Off into the mountains today. 5 days with digital devices. Sweet relief.
Wish me luck!
[#]tramping
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As Snyder says of Ukrainians in the 1970s, it was politically convenient for Brezhnev to treat campaigns to protect aspects of their human rights - when specific to their membership in their nation - as ethnic chauvinism. Of a kind with the Aryan chauvinism that animated the Nazis.
In 2020s Aotearoa, it's politically convenient for ACT to do the same with Māori. Once again, corporate stalinism.
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But go through any democratic right protected by BORA, it protects people's human rights as members of the Māori nation. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to speak Māori, anywhere, anytime, harming none. By the same token, also the freedom to speak English. Both/And.
Freedom of assembly includes the freedom to caucus as whānau, hapū, iwi, and as Māori, separately from Pākeha and Tauiwi. Also the freedom to caucus as Pākeha, or as New Zealanders (Ngāti Tiriti), or whatever. Both/And.
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But I'd venture that iwi are too. What unites an iwi is a whakapapa connection to a waka, by which their ancestors arrived in Aotearoa. But politically, as I understand it, hapū. were ethnically related, and iwi were mutual defence pacts between them.
ACT's attempt to treat kaupapa Māori as ethnic nationalism, as opposed to political nationalism, tries to create false dichotomy. Between people's human rights as partisans of a nation, and modernising notions of democratic norms.
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Snyder goes on to talk about the philosophical contest over whether Ukraine would be defined as an ethnic nation in the 1970s Soviet Union, under Brezhnev, or as a political nation. Containing multiple ethnicities. Again, the parallels with Aotearoa in 2025 are striking.
Part of the Treaty Violation Bill debate has been an attempt to frame Māori as an ethnic nation. Even though as a collective, Māori are certainly a political nation. Coming into existence in 1835, with He Whakaputanga.
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"... the nation doesn't have to be a collectivity. The nation could be something that resides in people, and you can violate their rights by not letting them speak their language ... Taking my schoolbooks away ... De facto not letting me go to university, in my own language ... Not hiring me because I'm known to be somebody who speaks Ukrainian public. These are violations of human rights."
[#]TimothySnyder, 2022
https://yalepodcasts.blubrry.net/2022/11/28/19-oligarchies-in-russia-and-ukraine/
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[#]HumanRights #ProgressiveNationalism
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Addendum: like BandCamp, buying the record for the DJ would give the purchaser access to digital downloads of it. For the life of both the platform and the artist.
So I guess I'm also thinking about some kind of decentralised system where a record purchase has a unique fingerprint, that can be used across music platforms. Pay for it on FreeTunes.foo, you can stream or download it on MusicSubs. foo. No idea how the tech would work, but ...
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[#]FreudianTypoOfTheWeek
Non compost mentis (adj.): Not a fan of composting.
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[#]Listening to a live album by delightful Byron Bay psychedelic dubsters Lubdub;
https://lubdub.bandcamp.com/album/lubdub-live
I don't know if these folks still play live, but I'd love to see them do it in person, with a heroic dose of entheogens on board ; )
[#]music #electronic #PsyDub #LubDub
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This would helps cover the costs of producing music, and ideally provide musicians with an independent living. It would help DJs build their collections and discover new music and new artists. It would also help build relationships within and between musical communities, including music fans, producers and bands, and DJs.
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I'm thinking about a system where people who want to help fund music production, but don't want to own physical product, can gift records and other physical media releases to DJs.
The DJs would register in the system with a list of genres they like to own, and maybe a list of their existing collection. Music fans can pay for records and choose which DJ to have them delivered to. The DJ can keep or regift them, to other DJs.
@radiofreefedi @musicman
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But perhaps the most genre-blending of all were the grossly underrated and tragically short-lived Hallelujah Picassos. "Picasso Core" was a mix of punk, ska, reggae, dub, industrial, shoegazer and much more;
https://hallelujahpicassos.bandcamp.com/
But if I had to sum it up in one word I'd have to say punk. Because like Gogol Bordello and The Fenwicks, they raided the musical palettes of other genres. Like a bunch of boot boys left-handing bottles of juice at the supermarket, while paying for a banana.
