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The world is against the Kremlin! A big turn for Ukraine. The rules of the game are changing: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/the-world-is-against-the.html

We are not always discovering high mountains - sometimes we also go below earth. 😄
Here we went ~55m below the surface to see what the world below our feet looks like. And yes, the stairs were as steep as they appear on the #photo! The whole walk took us about an hour.
more about it:

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/10/the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlis…

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist - 'Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly
Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly

Went out to see Stewart Lee doing his "Man Wulf" show at the Royal Festival hall.
Huge place. Ginormous! Easily the biggest place I've ever seen him perform.
He mocks the 60 million dollar netflix special offensive comedians doing their skits about how they're not allowed to say stuff, while actually saying the stuff they say you're not allowed to say and suffering nothing but millions of dollars for it.
There are things you're *actually* not allowed to say this month of course. But they will not say the things that can get you 14 years in jail: like pointing out the government's collaboration in a genocide and supporting those who oppose it.
The man wulf just mocks the weak instead.
And Stew does too, while by mocking the wolf inside him showing he could be them. Sort of. Only he can't, because even though it's enjoyable and funny and easy to deconstruct, it's still fundamentally inane.
Stew's voice and accents and singing and impersonations have improved considerably!
Great costume. See the show if you can.
#stewartLee #comedy #london

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting
– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists
– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.
The Swedis…

"Largest turtle nest in the world revealed in drone study"
#Turtles #Animals
https://

Hey Tenno, if you feel the weight of the Orokin legacy, boost this to spread the word across the Fediverse! If you enjoy Warframe and love the Fediverse, check out:
- https://video.sidh.bzh/c/warframe/videos
- @…

"The difference between us and MAGA is they rally behind their choice no matter what, while we’re busy policing each other as MAGA works to take over the world and take away the rights of the poor, queer folk, women & minorities."
From: @…

Andy Neal (@andyfilmsandhikes) on Threads
Dear fellow liberals, there is no perfect candidate. Every one of them has flaws, moments they regret, policies you may strongly oppose. The difference between us and MAGA is they rally behind their choice no matter what, while we’re busy policing each other as MAGA works to take over the world and take away the rights of the poor, queer folk, women & minorities… we can have those discussions amongst ourselves but right now we’re fighting against authoritarianism...& they’re flooding…

The world is waiting – The day of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska | Wrap-Up Weekly: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/the-world-is-waiting-the.html

Study reveals the extent to which nanoplastic pollutes the North Atlantic #Atlantic

Study reveals the extent to which nanoplastic pollutes the North Atlantic
Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris such as nets and bags or mistake smaller pieces for food. Ingested plastic can block or injure the gastrointestinal tract. The smallest plastic particles in the micro and nano range are mostly excreted, but a small proportion can pass through the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream.

World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet contrasts with the Trump sons' complaints about being "debanked", the issue they said inspired the project (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-92/

Issue 92 – The scam of all scams
The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

In the Not-News Department: Some people are really slow.
World leaders, moguls and even journalists have realized that to deal with the president, they must speak glowingly. Duh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/trump-art-of-the-fawn-praise

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/

The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

Oh, interesting. After two days and two nights powered down in the cradle, on the third day it is risen!
Strange.
Maybe whatever controls the charging can drain from the battery even when it's at zero until even that bit of battery is also at zero and then that forces the firmware controlling the charging to reset?
Anyway. It seems to be alive again and now starts charging when put in the cradle properly.
So I guess it's back!

#pineTime #smartWatch

For years, every road trip we took began with the same song. It's been a while since we've listened to it right out of the gates, but the feeling's still there.
The Clash, "London Calling" (1979)
https://youtu.be/LC2WpBcdM_A

"“Day science is the executive part. You have the idea and to test it, you do controlled experiments,” says Yanai. “Night science is the world of creativity, the world of ideas"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01913-3

Vortrags-Video: "[Public] Library social media in a post-twitter world" by Ned Potter: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/new-video-library-social-media-in-a-post-twitter-world
für wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken gibts ein Pendant hier: …

Today’s Sesame Street episode is brought to you by the letter X, the platform that cannot be trusted…
…and is also brought to you by the number 2, for 2-factor-authentication and the word “cybersecurity!”
Remember kids, never give an elongated muskrat access to your brand identity!

MSN

Does the tale of ye olde black mirror not weigh on thy conscience?
https://youtu.be/7fNYj0EXxMs

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

Twice-Told Tales: 192 Top Retellings That Readers Love #amreading #books
https://www.

Twice-Told Tales: 192 Top Retellings That Readers Love
Did you know that the year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen? Goodreads regulars in the U.K. can tell you—out in the Engli...

