrain of “Behold the moon, the sun, the stars, the sky”2 hitting a melody anyone could call sing-along inducing. Literally everything across this offering hits the target of “Just enough”. The tone is just heavy enough, the riffs just heavy enough, the synths just colorful enough, the vocals just pretty enough to prevent me from declaring anything bad, but absolutely nothing here is engaging enough for me to call anything good.
In the end, Slowmatics have presented an album of all aesthetic and very little of substance. It’s clearly doom, it’s clearly space themed, and it’s clearly pretty, but it doesn’t captivate, stimulate, or in any way command attention from song to song and nothing sticks to the listener when the album ceases to play. This is disappointing, as I like doom, space themes, and pretty things, but Atomicult manages to aspire to check off the labels in name only. If you’re still on the prowl for extraterrestrial music or need more doom in your life in general, there’s certainly more unlistenable out there, but nothing here to make me recommend it as anything worthy of attention but for the deepest of the genre aficionados.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Majestic Mountain Records
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: September 12th, 2025#20 #2025 #Atomicult #BloodIncantation #DoomMetal #ElectricWizard #MajesticMountainRecords #Panopticon #Review #Reviews #Sep25 #Slomatics #UKMetal #Weedeater
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By Alekhines Gun
Arguably more than any other subgenre, doom metal is as much about aesthetic as it is raw substance. The meshing of tone with riffs of tectonic heft to compensate the substitution of speed with glacial pace is key to the formula, with many a genre great being defined by the two elements in equal measure. Long running doom outfit Slowmatics, first founded in 2004, are here to drop their eighth LP Atomicult, and have opted to modify this approach a little by making a cosmic themed album. Being a sucker for space and all its aural manifestations, I was intrigued to see whether such a relatively rare framework could mesh well with the force and requisite black-hole summoning doom is known for. Strap on your jet packs and pack extra oxygen, and let’s take a quick dip through the cosmos!
Atomicult is an album of two blended flavors. The first is the doom traditional, with slow-moving riffs coated in meteor debris. Not quite as outlandishly bass-shaking as the best of Electric Wizard nor as immediately in your face as Weedeater, the tone offers adequate fuzz to carry the plodding tempo with enough depth to qualify for dooms requisite heaviness. The vocals of Marty (who also serves on drums) have a positive, uplifting quality to them, all cleans with a solid timbre, making them somewhat comparable to more simplistic power metal in their positivity and charm. “Relics” offers a break from the doom proper for a Panopticon-esque strummed and plucked interlude where guitarists David and Chris show off some different songwriting chops while Marty gets to drop an octave and show off a little more of his range. Anyone looking for a more oppressive or depressive quality won’t find such things here, as Atomicult reaches out for a much more celestial approach.
The second flavor helps in this presentation by drenching the majority of the album in synthscapes. If you were a stan for the last Blood Incantation release there’s a lot for you to enjoy here, with tracks like “Night Grief” and “Physical Witching” slathering the guitars in all kinds of electronic leads and ambient fillings. These elements are no mere flourish, but a main staple of the album (only missing in a handful of songs) emphasizing the attempt at a genuinely ethereal journey. Atomicult isn’t an album for you to wallow in your sorrow or declare war on your enemies, but instead sounds in theme like it would be a blast to hear live if you were baked off your biscuit at a laser light show.
The problem is I am neither baked off my biscuit1 nor at a laser light show, and stripped of its contextual placements Atomicult has absolutely nothing to recommend it over its peers. Riffs are boring, meandering, and far from catchy, with nothing to justify their repetition. The tone lacks the violence to carry the minimalism, and the synths only work to serve as a saccharine distraction rather than imbibe a true sense of heavenly beauty in the void, both guitar rooted and otherwise. It doesn’t help that Marty has a nice set of pipes but keeps his vocals constrained to the limited spaces of the riffs instead of carving out melodies for counterpoint or emphasis, with only his oft-repeated lyrical refrain of “Behold the moon, the sun, the stars, the sky”2 hitting a melody anyone could call sing-along inducing. Literally everything across this offering hits the target of “Just enough”. The tone is just heavy enough, the riffs just heavy enough, the synths just colorful enough, the vocals just pretty enough to prevent me from declaring anything bad, but absolutely nothing here is engaging enough for me to call anything good.
