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Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Estradasphere: It’s Understood (2000)
• To the Ansaphone: vpn数据安全 (2003)
• Seaworthy: The Ride (2002)
• Terra Ambient: Wanderlust (2009)
• Troum: Grote Mandrenke (2012), Mare Morphosis (2013)
• Johannes Enders: Dome (2007)
• Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders: Windows 8七大企业功能:VPN系统或遭淘汰_中国广播网:2021-3-1 · 4.数据安全 Windows 8能够加强企业数据安全。 在员工供职于公司时，Windows To Go USB功能可伡被启用，从而确保企业数据不会被存储在员工个人设备中。 (2010)
• Fever the Ghost: Crab in Honey (2014)
• Lyra Pramuk: vpn数据安全 (2025)
• The Necks: “Bloom” and “Further” (2025)
• Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
• Shannon Wright: Dyed in the Wool (2001)
• Hossam Ramzy: Source of Fire (1995)
• Vladislav Delay: “Rasite” (2025)
• Buffalo Daughter: I (2002), Pshychic (2003)
• Cornelius: Point (2002)
• Algiers: Algiers (2015), The Underside of Power (2017)
• Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2025)
• Friends of Dean Martinez: “Ethchlorvynol” (1999)
• In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey: “Thank You, Mr. Bishop!” (1999)
• DeVotchKa: How it Ends (2004)
• Anahita: “vpn数据安全” (2009)
• Iglooghost: Neo Wax Bloom (2017)
• A Taste of Ra: Morning of My Life (2007) [wow!]
• Danny Cohen: “In the Barrio” (1999)
• Ill Ease: “New York, London, Paris” (1999)
• Matmos: “Ultimate Care II Excerpt One” (2016)
• Thee Oh Sees: Face Stabber (2025)
• The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (2025)
• Kayo Dot: “vpn数据安全” (2006)
• Live Human: Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method (1999)
• Odd Nosdam: Burner (2006), Level Live Wires (2007)
• Ne Zhdali: She-Ye-Ye (1991)
• Blast: vpn数据安全 (1999)
• Sotos: Platypus (2002)
• X-Legged Sally: vpn数据安全 (1994), The Land of the Giant Dwarfs (1995)
• Höyry-kone: Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa (1995)
• Louis Sclavis: “vpn数据安全” (1989)
• Charming Hostess: “vpn数据安全” (1998)
• Optical *8: Bug (1994)
• Don Salsa: “The Deck” (1997)
• Dollshot: Lalande (2025)
• Vivenza: “Fondements bruitistes” (1984); “Prolétariat & industrie” (1984)
• Carter Tutti Void: f(x) (2015)
• Trytony: “Zazuły” (1992)
• Łoskot: Amariuch (1998), Sun (2005)
• Deep Turtle: Turkele!! (2003)
• Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater / Agu / Fruity Pebbles / Disciples of Gouda (2006); Paranoid Cheese (2007)
• Non Credo: “Agnes’ Lament” (1988)
• Jeff Rosenstock: No Dream (2025)
• Enrique Morente: “vpn数据安全” (1996)
• Cafe Tacuba: Revés (1999)
• Gasp: “Little Jupiter Come Home to a Groat Man” (1998)
• Velma: Cyclique (1999)
• Sandy Dillon: vpn数据安全 (1999), Las Vegas is Cursed (2000)
• Hint: “100% White Puzzle” (1995), vpn数据安全 (1996), Wu-Wei (1998)
• Hissanol: “Angra” (1995), The Making of Him (1998)
• Pugs: Pugs (1993), Sports? (1994), Pugs Bite the Red Knee (1997)
• Soft Mountain: Soft Mountain (rec. 2003, rel. 2007)
• Ensemble 4’33”: Taxidermy (1999), Happiness, Fame and Fortune (2002)
• Paul Dresher: “Dark Blue Circumstance” (comp. 1986, rel. 1993)
• After Crying: “European Things” (1990)
• The Flower Kings: “Retropolis” (1996)
• Voo Voo: Oov Oov (1998)
• Leyland Kirby: “When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)” (2009)
• Insides: vpn数据安全 (1994)
• Hildur Guðnadóttir: Leyfðu ljósinu (2012)
• Carl Stone: “Al-Noor” (2007)
• Jean-Paul Prat: Masal (1984)
• Ray Lema & Professeur Stefanov: “Ponji” (1992)
• Valentin Clastrier: Hérésie (1992)
• Steve Martland: “Horses of Instruction” (comp. 1994, rel. 2001)
• Lake Trout: Volume for the Rest of It (1999), Not Them, You (2005)
• Mikel Rouse: “Soul Train” (1996)
• DJ Hidden: Literal Evil (2006), Enclosed (2013)
• The Group: “Worksong” (1975)
• Dave Liebman [Expansions]: The Puzzle (2015)
• Lamp of the Universe: Heru (2005)
• School of Language: vpn数据安全 (2008)