This time of year I put a small tray outside with oatmeal and currants (over which I have poured a bit of hot water, such that the oats stick together a bit). Starlings come in droves with their fledglings, and feed the chicks from the tray.
Today I noticed an adult rook and a juvenile sitting together on the wall, watching the starlings feed.
Rooks live a long time and are intelligent, and observation is how they study the world!

TPTP World Infrastructure for Non-classical Logics
Alexander Steen, Geoff Sutcliffe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09318

TPTP World Infrastructure for Non-classical Logics
The TPTP World is the well established infrastructure that supports research, development, and deployment of Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) systems. The TPTP World supports a range of classical logics, and since release v9.0.0 has supported non-classical logics. This paper provides a self-contained comprehensive overview of the TPTP World infrastructure for ATP in non-classical logics: the non-classical language extension, problems and solutions, and tool support. A detailed description of use…

Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-gold-club-world-cup-trophy-for-himself-so-fifa-had-to-give-the-winners-a-replica/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p101#a250714p101

Honestly we should invent a system of notifications that works good but that isn’t invasive enough to make you unwilling open a notification that arrives while your finger is just traveling to the screen to press a button on the top of an app.

🍻 F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world
#racing

F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world
Changeable conditions usually make for exciting races, but 2025 was a bit dull.

After having looked at eIDAS and the dutch implementation of digital identity, it is very interesting to read this paper, a proposal that tries to improve on various aspects from eiDAS.
"An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185

An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of failure and control are ideal targets for global attacks on technical, organizational, or legal fronts. We design, analyze, and build a distributed digital identity architecture for physical world transactions in common scenarios like unlocking doors, public t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
#REM
https://mototembo.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-moto-tembo-edits
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ7QtIKTNFfA08Cy0ku

Fascinating article, from the island of Seil:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/biology-mycorrhizal-fungi-map-restoring-world-forests

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. On Monday, NASA announced it would not host the National Climate Assessments, reversing earlier plans. These reports detail climate impacts across the U.S. and were previously available on government websites that went offline earlier this month. NASA stated it has no legal obligation to host the data. Critics, including scientists, accuse the administration of trying to …

THIS!!!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/trump-art-of-the-fawn-praise?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Fascinating. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception

Am honest opinion of 2 Chinese factories.
(The presenter is one of the top woodworking channels on YouTube.)
https://youtu.be/t2TfbN3v8h8

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/uk-data-breach-afghan.html
U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach

U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach
After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.

I am very happy to announce that our big architecture paper for the Digidow project on distributed digital identity systems with biometric authentication for physical interaction is now online on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185.
While it can't have all the details, it summarizes the main de…

An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of failure and control are ideal targets for global attacks on technical, organizational, or legal fronts. We design, analyze, and build a distributed digital identity architecture for physical world transactions in common scenarios like unlocking doors, public t…

Or the unstoppable push to fix the world's problems caused by too much technology ruining the planet by adding more technology.
https://graeber.social/@DGI/114851811908059173

"The president reportedly called up influential right-wing media personalities and asked them to pull back on their criticism of Pam Bondi amid the continued uproar over the Epstein memo"
Charlie Kirk says ‘I’m done talking about Epstein’ after Trump called him over weekend | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html

The AI Language Proficiency Monitor -- Tracking the Progress of LLMs on Multilingual Benchmarks
David Pomerenke, Jonas Nothnagel, Simon Ostermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08538 …

The AI Language Proficiency Monitor -- Tracking the Progress of LLMs on Multilingual Benchmarks
To ensure equitable access to the benefits of large language models (LLMs), it is essential to evaluate their capabilities across the world's languages. We introduce the AI Language Proficiency Monitor, a comprehensive multilingual benchmark that systematically assesses LLM performance across up to 200 languages, with a particular focus on low-resource languages. Our benchmark aggregates diverse tasks including translation, question answering, math, and reasoning, using datasets such as FLORES+…

I think the view from 10,000 feet for me is that all tech tries to interpose itself between two human beings and then extract value. Whether it's Uber, Airbnb, social media or Vision Pro/smart glasses and now earbuds.
Once a tech company is the filter through which we sense the world it's a next level amount of power that they will have over us.
The next thing will be that Apple thinks they deserve a 30% cut of that sale that you made with the local merchant.

The stranger in “Wayfaring” unmasked
Who is the "stranger" in this song? Why is that important now?
#BeBetter #CreativeProcess

The stranger in "Wayfaring" unmasked
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"If the world followed the Tao, Apple would make the hardware, Microsoft would make the developer tools, and everything would run under QNX. Alas, QNX has been bought by BlackBerry, Microsoft makes operating systems and Apple makes developer tools."
https://akos.ma/blog/the-tao-of-swift/…

The Tao of Swift
I gave this talk in September 2014, in Zürich, the same day Apple announced the Apple Watch.