In the end, Slowmatics have presented an album of all aesthetic and very little of substance. It’s clearly doom, it’s clearly space themed, and it’s clearly pretty, but it doesn’t captivate, stimulate, or in any way command attention from song to song and nothing sticks to the listener when the album ceases to play. This is disappointing, as I like doom, space themes, and pretty things, but Atomicult manages to aspire to check off the labels in name only. If you’re still on the prowl for extraterrestrial music or need more doom in your life in general, there’s certainly more unlistenable out there, but nothing here to make me recommend it as anything worthy of attention but for the deepest of the genre aficionados.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Majestic Mountain Records
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: September 12th, 2025#20 #2025 #Atomicult #BloodIncantation #DoomMetal #ElectricWizard #MajesticMountainRecords #Panopticon #Review #Reviews #Sep25 #Slomatics #UKMetal #Weedeater
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Perhaps this presentation I did for Linux Conf AU in 2020 might illustrate the issues for the Commission.
In it I talk about Greek mythology, the Panopticon, politics and Cows!
#RFC1984 : Or why you should start worrying about encryption backdoors and mass data collection
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In Extremo
27.12.2025 Berlin / Uber Eats Music HallOur Mirage, Blitz Union, Seraina Telli, Revolution Paradise, Generation.F und Magnolia
27.09.2025 Berlin / ORWOHausPanopticon und Sunken
07.04.2026 Berlin / Heimathafen#Berlin #Heimathafen #InExtremo #ORWOHaus #OurMirage #Panopticon #UberEatsMusicHall #SteelFeed
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In Extremo
27.12.2025 Berlin / Uber Eats Music HallOur Mirage, Blitz Union, Seraina Telli, Revolution Paradise, Generation.F und Magnolia
27.09.2025 Berlin / ORWOHausPanopticon und Sunken
07.04.2026 Berlin / Heimathafen#Berlin #Heimathafen #InExtremo #ORWOHaus #OurMirage #Panopticon #UberEatsMusicHall #SteelFeed
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In Extremo
27.12.2025 Berlin / Uber Eats Music HallOur Mirage, Blitz Union, Seraina Telli, Revolution Paradise, Generation.F und Magnolia
27.09.2025 Berlin / ORWOHausPanopticon und Sunken
07.04.2026 Berlin / Heimathafen#Berlin #Heimathafen #InExtremo #ORWOHaus #OurMirage #Panopticon #UberEatsMusicHall #SteelFeed
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In Extremo
27.12.2025 Berlin / Uber Eats Music HallOur Mirage, Blitz Union, Seraina Telli, Revolution Paradise, Generation.F und Magnolia
27.09.2025 Berlin / ORWOHausPanopticon und Sunken
07.04.2026 Berlin / Heimathafen#Berlin #Heimathafen #InExtremo #ORWOHaus #OurMirage #Panopticon #UberEatsMusicHall #SteelFeed
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By Angry Metal Guy
Once upon a time, Månegarm was an apex predator of the blackened folk metal scene that took metal by storm (er, Storm) in the early-to-mid-2000s. For a brief moment, as Heathenfests proliferated and white guys from Wisconsin,1 fell in love with songs about Vikings and runes, the Viking metal/folk metal subgenre was the Next Big Thing, fueled by a surprisingly liquid supply of fiddles, jaw harps, gallops, and flask-swinging choruses. Yet, time wasn’t kind. Turisas ghosted us after leaving us a weird note, Finntroll got lost in the woods and returned changed, and even Thyrfing and Moonsorrow have slowed to a crawl. But Månegarm has never stopped.2 With the impending release of Edsvuren (Oathbound or Sworn), their thirteenth full-length and fifth since signing with Napalm Records, this Swedish trio stands as one of the last standard-bearers of this once-ferocious scene.
Månegarm’s arc explains how we got here. From Havets vargar (2000) to Nattväsen (2009), Månegarm was among the hardest-hitting of the folk metal vanguard. They blended black metal’s blasting intensity with violin counterpoint (and solos), and Erik Grawsiö’s gravel-throated roar. But following Nattväsen, Månegarm underwent a serious change. With the departure of their violinist and bassist, Grawsiö moved to bass, but more importantly, they emerged with a retooled sound. By 2013’s Legions of the North, Månegarm had begun shaping themselves towards something more akin to Amon Amarth’s mid-paced crunch than the blastful abandon of their black metal roots. Edsvuren continues the same trajectory, letting the flames burn low rather than trying to rekindle the blaze; content to let the embers glow.