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I could name many other examples. Jazz-funk festival mainstays Fat Freddy's Drop, who began as the dubby jam band of Live at the Matterhorn;
https://fatfreddysdrop.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-matterhorn
The naked funk-metal to cowboy ham rock (d)evolution of Head Like a Hole. Tall Dwarfs, whose every album was like a different band with the same singers.
Artpunk pranksters Wendyhouse, whose lo-fi sonic sculpture has writhed and transformed more than a T-1000 in molten steel, over decades of releasing tapes and CDs.
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Another genre-fusing band who achieved chart success in Aotearoa was Headless Chickens. Whose 1994 hit single George could have been the template for Garbage's self-titled debut (1995).
The Chickens only released 3 studio albums, every one unique and eclectic. Take Body Blow (1991), most famous here for the poppy single Cruise Control. But it also contains Choppers, an aggressive, driving electro-industrial stomp, and the stream-of-consciousness storytelling of Gaskrankinstation.
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Then there were soul-funk-rap-metal legends Supergroove, who got "world famous in NZ" off the back of relentless touring, and the tremendous debut album Traction. Compared to those unforgettable party anthems, the follow up, an EP called Tractor, was a much darker and more intense collection;
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDQMZLeXOlnt4lTDimqy61J2vBn47f19
The 'groove came unstuck during an ill-fated overseas tour, losing singer Che Fu and their trumpet player, and released a disappointing final album before splitting.
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Perhaps the most famous now is Salmonella Dub. As the name subtly suggests, they began as a bit of a punk band, before morphing into an instrumental live dub soundsystem. Then into what my mate calls "summer BBQ reggae", beginning with For the Love of It, on 1999's Killervision. Only to lose soundman and Love of It singer Tiki Taane in 2006.
The dubbies' Conspiracy Dub, from the Calming of the Drunken Monkey album (1997), remains one of my all-time favourites;
https://salmonelladub.bandcamp.com/track/conspiracy-dub
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In late 1980s/ early 1990s Aotearoa corporate record labels hadn't really discovered local music yet in a big way yet. But despite that - or even because of it - there was a thriving musical underground.
Of course it included plenty of bands who worked in identifiable genres. But also record-addled mavericks, who ate genres for breakfast, and sweated multi-genre genius out of their collective armpits as they played incendiary live shows.
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[#]music #Aotearoa #NZ
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"Be them new Romans
Don't envy them my friend
Be their lives longer
Their longer lives are spent
Without a love or faithful friend
All those things they have to rent
But we who see our destiny
In sound of this same old punk song
Let rest originality for sake of passing it around
Illuminating realization number one:
You are the only light there is
For yourself my friend"
[#]GogolBordello, Illumination, from the album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, 2005
https://sideonedummy.bandcamp.com/track/illumination
[#]consumerism
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[#]Listening to Not a Crime, a drug liberation anthem by Gogol Bordello;
https://sideonedummy.bandcamp.com/track/not-a-crime
One of many radical and danceable tunes from their super fun 2005 album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike. If you like ska or klezmer music, and especially if you like both, and you haven't ever heard this album, chuck it on! Punk doctor's orders : P
[#]music #punk #ska #klezmer #GogolBordello #cannabis #DrugLawReform
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Anyone going to FOSDEM next month?
"The modern-day fediverse is an impressive achievement, but it also leaves many issues to be addressed. Servers can go down, content can disappear and users can lose access to their identity. Authorization mechanisms are under-specified and rich interactions are fairly limited. This talk, by the two primary editors of the ActivityPub specification, explores where we think the fediverse should go ..."
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5128-today-s-fediverse-a-good-start-but-there-s-more-to-do/
[#]FOSDEM #fediverse #ActivityPub
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