#property tour eu/uk

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waterparks top listener message for spotify wrapped 2023

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waterparks: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

THE FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM

BY WATERPARKS

OUT TONIGHT

UK/EU/US TOUR TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🔴 SEE YOU ON THE PROPERTY

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Via Instagram, Awsten wears X-Large Japan Spring 2021 Pigment Cut Off Pullover Hooded Sweat in grey (no longer available). He has been wearing this for most (if not all) Property Tour UK/EU meet & greets as well so far.

📸Awsten's Instagram

[waterparksdrama]

yall when the fuck did aws perform in that mesh sweater(?) I Need more pictures of that day

it was the glasgow date of the property uk/eu tour - iz

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This day in history

I’m coming to the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in HAY-ON-WYE with my novel Red Team Blues:

Tomorrow (May 28), 1130AM: The AI Enigma

Monday (May 29), 12PM: Danger and Desire at the Frontier

I’m at OXFORD’s Blackwell’s on Monday (May 29) at 7:30PM with Tim Harford.

Then it’s Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Berlin!

#10yrsago Bank of Canada kills editorial cartoon, calls it “counterfeiting” https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/jack-knox-the-90000-duffy-buck-stops-here-bank-of-canada-decides-4592661

#10yrsago Toronto mayoral car-crash: homicide detectives search mayor’s office after tip on crack-smoking video; top staffers quit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/two-senior-members-of-toronto-mayor-rob-fords-staff-resign/article12168106/

#10yrsago UK Ministry of Justice denies that the court system is to be sold to hedge funds https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/28/moj-denies-privatisation-courts-service

#10yrsago Shambling Guide to New York City https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/28/shambling-guide-to-new-york-city/

#10yrsago Canada’s business groups wants to hack your computer even more than the creeps at the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property https://www.thestar.com/business/2013/02/08/business_thinks_antispam_law_should_protect_them_not_consumers_geist.html

#10yrsago Disaster porn and elite panic: the militarized lie of savage disaster aftermath https://web.archive.org/web/20130609055535/http://www.ochbergsociety.org/magazine/2013/05/in-haiti-and-beyond-learning-to-look-for-resilience/

#10yrsago Toronto cops hospitalize hotel guest who recorded them arresting another guest https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/26/exclusive_toronto_police_arrest_man_take_phone_after_attempt_to_film_takedown_at_sheraton.html

#5yrsago The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France https://www.economist.com/1843/2017/10/05/the-crooked-timber-of-humanity

#5yrsago Germany’s scientific texts were made free during and after WWII; analyzing them today shows the negative effect of paywalls on science https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/effects-copyrights-science

#5yrsago 8 years of austerity have turned the UK into a bleak Victorian dystopia, where pensioners without electricity die from fires ignited by their candles https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/world/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html

#5yrsago Canadian Conservative parliamentarian accuses black rival of “thinking the world revolves around her skin colour” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bernier-cesar-chavannes-tweet-1.4680467

#5yrsago RIP Gardner Dozois, pioneering, genre-defining science fiction editor who helped launch my career https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/28/rip-gardner-dozois-pioneering-genre-defining-science-fiction-editor-who-helped-launch-my-career/

#5yrsago Futuristic designs for products the EU’s stupid new copyright law would kill https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/https://futurenotmade.eu/

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Hay-on-Wye, Oxford, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

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Waterparks - Sneaking out of heaven

After weeks of teasers, USB sticks and cryptic posts the long-awaited new waterparks song is out. Seeming to be in addition to intellectual property (their newest album released in April of this year), Sneaking Out Of Heaven is a pop infused anthem that I’m sure they can’t wait to play at the When We Were Young festival and their upcoming UK and EU tour after its incredible reception on their Australian tour earlier this month.  

This new song is a true credit to the band's discography, a synth infused pop-rock tune that is bound to be well taken by fans live. Within the song there are several references to one of the lead singles of the album “brainwashed”. I'm not brainwashed but I wanna be. There are also several references to religion (the song is literally called sneaking out of heaven) which is a key theme in Intellectual Property, with Awsten Knight in an interview with Alt Press stating that; “There is a love story throughout the record that is expressive to and for other people, but the album itself has to do with overcoming, unlearning and growing past religious guilt”. This religious imagery is greatly felt in the song but done so in a way that doesn’t come off as preachy or rather satirical. I thoroughly enjoy the synth-pop sound, though it is evidently not for everyone as the song is meeting mixed reviews from fans, some are living for this new, modern sound while others strongly believe that parx are at their best when they focus on pop-punk. All that being said, it's been a pleasure to have been allowed into the property once more.  

