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Niklas Pivic

pivic@kolektiva.social

<p>I love freedom, people, music, video, and reading. I review books. At work I&#39;m a technical writer. I collect interesting web pages about AI here: <a href="https://readwise.io/reader/view/a76a9027-4900-476f-be49-7bf97646fbcd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">readwise.io/reader/view/a76a90</span><span class="invisible">27-4900-476f-be49-7bf97646fbcd</span></a></p>

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    https://reviews.pivic.com/jamie-fisher-nobody-broke-your-heart I&#39;ve reviewed what is most likely the non-fiction book of the year: Jamie Fisher&#39;s &#39;Nobody Broke Your Heart: an intimate biography of Elliott Smith&#39;. This is a book that is greater than the sum of its parts. It actually widened my thought world about Smith&#39;s music, something I can say about very few music books. Do not miss this book! Order a copy now. #book #BookReview #JamieFisher #books #reading #ElliottSmi...

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/television-see-no-evil Television free our minds. At least this kind of Television. This album influenced so many, many musicians and opened minds. It&#39;s fun, great, and makes you think. It&#39;s also super melodic and makes you want to fly. The guitars are so clean. The sound is so well-conceived and *works*, unlike so much punk/avant-garde stuff that was made in the same period as the album from where this track is taken. Yikes, this is so fucking great. #musi...

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/aesop-rock-mystery-fish Aesop Rock is a very good rapper and writer. Here&#39;s a song I love: brilliant synth intro, beats, horns, and rap. #music #MusicTips #AesopRock #rap

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    @pluralistic@mamot.fr on the AI bubble. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBubble #economy #Nvidia #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft #Oracle #Google #ElonMusk #Grok #capitalism #grift

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/tomma-intet-tidod This track has two things going: 1. It&#39;s a sweet rock song; sounds like it&#39;s made by a Californian cult that have been forced to play covers of The Radio Dept. songs. 2. It calls out the Tidö parties, the right-wing extremists of the Swedish government, in a year when Sweden is having government elections. #music #MusicTips #TommaIntet #rock #RockMusic

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    Johnny Marr playing &#39;Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me&#39;. #JohnnyMarr #guitar #TheSmiths

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    https://pivic.blog/blog/death-and-ai/ What words are there to use to describe your sorrow over your father&amp;#39;s death? Would you let AI decide what you feel? This is what a former colleague did. He let AI write memorials for his dead father. I can&amp;#39;t help but feel my former colleague is more dead than his father. I&amp;#39;m not trying to be funny. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #death

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    Google&amp;#39;s Android Developer Verification program requires government ID, signing keys, and a fee for any developer who wants their software installable on Android. The EFF calls app gatekeeping &amp;quot;a pathway to censorship.&amp;quot; over 67 organizations have signed an open letter to oppose this. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org

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    Nordic countries want nothing to do with US tech: https://proton.me/blog/nordic-alternative-us-tech-survey &amp;#39;82% of Swedish respondents believe Europe is very or extremely dependent on US technology companies, with 81% expressing concern about this dependence.&amp;#39; #tech #USA #Sweden #nordics

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    Ticketmaster and Live Nation lose antitrust trial in New York: https://apnews.com/article/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-trial-f0ffdd20dd4f64e8b4bb9d97134b826f #LiveNation #TicketMaster #monopoly #crime

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    https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4716-a-genocide-foretold Free ebook! Don&amp;#39;t snooze on this, the book is only available for free for a short while. This is &amp;#39;A Genocide Foretold&amp;#39; by Chris Hedges. It&amp;#39;s his latest book. &amp;#39;With a searing urgency, Chris Hedges brings readers face to face with Israel’s devastation of Gaza. A Genocide Foretold is a scathing denunciation of the long violence of the Zionist project and its U.S. and European backers. The writing...

