Month: December 2023

ASFO 2023–12–16

A new film transfer for your viewing delight! A tease of something which patrons have seen and everybody will be able to see soon ; more about plastics recycling ; an extended discussion of the implication of rapid adoption of hand–held computers with radio data links ; and a few thoughts about the unexpected dystopian scenario in which so–called AI (which certainly is not “artificial intelligence” by any believable definition) is using humans as end effectors to destroy other humans. Skynet and its Terminators would arguably have been preferable!

Supplementary Shows

  • 2023–12–18 DJ Marcus, in his “News to Me” timeslot, played a recording of US President Eisenhower’s famous “Atoms for Peace” speech, delivered 8 December 1953. We thank him for that!
  • 2023–12–22 “Atomic Year 25”, and some other selections from Argonne National Laboratory and the American Nuclear Society on the subject of breeder reactors, in an attempt to provide some kind of commemoration for EBR–I.
Photo of the French gaseous-diffusion plant at Pierrelatte, with superimposed text "La Separation des Isotopes de l'Uranium (Diffusion Gazeuse)"

Sounds of Synergy – 2023/12/13

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Tracklist:

  • Boards of Canada – Julie And Candy
  • Devon Hendryx – Power Stone ☀
  • Mr. Oizo – No Day Massacre
  • ２８１４ – ふわっと
  • The Future Sound of London – Her Face Forms in Summertime
  • Jauz, First – Velvet Paradise
  • Eliminate – Waste My Time
  • 128kbps – Little Bit (Phasmid’s Wun Fiddy mix)
  • XXYYXX – Set it Off
  • Starlit – IWBWU
  • G Jones – R.A.V.E.
  • Gigi D’Agostino – Shoot Me Down (Gigi Dag & Luca Noise Vintage Mix)
  • Windowshopping – Alteffour (feat. Cade Parker)

ASFO 2023–12–09

Essequibo is another word you may be totally unfamiliar with, but perhaps not for long. In a world where there is allegedly a broad consensus that use of fossil fuels should be decreasing, and where there are realistic alternative for most major applications of those fuels, a war over oil is even more of a disgusting spectacle than it was in the past. Also, a little good news from COP28 in Dubai, and a trifling reflection on just what “AI” is supposed to do.

Editorial cartoon by "Bannerman". Two backpackers stand looking over a smoke-belching factory complex. One asks "what do you think our most powerful renewable resource is?" The other answer "denial".

Sounds of Synergy – 2023/12/06

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Tracklist:

  • oiko – water of imagination
  • Feed Me – Trichitillomania
  • t+pazolite – Divergence
  • Jameston Thieves & LUZCID – Break
  • kaguraduki – Starlight Liberation
  • Android52 – Zero
  • OVERWERK – MORE
  • Veneo Isrugi – Twilight Vision
  • gray – 天空の花の都 (supernatural border 2 mix)
  • Habstrakt & Jace Mek – I Wanna
  • Supire – Katami
  • Virtual Riot – Part of Me

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Ep 1027 – 2023/12/01

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Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Ep 1026 – 2023/11/30

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ASFO 2023–12–02

When you’re in a hole, stop digging ; when you’re facing an environmental crisis, don’t further burden the land! Is Germany following that rule? Does a “global transition to renewable energy” respect it? Can we look for anything from the 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Dubai under the presidency of the head of the United Arab Emirates state oil company, that respects it? Also, a report on my disappointing experience in Los Angeles.

Dignitaries assembled with their flags, in front of a background which reads “Tripling Nuclear Energy by 2050, United Arab Emirates, December 2023”
One hopeful sign, perhaps ― it is possible to make out the flag of the Republic of Korea, which supplied the Barakah nuclear power plant, but has a domestic “nuclear phaseout” policy