This week I finished the second part of The omnivore’s dilemma, the one about the industrial organic food system. Not much changes compared to the plain industrial food system, the main difference stands in the lack of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but the conditions of everything else, from how fields are distributed and harvested to how animals are kept stays the same, factory farms.

The funny thing about this is the history behind some of the organic agribusinesses opearting in the US, in the book Cascadian Farm is mentiontioned:

“Cascadian started as a kind of hippie commune in 1972, founded by a fellow named Gene Kahn and his friends. Like other young people at the time, Kahn had the idea of getting back to the land and changing the American food system. Today Cascadian is owned by General Mills, and Kahn is a General Mills vice president. Cascadian doesn’t even grow its own food anymore. Instead the company buys produce from large (organic) industrial farms, many of them monocultures.”

(Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma)

It seems like you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

[video] I Learned Portuguese in 7 Days – Part 1 (My Method)

An accelerated language learning experiment done by Nathaniel Drew, this is not the first time he has attempted becoming conversational in a new language in a week as he already has done so with italian. I find this method extremely interesting as he has succedded both times.

I have been trying to learn norwegian using duolingo (I think I had a streak of over a year in two different opportunities) but I became bored with it, without input other than where you are learning it becomes monotonous and it’s easy to lose your motivation. I would like to try something like this to fast track my norwegian in the future, maybe writing this here serves as an incentive.

[music] [youtube] [bandcamp] nano神社 (✪㉨✪) - SEGAS II

This album has no chill, all songs are the perfect blend of funky samples and glitched out ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ.

Sometimes one isn’t capable of understand human ingenuity until listening to something like this, vaporwave is a genre built on pushing the limits of what is considered music, and this is a perfect example of that concept. It may hit you when you are investend in a groove and then it breaks unexpectedly or when trying to predict what comes next just to be surprised by another sound glitch.

My favoutire track form this album, the one that made me discover nano神社 (✪㉨✪) is Day after day after day, a piece that can’t be unheard.