When the wind blows right, however, Månegarm’s fire burns bright. When these Swedes go heavy, the results are still vital—some of the best metal they’ve released in years. The opening trifecta demonstrates this: “I skogfruns famn” brims with trem-picked harmonies, fiddle, and melodies and pacing that evoke Isengard or Lumsk. “Lögrinns värn” picks up the pace and builds on Amon Amarthian heft, while “En Blodvittneskrans”—one of the album’s standout tracks—crackles with surprisingly punk-inflected drumming and tremelos that transport me to Bjoergvin. On the album’s back half, we again find heavy tracks that brim with harmonic minor riffing, fantastic vocal harmonies, and creative songwriting. “Skild från hugen” stretches into a seven-minute epic, weaving gallops, fiddle, and a doomy interlude where Elinor Videfors’ smoky alto helps to elevate the song. While “Likgökens fest” follows with another blast of urgency. In these moments, Månegarm is vibrant and confident, with a powerful sound and presence.
Much of Edsvuren, however, lives in the embers. Acoustic folk tracks like “Rodhins hav,” “Till gudars följe,” and “I runor ristades orden” aren’t filler; they’re beautiful. The production places each acoustic strum and hand drum with care, and Videfors’ voice adds a crystalline, haunting quality. Ancient and evocative, these songs are built on droning harmonies and modal folk melodies. And they sound great. In listening to these, I’m reminded of Panopticon’s Laurentian Blue, folk music with fiddle and a deep melancholy.3 The problem is proportion. Nearly half the record lives in this slower, acoustic, or mid-paced heavy space. And when stacked back-to-back (“Rodhins hav” through “Hör mitt kall,” and then again in the closing pair of songs), the album sputters. At 51 minutes, Edsvuren isn’t overlong, but there are moments when the pacing lengthens the album.
The vocals provide the oxygen that keeps Edsvuren burning, showcasing some of the finest arrangements Månegarm has ever recorded. Grawsiö’s extreme vocals remain commanding, but it’s his cleans—gravelly and full,4 at times evoking throat singing—that unite Edsvuren. The interplay with the guest vocalists—Elinor Videfors, Grawsiö’s daughter Lea on “I skogfruns famn”—is well balanced. And at its best, the record gives the impression that you’re sitting around the campfire and listening to them sing. Choruses bloom into layers of voices that feel almost ritualistic—but at least communal—and are balanced expertly in the mix (“Till gudars följe”). There’s an almost Finntrollian playfulness in the vocal arrangements at times (again, “Till gudars följe”), while at other times the harmonies are clinically tight like harmonic minor Bad Religion or early Soen. Even when the riffs tread familiar ground—or the album feels like it’s slowing down too much—the vocals continually elevate compositions and keep me hooked.
Edsvuren is an album that’s easy to like, but tricky to love. But I can say with confidence that it’s my favorite Månegarm since the Napalm run began in 2013. The heavy material is vital, energetic, and it reminds me of why I fell in love with these Swedish wolves to begin with. The folk songs and feel are brittle and beautiful, and give the album character and variety. Unfortunately, the overall balance of the record leans a little too hard into mid-tempo riffs, rock feels rather than blastbeats, and acoustic folk music—resulting in pacing that makes it feel less than the sum of its Very-Good!-to-Great! parts. I enjoy the songs, I admire the craft, but taken as a whole, they leave Edsvuren a little low on bite. Edsvuren may not spark anew Månegarm’s flames, but it tends the embers—keeping them warm enough for fellowship, beer, and song.
Rating: Good!
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream5
Label: Napalm Records
Websites: linktr.ee/manegarmofficial | manegarm.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: August 29th, 2025#2025 #30 #AmonAmarth #Aug25 #BadReligion #Edsvuren #Finntroll #FolkMetal #HavetsVargar #Isengard #LaurentianBlue #Lumsk #Månegarm #MelodicBlackMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #Moonsorrow #NapalmRecords #Nattväsen #Panopticon #Review #Reviews #Soen #Storm #Thyrfing #Turisas #VikingMetal
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School laptops are like cursed objects. Looks normal, but type one wrong sentence and the Panopticon reads your soul. Delete all you want—Clippy already snitched. 🕵️♂️💻 #infosec #AI #youthcrime
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The surveillance state continues! A news story worth following to see what the real-time results end up being.
https://www.theverge.com/news/711146/citizen-app-nyc-verified-partners-alerts-surveillance
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It's #NetLabelDay! Here's to all the #weird #obscure #obsessive #enthused #effusive #outsider #indie #unheard passion projects and all other #music that exists online outside the corporate sales-pitch panopticon AI Amazong Boogle hellscape.
