@salrandolph@zirk.usI am dreaming and writing of horses, but they need time to gather themselves and begin their fiery galloping. Meanwhile, this new year is still emerging from the old.
Tell me what you are carrying from the old year, and what you are wishing for in the new.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/the
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgDeclaring one's humanity seems to be the thing these days so I also did:
https://tante.cc/human.json (using the standard defined here: https://codeberg.org/…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThere's a little "zambie" running through the corridor.
My first thought: what kind of movies do people let their little children watch these days?!
My second thought: oh, wait, zombies are a normal thing in animated movies for children these days…
I feel old.
@scott@carfree.cityOn Muni these days, I look around and 80% of riders are staring at their phones. It makes me sad. For the other 20%. One of the richest cities on earth, and they’re too poor to afford phones.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGroaning at probably having to finally “up”grade to Liquid Glass because of the latest round of iOS security breaches, hanging out with my parents and wincing at the cartoonish look of the latest macOS on their screens, and…
…I’m just once again hit with my periodic nostalgia for the days when it was possible to pin the Dock to the upper corner instead of having it always centered (and thus having my pinned apps always appear in a predictable location).
These little things are so big when one lives with them every day.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@cheryanne@aus.socialI've been doing these trivia quizzes for a couple days in the *Canberra Daily* but they're also available in the *The New Daily*
Trivia Puzzles Online - Play Free Daily Trivia
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/puzzles/quiz-trivia
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhen I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this
@salrandolph@zirk.usI have been feeling in need of a little magic these days. Have you? There are wondrous pavilions everywhere, but we do not always see them.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/from-the-yellow-crane-pavilion
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pink Floyd:
🎵 One of These Days
#PinkFloyd
https://djsoulmachine.bandcamp.com/track/pink-floyd-one-of-these-days-soul-machine-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uU0Hu8oVk9gBihokcrDMH
@pdmckone@mstdn.caOne of these days, friend
One of us will be proved wrong
And one of us right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poem
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialToday was another one of those days where I was in pain for over 12 hours. These days suck so bad. I did get a few hours of relief this evening though and even worked for over an hour today.
@ripienaar@devco.socialLets Encrypt for IP addresses \o/
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability.html
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialI'm sure he doesn't comprehend why NATO might be a tad reluctant these days, when only a year ago...
But he can always ask his buddies Vlad and Kim to help out.
From last year: https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-ukraine-c5fef35ca057a31a61cba6…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaThis looping hard-rocking weirdness is what we need these days. Angine de Poitrine - FabienK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgHYWOtqqc
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euSo glad I dislodged ex-Twitter from my person. I rarely think about it these days, but it still feels like I've stepped on a dog sh!t and I haven't quite yet managed to scrape it fully off my shoe. Uh.
@cdarwin@c.imDeaths in ICE detention centers have occurred with increasing frequency in recent months,
as Trump’s immigration crackdown floods these facilities with record numbers of detainees.
At least 30 people died in detention last year
— the highest in two decades
— and Lunas Campos is one of four who died in the first nine days of 2026 alone, according to ICE,
which posts information about all detainee deaths on its website.
Medical examiner believes death of Ca…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net@… because nobody is paying a developer these days for writing code (anymore) - if i hire someone, that person needs to know how to orchestrate ai agents. asking someone about their AI stack shows which century they live in 😉
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialBrutus is head of software at Apple these days 🤣 @… https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/116234909189343729
@nohillside@smnn.ch„There’s a real Baghdad Bob feel to pronouncements from the Trump administration these days.“
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-america-is-not-respected
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialAlso, I'm getting lots of partially loaded posts, just the gradients, and everything feels slower.
Is there something off with Mastodon these last few days?
#mastodon
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukAnyone else seeing gdb symbol lookup/completion being **SLOW** these days? Minutes for a tab complete looking in digikam or libreoffice. Admittedly they're both linked to all the worlds libraries, but still.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgDHH is a bit controversial these days, but he's absolutely right about how stupid we in Denmark have been about our tech dependency on the #UStech giants...
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sOgNcL7e-moGnNy6v-ef0ea
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWith all the fancy RGBW etc bayer filters cameras have these days, has anyone managed to make pixels that can see alpha yet?
@boris@cosocial.caOh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting.
Looks like I wrote about it last year.
Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache. https://bsky.ap…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'... let's face it, "fuck it, I'm out" seems to be the mantra of web application packaging these days. Our deployment and build setups have gotten so complicated that I doubt anyone really has a decent understanding of what is going on, really.'
Note, this is a state of affairs from 10 years ago... I suspect it has only gotten worse since 🫣
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate": Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days (In These Times)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p167#a260113p167
@hanno@mastodon.socialMy motivation to get into PGP fights these days is very limited, but, well, sometimes I can't escape the "someone is wrong on the Internet" feeling.