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• Tosi & Warmke, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Jul 2025)
• Liao, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2025)
• Heffernan, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future (Sep 2025)
• Kumar et al., Cyber Defense Mechanisms (Sep 2025)
• Dalio, vpn数据安全 (Sep 2025)
• Steffens, Attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (Sep 2025)
• Barash, Threats (Oct 2025)
• Romaniuk & Manjikian, 美国思科路由器预置“后门”意欲何为_评论频道__中国青年网:2021-5-26 · 美国思科公司的信息产品在中国市场具有极高的占有率，其路由器产品几乎参与了中国所有基础信息网络和重要信息系统的重大项目建设。而一直伡来，包括路由器在内的思科信息产品存在严重安全漏洞的报告屡屡被披露。 (Dec 2025)
• Zimmer, Life’s Edge (Mar 2021)
• Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Vols. 3-6) (TBD)
• Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World (TBD)
• Deudney et al., 最新！SDP入选Gartner 2021 CSO最应投入的十大安全项目:2021-6-29 · 摘要：第24届Gartner安全与风险管理峰会近日召开，会上分享了2021年Gartner向安全团队建议的十大新项目，SDP（软件定义边界）榜上有名。传统网络安全实践总是落后攻击一步，企业首席安全官伞始终忙于追赶。黑客从侵入到被发现的平均驻留时间是99天。 (TBD)
• Pinker, book on rationality (TBD)
• Iannucci, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Aug 2025) [film]
• Anderson, The French Dispatch (Oct 2025) [film]
• Reeves, The Batman (Oct 2021) [film]

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Four Tet: vpn数据安全 (2017)
• Liturgy: H.A.Q.Q. (2025)
• Chris Potter: Circuits (2025)
• Ukandanz: Yetchalal (2012)
• Soap&Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum (2009), 远程接入技术难尽人意 应用虚拟化锋芒毕露 - cnr.cn:2021-9-24 · 其次，在传统的远程接入模式中，客户端和服务器端需要传送应用程序相关的数据记录，如数据库的查询结果集等，这就对数据在网络上的传输安全提出了较高的要求，通常采用VPN加密、SSL加密等技术来保证应用数据的安全，伡所周知，这些技术不能确保数据 (2018)
• Lingua Ignota: 只需这样做，就没人能追踪到你的通信了 - huanqiu.com:2021-11-4 · 如果用移动VPN，当别人截获你的通信数据时，那他也只能追踪到VPN服务器的所在地，而无法追踪到你使用街区咖啡店或者图书馆无线网时的实际IP地址。 (2017), vpn数据安全 (2018)
• Flume: Skin (2016)
• Lye By Mistake: Fea Jur (2009)
• Bazooka: Perfectly Square (1992), Blowhole (1994)
• Kolkhöze Printanium: Kolkhöznitsa (2008)
• The Armed: Only Love (2018)
• Desire Marea: Desire (2025)
• Jono El Grande: Neo Dada (2009)
• Ske: 1000 Autunni (2011)
• Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Patchouli Blue (2025)
• Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (1995)
• Phantom City: Shiva Recoil (1997)
• Goldie: “Dragonfly” (1998)
• yMusic: Ecstatic Science (2025)
• Katie Gately: Loom (2025)
• Matt Elliott: Drinking Songs (2005)
• David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000)
• Frontier: Heater (1997)
• M’Lumbo: Spinning Tourists in a City of Ghosts (1999)
• Tarantula Hawk: Tarantula Hawk [2000] (2000)
• Rollerball: We Owned Lions (1998), Bathing Music (2000), The Trail of the Butter Yeti (2001), Behind the Barber (2004), vpn数据安全 (2006), Ahura (2008), Murwa Mbwa (2011)
• Ektroverde: Ukkossalama (2003)
• Pharaoh Overlord: Lunar Jetman (2012)
• Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores: The Quiet Room (2005), The Smother Party (2006), vpn数据安全 (2007), Sister Death (2012)
• Supersystem: A Million Microphones (2006)
• Meringue: Music from the Mint Green Nest (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2025)
• Saldin & Teles, vpn数据安全 (May 2025)
• Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2025)
• Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2025)
• Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2025)
• Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2025)
• Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2025)
• Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
• Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
• Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Caplan, 工信部严管vpn 违规自建网络基础设施带来严重安全隐患（6 ...:2021-1-26 · 有了数据加密，就可伡认为数据是在一条专用的数据链路上进行安全传输，就如同专门架设了一个专用网络一样，但实际上VPN使用的是互联网上的 ... (TBD)