I've had an almighty shittery of a year thus far being sick or recovering 4 out of 6 months, so I haven't prepared anything special this time round - which is a shame, as 2025 marks the 25th year I've run a #Netlabel. A potted history follows, for the two of you out there who are interested in such things!
Starting in 1999 I cobbled together what would now be called a netlabel which I called Novy Mir (after a combo of the samizdat adjacent Russian experimental magazine & the British new wave SF mag New Worlds), with a lot of help from Michael Moorcock and a little bit of Hawkwind-adjacency, I released ten or so albums on tape, a couple of CDs and attempted to make downloads work on dialup (failing on the latter). Later, 2010ish I formed Flamedog Records with Orlando Allen (lots of Gong family, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth etc). This time with full independent self-hosted paid downloads (as opposed to Bandcramp, Spitifiy etc). In 2018, from the ashes of burnout and mental anguish I set up my third and hopefully final label Tryptophonic Records, which exists to this day. All downloads free, #CreativeCommons and "pay if you like".
So there you go. I recently released a #psychedelic #ambient #drone album entitled Longmeadow under the moniker of jlmxv, which is a collab between myself and @jlm - free to download at https://tryptophonic.com/longmeadow/ -
Not sure how common it is for the #CommonLoon to appear in Oregon, but hearing its unearthly call from within a dark mountain tent fills me with joy and primal angst. (I think of it as the “Panopticon bird” because of the way it opens this record) panopticon-nordvis.bandcamp.com/album/autumn...
Autumn Eternal, by Panopticon -
A lot of work on #FAIR has been rather cosmetic and focused on the easy F and A parts. For universities, it can often be a box-ticking exercise. As the excellent #WorldFAIR outputs indicate, it's often been about placing datasets on shelves rather than making the data reusable and accessible.
But I would push back and argue that, when #FAIR is used as a lens to see data from the standpoint of future (re-)use, it is a massive leap forward. Of course, it's then really a call to adopt robust data engineering at all stages in the data pipeline.
This is even more important in the age of #generativeML. Proper documentation of data provenance, licensing, transformations, structure and semantics is essential if we are going to keep track of what ostensible data comes from actual sensors or human observers or has been generated in predictable well-understood ways from such observations.
The CARE principles are also really important as they go into the ethical considerations for how we collect, manage, use and share data.
My only hesitation is not with the CARE principles or with the wording or with the fact that is immensely important for us to decolonialise our approach to information gathering. It's with the fact that they've become a reason to compartmentalise management of Indigenous knowledge and data and to treat the ethics of using those data as a narrowly defined issue. Focus on Indigenous data will help those already inclined to consider these issues to do so, but it risks making an exclusionary culture-war-adjacent issue.
Without in any way wanting to reduce our focus on the excellent reasons for #GIDA and others to foreground these principles, the challenges they address are the same ones that we all face in a capitalist and authoritarian #panopticon.
The CARE principles are part of what should be a much broader rallying cry for consent in data management everywhere. Of course, my suggesting this may just contribute to devaluing the proper concerns of Indigenous communities in this area, but I can only really see foresee the necessary IT underpinnings and practices getting mainstream adoption if they are seen as a central issue.
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A lot of work on #FAIR has been rather cosmetic and focused on the easy F and A parts. For universities, it can often be a box-ticking exercise. As the excellent #WorldFAIR outputs indicate, it's often been about placing datasets on shelves rather than making the data reusable and accessible.
But I would push back and argue that, when #FAIR is used as a lens to see data from the standpoint of future (re-)use, it is a massive leap forward. Of course, it's then really a call to adopt robust data engineering at all stages in the data pipeline.
This is even more important in the age of #generativeML. Proper documentation of data provenance, licensing, transformations, structure and semantics is essential if we are going to keep track of what ostensible data comes from actual sensors or human observers or has been generated in predictable well-understood ways from such observations.