Overall, the track fits very well with the overarching themes of the album and stands alone as an incredibly strong single. There are rumours of this being the first B-side in a potential deluxe re-release of Intellectual Property. Paired with rumours of this being a whole new era or side project it’s an incredibly exciting time for Parxies, new and old alike. Irrespective of where this stands in Waterparks’ discography, the release was perfectly timed and truly exemplifies their incredible genre-bending skills.  

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TheWreck Del Soothsayer (2 Nov 20)

PREDICTIONS 2020 /21 /22 (Clearer than Nostradamus by a country mile)

COVID19

Vaccine passed by WHO and developed for distribution by end of January 2021 in all major first world countries

Widespread distribution of vaccine commences May 2021

Distribution in China and Europe of vaccine significantly more efficient than the rest of the world due to all costs being met by Central Government

Distribution of vaccine in US disrupted by economic argument between federal and state government at odds over cost to citizens and cost to big pharmaceutical shareholders

Distribution in second and third world countries becomes, in the main, reliant on charitable involvement

New Strains of COVID hinder the effectiveness of the vaccine

US Election:

Biden to win between 285 and 305 Electoral College Votes

Biden to win the Election with between 52% and 55% of the popular vote

Democrats to flip 3 / 5 Senate seats in their favor and lose one

Lindsay Graeme and Susan Collins should lose their Senate seats but may not

Election results disputed by Republicans in Pennsylvania / Nevada / Minnesota / Georgia / Arizona - Supreme Court rules decisions must be made by individual States in all instances

Trump

Trump to launch a new TV channel (TTV) next year and continue to dominate the Republican agenda and Republican politicians in the short term

Trump will be civilly and criminally prosecuted by Democratic led groups and exposed as being part of a money laundering cartel alongside a major European Bank - charges also include tax fraud and a delinquent use of high office

Trump employs the interests and machinations of the ‘Deep State’ (without credible evidence) across all programming on TTV as his defense and insists on being tried by a jury of his peers – while announcing he has no peers. 

Trump will call high profile members of QANON as witnesses

Trump launches ‘Martyr to America’ Campaign and tours the country fundraising

Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly & Laura Ingram become banner carriers for the ‘Martyr to America’ Campaign

10 to 20 Republican members of Congress will be civilly and criminally prosecuted for malfeasance by Democratic led groups - they will all defend themselves on TTV citing ‘Deep State Brokers’ as the manufacturers of  false allegations - they will all join ‘Martyr to America’ campaign as activists and fundraisers

Speculation will abound that the mid-term elections of 2022 could be a blood bath and herald the end of the Republican Party as we know it - more Republican members of Congress sign up to ‘Martyr to America’ 

Don Junior enters Strictly Come Dancing 2021 and  loses to his wife in the final dance off

Premier League

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to be replaced by Mauricio Pochettino

Paul Pogba loaned to Real Madrid

VAR decisions to be regulated to 2 minutes minimum duration to allow cut-away for advertising break

Top 4 finish – Liverpool / Manchester City / Tottenham Hotspur / Arsenal - (Not necessarily in that order)

A proposal is made for all lower leagues in the UK to be disbanded and replaced with regional leagues – no provision will be made for elevation to the premier league though clubs affected will be offered the opportunity to become financed by player agents as feeder clubs to the Premier League and other interested parties

No Spanish team will make the semi finals of the 2021 Champions League

The proposed Super League will flounder through internal disagreement between the proposing clubs with regard to a hierarchy financial structure and national TV rights - Bayern Munich will be the first to withdraw

Fans will not return in volume to live games before 2022

BREXIT

The US will inform the UK that no trade deal will be considered without assurances that there will be no contravention of the Good Friday Agreement in respect of the border between the Republic and NI

The UK will seek an extension to negotiations in December despite the fact no acceptable agenda exists to merit one – Europe will grant the extension for three months

Dominic Cummings will be fired following his refusal to resign after revelations of political and administrative corruption by The Guardian (from evidence provided by a Number 10 whistleblower) - his departure will lead to a right wing revolt in the Tory party

Keir Starmer will lose a conference vote of no confidence following his failure to promote party members socialist recommendations – the Labour Party will split into two distinct factions before becoming completely fragmented and a total lame duck

The Lib-Dems will elect two new leaders in 2021

The Pound will hit par with the Euro

The SNP will call and set a date for an Independence Referendum without the authority of Westminster – the matter will be taken to the court of human rights for adjudication as an exercise in spin - at the same time Nicola Sturgeon commences negotiations for Scotland to become part of the EU pending decisions on and of the Referendum - also as an exercise in spin

The UK will slip to seventh place in the table of largest economies

Russian and Chinese Vulture Capital Funds will own more than 25% of all UK residential and commercial rental property by the end of 2022

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instagram post via awstenknight [december 6, 2023]

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For The Property Tour Toronto ON show at Danforth Music Hall, Awsten wears XLARGE JAPAN OG Printed Coaches Jacket in light blue (not for sale in the US, £140.00 for UK/EU).

