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Why Sing In A Choir?
#singing #community
https://muz4now.com/2025/why-sing-in-a-cho…

Why Sing In A Choir?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

We’ve Long Known That Music Eases Pain. Now, Science Is Proving It.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/how-music-eases-pain/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music

We've Long Known That Music Eases Pain. Now, Science Is Proving It.
Listening to music can be a welcome distraction. But for people suffering from a wide range of medical conditions, its effects go much deeper.

Audience Optimization - 4 Ways to Increase Streaming Royalties
#MusicianTips #UnsignedMusician

Audience Optimization - 4 Ways to Increase Streaming Royalties
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

#Choir #Singing - Why Sing In A Choir? https://

Why Sing In A Choir?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/singer…

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising – The Creative Independent
Singer-songwriter Nemahsis discusses breaking through despite hardships, freedom of expression, and the power of building a genuine community online

Yesterday I got for myself the #book "The Ecology of Freedom" (a Spanish translation, I quite liked this particular edition ).
#books

Startup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"

Why C#?
I might have been skeptical if someone had told me years ago that C# would become my programming language of choice for most projects.

Greener Grass
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/greener-grass

Greener Grass #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Free Eddie Van Halen mini-documentary explores the origins of Eruption and his two-hand tapping technique – and it’s partly narrated by the man himself
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitar

Free Eddie Van Halen mini-documentary explores the origins of Eruption and his two-hand tapping technique – and it’s partly narrated by the man himself
The latest in-depth documentary from Simon Alkin focuses on the talent behind Eruption – a song that changed the guitar world forever

🍿 #Tesla #boycottTesla #boycottMusk

Quanta Magazine authors Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz strike up a conversation with Ellie Pavlick (Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind) about the differences and similarities between the way people understand language, what NLP algorithms do, and the fact that such conversations more often than not shed light into more than Linguistics' computational side.
"Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?"

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

from #muz4now - Cold Vocal Comping - Scratchy, Shaky Good Sounds https://muz4now.com/2025/c…

Cold Vocal Comping - Scratchy, Shaky Good Sounds
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Grief Suite
- #grief is a varied experience and a strange #inspiration -
#NowPlaying

Grief Suite #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Dream This #DreamThis https://bandcamp.com/muz4now/playlist/dream-this

Dream This by Stan Stewart (aka…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-demian-licht-on-learning-to…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

Medium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

Grassroots - summertime is music festival time
#grassroots #MusicFestival
https://

Grassroots - summertime is music festival time
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Arturia’s V Collection 11 Pro almost made me forget I had other plugins
https://musictech.com/reviews/software-instruments/arturia-v-collection-11-pro-review/?utm_source=f…

Arturia’s V Collection 11 Pro almost made me forget I had other plugins
The newest edition of Arturia’s category-leading V Collection leans further than ever into the developer’s original designs— does it pay off?

There is a new #Fediverse bot that facilitates web forensic analysis of websites.
You can submit a domain for crawling by messaging @…, and it will respond with the analysis results.

Lookyloo
Lookyloo captures websites and let you investigate them.

Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/04/19/protest-resist-trump-rally-photos/83173515007/
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Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
Nationwide protests were held Saturday, with thousands of demonstrators rallying against the actions of President Donald Trump's administration.

Project Espresso alpha now available
"We are excited to announce that Project Espresso, our project to port Adélie Linux to the Wii U console, has just released alpha repositories. We will be providing root images for SD cards in the coming days. For more information, including links to the repositories and how to set up your existing install to use these binaries, see the linked blog post. Happy computing!"

How to Get Loud and Clear Mixes in Your Home Studio https://www.levelsmusicproduction.com/blog/how-to-get-loud-and-clear-mixes-…

How to Get Loud and Clear Mixes in Your Home Studio
Learn how to get loud, clear, and professional-sounding mixes in your home studio with these 5 essential tips on balance, EQ, compression, referencing, and mastering.