Last weekend the Defa Film Library started a virtual festival titled "The Colorful World of DEFA Animation: A Short History". Throughout July and August every few days a anther example of East German animated film will go online. The overall streaming link on the website is good from now until the end of August.
https://www.

"""
But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

@…
I don't know if you're already aware of this but they have full episodes of all 12 seasons of Welcome to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on YouTube.
https://www.

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
Welcome to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown YouTube Channel. Watch weekly videos from Chef Anthony Bourdain's travels of the world to discover little-known parts of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and culinary rituals. Subscribe to discover all of Anthony Bourdain's adventures around the world: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffagYQTThJx4N55UKdr5ew?Sub_confirmation=1

Rhoda Dakar - "The Man Who Sold The World" (2022)
So many good versions of this song. This one has been in heavy rotation on my iTunes lately.
Such a jaunty, classy version by one of the great voices of the 2nd wave ska era. Still going strong.
#music #covers

Trump believes that the war in Ukraine is distracting the world from the real threat #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/trump-believes-that-the-war.html

Been to the hospital. They are pleased with the progress of the bone healing but I guess not so pleased they will take off the cast and let me drive.
They have replaced it with a cleaner smaller sleeker much bluer one but expect this one to stay on for four more weeks.
😦
There goes the rest of the summer's plans.

"How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis"
#Pastic #Plastics #Pollution

How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis
With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: harnessing the natural abilities of certain bacteria and fungi to break down plastics in ways that current technologies cannot.

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differenti…

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

A song I think of every time I hear about major flooding from summer storms (as in #Montreal yesterday). The studio version's good, the live one's better.
Blue Meanies, "Pave the World" (live, 1998)
https://youtu.be/bTiRP8qZmUI

Put the Q In Jazz
Real instruments. Real players.
#NoAI #jazz #NowPlaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Is there like a zigbee (or anything that works with home-assistant) device that can connect/disconnect a HDMI cable (4k, etc)? Even better if it’s also a HDMI switch, but just being able to disable the connection without physically removing the cable when my TV is off would be good enough

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Stylistics:
🎵 People Make the World Go Round
#TheStylistics
https://astralblak.bandcamp.com/track/the-stylistics-people-make-the-world-go-round-ft-troy-williams
https://open.spotify.com/track/6u5DJLTMuHgKqxdtjAWnWP

#Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām (الشَّام) and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ Madīnat al-Yāsmīn).
Damascus is a major cultural centre of the Levant and the Arab world.

After the meeting friday between Trump and Putin we will know whether the frantic diplomatic activity was succesful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-…

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Frantic Week of Diplomacy by Ukraine
Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.

Watching @… describe the corrosive, repellent and repugnant behavior of the USA, and the need for the rest of the world to work together to stop potus.
https://youtu.be/x7gbjs9…

About three-quarters of fungi are “dark taxa” – species known only by their DNA sequence, as physical specimens have not been found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/biology-mycorrhizal-fungi-map-restoring-world-fore…

🌌 The World’s Largest Camera Captures 10 Million Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids in First Photos
https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-worlds-largest-camera-captures-10-million-galaxies-discovers-2104-astero…

The World's Largest Camera's First Photo: 5 Gigapixels Showing 10 Million Galaxies
One of humanity's greatest achievements.

Tracking The Toughest of All - Singing Vulnerability
#singing #vulnerability
https://muz…

Tracking The Toughest of All - Singing Vulnerability
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Counterintelligence and long-range weapons: the world against Russia | Front Line with @StarskyUA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/counterintelligence-and-longrange-weapons-the.html

The question of who will succeed the Dalai Lama remains important.
But perhaps the more pressing question is:
how can each of us carry forward his legacy?
The answer, I believe, lies not in politics, power, or headlines.
It lies in compassion. In action. In choosing kindness, again and again.

Who Will Succeed The Dalai Lama? - The Dalai Lama Turns 90
As the Dalai Lama turns 90, his legacy of compassion and humility invites us all to carry his teachings forward in a divided world.

How Google's Jigsaw and longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

Google And Pollster Scott Rasmussen Will Use AI To Survey Americans’ Political Views
A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it works, it could upend the fraught world of political polling.

A few words on music festivals (from the audience perspective)
#MusicFestival #LiveMusic
https:…

A few words on music festivals (from the audience perspective)
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Woah the mobile webui of mastodon (or chuckya?) changed, it’s so much better now!!