The author of @… still does not understand what "Authenticated Encryption" means ("still", because I've seen these discussions back in the efail days). It is a pretty central conce…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@cheryanne@aus.socialOff to the Canberra Comedy Festival Gala tonight - it's one of my favourite events of the year. I get to see some of the comedians really like, as well as some others I've not seen before. I don't go to quite as many festival shows these days but the gala is a must - and it's always a blast. We'll stop in at Tiger Lane for an early feed beforehand.
#CanberraComedyFestival
@gwire@mastodon.social
@jtk@infosec.exchangeRE: https://hachyderm.io/@ietf_wg_dnsop/116027127205556247
We seem to be getting more operational "guidance" than "experience" IETF publications these days.
I wonder too if these guidelines are appearing too early before suffic…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no"No true Scotsman" - Sorting people by worthiness definitely trending. <insert nation > values are not <insert pet hatred> . Like if you're pro DEI, you are by definition not American, so have no right to speak. I don't know about *all time* best, but these days ... Sigh.
@ellie@ellieayla.net
@padraig@mastodon.ieThey'd be renaming anyone these days in the #WWE
Vacant − Vacant Championship
Now a 4-time NXT Champion.
(def. Oba Femi, Samoa Joe, Karrion Kross and Tommaso Ciampa)
#prowrestling
@lunalms@floss.socialWord has it that @… and @… of @… can be spotted undercover at @… these days. Watch out! 😉
#LunaLMS #FOSSBackstage #FOSSback
@rae@bne.socialI'm thinking very little had to do with the bike.
"Even though these ...bikes seem pretty normal and safe, if you're not wearing a helmet, and you're intoxicated, they can be really dangerous, and in my case, a life-or-death situation."
https://www.abc.…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#NowPlaying #Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs
@bici@mastodon.social
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#Israel will elect a new government on 27th October 2026.
These days we tend to ascribe the #Holocaust to 'the Nazis', not 'the Germans'; and that's reasonable because not all Germans supported the Nazis -- despite the fact that
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotMonarchy is part of patriarchy, featuring trickle-down "honours" and make-believe authority.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@siggib@infosec.exchangeIn response to world events these days I like to quote a song from Diane Warwick, what the world needs now is love sweet love. This was true many decades ago when Diane made this song and it's even truer today.
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialAbout to write a complex application for a research grant in Africa. It is at least 3 full days of work, apart from the research itself. And it's a very unpredictable outcome. But without these grants from public and private donors, it would not be possible to carry out such documentation or reportages abroad.
I will focus on the support of renewable energies by German ODA and how the diminishing aid is affecting it.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump's constant crapping himself in public these days is from his drug use.
Noel Casler, former staffer on NBC's The Apprentice said, back in the 2000s, Trump's drug use made him incontinent & they had staff dedicated to 'wiping & changing him' when he'd crap himself on set.
#trump
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioFeeling lucky that I get paid to read and talk about books these days.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
People Under the Stairs:
🎵 Days Like These
#PeopleUndertheStairs
https://clav.bandcamp.com/track/people-under-the-stairs-days-like-these
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mXslL4HV2zE53dJ5oN0DK
@smashtie@mas.toI love Sebadoh, but I kind of need to get a skateboard out. And that would be a bad idea. Knees much more fragile these days. #totp
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIt was a terrible mistake or maybe even a warcrime, but there are no excuses in these days of relative precise weaponry, satellite images, other intelligence. The USA killed innocent children and it could have been prevented.
https://www.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaApparently we're just one-shotting marketing materials with slop engines these days, even for expensive products
@cdarwin@c.imJames Fallows:
This week I realized that over the past 45 years I’d been preparing for the news of the past nine days.
I’ll list the reporting steps I’ve taken, because they set up the questions and reactions I have now.
-In 1981 I published a book called "National Defense", which was serialized in the Atlantic.
Its purpose was to interview people who’d spent their lives waging war, or studying warfare,
and ask what realities of combat they think the…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itCan you even buy an acoustic longtail #CargoBike these days with smaller rear wheel (ideally also with steel frame)? The only one I can find is the Yuba Mundo Lux, which has a 26" rear wheel. Terns and xtracycles are all bosch-equipped (booo proprietary frame!)
I get that covid and tariffs have cratered the US bike market, but surely someone's still out there selling a basic…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialSometimes I am not sure whether these days are really that bad.
So many horrible things have happened in the past that many people many not be aware of due to the strog presence of current issue.
Ah, you may also turn it around - so many good things are happening today, and so many nice things did in the past.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng10 years and a few days ago, I was running a DIY Synth workshop with STM32F7 dev boards in our kitchen in North London... Still have ~10 of these boards.
