@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-26 21:00:14
discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 16:20:32
California Gov. Gavin Newsom finally confirms his 2028 presidential ambitions (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/us-news/gavin-newsom-finally-confirms-2028-presidential-ambitions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p26#a251026p26
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-27 07:35:46
As inference splits into prefill and decode, Nvidia's Groq deal could enable a "Rubin SRAM" variant optimized for ultra-low latency agentic reasoning workloads (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2004562536918598000
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-27 00:16:43
Trump has officially given up on any semblance of attempting actual governance
and moved to pure man-baby-without-a-nap tantrum mode.
His latest “countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence” memorandum is basically him screaming
“EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE ME IS A TERRORIST!” in official government letterhead
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-27 06:31:04
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-26 17:29:45
“I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money, we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses,” Duffy said"
Trump official drops explosive threat against California: 'We have the option' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gavin-newsom-2674234143/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-25 02:20:43
Sources: music mogul David Geffen would net $500M in profit before taxes from a WBD sale at $25 per share; Geffen had bought ~30M shares at $7 to $8 per share (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/musi…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-27 03:00:46
Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-27 05:01:03
discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 21:40:35
Newsom Says He Will Consider a 2028 Presidential Run After the Midterms (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/gavin-newsom-2028-race.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p51#a251026p51