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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Will Van Horn:
🎵 Lost My Mind
#WillVanHorn
https://willvanhorn.bandcamp.com/track/lost-my-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TSJvLS7GXyhxhPVk3IQBh

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State Of Mind
#NowPlaying #JayZ #AliciaKeys
https://juanvalencia.bandcamp.com/track/jay-z-alicia-keys-empire-state-of-mind-juan-valencia-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Pixies:
🎵 Where Is My Mind?
#Pixies
https://zeddmore.bandcamp.com/track/where-is-my-mind-pixies
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wCmS9TTVUcIhRalDYFgPy

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Pixies:
🎵 Where Is My Mind?
#Pixies
https://zeddmore.bandcamp.com/track/where-is-my-mind-pixies
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wCmS9TTVUcIhRalDYFgPy

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
From Monkeys 2 Cyborgs:
🎵 Open Your Mind
#FromMonkeys2Cyborgs
https://danceopolis.bandcamp.com/track/open-your-mind

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
En Vogue:
🎵 Free Your Mind
#EnVogue
https://crackjawmusic.bandcamp.com/track/free-your-mind-en-vogue
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vG1yrWSMiL6egg6w4e9ma

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RememberingJaniceLong
Marine Girls:
🎵 On My Mind
#MarineGirls
https://thesnuggleisreal.bandcamp.com/track/on-my-mind-marine-girls-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7c920JVtbx4yrhKE799JZD

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Always On My Mind (Short Edit)
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
https://remixeshits.bandcamp.com/track/pet-shop-boys-always-on-my-mind-dj-iva-n-santana-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/10umreSPAEw9G1cJIDV8ey

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Hazel Scott:
🎵 Peace Of Mind
#HazelScott
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wjDA4nXJ7iTtMNDzvMM4q

geekery
Spent part of yesterday watching how-to videos on OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), which I have in mind to start using in conjunction with Zoom.
I'm amused at my own level of enthusiasm haha! "Ooh i could do _this_! Ooh I wanna try if _that_ works!"
"New toy" energy, and I haven't even downloaded it yet :-)
#OBS #geekery

Ars Technica author Ashley Belanger presents both consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen's position against the use of AI in toys, and toy maker Mattel's and Open AI's. Public Citizen's tone is baselessly alarmist, given that "Both companies [have] emphasized that safety, privacy, and age-appropriateness would be front of mind in designing Mattel's AI products."
"Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning 'reckless' AI social experiment on k…

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jay‐Z Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State of Mind
#JayZ AliciaKeys
https://nnmg.bandcamp.com/track/empire-state-of-mind-f-alicia-keys-prod-by-blak-jag
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

Update on my stance here: I’ve changed my mind after reading way more about #AI. Stopped using #LLM products, cancelled paid subscription to #ChatGPT and am currently exploring smaller, specialized, and open-source alternative language model solutions to keep business functioning where needed (tldr because of client requests for certain types of automation I can’t say goodbye to LMs completely).
Planning to write up how my thinking developed soon.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Writers for The Atlantic like to open Twitter and frown at it. Imagine having to live your life so performatively. Sounds exhausting.

This is one of the better articles I’ve seen on where AI might lead, trying to find a middle ground between “it’s a load of hype” and “it’s going to solve world hunger/kill us all”.
A choice quote:
Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world? “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Reading these reports back-to-back,…

Two Paths for A.I.
Joshua Rothman on two papers about the future of A.I., by deeply knowledgeable experts, which arrive at absurdly divergent conclusions about the threat the tech poses.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
The Delfonics:
🎵 Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time
#TheDelfonics
https://taliforniamusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-delfonics-didnt-i-blow-your-mind-this-time-boom-bap-remix-talifornia-music
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NeKY4qWsCnhY8fvhwQa7q

Confidence Boosts Trust-Based Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Luca Ballotta, \'Aron V\'ek\'assy, Stephanie Gil, Michal Yemini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08807

Confidence Boosts Trust-Based Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Wireless communication-based multi-robot systems open the door to cyberattacks that can disrupt safety and performance of collaborative robots. The physical channel supporting inter-robot communication offers an attractive opportunity to decouple the detection of malicious robots from task-relevant data exchange between legitimate robots. Yet, trustworthiness indications coming from physical channels are uncertain and must be handled with this in mind. In this paper, we propose a resilient prot…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Audiopharmacy:
🎵 Lose Your Mind
#Audiopharmacy
https://open.spotify.com/track/5LWuExVTeqkvKbGek7zCGE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
SPRINTS:
🎵 Literary Mind (Glastonbury 2025)
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/literary-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/0clnmlnbuEFBRijmhFQEWB

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Tame Impala:
🎵 Mind Mischief
#TameImpala
https://tomdruryy.bandcamp.com/track/mind-mischief
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ewQE1dNPv9qqlnB1CxrvM

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
SPRINTS:
🎵 Literary Mind (Glastonbury 2025)
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/literary-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZhDejrgUuIiLQx5q3RxEX

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
FloFliz & Raelle:
🎵 Peace of Mind
#FloFliz #Raelle
https://open.spotify.com/track/48feuUR56g9gBBFKjPuWBj

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pixies:
🎵 Where Is My Mind?
#Pixies
https://zeddmore.bandcamp.com/track/where-is-my-mind-pixies
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wCmS9TTVUcIhRalDYFgPy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
En Vogue:
🎵 Free Your Mind (Glastonbury 2025)
#EnVogue
https://crackjawmusic.bandcamp.com/track/free-your-mind-en-vogue
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vG1yrWSMiL6egg6w4e9ma

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cumulus:
🎵 Lose Your Mind
#Cumulus
https://cumulus.bandcamp.com/track/lose-your-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/3URvtWUI3g5UESJUR8gccd

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Tame Impala:
🎵 Mind Mischief (Live at Glastonbury 2013)
#TameImpala
https://tomdruryy.bandcamp.com/track/mind-mischief
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ewQE1dNPv9qqlnB1CxrvM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Naomi Cowan:
🎵 Peace of Mind Dub
#NaomiCowan
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rck43iGzVfKrGaAIdztWk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dash UK:
🎵 My Mind Is Blowing
#DashUK
https://dashukmusic.bandcamp.com/track/my-mind-is-blowing
https://open.spotify.com/track/373YFHUIwQ7HtdHYP1YbEm

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Iron Mind:
🎵 Solitary Realm
#IronMind
https://lastriderecords.bandcamp.com/track/solitary-realm
https://open.spotify.com/track/5sjZGEPCI5tYaxN9vPIFOW

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Andy Jenkins:
🎵 Blue Mind
#AndyJenkins
https://andyjenkins.bandcamp.com/track/blue-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KomsLcECdTXlCceenS3Be

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Montgolfier Brothers:
🎵 Even If My Mind Can't Tell You
#TheMontgolfierBrothers
https://marktranmer.bandcamp.com/track/even-if-my-mind-cant-tell-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hf5zsaOgWEa1aP1YRHn6y

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Montgolfier Brothers:
🎵 Even If My Mind Can't Tell You
#TheMontgolfierBrothers
https://marktranmer.bandcamp.com/track/even-if-my-mind-cant-tell-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hf5zsaOgWEa1aP1YRHn6y

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Lion Tamers:
🎵 Speak Your Mind
#LionTamers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fyHtSLd0iLl5kMv8kjELf