Here are also two videos (live performances) of some softsynths (some with MIDI via USB support) which we built in these workshops (I did quite a few of those in that year)...
STM32F746 MIDI synth (live recording, 2016-01-31)
@buercher@tooting.chThe current bill has already failed in the upper chamber, and is facing an uphill battle in the coming days that Senate majority leader John Thune must navigate in order to appease Trump.
“Only sick, demented, or deranged people in the House or Senate could vote against THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. If they do, each one of these points, separately, will be used against the user in his/her political campaign for office,” the president wrote. “A guaranteed loss!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/17/us-senate-voter-id-donald-trump-iran-hormuz-latest-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialI have been using Codex extensively to fix crashes. Usually when I get an obscure crash I go “well there goes my afternoon”. These days, I paste the stack trace into codex and go “fix this”, and it does a remarkable job at finding clues I miss, and to find the root causes.
It doesn’t always work, but it has a very solid hit rate. What seemed like a daunting uphill mountain of despair is now a quick sweeping job.
@billbert@mastodon.socialThese days, the songs I keep getting stuck in my head are the title song (and transitions) from “Merrily We Roll Along” (#Sondheim) and @… ‘s “Changes.” I guess I just noticed they’re both about change over time!…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzDang it all. The dryer at our holiday accommodation appears to have, bizarrely, melted the zip (just a small section, but enough) on my Cactus shorts... and now I'm perpetually flying low. These are my 90% of days-type clothing in summer. Sigh. Luckily, I'll be able to take them in for repairs shortly... assuming I can find something to wear while they're at the shop.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"But I need an LLM for code generation, programming environments are so complex and have so many layers these days!"
I wish people would think for like more than a minute about what solution they choose when they correctly identify the problem.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThis is one of those days.
All regular things went excellent, which is the main thing anyway.
All technical things went and are going terribly.
From copying files, to downloading new and needed iso's, to starting appimages on musl, to window rules for applications: each and every one is a mess. Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine > out of the window, done. Getting really tired with all these hoops and no-go's.
I am at the stage to scorch the various earths, flatten all,…
@felwert@fedihum.orgI listened to two AI generated presentations in the last two days. Yes, students and junior scholars were mimicking jargon they did not fully understand already before AI, but listening to them read out jargon they did not even mimic themselves is really another level of cringe. Yes, I know these are fancy words that people in our field would likely use, but you know, I was actually more interested in what _you_ think about the subject. 🙄
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTony Romo and Jim Nantz were unremarkable. That's a win for CBS these days https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998128/2026/01/26/tony-romo-jim-nantz-cbs-nfl-broncos-patriots/
@emd@cosocial.caRE: https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/116182750879464892
In general I find Apple’s hardware so good these days the upgrade cycle will be much longer for me. My iPhone 14 Pro, iPad Air, M3 MacBook Pro, AirPod Pro 3s are all fine for several more years.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialHere’s something from an 11 year old blog post. (Folio.olio) I guess we were worried about paparazzi back then. But they might be useful these days too, to counter facial and body movement ID detection.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Dawnrunner" written by Ram V, illustrated by Evan Cagle, with colors by Dave Stewart & Francesco Segala and lettering by Aditya Bidikar. It's a graphic novel that's heavily Evangelion-inspired, and while the artwork is *fantastic*, I felt that the story was kinda meh. The overall plot setup and big points were predictable, which I don't mind, but several of the details got lost or didn't bind into a coherent message, and the final philosophical conclusion doesn't stand up to the setting or even really make much sense. These days I'm finding myself with much less patience for sci-fi stuff that doesn't tackle social problems, presenting a society where they're driving forces but then not bothering to even try to ponder how they might get resolved. The art is as mentioned excellent though, so I won't say I disliked it overall...
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to#looksmaxxing? #lethalitymaxxing?
Kids these days and their hashtags. #dontgiveafuckmaxxing
@bogo@hapyyr.comPutin must be very happy with the petrol price these days.
@pre@boing.worldHummm. Wonder if the UK will have to support the USA invading Venezuela because it's a member of Nato?
Or if we'll just support it because we also want western oil companies to have access to those oil fields?
Or maybe we'll sanction the USA like we sanctioned Russia for their illegal invasion?
No? Why is everyone laughing?
Anyway. These days it's cool to invade other countries and kidnap their presidents to steal their oil it seems. Even though the oil needs to stay in the ground.
🙄
#war #venezuela
@tarah@infosec.exchange“I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!”
~ H. G. Wells,”The Time Machine”
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo, remember how all the cool kids dumped #Sphinx and went for the shiny #MkDocs thing? And then used the shiny Material for MkDocs theme?
Well, apparently MkDocs 1.x is dead, and MkDocs 2.0 is coming with no support for plugins, incompatible theming system, closed contribution model and unclear licensing.