The CARE principles are also really important as they go into the ethical considerations for how we collect, manage, use and share data.
My only hesitation is not with the CARE principles or with the wording or with the fact that is immensely important for us to decolonialise our approach to information gathering. It's with the fact that they've become a reason to compartmentalise management of Indigenous knowledge and data and to treat the ethics of using those data as a narrowly defined issue. Focus on Indigenous data will help those already inclined to consider these issues to do so, but it risks making an exclusionary culture-war-adjacent issue.
Without in any way wanting to reduce our focus on the excellent reasons for #GIDA and others to foreground these principles, the challenges they address are the same ones that we all face in a capitalist and authoritarian #panopticon.
The CARE principles are part of what should be a much broader rallying cry for consent in data management everywhere. Of course, my suggesting this may just contribute to devaluing the proper concerns of Indigenous communities in this area, but I can only really see foresee the necessary IT underpinnings and practices getting mainstream adoption if they are seen as a central issue.
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A lot of work on #FAIR has been rather cosmetic and focused on the easy F and A parts. For universities, it can often be a box-ticking exercise. As the excellent #WorldFAIR outputs indicate, it's often been about placing datasets on shelves rather than making the data reusable and accessible.
But I would push back and argue that, when #FAIR is used as a lens to see data from the standpoint of future (re-)use, it is a massive leap forward. Of course, it's then really a call to adopt robust data engineering at all stages in the data pipeline.
This is even more important in the age of #generativeML. Proper documentation of data provenance, licensing, transformations, structure and semantics is essential if we are going to keep track of what ostensible data comes from actual sensors or human observers or has been generated in predictable well-understood ways from such observations.
The CARE principles are also really important as they go into the ethical considerations for how we collect, manage, use and share data.
My only hesitation is not with the CARE principles or with the wording or with the fact that is immensely important for us to decolonialise our approach to information gathering. It's with the fact that they've become a reason to compartmentalise management of Indigenous knowledge and data and to treat the ethics of using those data as a narrowly defined issue. Focus on Indigenous data will help those already inclined to consider these issues to do so, but it risks making an exclusionary culture-war-adjacent issue.
Without in any way wanting to reduce our focus on the excellent reasons for #GIDA and others to foreground these principles, the challenges they address are the same ones that we all face in a capitalist and authoritarian #panopticon.
The CARE principles are part of what should be a much broader rallying cry for consent in data management everywhere. Of course, my suggesting this may just contribute to devaluing the proper concerns of Indigenous communities in this area, but I can only really see foresee the necessary IT underpinnings and practices getting mainstream adoption if they are seen as a central issue.
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A lot of work on #FAIR has been rather cosmetic and focused on the easy F and A parts. For universities, it can often be a box-ticking exercise. As the excellent #WorldFAIR outputs indicate, it's often been about placing datasets on shelves rather than making the data reusable and accessible.
But I would push back and argue that, when #FAIR is used as a lens to see data from the standpoint of future (re-)use, it is a massive leap forward. Of course, it's then really a call to adopt robust data engineering at all stages in the data pipeline.
This is even more important in the age of #generativeML. Proper documentation of data provenance, licensing, transformations, structure and semantics is essential if we are going to keep track of what ostensible data comes from actual sensors or human observers or has been generated in predictable well-understood ways from such observations.
The CARE principles are also really important as they go into the ethical considerations for how we collect, manage, use and share data.
My only hesitation is not with the CARE principles or with the wording or with the fact that is immensely important for us to decolonialise our approach to information gathering. It's with the fact that they've become a reason to compartmentalise management of Indigenous knowledge and data and to treat the ethics of using those data as a narrowly defined issue. Focus on Indigenous data will help those already inclined to consider these issues to do so, but it risks making an exclusionary culture-war-adjacent issue.
Without in any way wanting to reduce our focus on the excellent reasons for #GIDA and others to foreground these principles, the challenges they address are the same ones that we all face in a capitalist and authoritarian #panopticon.
The CARE principles are part of what should be a much broader rallying cry for consent in data management everywhere. Of course, my suggesting this may just contribute to devaluing the proper concerns of Indigenous communities in this area, but I can only really see foresee the necessary IT underpinnings and practices getting mainstream adoption if they are seen as a central issue.
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CW: Digital Exile... Being left out digitally...? !