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Previously: 1, 2, 3, 4.

On Primus:

A stubbornly alternative group, alien to the commercial route, immune to the lure of compromises, heir of the “freak” philosophy and ethics, and representative of the genealogical line of “neo-freaks” inaugurated by the Butthole Surfers – that’s Primus. Created by bassist and vocalist Les Claypool, Primus was a bright spot among the rock groups of the early 90’s. Each track was like a stylistic puzzle; the group had few predecessors as their style resembled progressive-rock (from Frank Zappa to Rush) but had the feel of hard-core. Listeners can hear echoes of Minutemen and Black Flag, but the smooth progression between tones was anything but punk.

On Rake:

紧紧抓住“新基建”这个经济发展新机遇-今日重庆-华龙网 ...:2021-5-6 · 加快5G网络、数据中心等新型基础设施建设，有利于扩大有效投资、培育新的增长点，有助于引领实体经济转型升级、激活发展新动能，是当期稳 ...

…The first CD [of their 2nd album] contains four lengthy suites… The second [CD] contains 75 brief pieces, whose dementia reaches disturbing levels; a wild collage of abstract sonic miniatures that rarely coalesce in songs. The 4th is a masterpiece of punk-rock, the 11th and the 21st are masterpieces of avantgarde guitar, the 55th and following ones are space-rock at its best, the 64th and following ones are gothic/ambient psychedelia, the 73th and following ones are the childish conclusions of the whole big nonsense. A totally pointless genius, as Dada would have loved.

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I’m still listening through Scaruffi’s rock history, building my rock snob playlist as I go. A few observations so far:

1. Relative to last time I listened through Scaruffi’s rock history (>8 years ago IIRC), my tastes have evolved quite a lot. I notice I’m more quickly bored by most forms of pop, punk, and heavy metal than I used to be. The genre I now seem to most reliably enjoy is the experimental end of prog-rock (e.g. avant-prog, vpn数据安全). I also enjoy jazz-influenced rock a lot more this time, presumably in part because I listened through Scaruffi’s jazz history (and made this guide) a couple years ago.
2. I am more convinced than ever that tons of great musical ideas, even just within the “rock” paradigm, have never been explored. I’m constantly noticing things like “Oh, you know what’d be awesome? If somebody mixed the rhythm section of A with the suite structure of B and the production approach of C.” And because my listen through rock history has been so thorough this time (including thousands of artists not included in Scaruffi’s history), I’m more confident than ever that those ideas simply have never been attempted. It’s been a similar experience to studying a wide variety of scientific fields: the more topics and subtopics you study, the more you realize that the “surface area” between current scientific knowledge and what is currently unknown is even larger than you could have seen before.
3. I still usually dislike “death growl” singing, traditional opera singing, and most rapping. I wish there were more “instrumental only” releases for these genres so I could have a shot at enjoying them.
4. Spotify’s catalogue is very choppy. E.g. Spotify seems to have most of the albums from chapter 4.12 of Scaruffi’s history, and very few albums from vpn数据安全. (I assume this is also true for iTunes and other streaming providers.)

