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Sammy Stein - Whatever You Wonder About Jazz
A #BookReview of "The Wonder of Jazz – Music That Changed the World "
https://muz4now.com/2022/sammy-stein-w

Sammy Stein - Whatever You Wonder About Jazz
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Coming back from holidays in Scotland (😍) I wonder what is the best way to organize photographs in albums, edit them, maybe comment them and share them online with chosen people?
(in a private and controlled way, no AI training of any kind)
#PhotoSharing #PhotoSoftware

Cryptee | Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor
Cryptee is an encrypted secure photo storage service, and an encrypted documents editor to write personal docs, notes, journals, store files and more.

I wonder how it shows up in practice that the mayor of Graz is from the communist party since 2021? (Which got most votes in the municipal elections.) The coalition leading the city consists of KPÖ (communists), Greens, and SPÖ (Labour).

(1/4) “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in 1 place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, & it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, & a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit & began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusal…

There's a really charming movie from the '80s called "Saving Grace" starring Tom Conti as a young, newly installed #Pope who sends the Vatican into an uproar by going off on walkabout without telling them where he is.
In the movie his regnal name was Leo XIV, so I can't help but wonder whether the real world Leo XIV remembers that movie and thought, "Ha, why not…

I hadn’t heard about the #sycamoregap tree until it was chainsaw massacred. It certainly was a beauty. I wonder what other iconic trees exist that ought to be seen while still actually standing…

Raiders Explained: How Will Derek Carr Be Remembered By Fans? https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/07/raiders-explained-derek-carr-remembered-raider-nation/

I wonder, sometimes, how my life would be different if I'd been kidnapped as a child by Gypsies.

#NowPlaying - aw, peaceful departures to cosmic traveler ariel kalma. i wrote notes for this anthology of his '70s recordings. a truly heady & wonder-filled sweetheart, like a french terry riley or something.

I wonder what people do with all that time they save by writing "UR" instead of "you are"?

These lads really loved Bohemian Rhapsody when they first heard it a few months ago, so no wonder they also like the LIve Aid set. Despite the fact that they don't speak English they have some great insights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRyUSmBHNU

I watched a video of the ukrainians blowing up Soviet era aircraft and I have to wonder: why are there tires scattered all over the wings and top surfaces of those planes?

I was originally planning on taking my pickup truck to Oshkosh for the fly-in in July, but then I gave it to my sister. I wonder if I can get my EV there and back again. I know that I can top up the battery in Port Washington but the last time I tried to juice up in West Bend, every charger was broken.

Hmmm, I wonder if #Youtube is doing some fuckery or if my install of #LibreWolf is just misbehaving.
Well, the live video still plays, so I guess at least there's that.

masks at protests / demographics 2/n
I wonder about the influence of employment, as well. If you're at risk every work day, I could well imagine it seeming pointless to start being careful the rest of the time, and maybe just too cognitively dissonant to consider.
I remember in 2020, someone I knew was working at Waterstones, and they were forbidden to mask up at work - even though 2020 was before the whole "covid is over" thing.
I also remember reading about someone - maybe a nurse? that _kind_ of job, anyway - who'd started wearing a fitted mask while the default in their workplace was baggy blues, and iirc was formally rebuked. It wasn't allowed.
If for whatever reason you're unable to hold down a typical job, you might not have much cash for _getting_ things like masks, but you're also not under that same kind of economic pressure to put yourself at risk.
#masks #work #CovidIsntOver

Political alignment correlates with self-reported mental health. I hate this.
I wonder how much of the correlation is actual mental health as opposed to willingness to admit when it’s bad.
(source: https://www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-21-why-young-men-do…

SBSQ #21: Why young men don't like Democrats
Plus, the New York City mayor’s race — and whether win probability models are broken.

I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Sven Wonder:
🎵 Late Again
#SvenWonder

Great possibility to renew my travel outfit. I wonder whether they sell to non-locals.

