Category: anonradio

ASFO 2022–09–24

In which I step outside my usual track and talk about Computers and “AI” for a bit. This is, if anything, a propos of the misguided efforts to tame inflation by depressing wages, when labour productivity has grown much more rapidly than wages since the 1970s, with the result that direct labour costs are a less proportion of the cost of providing goods and services than they ever have been. Also something about a video game and what it implies for our efforts towards space settlement. Maybe next week we’ll have a Double Asteroid Redirect Test or SLS launch to talk about.

A page with the text A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION (as discussed on the show)
This appears to be from 1970s IBM training materials
View of a "claw machine" with a bin of plushies. On the mechanism is the text "MACHINE'S DECISION IS FINAL".
The opposing viewpoint
A desktop with a mailing envelope on which the recipient address has been obfuscated ; some pro-nuclear stickers and pamphlets ; and an accompanying letter
Sample parcel of stickers as mailed to a Reddit user
Supplementary Show

Bits In Stereo – 2022.09.18

Tracklist

  • Goldfrapp – Systemagic, (link)
  • Kormac – Wake Up featuring Bajka, (link)
  • Pretty Lights – I Can See It In Your Face, (link)
  • Gramatik – Hit That Jive (Original Mix), (link)
  • Caravan Palace – Rock it for Me (Defunk Remix), (link)
  • Der Dritte Raum – Swing Bop (Acid Paulis Kosmik Remix), (link)
  • Elmo – Everything New, (link)
  • Nightmares On Wax – You Wish, (link)
  • Back To The Essence – Nu Funk, (link)
  • Hess Is More – Yes Boss (Tensnake Remix)
  • DJ Shadow – Lonely Soul featuring Richard Ashcroft (7 Version), (link)
  • GRiZ – Mr B featuring Dominic Lalli, (link)
  • Ohm Guru – Jazz Brake, (link)
  • Pretty Lights – Drift Away, (link)
  • Apollo 440 – Heart Go Boom, (link)
  • Daft Punk – Doin’ It Right (B-Side remix), (link)

Available for download in the archives.

Notes

I couldn’t find the “Hess Is More – Yes Boss (Tensnake Remix)” online, so no link there. I’m not sure how I acquired that song. If you have an official online source for it, please provide the link and I’ll update this page.

ASFO 2022–09–17

More poetry! “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined” ― but we live in the era of bioengineering, so maybe it can be grown. (In which context, I refer to a cartoon.) Buying a ticket to Mars with frequent–flyer miles proves impossible, and I express doubts about the ability of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do anything even slightly outside their established competency. Also a letter to the editor of the Coffey County (Kansas) Republican.

Partial scan of three art photos received in the mail from Lithuania. One is predominantly greenish, one has blue sky and crepuscular light, and one orange like sunset.
Segments of three art photos from Žygimantas “RGB” Tauras

Bits In Stereo – 2022.09.11

Tracklist

  • iiogama – untitled and unreleased w.i.p.
  • Joe De Renzo – Jumper (Original Mix), (link)
  • Vohr3 – Figures Killing (Original Mix), (link)
  • Vicky – Afrodita featuring Henry Pass (Tony Kairom Remix), (link)
  • Tony Kairom – Minimal Strike (Original Mix), (link)
  • Tony Puccio – Eurus (Original Mix), (link)
  • Leechy Alexej – Minimal Balkan (Original Mix), (link)
  • Nacim Ladj – I Just Dropped In (Original Mix), (link)
  • Vito Buffa – Fotogramma (Original Mix), (link)
  • Albert Sollitto – Making Music (Luca Cariglia Remix), (link)
  • Infinite Layers of Reality – When I Met Jelena & Irina (Dani Labb Remix), (link)
  • DNYO – Medianoche (Lefrenk Remix), (link)
  • Joseph Krause – Illusioni Perdute (Luixar KL Remix), (link)
  • Loud Control – Confusion (Jill Bellac Remix), (link)
  • DJ Red – Raw Cacao (Ricardo Villalobos Remix), (link)
  • Leechy Alexej – Breakdown Executed (Original Mix), (link)

Available for download in the archives.

ASFO 2022–09–10

Back from the Worldcon, hopefully back to doing regular shows. Yes, I have a report to give on the convention (photos here), as well as opinions to express about people who think refrigeration is wasteful, and a campaign in the Netherlands to conserve gas by getting people to bathe less. But first : poetry!

Photo of the "Man and Atom" display at Chicon 8. There are two tables with exhibits on them, and hortatory table fronts. Above these are displays of art. In the background is the famous Lunar Orbiter low-angle photo of Copernicus, printed on cloth.
“Man and Atom” display at Chicon 8. That’s me in green.
2 Supplementary Shows

Everyone Does Best – Stokesauce

I’ve just released a new song, and I’d love for you to hear it, share it and let me know what you think of it.

The name Everyone Does Best came about when I was thinking about being under the pump to get something done, (as I often leave things to the last minute).

I came to the conclusion that although it’s better to start something early and finish it in good time, there is also a beauty to doing something last minute, making it extremely stressful for yourself and those around you.

There’s nothing new under the sun, it’s simply another way of saying diamonds are made under pressure or something. When they need to, everyone does their best!

Even on the deadline of this song I was still getting final touches on the mix, and straight after that I was on the phone with a friend of mine getting artwork done at 12:00am, which was an unintentional ode to the message of this track. Again, not ideal, but… everyone does best. 

The track takes a twist towards the end (2:38), it becomes light hearted and fun. I knew when I was writing it that I wanted to have this switch up in the composition.

Thank you for being in my life, I’m glad to be able to share my art with you.

You can listen to the track here.
https://album.link/s/4uQtROb4QYhtgiU5HqUVoW

You can buy the track for $1 on bandcamp.
https://julianmunyard.bandcamp.com/track/everyone-does-best

Everyone does Best