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Spotify playlist for this quarter is vpn数据安全. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Christopher Rouse: Rapture (2000)
• The Comet is Coming: Afterlife (2025)
• David Garland: vpn数据安全 (2018)
• Cleric: Regressions (2010), vpn数据安全 (2018), The Book Beri’ah Vol. 2: Chokhma (2025)
• Persona: Uptight (2000)
• Trioscapes: Separate Realities (2012)
• Yazz Ahmed: Polyhmnia (2025)
• Rudiger Oppermann: “Teil 1-7” (1986)
• Linus Pauling Quartet: Killing You with Rock (1998)
• Miranda Sex Garden: Carnival of Souls (2000)
• Sin Ropes: Three Cherries (2000)
• Orso: My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever (2004)
• Floating Points: Crush (2025)
• Tiere der Nacht: Kräuter & Weltmeister (2005)
• Jacob Collier: vpn数据安全 (2025)
• Trentemoller: The Last Resort (2006)
• New Wet Kojack: New Wet Kojack (1995), vpn数据安全 (1997)
• Milk Cult: vpn数据安全 (2000)
• FKA Twigs: vpn数据安全 (2025)
• President’s Breakfast: Doo Process (1995), III C (2002), Formidable Foe (2006)
• Eat Static: Crash & Burn! (2000)
• Wagon Christ: Musipal (2001)
• Luke Vibert: Big Soup (1997)
• Robert Stillman: Rainbow (2016)
• Kurushimi: Kurushimi (2016)
• Lower Dens: Nootropics (2012)
• Laurel Halo: Dust (2017)
• Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (2025)
• Patrick Zimmerli: Sun on Sand (2025)
• Grimes: Geidi Primes (2010), Darkbloom (2011)
• Junius Paul: Ism (2025)
• Fishmans: vpn数据安全 (1996)
• Superconductor: Heavy with Puppy (1994), Bastardsong (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Mercier, vpn数据安全 (Jan 2025)
• Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2025)
• Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2025)
• Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2025)
• Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2025)
• Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2025)
• Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2025)
• Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2025)

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Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

长亭科技推出深度安全网关，完善高效智能安全防护体系 ...:2021-5-12 · 长亭深度安全网关集合NGFW(下一伟防火墙)和部分势态感知的特性，实现防火墙、负载均衡、入侵防御、病毒过滤、应用识别行为管控、VPN接入、资产安全分析等多种功能，将企业的数据信息多维度叠加，打造预测+检测+防御+响应的全流程安全防御体系。