📸 Back | Front

[waterparksdrama]

do they ever sell randomly exclusive merch elsewhere?? theres a shirt that was only available on the uk leg of the property tour that ive been iso foreverrrr but ive yet to even see anyone mention it anywhere ???

yeah that seems to be the case. there's usually variants of merch in different countries (i.e. the funeral grey hoodie in their last eu tour compared to the funeral grey longsleeve for sad summer in the usa) i know for the eu tour opening for you me at six they sold sweaters and shirts that weren't available on the property tour because. the album hadn't even come out yet + it wasn't seasonal - iz

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Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2020 (audio from Canada Reads Kelowna, gig economy spreads Covid-19, Intel's security chip is insecure, Barnes and Noble gets a savior)

Today's links

Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna: Thanks to Sarah Penton for being such a great interviewer!

Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms: Your Instacart driver is being incentivized to handle your food through his fever-sweats.

Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip: A bug in the Management Engine threatens five years' worth of Intel systems.

The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie: James Daunt has opened 60 profitable stores in his career.

This day in history: 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna (permalink)

Last night I sat down for an interview and lively Q&A at the Kelowna Public Library with the CBC's Sarah Penton as part of the Canada Reads national book prize, for which my book Radicalized is a finalist. Courtney Dickson was kind enough to send me raw audio from the board and to give me permission to post it. It was a genuinely wonderful night, with great and thoughtful questions, and I'm really glad that I get to share it with you!

https://archive.org/download/canadareadskelownadoctorowpenton/Canada_Reads_Kelowna_Doctorow_Penton.mp3

Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms (permalink)

The gig economy workers who deliver your @amazon packages are not entitled to sick pay if they think they have covid-19 and want to stay home, rather than delivering contaminated boxes to you.

https://onezero.medium.com/keep-your-car-clean-gig-companies-offer-little-support-during-coronavirus-outbreak-cf6c55cca8a8

It's not just Amazon Flex drivers who are being tacitly incentivized by rapacious, giant corporations to show up for work sick. Your Lyft and Instacart drivers are all being given a stark choice: work sick or go broke.

As Sarah Emerson speculates in her One Zero piece, this depraved indifference is likely an epiphenomenon of gig economy companies' urge to preserve the fiction that their workers are contractors, not employees. Contractors don't get sick leave, after all.

"[Amazon is ] basically threatening that I'll be out of work if I have any symptoms of being sick, coronavirus or not, but no protections and no offers for help in the event it happens" – Jeff Perry, Amazon Flex/Uber driver, Sacramento

Lyft's advice to drivers: "disinfect your car" and avoid passengers who appear sick.

As outrage over this policy went viral, Uber reversed its earlier stance and announced that it would offer up to 14 days of "compensation" for some drivers.

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1236126626028507136

Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip (permalink)

A new showstopper Intel bug compromises the Converged Security and Management Engine, the computer-within-a-computer that Intel uses for a variety of purposes, some beneficial (detecting malware), some terrible (shutting out free software).

https://blog.ptsecurity.com/2020/03/intelx86-root-of-trust-loss-of-trust.html

The Management Engine has long been controversial. It's designed to reach into your RAM and tinker with it in a way that, by design, the CPU can't detect or prevent. This is deliberate: it lets the management engine monitor and disrupt malware.

https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html

But of course, if your Management Engine itself is compromised, then – by design – the part of the computer that you control can neither monitor it, nor prevent it from doing malicious work. In 2017, a ghastly ME bug showed how risky this was.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/intels-management-engine-security-hazard-and-users-need-way-disable-it

It's especially bad because ME security is, in part, security through obscurity: Intel barely documents ME function and doesn't permit outside auditing. To make everything worse, there's no way to fully disable it. So ME bugs keep on surfacing, each worse than the last. Here's 2018's:

https://press.f-secure.com/2018/01/12/intel-amt-security-issue-lets-attackers-bypass-login-credentials-in-corporate-laptops/

Which brings me to the new vuln: PT Security shows an early stage attack on the boot ROM, that allows for recovery of a master key that is used to generate all the other keys in the system. It's a deep bug that could potentially compromise all the downstream operations. It's only a partial attack (so far). The key needs to be decrypted to be usable, but the researchers say it's only a matter of time – and they point out that the key is shared across years' worth of Intel processors.

This compromise (when it comes) has profound implications for DRM, which is intrinsically brittle in that it's "break once, break everywhere." Once content is extracted from a DRM wrapper on a compromised system, it can be shared and played back on intact ones. DRM system designers try to address this with tactics like "renewability" and "selectable output control" that allows DRM systems to detect which systems they're running on and refuse to operate if they believe they might be compromised.

