The European Broadcasting Union says it is tightening Eurovision's voting rules to limit the influence of governments on the public poll that decides the winner (Lynsey Chutel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/music/eurovision-votin…
"Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74"
I always quite liked his music, even if it is outside my usual bubble.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-d…
"…poll in April showed a majority of Americans suddenly wanted to restrict that presidency in ways they hadn’t before…percentage who said a president has 'too much' power rose from 32% last year (under Biden) all the way up to 54% (under Trump)."
"All of which suggests Americans-or at least a majority of them-see something extraordinary happening right now."
"Republicans…try to diminish… 'No Kings' rallies…something that’s very real to l…
OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/openai-atlas-new-ai-web-browser-release-date
Auf Besuch zu Hause, im Radio läuft BR 1 – also biederes Regionalprogramm. Und natürlich auch mit der passenden Musikauswahl für die Zielgruppe – genauer gesagt Guns'n'Roses und Oldies. Sowas lief in meiner Jugend allenfalls auf BR 3¹, während auf BR 1 Heintje und Heino mit Nicole um die Wette sangen.
Die rebellische Musik von damals ist konservativ und bieder geworden²…
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¹bei Gottschalk und Jauch
²das gilt auch für Gottschalk und Jauch
Christopher Walken and Bugs Bunny https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/christopher-walken-and-bugs-bunny
Makes me almost glad to have outlived all of my elderly family… https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115600998838282974
r-process nucleosynthesis with ab initio nuclear masses around the N=82 shell closure
Jan Kuske, Takayuki Miyagi, Almudena Arcones, Achim Schwenk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19131
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…