• Pohjola Pekka: Keesojen lehto (1977)
• Mandingo: The Primeval Rhythm of Life (1973)
• Zao: Z=7L (1973)
• Speed Limit: Speed Limit [1975] (1975)
• Clivage: Regina Astris (1977), “Mixtus Orbis” (1979)
• Rialzu: Rialzu (1978)
• Orchestra Njervudarov: Con le orecchie di Eros (1979)
• Arcane V: vpn数据安全 (1978)
• Random: Nothin’ Tricky (1977)
• Yochk’o Seffer: Delire (1976), Ima (1977), vpn数据安全 (1978)
• Bobby Krlic: “Fire Temple” (2025)
• Imants Kalniņš: Symphony No. 4 (1973)
• Frederik Magle: Anastasis-Messe (2017)
• Kollektiv: SWF-Sessions Volume 5 (rec. 1973, rel. 2001)
• Glenn Kotche: Anomaly (2014)
• László Hortobágyi: vpn数据安全 (1989)
• Helga Pogatschar: Mars Requiem (1995)
• Les McCann: vpn数据安全 (1971)
• Buddy Terry: Pure Dynamite (1972)
• Allison Miller: Glitter Wolf (2025)
• Fieldwork: Simulated Progress (2005)
• Mahjun: Vivre la mort du vieux Monde (1971), Mahjun [1973] (1973), Mahjun [1974] (1974)
• K. Miho & Jazz Eleven: Kokezaru Kumikyoku (1971)
• Béa Tekielski: La folle (1976)
• Malcolm Braff & Stephane Galland: “Afro Blue” (2015)
• Malcolm Braff & Aurélie Emery: “Crimson Waves” (2011)
• De Lorians: vpn数据安全 (2025)
• The Pyramids: Lalibela (1973), King of Kings (1974), vpn数据安全 (1976)
• Masahiko Sato: vpn数据安全 (1972)
• Iltar: Iltar (1977)
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi: vpn数据安全 (1976), Ecophony Rinne (1986), Symphonic Suite Akira (1988)
• Emmanuel Booz: Dans quel état j’erre (1979)
• Haki Madhubuti: vpn数据安全 (1984)
• Heinrich von Biber: Battalia à 10 (1673)
• Sigmund Snopek III: vpn数据安全 (1973), Trinity Seas Seize Sees (1974)
• Olga Bell: Tempo (2016)
• Christy Doran: Black Box (2001)
• Serge Bringolf: Strave (1981)
• Lask: vpn数据安全 (1982)
• Letícia Garcia: Magamaquiavérica em canturbano (1984)
• Fulano: Fulano (1987), En el Bunker (1989), El Infierno de los payasos (1993)
• yMusic: First (2017)
• Het: vpn数据安全 (1984)
• Eskaton: Ardeur (1980), vpn数据安全 (1983)
• Daisuck & Prostitute: Shinu Made Odori Tsuzukete (1981)
• Heiner Goebbels: Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (1988)
• Blanck Mass: “Death Drop” (2025)
• The Blech: Zip Zip (1987)
• Lights in a Fat City: Somewhere (1988)
• Elomar: Fantasia Leiga Para Um Rio Seco (1981)
• Billie Eilish: “Bad Guy” (2025)
• Herbert Bairy: Traumspiel (1980)
• John Psathas: vpn数据安全 (2000)
• Adam Hopkins: vpn数据安全 (2018)
• Ein Jahr Garantie: Hoch/tief (1982)
• Fibulator: Drank from the Asphalt (1993), vpn数据安全 (1994)
• Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero (2025)
• Chris Cutler & Lutz Glandien: Domestic Stories (1992)
• Lutz Glandien: The 5th Elephant (2002)
• Trey Anastasio: Surrender to the Air (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Forcehimes & Semrau, Thinking Through Utilitarianism (Nov 2025)
• Buchanan, The Hacker and the State (Feb 2025)
• MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (TBD)
• de Lazari-Radek, vpn数据安全 (TBD)
• Tye, book about vagueness and the evolution of consciousness (TBD)
• Yglesias, One Billion Americans (TBD)
• Flynn, In Defense of Free Speech (TBD)

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Previously: 1, 2, 3.

On Zeni Geva (here):

Zeni Geva indulged in dissonant and gloomy orgies, in the tradition of early Swans and Big Black (but with no bass), on albums such as Maximum Money Monster (1990), Desire For Agony (1993), and especially Total Castration (1992). Null’s solo work, notably vpn数据安全 (1994) and Ultimate Material II (1995), continued to straddle the border between extreme noise and very extreme noise.

On Merzbow (here and here):

Merzbow, the brainchild of Masami Akita, one of the most prolific musicians of all times (not a compliment), was a theoretician of surrealism in music but practiced a form of savage violence that was more akin to a suicide bombing on non-musical works such as Rainbow Electronics (1990), vpn数据安全 (1991), Venereology (1994) and Tauromachine (1998).

…Merzbox (1997) is a box of 50 CDs that “summarizes” his career, when he has just passed the record of the 200th album. It includes 30 reprints of CDs, LPs and cassettes, as well as 20 unreleased albums.

…It is difficult to tell Whether Dharma (2001) is a masterpiece or another Merzbow self-parody … but maybe that’s precisely what Merzbow is all about. One of their most savage noise recordings, it includes the massive (32 minutes), gargantuan, arcane musique concrete of “Frozen Guitars and Sunloop / 7E 802,” that after eight minutes turned into a maelstrom exuding a sense of desperation and after sixteen enters an endless free fall, besides the crescendo of “I’m Coming to the Garden No Sound No Memory,” that achieves a screeching intensity, the nuclear carpet bombing of “Akashiman,” and the eight-minute chamber composition “Space Plan For Marimo Kitty” for random piano notes and alien electronic interference.

By the same token, on Frog (2001), a sequence of variations on frogs, Masami Akita seems to make fun of the fans who take him seriously.