This is a thermonuclear option that could make DRM unviable forever. It means that if you had the misfortune to buy an Intel system during the five years that they were manufactured with this defect, you could lose the ability to play content you've already paid for.

Not because you hacked your system, but because you could. DRM is and always has been a timebomb, ticking down to the moment that execs in a distant boardroom decide to nerf or brick your property. The temptation to downgrade your customers' property to up your profits is irresistible.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers

But customers don't like getting punished for "doing the right thing." If media companies cancel playback for purchased content on affected Intel systems, they won't be targeting pirates (who get their media DRM-free), but people who deliberately chose to pay.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, we don't get fooled again." -GWB

Punishing legit customers to get at pirates is a surefire way to make more pirates.

"Might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb."

The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie (permalink)

A great hero of British bookselling is James Daunt, the founder of Daunt Books, whose flagship store is literally the most beautiful bookstore I've ever been to.

https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shops/marylebone/

Daunt took over Waterstones in 2011 and rescued it. The chain now runs as a string of indies, with no co-op promotion – instead, the booksellers in each shop choose which books they promote based on local taste. Corporate HQ chooses a book of the month and a book every year for chainwide promotion, but they do so on the basis of their enjoyment of the book – not because a publisher pays them for promo.

The new Waterstones stores are spectacular. There were always some great ones (the Waterstones in Bradford rivals the main Daunt books for beauty), but the vibe and experience of shopping at a post-Daunt Waterstones is a million times better than before. And new shops like the one in Tottenham Court Road really embody what a bookstore can be. The event I did there in 2017 with Laurie Penny was one of the best I've ever done in the UK.

https://www.waterstones.com/events/cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-laurie-penny/london-tottenham-court-road

The good news is that Daunt is now running Barnes & Noble, which has been struggling and worse – pulling desperate moves like laying off all their most experienced booksellers to lower payroll costs, which is obviously a catastrophic mistake. And Daunt's public plan for BN – America's last major chain bookstore – is to replicate what he did with Waterstones. Let the stores run like indies, with local control by experienced booksellers who know and care about their customers' tastes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-04/barnes-noble-wants-to-be-more-like-an-indie-bookseller

He's ending co-op promotion, featuring books that the booksellers choose, not books that publishers pay to promote. He's reversing the focus on non-bookstore SKUs (sunglasses, puzzles and scented candles) in favor of, you know…books. They're shrinking CDs and DVDs and expanding kids' books, laying the ground for a new generation of readers, and they're cleaning up, repainting, and generally repairing years of neglect that have given some of the stores the vibe of an abandoned K-Mart.

They're also opening new stores, targeting places that don't have any bookstores (as opposed to places where indie stores have kept the faith and continued to serve their communities). He's shooting for 1,500 stores nationwide. It's superb news for a nation where bookselling has been imperilled for decades. On every tour stop, I always insist that my media escort take me to every B&N in town to sign stock and meet the booksellers. As a recovering bookseller myself, it's one of the great pleasures of the tours. Bookstores are community hubs, and were key to my own literary upbringing. This is just delightful news.

(Image: RachelH_, CC BY-NC)

This day in history (permalink)

#5yrsago Improving the estimate of US police killings https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-new-estimate-of-killings-by-police-is-way-higher-and-still-too-low/

#1yrago Ajit Pai has been touting new broadband investment after he murdered Net Neutrality, but he's been relying on impossible data from a company called Barrierfree https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/ajit-pais-rosy-broadband-deployment-claim-may-be-based-on-gigantic-error/

#1yrago The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1103582295523553280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

#1yrago The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit https://twitter.com/mmildenberger/status/1102604887223750657

#1yrago It's on: House Democrats introduce their promised Net Neutrality legislation https://www.cnet.com/news/democrats-introduce-save-the-internet-act-to-restore-net-neutrality/

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: The Verge (https://www.theverge.com), Wired (https://wired.com), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org).

Hugo nominators! My story "Unauthorized Bread" is eligible in the Novella category and you can read it free on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

Upcoming appearances:

Museums and the Web: March 31-April 4 2020, Los Angeles. https://mw20.museweb.net/

LA Times Festival of Books: 18 April 2020, Los Angeles. https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

Currently writing: I'm rewriting a short story, "The Canadian Miracle," for MIT Tech Review. It's a story set in the world of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. I'm also working on "Baby Twitter," a piece of design fiction also set in The Lost Cause's prehistory, for a British think-tank. I'm getting geared up to start work on the novel afterwards.

Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.

Latest podcast: Disasters Don't Have to End in Dystopias: https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/01/disasters-dont-have-to-end-in-dystopias/

Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627

(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020.

"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a very special, s00per s33kr1t intro.

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