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Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown
“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY
- Do I prefer collaboration and teamwork? You bet. But... sometimes... -
- #IndieMusician #DIYMusician -

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a… | Jaap Burger
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. Thank you, Felix Hamer, for drawing attention to this recent slide from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V. The title suggests that EV charging would only cost the same as filling up a diesel or petrol car for the same distance in an 'Extremszenario…

Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown
“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

🤬 Framing social issues as 'civil rights' can sometimes backfire
#politics…

Framing social issues as 'civil rights' can sometimes backfire
Framing is a powerful tool in communications: It can help people grasp complex ideas, but it can also distort or mislead. A recent sociological study suggests that framing social issues as "civil rights" can sometimes have surprising and even negative consequences.

The proper way to do this for a blind student would surely be some kind of physical manipulatives, not verbal descriptions. The thing is, I don’t have any blind students currently, and if I did, we’d work on individual accommodation and assistance.
With this alt text, I’m just trying to get •something• in there to be at least minimally accessible: head start on those accommodation, something helpful if I ever share this online, etc. If there’s any way for text to convey the spatial relationships, that would be better than the text I have.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Sylvester:
🎵 Was It Something That I Said
#Sylvester
https://djcmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sylvester-was-it-something-that-i-said-cman-big-momma-edit

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…

US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m, Play gang breached 900 orgs, Two ViLE members sentenced, UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam, One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control, Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise, Ukraine claims hack of Russian aviation giant, much more

Our hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …