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Andrew Garton

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Filmmaker, musician, producer and media comms educator of Ukraine/Austrian descent. Member of Association for Progressive Communications. https://linktr.ee/andrewgarton

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · Jul 31

Finished and gifted to the world, the Ian Urquhart Cinereel Archive, eight hours of silent Standard 8mm film shot by former British civil service officer, Ian Urquhart in Baram District, Sarawak, Malaysia. Available from the @archive.org search >> IAN URQUHART

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THE IAN URQUHART CINEREEL ARCHIVE

Introducing the Ian Urquhart Cinereel Archive, eight hours of silent Standard 8mm film shot by former British civil service officer, Ian Urquhart in Baram District,…

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10h

Wow! A breath of melody and hope. Beautifully played and sung.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure you can. Plenty of decent shit to be done by good people.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 20h

Against all odds, my first website, coded in 1994, is still online and much of it still works. Unfortunately, the RealAudio streams do not.

toysatellite.org/bh/

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Generative AI is a societal disaster

Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

disconnect.blog

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed. Entirely bollocks. Pure, exhausting puffery! First Dog on the Moon pleaded earlier, "Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don't have."

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 4d

Peak insanity.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 4d

Never ever dreamed I'd end up in an Insta Frame, but Meera from Eltham Bookshop is marvellously persuasive. Diwali celebrations in Eltham were joyous & a welcome break from the worlds I inhabit in my work. I was hanging out with author, Neil Grant & members of the Diamond Creek Tough Guys Book Club.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 5d

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, is seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia. More people are getting info that’s on Wikipedia via AI chatbots trained on its articles and search engines posing a risk to the sustainability of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11d

I do much the same. Sometimes we need a helping hand with the 'up and out'. But help may bring their own stones which, from all accounts, are still in plentiful supply.

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11d

The makings of a sagely temperament.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11d

I encourage my students to spend a mere 30 minutes during a semester without their devices, and to take a walk. Many describe rarely if ever experiencing the world around them without noise, without distraction. Some describe, never knowing and inner life, let alone reflection, silence nor solitude

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 12d

1993, when the internet was fractals we couldn't see but described in text. Perhaps the first video I can recall describing some of the work we did way back then.

youtu.be/d16go7hA7a4?...

Going Walkabout in Cyberspace, 1993 (edit)

YouTube video by alferg

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 12d

With Bandcamp sold twice within a couple of years and Spotify on the nose, Subvert.fm is tackling the idea of an artist owned internet, or rather, an artist run, collectively owned music marketplace. Interested? It's easy to become a supporter or artist/label founding member.

#subvertfm

Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace

A music platform owned by us all. Join Subvert to sell your work, support artists, and shape our shared future. Sincerely Ours.

Subvert.fm

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 12d

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/olPGmsjCE8LTa

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

getup.to

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 12d

It's a pity there is such reluctance to regulate the platforms, that they have carte blanche to do whatever they want, from lifting nominal guardrails to having none whatsoever.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13d

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."

Everything is cool and normal.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

youtu.be/j1iZbWpVvyI?...

PECAN - Garton & MacGregor's Magnificent Pecan Sessions

YouTube video by Andrew Garton

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

I recall seeing this a few years ago:

youtu.be/8HZ4DnVfWYQ?...

RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM // РУССКАЯ КИБЕРДЕРЕВНЯ

YouTube video by birchpunk

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

Wow!!!

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

Men who have only known Spotify, Facebook, a comfortable home and Nespresso, with no actual idea nor experience of conflict, poverty nor violence. They are comforted by luxury, not any meaningful lived experience, any genetic undertow entirely bred out of them.

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

Ghastly.

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

Ugh! Is about as much I can muster at this time of the evening.

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13d

I so immerse myself in this album, headphones on, sat outside of an evening, under the stars in rural Victoria, remembering such nights playing guitar in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, and actually in the Sudwala Caves with the late, most sincerely great, Roy MacGregor.

newcape.bandcamp.com/album/lost-t...

Lost Time - Bach's First Cello Suite, by Derek Gripper

8 track album

newcape.bandcamp.com

Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 16d

This appears to back up the author's assertions:

truthout.org/video/2025-n...

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is Aligned With US Imperialism, Says Historian

María Corina Machado has voiced support for sanctions against Venezuela and praised right-wing Latin American leaders.

truthout.org