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    Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border &amp;#39;In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we&amp;#39;re offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.&amp;#39; #books #reading #HaymarketBooks #ice #politics #USA @books @bookstodon

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/the-twenty-most-often-picked-criterion-closet-films Criterion do a thing called Criterion Closet where celebs come in, pick films from the Criterion collection, and talk about the films. Criterion recently posted the list of the twenty films/boxes that most often are picked from their closet. Here&amp;#39;s the list. #video #film #Criterion #CriterionCollection #cinema #list #letterboxd

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    Johnny Marr plays the acoustic guitar he used to compose &amp;#39;There Is a Light That Never Goes Out&amp;#39;. #JohnnyMarr #music #MusicTips #TheSmiths

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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/07/meta-worker-london-accused-downloading-private-facebook-images When people ask me why I don&amp;#39;t use Meta products, or those of any other surveillance-capitalist company, this is one good reason. The other good reasons are fairly well summed up by Shoshana Zuboff&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;The Age of Surveillance Capitalism&amp;#39;. &amp;#39;Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, suffered a landmark court defeat alongside Google last month after being ac...

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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/07/meta-worker-london-accused-downloading-private-facebook-images When people ask me why I don&amp;#39;t use Meta products, or those of any other surveillance-capitalist company, this is one good reason. The other good reasons are fairly well summed up by Shoshana Zuboff&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;Surveillance Capitalism&amp;#39;. &amp;#39;Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, suffered a landmark court defeat alongside Google last month after being accused of fa...

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/sunn-o-have-a-new-album-out If you&amp;#39;ve not yet heard Sunn O))), you&amp;#39;re in for a treat. #music #MusicTips #SunnO #drone #metal

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    https://sm4l4nd.bandcamp.com/album/oro-och-ltande The new album by Småland is out today. Expect synths, analogue sounds, gnarly instrumentals, little adventures. 50% of Småland is also in the Swedish due synth band Kite. Småland are on Anna von Hausswolff&amp;#39;s record label. #Småland #music #MusicTips #AnnaVonHausswolff #Kite #analogue #synth

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    https://album.link/sanaya-ardeshir-hand Big wow to this album. Brilliant musician and songwriter. &amp;#39;Hand of Thought is the first full-length release by Indian composer Sanaya Ardeshir under her own name — introducing a parallel practice that exists alongside her work as electronic producer Sandunes. The album examines matrilineality – the tracing of kinship through the female bloodline – and its manifestation as intuition and wisdom through the trans-generational currency of music and h...

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    #LoveOnTheSpectrum #Logan #GOAT

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/alessandro-cortini-live-at-slaktkyrkan-stockholm-2026-04-08 Alessandro Cortini live at Slaktkyrkan killed it yesterday. #AlessandroCortini #LiveMusic #music #MusicTips #drone #instrumental #Slaktkyrkan

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    https://amiatechbro.com/ I am not, according to the test. I agreed with 11% of tech-bro sentiments. Thank Bog. #TechBro #tech #sexism

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    https://album.link/girl-scout-brink Dreamy indie-pop rock à la Alvvays? Swedish band Girl Scout got you. #music #MusicTips #GirlScout #indie #IndieRock #Alvvays #rock #ReleaseFriday

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/girl-scout-brink The new Girl Scout album is really good. #GirlScout #music #blog #BlogPost #MusicTips

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    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/20/alice-coltrane-jazz-harpist-pianist-music-flying-lotus-cosmic-music Alice Coltrane is close to God. #AliceColtrane #music #MusicTips

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    https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/19/perplexity-apple-health-integration/ Perplexity with health-data access? What could possibly go wrong? https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ #perplexity #bullshit #health #ArtificialIntelligence

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    Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format: https://itsfoss.com/news/germany-digital-stack-mandate/ &amp;#39;Speaking on the subject, Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation, stated that: &amp;quot;This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate. Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some te...

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    https://thoughts.pivic.com/charif-megarbane-and-ali-tirakat You need to hear this extremely soulful, funky, extremely well-made and -produced album right now. Thank bog for Charif Megarbane, Ali, and Habibi Funk. #music #MusicTips #CharifMegarbane #Ali #funk #soul #HabibiFunk

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    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/24/viktor-orban-hungary-elections-global-authoritarian-right Brilliant author Gellert Tamas. I adore him for writing radiant books about humanitarianism, anti-racism, and how Sweden is changing. #GellertTamas #article #Hungary #ViktorOrban

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    Finally: Einstürzende Neubauten have revealed their new bassist!! Josefine Lukschy, last in Crashpad. #EinsturzendeNeubauten #JosefineLukschy #music