If the word “cumbiagaze” doesn’t make you want to access the music underneath, I don’t know how to help you. But I will try! Tambino coined the genre by layering his life in New York (read: hip hop beats) on top of a stint on DC’s punk scene and his childhood in Peru. The result is a moody, mostly-Spanish-language situation that *must* warrant a smoke machine onstage. Each track on his new EP, Sin Miedo, seems to track closely to one influence or another, but for being so distinct, they’re all similarly romantic. Start with “Deseo” and then get after the rest.
If you think the mere existence of NFTs is sufficiently extra, I regret to inform you that we have only begun to scratch the surface. Kevin Rose, who has more or less been an avatar of Silicon Valley since he started and abandoned a moderately successful internet company that one time, appears to have moved on from cryogenics just enough to announce to his dev0TeD F0lLow3rs that he’s opening up a private NFT club “for the MOST SERIOUS NFT collectors and artists.” As a member, you get access to a whole Discord of other collectors who plan to measure their dicks against yours, but that’s not all: In the teaser video, Kevin says he’s going to share personal thoughts on there that he’s NOT EVEN posting on Twitter. Let me ask you, where else can you find a community of like-minded professionals who are similarly able to distinguish the good hazily extant artworks from the bad? And let me also ask you, were you ever really in the club if your membership card is itself an NFT?
*Though we love them in that they help our artist friends make money
Moving back into the physical world, do you know how many brands Amazon owns and operates? I’ll tell you, it’s way more than the ones you see under the Amazon Basics label. Thousands of products are sitting stealthily at the top of the search page (boosted in the algorithm, obviously), funneling their revenues straight back to A’s bottom line. So in lieu of anti-trust enforcement, how do you tell an Amazon-brand aromatherapy diffuser from one produced by an MLM? A new browser extension from the Markup detects Amazon brands so you can exit those questionable tabs once and for all. NOT THAT YOU’RE SHOPPING ON AMAZON ANYWAY, but just like if you know anyone who is, let them know that it highlights the offending items in yellow.
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