So which hype train are the cool kids jumping to these days?
#Python
@cdarwin@c.imEven now, America can’t rally.
What has Trump done?
These are supposed to be the most American of days.
The United States had a historic showing at the Winter Olympics.
This year is the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
And we are at war.
In normal times, each would summon national pride and unity.
But they’re happening together — the rally-around-the-flag effect should be supercharged.
It’s not.
At his State of the Union a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioEveryone can go ice skating. You can go ice skating, even if you’re really bad at it. And if you fall, strangers will rush to help. And they’ll laugh with you when you laugh. Because this is Minneapolis.
And one of these days, damnit, everyone can go skating and just worry about the ice and not ICE. One day. When we get those occupier assholes out of here.
/end
@hanno@mastodon.socialSo... stupid question, but given these days it's almost impossible to buy a smartphone with a headphone jack, it seems everyone's expected to use bluetooth headphones. Yet... all bluetooth headphones I've ever tried have a very noticeable delay. This obviously doesn't matter for audio only content, but... pretty much means watching video with headphones when you expect audio video to be in sync does not work. Is that... to be expected?...
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgOne of these days I need to find a way to get an Eduroam account without paying for university courses I do not need.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Low:
🎵 Days Like These
#Low
https://lowlily.bandcamp.com/album/10000-days-like-these
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KVjO1Wye1FuNdYx0keRkP
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngA perfect meditation & expression of both the sorrow and hope of these dark days...
Love Over Entropy — Ojalš (2025)
#Music4Coding …
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI have no idea what's going around linkedin these days but I've now been contacted by *two* people in the last week or so convinced that they can build an ASIC SERDES IP with LLMs.
The total lack of understanding of the problem domain, much less potential solutions, is deafening.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI don’t know what the hell ICE / CBP / FBI?? / other feds are up to, but we’ve had several •huge• swarms of federal vehicles rolling out these last few days.
They aren’t doing the kinds of chaotic off-the-street kidnappings there were doing all through Dec and Jan. But they sure are up to •something•.
1/
@salrandolph@zirk.usMy notebooks these days are filled with strange wanderings and shards of tales both short and long.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/sea-of-ice-and-other-portable-tales
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116143024823038390
Software development these days really reminds me of what large political parties do—no shred of thinking about the whole, not even a little bit of conviction, just churning out mid ever more milquetoast "features" designed to eek out a little more compliance.
Moral stances and ethics be damned.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Inhaler:
🎵 These Are the Days
#Inhaler
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqQK2bzlcVePuTbfw7zEd
@cdarwin@c.imIn many European countries, including Britain, Germany and France,
far-right parties seem ascendant.
And Donald Trump is doing what he can to undermine democracy in the United States.
Yet a closer analysis shows that autocrats are often running scared of their people.
And surprisingly, democracy these days seems sometimes to be held in higher esteem in the global south than in the democratic heartland of the west.
These trends show there is nothing inevitable ab…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI am 36 years old, I have diabetes and for over a week I feel pain with every step since I've bumped my tailbone pretty hard. And yet seeing the youngsters these days, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies; how can they be slow all the time?! And I'm not even even talking of smartphone zombies, just regular folk looking ahead and walking somewhere! Don't they have some trains to catch, or some cats waiting for them to get home?!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOn repeat again these days... Daniel Avery, the master of summoning a certain set of harmonies, mixed with a heaviness, intensity and production all very moving and befitting our times... play it loud!
Heavy Rain (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsrjASH5ZgU
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAt work we are part of a EU funded research project. These days it's actually expected to track your social media presence for "impact". So I have to listen to a 10 minute report by someone counting the amounts of likes some meaningless post got on instagram. This is a good investment of everyone's time and money.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Ras-I & Kabaka Pyramid:
🎵 These Are the Days
#RasI #KabakaPyramid
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWith these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"AI" does exist but it's a narrative/political movement of centralization and disempowerment.
But it's not tech and when talking about the stochastic systems popular these days the term shouldn't be used. It obscures way more than it helps and throws so many things together that one might want to look into in detail.
So if you are talking about "AI" is political project/narrative, go apeshit. Otherwise we probably should try to be more specific abou…
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Chuck Schumer,
the New York Democrat and minority leader,
knew things were moving in his direction in the spending showdown on Wednesday afternoon when he got a surprise phone call in his Capitol office suite.
It was Donald Trump, not a frequent contact in these days of hyper-polarized politics.
“He says, ‘Chuck, I hate shutdowns. I don’t like shutdowns. We’ve got to stop them,’”
Mr. Schumer said in an interview as he recalled his conversation with Mr. T…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"If “AI” is actually more expensive than paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages."
(Original title: Winning the wrong game)
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