Morning Comrades! As per usual we are kicking off our start to the week with some new tunes and what a damn playlist this one is. I have no idea what really happened last week, all I know is that it was full but somehow I managed to float in between a load of tunes I had not heard before - and it shows. There is a lot of new music in here, to me anyhow and that always gets me excited. I am not going to give away too much here but that first track alone sets the mood nicely.
Yeah. Friday. Bucket Hats. Swim Short. Acid Wash / Tie Dye Shirts. Plus a Limited Colour Variation. Stay Tuned.
The big one from the weekend that truly didn’t make any of the mainstream news at this end is some serious dystopian, black mirror shit from the cool-aid bastards at Apple. Apple announced a trio of new child safety features for its platforms. New communications tools will use on-device machine learnings to scan Messages for sensitive content sent between children, and new Siri and Search updates will help children and parents "if they encounter unsafe situations", and will intervene when users try to search for topics related to Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAM). Perhaps the biggest change, and the one proving the most divisive, is plans to use new cryptography applications to detect CSAM images in iCloud photos, from Apple:
To help address this, new technology in iOS and iPadOS* will allow Apple to detect known CSAM images stored in iCloud Photos. This will enable Apple to report these instances to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC acts as a comprehensive reporting center for CSAM and works in collaboration with law enforcement agencies across the United States.
On surface level, yes, this makes sense, but, and yes there is always a but:
Obviously, some serious concerns and to make matters worse, a leaked memo from Apple obviously gives us an insight into what they’re really thinking. None, and I mean NOTHING coming out of Silicon Valley is for the betterment of society, but only for control, manipulation and getting insanely rich.
It’s wild that this was the norm post 9/11. It’s been 2 decades of insanity, war, murder and brainwashing since then.
Getting to the rest, but first that playlist. Aces, especially with that Fliehende Stürme