終於還是栽進了複式簿記世界－今天不寫程式，我們進入會計宇宙認識複式簿記，也是寫會計系統的必要先修課。
https://editor.leonh.space/2022/double-entry/

全世界最簡單的複式簿記基礎 | 六小編 Editor Leon
終於還是栽進了複式簿記世界－今天不寫程式，我們進入會計宇宙認識複式簿記，也是寫會計系統的必要先修課。

Oh, gut dass ich nicht bei der Bank mein Konto habe:
#Banking …

KI-Banking: DKB kooperiert mit OpenAI
Die Deutsche Kreditbank will dank einer Kooperation mit OpenAI eine Vorreiterstellung beim KI-Banking einnehmen. Erste Projekte wurden benannt.

Solopreneurs - choosing your web presence https://muz4now.com/2023/solopreneurs-choosing-your-web-presence/

Solopreneurs - choosing your web presence
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

#harvard
https://www.theindex.media/harvard-didnt-blink-the-fight-starts-here/
say it how it is, call

Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.
Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.

Don't forget! In vulnerability-lookup, you can quickly identify sighted vulnerabilities that are not yet published or are scheduled for publication soon (highlighted in yellow in the screenshot).
This example is interesting, a pre-publication on GitHub Gist before the official CVE release.
https://

CVE-2024-42844 public reference
CVE-2024-42844 public reference. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

#harvard Very nice comments at the #nytimes who mend wrath with high literacy:
"Trump and the ignorant like him have always wanted (...) As they rest in the shallow, dirty bathwater of their reactionary, time-worn bigotries, misconceptions, and lies they tell to explain their bitterness a…

Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump
The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

Jetzt Mitunterzeichnen gegen den Normalisierungskurs von Jens Spahn gegen die AfD:
https://aktion.campact.de/s/afd/lc

Mach jetzt mit: Keine Macht für die AfD im Bundestag!
Friedrich Merz (CDU) will der rechtsextremen AfD wichtige Chefposten überlassen. Das muss die SPD verhindern.

Trumps Regime nicht "Faschismus" nennen ist Realitätsverweigerung - Volksverpetzer
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/trumps-faschismus-nennen/

Trumps Regime nicht "Faschismus" nennen ist Realitätsverweigerung
Unter Experten ist die Debatte, ob Trumps Bewegung "Faschismus" ist, inzwischen vorbei. Unsere Medien sollten die Dinge beim Namen nennen. Die Historikerin Annika Brockschmidt listet etliche Kennzeichen von Faschismus auf, und wie sie auf Trump zutreffen.

No dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"

Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!
Free add-in bringing a complete dark theme to SSMS.

8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

PVS Studio author Valerii Filatov dives deep into the past twenty-six years of C# history: from the humble beginnings of version 1.0 to present-day C# 13.
"History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI"
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/1248/

History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI
C# is a popular programming language leveraged to develop apps, web services, and games. Let′s take a peek at the tangled history of its evolution from version to version and explore the different...

How it's started /
How it's going
Sosu.
by ズヴィーン/zveen(#art

#ファプタ 攻撃と防御モード - ズヴィーン/zveenのイラスト - pixiv
2024

Quanta Magazine Staff Writer Yasemin Saplakoglu describes the various ongoing inter-disciplinary efforts to advance our scientific understanding of the Human brain. Computer scientists and computational neuroscientists collaborate as the latter borrow mathematical models from the former, and studies ways to incorporate new biological data to enhance, or supplant existing computational models.
"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That's OK."

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.

#España vuelve a legalizar la caza del #lobo con los votos de partidos de derechas #loboiberico #ecologismo #proteccionanimal #proteccionambiental #proteccionbosques

**[Цей і наступні пости викладаються тут для архівних цілей, майже в тому вигляді, який вони мали в оригіналі]**
Не знаю, на скільки мене вистачить, але тримайте.
Дрезден Кодак - "Темна Наука (https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/)"…

Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie - Dresden Codak
So this is page one of a new series that will be going on in Dresden Codak! Page 2 will be up next week.