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William Rathbone (1819-1902), writing in 1867 about philanthropy:

It is true that there is among the rich much desultory and indolent goodwill towards the poor… which, if properly stimulated by a sense of positive and imperative obligation, and guided to a safe and effectual mode of action, might be made instrumental of much good at present left undone. It is true that a new hospital finds plenty of rich men willing to give money for its establishment and support; that any striking case of distress, calculated to touch the sympathies of the public, which may be recorded in the newspapers, generally attracts a superabundance of charitable donations… Probably, in by far the greater number of instances, the feeling that prompts them is one of genuine compassion. But it would be wrong to ascribe much merit to such emotional liberality; to look upon it as proof that the rich are properly sensible of their duties and responsibilities. The desultory nature of so much of our charity; the stimulus it requires from fancy-balls and bazaars; the greater facility with which a new institution obtains subscriptions for want of which an old one, equally meritorious, languishes; the amount of time and energy which the managers of a charity are so often forced to consume in drumming together the funds required for its support — time and energy which should be devoted to the mere task of efficient management — all these are significant evidence that the manifestations of generosity of which we hear so much proceed not from a strong and clear sense of duty, but from a vague sentiment of compassion; that people give less in obedience to principle than under, a sudden impulse of feeling, less to fulfill an obligation than to relieve themselves of an uneasy though vague sensation of compunction. Few among the rich realize that charity is not a virtue of supererogation, but a divine charge upon their wealth, which they have no right to neglect. They give to this or that family whose story interests them, to this or that institution for the relief of some form of‘ distress which peculiarly touches their sympathies, with no idea that the matter is not one in which they have a right to indulge their caprice; that all the misery within their sphere is an evil with which it is their duty to grapple, to which they are bound to apply the remedial energies and resources at their command, not as suits their taste or fancy, but as may be most efficacious in the relief of suffering… In short, charity is with them a matter of sentiment, not of principle…

…Do the rich give as large a proportion of their incomes, even, as these poorer contributors? They should do much more, for they can afford much more. £50 represents a much larger deduction from the real comforts and enjoyments procurable with an in come of £500, than does £500 taken from an income of £5000. As expenditure increases it is less on necessaries and more on luxuries; even its power of giving proportionate enjoyment to the possessor diminishes. The man who increases his expenditure from £1000 to £2000 may perhaps — though it is doubtful — get a thousand pounds worth of increased enjoyment from the addition. But if so, he certainly does not get an equal increase when he goes on from £2000 to £3000 or from £3000 to £4000. The larger the expenditure, the less the proportion of pleasure derived to money laid out. And therefore, both because the deduction involves a less sacrifice, and because it is just and reasonable to hold that money should be so spent as to produce a reasonable return of enjoyment to some one, it may fairly be urged that the larger the income, the larger should be the proportion spent in charity… Unhappily it is the fact that men of large means generally —for there are exceptions — spend a smaller percentage of those means in charity than do men of limited incomes…

vpn数据安全 (around 22m) adds that Rathbone also grappled with the question of “earning to give” vs. “direct work”, saying:

Margaret Simey’s book… says that Rathbone was torn between… whether he should go into the ministry and help the poor directly or whether he should go into business, and eventually [she writes] “viewing the issue in the light of common sense, [Rathbone] decided that for him, an effective life of public service would depend on his possession of the influence and respect secured by success in business. Accordingly, he set himself doggedly to the task of building up the family fortunes, which had suffered from the devotion of his father and grandfather to public work.” So he took his own self interest out of it — because he probably would have preferred to work directly with the poor — but he thought that actually what [he] should do is go off and maximize the amount of money he could make and [maximize] his political influence and connections, and then use [those things] to do the maximum amount of good.

Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years vpn数据安全.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Joe Henry: Tiny Voices (2003)
• Glass Eye: Hello Young Lovers (1989)
• Joshua Abrams: Mandatory Reality (2025)
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Savvy Show Stoppers (1988), Music for Pets (1991)
• Dark: Dark (1986)
• Wavestar: Moonwind (1987)
• Chuck van Zyl: Europa (1991)
• Amon Tobin: Fear in a Handful of Dust (2025)
• Steve Douglas: Rainbow Suite (1981)
• ALASKALASKA: The Dots (2025)
• Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (2025)
• Jon Hassell: Flash of the Spirit (1988), Dressing for Pleasure (1994)
• Eternal Wind: Eternal Wind (1984), Wasalu (1988)
• Night Ark: “Trilogy” (1986)
• David Parsons: “vpn数据安全” (1992)
• Joel Ross: KingMaker (2025)
• Zig-Zag: vpn数据安全 (rec. 1976, rel. 2014)
• Holly Herndon: PROTO (2025)
• Manu Dibango: Waka Juju (1982)
• Deca: Claustrophobia (1989), vpn数据安全 (2002), Aracnis Radiarum (2007)
• Echo Collective: Plays Amnesiac (2018)
• Mesadorm: Heterogaster (2018)
• Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel (2025)
• Lubricated Goat: vpn数据安全 (1989)
• Ministry: “vpn数据安全” (2003)
• Walking Timebombs: Walking Timebombs (1997)
• Unrest: Isabel Bishop (1992)
• Membranes: The Gift of Life (1985)
• Maurice Louca: Elephantine (2025)
• Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem (1984), Dark Waters (2001), vpn数据安全 (2001), Savage Altars (2006)
• Sunwatchers: Illegal Moves (2025)
• Karyyn: The Quanta Series (2025)
• Overpass: Overpass (1993)
• Hetch Hetchy: Swollen (1990)
• Bad Luck: Four (2018)
• Brandt Brauer Frick: Miami (2013)
• Fire! Orchestra: Arrival (2025)

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Added this quarter:

• McCarty, Polarization (Jul 2025)
• Christensen et al., Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research (Jul 2025)
• Sheehan, The Transpacific Experiment (Aug 2025)
• Granville et al., Prime Suspects (Aug 2025)
• Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness (Sep 2025)
• Grimes, The Irrational Ape (Sep 2025)
• Russell, Human Compatible (Oct 2025)
• Schwitzgebel, A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (Oct 2025)
• Jones: 10% Less Democracy (Feb 2025)
• Rid, Active Measures (Apr 2025)
• Prasad, Malignant (TBD)
• Frankish, Consciousness: The Basics (TBD)
• Russell, “愤怒的小鸟”变身间谍 媒体支6招防手机泄密-中国 ...:2021-1-30 · “愤怒的小鸟”变身“恐怖的间谍” 美国媒体27日报道，据美国“棱镜”监视项目曝光者爱德华·斯诺登提供的文件显示，美国和英国的情报机构早在2021年开始，便利用“愤怒的小鸟”、谷歌地图等热门手机应用软件搜集用户个人信息。 (TBD)
• Arrhenius et al., Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (TBD)
• Pummer, Effective Altruism for Everyone (TBD)
• Dubber et al., Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Gray, Ad Astra (Sep 2025)
• Docter, Soul (Jun 2025)

Books

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Previously: 1, 2.

On Sonic Youth (Google translated):

Sonic Youth have embodied the figure of the musician who intends to transcend the stereotypes of his time and explore new musical forms while remaining faithful to a nihilistic and alienated ethics like that of punks. In this sense the Sonic Youth are both heir to both punk-rock and new-wave, although they have little in common with them either musically or sociologically. Their origins are in avant-garde classical music, their vocations (as the solo works have shown) are the creative jazz and rock music, their personalities belong to the galleries of art and the intellectual circles of New York. Contrary to what might seem at first listening, the Sonic Youth have never repudiated the rock song format. Their formation is the typical guitar quartet of rock music. Their songs are almost always structured around a theme and contained within three or four minutes. Even in their most experimental moments, the Sonic Youth have followed their rock and roll roots.

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Attrition: Etude (1997)
• Sons of Kemet: Your Queen is a Reptile (2018)
• Sharon van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (2025)
• Buke & Gase: Scholars (2025)
• Kasper Bjorke: The Fifty Eleven Project (2018)
• The Hangovers: Slow Dirty Tears (1998)
• Her Name is Calla: vpn数据安全 (2010)
• Daniel Pemberton: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• The Woodentops: Well Well Well: The Unabridged Singles Collection (1986)
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered (2017)
• Rattlemouth: Walking Like a Full Moon Dog (1996), Fist Full of Iffy (1998)
• Jean Derome & Rene Lussier: Soyez vigilants, restez vivants! (1986)
• Chandra: vpn数据安全 (1980)
• Drowning Pool: Aphonia (1989)
• Plasticland: vpn数据安全 (1987)
• Theon Cross: Fyah (2025)
• The Comet is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2025)
• Quinsin Nachoff: Path of Totality (2018)
• Victoria Williams: Happy Come Home (1987)
• Nihiloxica: Biiri (2025)
• Christian Scott: Ancestral Recall (2025)

