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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-15 20:09:29

I've just had the misfortune of reading yet another smug, somewhat revered book "explaining" music, this time with all the same problems as most of the others.
It tricked me with its title: 'Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination'.
Some choice excerpts:
"Composers working with [non-Western] scales must labor harder to devise deep musical relations, their melodies will prosper more by contour than harmony, and ultimately…

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-12-14 14:32:23

From RI State senator Sam Zurier:

For now, however, my thoughts turn to Herman Melville’s Civil War poem, “On The Slain Collegians.” Though written in a different time and in a different historical moment, Melville captures some of what I feel today in these concluding lines: The anguish of maternal hearts Must search for balm divine; But well the striplings bore their fated parts (The heavens all parts assign)— Never felt life's care or cloy. Each bloomed and died an unabated Boy; Nor dreamed what death was—thought …
@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 15:59:45

RE: mastodon.social/@climatenewsno
climate solutions are often co-beneficial! Many people think that solving climate change will involve some kind of suffering as penance for our sins of harming our world but actually the…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-12-10 16:14:35

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
theguardian.com/environment/20

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-12-10 16:14:35

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
theguardian.com/environment/20

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-11-09 16:31:33

2000 is less than half of the 5k Berzelius Windrip promises in „It can't happen here“ by Sinclair Lewis from 1935, but apart from that the plot is still identical. And scary
journa.host/@w7voa/11552007575

Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” announces President Trump in a Sunday morning social media post.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-25 18:39:14

Steelers rule out LT Jones, DE Harmon vs. Bills espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/470975

Steelers rule out LT Broderick Jones, DE Derrick Harmon vs. Bills - ESPN
The Steelers will be without two starters in left tackle Broderick Jones and defensive tackle Derrick Harmon for Sunday's game against the Bills, coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday.

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-17 13:38:09

Nice article about the importance of connecting data, harmony without orchestration of millions of small flexible energy actions, inspired by a post of mine.
nemlog.substack.com/p/sustaina

Sustainability Will Not Be Commanded; It Will Be Coded
How smarter signals, flexible habits, and open systems could turn energy abundance into everyday opportunity

@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-04 16:47:59

The Chevy Chase documentary really gets details wrong about his time and firing from Community.
It claims that Chevy refused to return to Community without Dan Harmon. In reality Dan was fired at the end of season 3 while Chevy kept going until he got fired during season four.
It also claims that Chevy was angry about some lines Dan wrote for him when he had the outburst that got him fired. Dan simply wasn't there.
Outside the doc I've seen him quoted as having been…