Had a nice time in Greenwich park with friends though. That view of the city from the hill there is magnificent. Lovely park, great observatory.

from #muz4now - Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes https://muz4now.com/2025/clouds-and-more-from-the-finger-lakes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&u…

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Polish and allied aircraft have been deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace
because of a threat of drone strikes in neighbouring areas of Ukraine,
and the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed, authorities have said.
The alert on Saturday lasted about two hours.
On Wednesday multiple Russian drones had crossed into Poland,
prompting Nato to send fighter jets to shoot them down,
underlining long-held concerns about the …

Spam account applications increasing. Easy to tell on our server coz nobody is really allowed unless we already know them, and the spam accounts never even try to mention an existing user.
Must be hard to tell for those with more open instances though.
I'm a creative thinker who enjoys exploring quirky, fun, and offbeat
communities. Boing.world caught my attention for its unique vibe, and I’d love
to join to connect with others who appreciate humor, creativity, and
unconventional conversation in a welcoming and playful environment.

Early Summer Images In The Finger Lakes https://muz4now.com/2021/early-summer-images-in-the-finger-lakes/

Early Summer Images In The Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

“Ukraine's victory is a chance for the world to return to values” – Zhadan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-victory-is-a-chance.html

Hey Netflix, I'm never going to install a mobile phone game from an advert on your header. Never. I never install ANY mobile phone games. They are all trash.
Fed up with it all. Added block-rules for the headers of the netflix page.
Now it's just a black empty background.
This is on you Netflix.

Orwell was literally a peniless immigrant in France.
It's all there in "Down and Out in Paris and London".
It taught him empathy for the poor, who he wrote about as human beings.
This is the antidote to the xenophobia that was being pedalled in London today.
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Pain Chain and Releasing the Brain
- changing the stories our bodies tell us -
#health #MentalHealth
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Pain Chain and Releasing the Brain
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
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Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

Making Time For Yourself When the Calendar Is Full https://muz4now.com/2021/making-time-for-yourself-when-the-calendar-is-full/

Making Time For Yourself When the Calendar Is Full
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Trump has promoted his private businesses in unprecedented ways for a sitting president, presenting conflicts of interest.
His ventures into crypto, in particular, have drawn scrutiny because he has simultaneously moved to create a more friendly regulatory environment for the industry. 
The $57 million from his stake in the crypto firm World Liberty Financial came from the sale of digital tokens.
That provides a glimpse into Trump’s earnings from cryptocurrency ventures t…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/a-chat-with-the-unmute-disabled-artist-roster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster - Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians
Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians

Be (5) Yourself
An album featuring the sounds of the Hammond B3
#B3 #HammondB3 #NowPlaying

Be (5) Yourself #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

If you enjoy the sound of #saxophone played well, check out the new album from Richard Davies - here's my review - along with 2 other #UnsignedMusicians

David, Richard, and Will - 3 Recording Musicians
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations
#creativity
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Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations – The Creative Independent
Writer Stephanie Wambugu discusses the conflict of art-world representation, acting as a vessel of human emotion, and resisting trend forecasting.

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
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Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape)
"5 notes and the truth"
#TribalMusic #LiveDrumming
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Highlands Suite
Inspired by the beautiful land of Scotland...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sometimes, the best way to create is within confines. That's what Stan Stewart is choosing to do in his current short-term project.
#NewMusic #ComingSoon

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision
#creativity #vision

Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision – The Creative Independent
Author Andrew Aydin on having faith in your work, manufacturing lightning bolt moments, and why comics are an inherently positive medium.

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives https://thecreativeindependent.com…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

Singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson on the beauty of ambiguity
#creativity #SingerSongwriter

Singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson on the beauty of ambiguity – The Creative Independent
Musician Laura Stevenson discusses the creative benefits of music therapy, leaving room for interpretation in songwriting, and balancing sincerity with humor.

Arturia unveil Mix Drums https://www.soundonsound.com/news/arturia-unveil-mix-drums?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Indie Musician Tips&utm_…

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey
#creativity

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey – The Creative Independent
Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell discusses discipline, balancing activism with creative work, and when to listen to let yourself rest

What Do I Do After My Songs Are Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered? 🚀
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What Do I Do After My Songs Are Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered?
Your song is recorded, mixed, and mastered—now what? This guide walks you through the next steps: release strategy, live performance setup, marketing, and career growth, with a clear action plan to ensure your music gets heard.

Thomas Dolby Interview - SonicTALK Special https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/20/thomas-dolby-interview-sonictalk-special/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine%2…

Thomas Dolby Interview - SonicTALK Special - Music tech and the magic hour
Music tech and the magic hour