005 – Clickbait Roulette™ Lullaby

Chronic sleep-deprivation collides with another early midweek recording session and a few rounds of Clickbait Roulette™. Patents were proposed. Goof-abouts were gathered. News headline veils were lifted. Typhoon “Barbie” was on its way as well.

General Recommendations

• JD’s recommendation: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (@liu_cixin)
• JNM’s recommendation: Broadcast (in general) – Tender Buttons (more specifically)

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

Read

• Information about the 2019 film Vivarium
• Circuit bending is “the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children’s toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.”
• Clickbait Roulette™ articles
  —KFC suspends its famous slogan over COVID-19
  —Nudes, prudes and swingers. Famed resort adapts to the pandemic era
  —This is Amsterdam’s answer to the problem of ‘wild peeing’
  —Apple apologizes after another app store controversy
  —Uncovering the eye-opening truth about Andy Warhol’s past
  —Mayor Slaps Back at John Oliver with sewage plant renaming
• Cuckoos are brood parasites 

View

• Truly Repulsive KFC “Finger Lickin’ Good!” Ad From March 2020 (COVID-19 very much existed then, you fuckers.)
• This terrible and bizarre monetization of trendy “mindfulness” by KFC
• Andy Warhol – “Kiss” / / “Empire” 
• The Velvet Underground and Nico

Listen

• TrueAnon – “The only non-pedophile podcast focused on uncovering the truth of the Epstein conspiracy.” 

Locationless Locations

• Heat Death of the Universe – @heatdeathpod
• JD Newland – @jdnewland
• Joshua Nomen-Mutatio – @ImbalancingAct
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