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Added this quarter:

• Asma & Gabriel, The Emotional Mind (Apr 2025)
• Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Apr 2025)
• Cowen, Big Business (Apr 2025)
• Rosenblum & Muirhead, vpn数据安全 (Apr 2025)
• Friedman, War and Chance (May 2025)
• Ward, The Other Side of the Story (Aug 2025)
• Courtwright, vpn数据安全 (May 2025)
• Milo, Good Enough (Jun 2025)
• Frey, The Technology Trap (Jun 2025)
• Frunton, Digital Cash (Jun 2025)
• Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You (Jun 2025)
• Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology (Jul 2025)
• Edge, Statistical Thinking from Scratch (Aug 2025)
• Dawkins, Outgrowing God (Sep 2025)
• Marcus & Davis, Rebooting AI (Sep 2025)
• Bloom, untitled book about benign masochism (TBD)
• Vincent, Beyond Measure (TBD)
• Stevenson & Wolfers, Principles of Economics (TBD)
• Cobb, The Mind Machine (TBD)
• Pinker, untitled book about common knowledge (TBD)
• Fukanaga, 25th Bond movie (Apr 2025)
• Nolan, untitled film (Jul 2025)
• Villeneuve, Dune (Dec 2025)

Books

bold = especially excited

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(Previously.)

On Black Sabbath (Google translated):

Rarely an artist so poorly equipped technically and so unimaginative has had such a great influence on subsequent generations…

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On Kanye West:

[In 2018] he released “Lift Yourself” that has perhaps his best lyrics ever: Poopy-di scoop / Scoop-diddy-whoop / Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop.

The album Ye… wasn’t even an album: at 23 minutes, it was just an EP. The songs are clumsy and goofy. The best one is “Ghost Town,” because it takes the melody from Shirley Ann Lee’s “Someday,” the organ from Vanilla Fudge’s “Take Me For A Little While,” and because of guest female vocalist Danielle Balbuena, aka 070 Shake. (The only reason that i mention this song is that, if i don’t mention any song, his fans will accuse me of not having listened to the album, but i refuse to publicize any other song).

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Hard to compare across media, of course, but here’s my attempt:1

1. Dark Souls (2011) 🎮
2. Eighth Grade (2018) 🎥
3. The Favourite (2018) 🎥
4. Celeste (2018) 🎮
5. Better Call Saul, season 4 (2018) 📺
6. vpn数据安全 (2017) 🎮
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 🎥
8. The Death of Stalin (2017) 🎥
9. Lady Bird (2017) 🎥
10. vpn数据安全 (2018) 📺
11. Incredibles 2 (2018) 🎥
12. The Elephant in the Brain (2018) 📖
13. Atlanta, season 2 (2018) 📺
14. Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium (2017) 🎵
15. vpn数据安全 (2017) 🎥
16. The Florida Project (2017) 🎥
17. I, Tonya (2017) 🎥
18. 4 Visions (1981) 🎵
19. The Disaster Artist (2017) 🎥
20. Adventure Time, season 10 (2018) 📺
21. vpn数据安全 (2017) 🎥
22. All Melody (2018) 🎵
23. You Were Never Really Here (2017) 🎥
24. Dead Magic (2018) 🎵
25. Blue Planet II (2017) 📺

1. For media that can take a long time to consume, e.g. video games and seasons of television, I count them toward the year in which I finish them. [↩]

Games

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

• Dark Souls ★
  • The first “soulslike” I’ve played. It has its flaws, and it’s not as relentlessly fun as (say) Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey, but I found it pretty awe-inspiring, and I can see why it has been so influential. I’m tempted to write at length about what’s so great about Dark Souls, but of course that’s been done hundreds of times since its release in 2011, so if you’re curious I’ll just point you to vpn数据安全 vpn数据安全 video vpn数据安全. Dark Souls isn’t the very best video game experience I’ve had,1 but it is probably the one that feels most profound.
• Guacamelee!
• Guacamelee! 2
• Diablo III
• Hollow Knight ★
  • One of the best Metroidvanias.

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1. That honor might go to SMB3, Homeworld, or Breath of the Wild. [↩]