#Quote says it well:
💬 " I propose that in this context, a fear of #exile – that is, a fear of being left out, #overlooked, #ignored or#banished – can act as a #regulating #force that inverts the radial spatial dynamic of the #panopticon and shifts the responsibility for visibility, understood both in terms of competitive exposure and existential recognition, onto #workers.
As a consequence these workers enlist #digital #technologies to become #visible at the real or imagined organizational centre."
➡️ by #EllaHafermal #Quotes
Article Title : Out of the Panopticon and into Exile:
Visibility and control in distributed new culture organizationPicture Edit: #FreeSchool from "We Live in Public" screenshot
➡️ PDF Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0170840620909962
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Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:
Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)
(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)
PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).
#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook
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“More and more, #socialmedia resemble #digital panoptica keeping watch over the #social realm and exploiting it mercilessly. We had just freed ourselves from the disciplinary #panopticon - then we threw ourselves into a new, and even more efficient, panopticon.” - #Byung-ChulHan, Psycho-Politics
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This is costly. There must be a political and business interest? What could this be used for and by whom? Some glimpse of what could be in a dystopian world trending to no rules anymore to limit billionaires and facism(scifi novel?). Ensure that no opposition to leader/king and billionaires can exist by predictive behavioral analytics? Sort everyone depending of tags of what they say in their house to their family and friends (political opinions, international relationships, opposition to leaders policy,...)? Listen to what people say at all time of their life using their smartphone or amazon echo or any other connected device with a (hidden) microphone inside it, register their voice for later comparison to establish their identity via other alexas recordings in other locations, identify who are the person corresponding to a recorded visit based on voice fingerprinting, record their private conversations,and create digital twins of these real persons by AI training to understand how they are probabilistically (deep neural net is the digital twin) likely to react to different good or bad stimulis or decisions by their autocratic leader with regards to specific population in the country or outside the country? Economic espionnage/intelligence against competing compagnies, start-up and foreign countries? There are lots of democratic alternative futures to this kind über facist panopticon surveillance based dystopia.
Drop your connected devices!
Their owner (not you, but gafams/batxs) are spying on you to support their own local dictator they finance and to own&crop you like a expandable resource to be continuously mined and for which they can still optimize exploitation. Long live european gdpr. Sell or better destroy the connected devices you bought to them, free yourself from their influence and control, diminish their money and predictive analytics based power on your life. Then, look for a simpler more private life. Free your mind by purging them of your own life. This is NOT about any form of communism, this is about you being in control of your own life, ie. individual liberties of contracting with other people and compagnies, private life and a really "free market" not influenced/controlled by corporate monopolies and billionaires spying on everyone abusively using intermediation of personal communications by AI deployed everywhere for their own political agenda or business purposes. This is about liberty!
They do NOT own us, even if they pretend it. You can decide to free yourself.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
#freeyourmind #freeyourself #free #iot #panopticon #dystopia #outofdystopia -
This is costly. There must be a political and business interest? What could this be used for and by whom? Some glimpse of what could be in a dystopian world trending to no rules anymore to limit billionaires and facism(scifi novel?). Ensure that no opposition to leader/king and billionaires can exist by predictive behavioral analytics? Sort everyone depending of tags of what they say in their house to their family and friends (political opinions, international relationships, opposition to leaders policy,...)? Listen to what people say at all time of their life using their smartphone or amazon echo or any other connected device with a (hidden) microphone inside it, register their voice for later comparison to establish their identity via other alexas recordings in other locations, identify who are the person corresponding to a recorded visit based on voice fingerprinting, record their private conversations,and create digital twins of these real persons by AI training to understand how they are probabilistically (deep neural net is the digital twin) likely to react to different good or bad stimulis or decisions by their autocratic leader with regards to specific population in the country or outside the country? Economic espionnage/intelligence against competing compagnies, start-up and foreign countries? There are lots of democratic alternative futures to this kind über facist panopticon surveillance based dystopia.
Drop your connected devices!
