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Galantis Is Throwing a Midsommar-Themed Concert at Red Rocks

Galantis is set to bring a touch of folkloric terror to Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with a Midsommar-themed concert, the DJ announced today.

Midsommar is a traditional Swedish festival celebrating the summer solstice by virtue of vibrant communal gatherings with maypole dancing, feasting and Scandinavian folk music. Often associated with pagan roots, it symbolizes renewal and community, though its depiction in Ari Aster’s spine-chilling 2019 horror film of the same name casts a darker, fictionalized lens on the rituals.

Billed as “Midsommar: All Hallows,” Galantis’ upcoming show nods to Aster’s daylight nightmare, which had viewers rethinking floral crowns and European vacations. Scheduled for November 1st, the one-night-only event promises to blend the Swedish EDM powerhouse’s anthemic beats with eerie festival aesthetics—minus the bear carcasses and human sacrifices, we hope.

It’s the latest in a series Galantis had traditionally presented at the Brooklyn Mirage, attracting over 40,000 fans at eight sold-out shows over the course of the last four years. He’ll now head to Red Rocks, where the venue’s towering monoliths and natural amphitheater setting will provide quite a backdrop for what he describes as “the crazy Midsommar spirit.”

While he hasn’t specified if attendees should wear white gowns or bring emotional baggage like Florence Pugh’s character in the horror film, a press release promises a “dreamlike sensorial experience.”

“This event means the world to me, I couldn’t be happier to bring the crazy Midsommar spirit to one of the most iconic venues, Red Rocks,” said Galantis, who also encouraged fans to rock their best costumes.”‘Midsommar: All Hallows’ will be a night to remember.”

The night will also feature DJ sets by Dillon Francis and Forester prior to Galantis. You can check out a teaser below and purchase tickets here.

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Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.

In 2021, Facebook said it was scrapping efforts to build powerful facial recognition software into its then-nascent smart glasses, citing the tech’s glaring privacy and ethics concerns.

Four years later, as The Information reports, the Silicon Valley behemoth has officially dusted off the effort and is once again working on transforming its wearable smart glasses into a facial recognition-infused privacy nightmare.

Meta is working on a feature internally referred to as “super sensing.” In super sensing mode, the glasses’ built-in cameras and sensors will remain on and recording throughout the wearer’s day. It’s still probably a way’s off due to battery life limitations, but in Meta’s imagining, it’ll one day be able to do things like remind someone to drop by the store and get dinner ingredients or nudge them to grab their keys. (Because, of course, every Silicon Valley CEO really just wants to build J.A.R.V.I.S. from the “Iron Man” franchise.)

However, the super sensing feature would also combine AI with facial recognition, according to the Information — a design choice that could have far-reaching and deeply alarming implications.

Infusing facial recognition and AI into smart glasses could help you look up the LinkedIn heads you ran into at a networking event, or keep track of your roommates or family. Which — while annoying and creepy — are arguably a bit more mundane in the grand scheme of facial recognition applications.

But the nightmare scenarios are endless. A wearer could dox strangers on the street; a creep in a bar could look up the name and personal information of a woman who may or may not have wanted to talk to him; undercover law enforcement officials could go to a peaceful protest and keep a careful record of attendees.

It’s not exactly hard to come up with ways this could go wrong, fast — and yet Meta, it seems, has decided to push forward.

According to the report, Meta’s renewed facial recognition efforts are due in part to a more surveillance-friendly political climate where privacy concerns are increasingly taking a backseat in corporate and federal government decision-making.

“The pendulum swings from one side to the other,” Rob Leathern, a privacy expert and former product manager at Facebook and Google, told The Information. “We’re kind of on that swing where some of the things that companies like Google talked about two, three, four years ago aren’t necessarily being seen as quite as important.”

More on Meta’s smart glasses and facial recognition: Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

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