Their owner (not you, but gafams/batxs) are spying on you to support their own local dictator they finance and to own&crop you like a expandable resource to be continuously mined and for which they can still optimize exploitation. Long live european gdpr. Sell or better destroy the connected devices you bought to them, free yourself from their influence and control, diminish their money and predictive analytics based power on your life. Then, look for a simpler more private life. Free your mind by purging them of your own life. This is NOT about any form of communism, this is about you being in control of your own life, ie. individual liberties of contracting with other people and compagnies, private life and a really "free market" not influenced/controlled by corporate monopolies and billionaires spying on everyone abusively using intermediation of personal communications by AI deployed everywhere for their own political agenda or business purposes. This is about liberty!
They do NOT own us, even if they pretend it. You can decide to free yourself.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
#freeyourmind #freeyourself #free #iot #panopticon #dystopia #outofdystopia -
This is costly. There must be a political and business interest? What could this be used for and by whom? Some glimpse of what could be in a dystopian world trending to no rules anymore to limit billionaires and facism(scifi novel?). Ensure that no opposition to leader/king and billionaires can exist by predictive behavioral analytics? Sort everyone depending of tags of what they say in their house to their family and friends (political opinions, international relationships, opposition to leaders policy,...)? Listen to what people say at all time of their life using their smartphone or amazon echo or any other connected device with a (hidden) microphone inside it, register their voice for later comparison to establish their identity via other alexas recordings in other locations, identify who are the person corresponding to a recorded visit based on voice fingerprinting, record their private conversations,and create digital twins of these real persons by AI training to understand how they are probabilistically (deep neural net is the digital twin) likely to react to different good or bad stimulis or decisions by their autocratic leader with regards to specific population in the country or outside the country? Economic espionnage/intelligence against competing compagnies, start-up and foreign countries? There are lots of democratic alternative futures to this kind über facist panopticon surveillance based dystopia.
Drop your connected devices!
Their owner (not you, but gafams/batxs) are spying on you to support their own local dictator they finance and to own&crop you like a expandable resource to be continuously mined and for which they can still optimize exploitation. Long live european gdpr. Sell or better destroy the connected devices you bought to them, free yourself from their influence and control, diminish their money and predictive analytics based power on your life. Then, look for a simpler more private life. Free your mind by purging them of your own life. This is NOT about any form of communism, this is about you being in control of your own life, ie. individual liberties of contracting with other people and compagnies, private life and a really "free market" not influenced/controlled by corporate monopolies and billionaires spying on everyone abusively using intermediation of personal communications by AI deployed everywhere for their own political agenda or business purposes. This is about liberty!
They do NOT own us, even if they pretend it. You can decide to free yourself.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
#freeyourmind #freeyourself #free #iot #panopticon #dystopia #outofdystopia -
All suburbs in Australia need “a fully-staffed control room where they can keep an eye on crowd and traffic management.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/summernats-command-centre-police-powers/104781278
#Fossilfuel #cars #hoons #burnouts #BadAppleMyth #automobility #panopticon #petroculture #Australia #recreation #OilGuzzlingLifestyle #petrotopia #culture #ClimateBreakdown -
All suburbs in Australia need “a fully-staffed control room where they can keep an eye on crowd and traffic management.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/summernats-command-centre-police-powers/104781278
#Fossilfuel #cars #hoons #burnouts #BadAppleMyth #automobility #panopticon #petroculture #Australia #recreation #OilGuzzlingLifestyle #petrotopia #culture #ClimateBreakdown -
All suburbs in Australia need “a fully-staffed control room where they can keep an eye on crowd and traffic management.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/summernats-command-centre-police-powers/104781278
#Fossilfuel #cars #hoons #burnouts #BadAppleMyth #automobility #panopticon #petroculture #Australia #recreation #OilGuzzlingLifestyle #petrotopia #culture #ClimateBreakdown -
AI security company made false claims about weapons-detection system used at Colorado STEM school, FTC says
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/company-false-claims-weapons-detection-system-colorado-stem-school/#ai #securitycamera #panopticon #evolv #falseadvertising #ftc #gunsafety #schools #schoolsafety #gunfreezones #weapons
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Echolocation: Blinded by the light? 🦇 Ten weeks is all it takes to rewire your reality. Click your tongue, hear the unseen. Darwin whispers, the Panopticon watches. Are you bat enough? #Echolocate #SensoryHacking #MindVirus
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/
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Echolocation: Blinded by the light? 🦇 Ten weeks is all it takes to rewire your reality. Click your tongue, hear the unseen. Darwin whispers, the Panopticon watches. Are you bat enough? #Echolocate #SensoryHacking #MindVirus
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/