Sonnet 098 - XCVIII
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor pr…

🏊‍♂️ Still no pool. Still chasing contractors.
One no-show after another, with zero communication. I get delays. What I don't get is being ghosted.
Third contractor showed promise. Local, knowledgeable, communicative. Now it’s a rain game.
Also: my desktop crashed mid-post. Overheating CPU drama. 3 years of weekly blog posts. Consecutive. No breaks.
Full update here −

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting – Bob Mueller
I extended my weekly posting streak to three years this week. Still don't have the pool up. And I wonder about conspiracy theories.

Every once in a while I wonder if all of this is because I didn’t forward that email to ten people all those years ago.

Performed in an improv show in Shoreditch.
Good times.
Everyone seemed to think the show went well, and it featured repeated themes of fish taking over the entire world in a giant conspira-sea.
The venue downstairs at Shoreditch Balls is tight and dark and small but so were our audience. Thanks for coming everyone. 😆
Where does the group go from here? Dunno. Hard to find a venue for rehearsal in London really. Everywhere is either booked up or closed down. Makes you wonder why the closed down ones had to close given the apparent demand.
Fingers crossed we find somewhere 🤞
#london #improv #liveShow

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Love’s in Need of Love Today
#StevieWonder
https://hkmsyr42.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-loves-in-need-of-love-today-hakeem-syrbram-keemix
https://open.spotify.com/track/39sdlCugrGBsoC4Flos0HO
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

"AI-Powered Cameras Have Issued Nearly 10,000 Tickets in L.A."
I wonder if this means they can reduce the $2.14 billion LAPD budget. 😳
https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-cameras-hav…

That… is quite a number. I wonder what the return on that investment will look like?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-nvidia-played-a-central-role-in-the-306-billion-ai-startup-boom-195741749.html

How Nvidia 'played a central role' in the $306 billion AI startup boom
Nvidia's AI chips laid the groundwork for a massive wave of investment in artificial intelligence.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02160 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Data Poisoning for In-context Learning
In the domain of large language models (LLMs), in-context learning (ICL) has been recognized for its innovative ability to adapt to new tasks, relying on examples rather than retraining or fine-tuning. This paper delves into the critical issue of ICL's susceptibility to data poisoning attacks, an area not yet fully explored. We wonder whether ICL is vulnerable, with adversaries capable of manipulating example data to degrade model performance. To address this, we introduce ICLPoison, a speciali…

I wonder if they’ll also skip their SoCs to keep synced to the iOS version, like the next iPhone having an A26 instead of A19 SoC

sometimes I wonder if my AmEx is worth the monthly fees but then my Mastercard Gold (that I only use when I can't use the AmEx) rejects the payment on my Switch 2 pre-oder and I remember again how valuable a credit card is that never fails me. :|

Bad thing about Lamine's brilliance is... he plays for Barcelona. Good thing is... this time, such a player is Spanish.
I wonder what's to come in the next World Cup when we get there with Lamine, Pedri, Nico, etc etc. I must admit I'm looking forward to it...

I wonder if the old magic is still out there to capture, or if it only lived in the unknowing

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

Gee, I wonder what it could be...
#Wordle
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There are times when I wonder about search algorithms, and why a merchant wants to insult me.
#BevMo

There are times when I wonder about search algorithms, and why a merchant wants to insult me.
#BevMo

Interesting, the #PennyFarthing and the #Tallbike are roughly the same seat height. No wonder it felt so ordinary sitting up there.
#VeltePetter

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/272 B7B4

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Me, a person very knowledgeable in history and literature, walking around Rome, realizing it's not at all like the flatter cities I've been in all month, and suddenly thinking literally this: "Boy, this place is hilly!" Gee, I wonder if there are any if so, how many. #Italy25

https://bsky.app/profile/davidcolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lpwwj3nwbk2m

Blippo . I have experienced this for only ten minutes and if that’s all there is I’m already delighted. What a little weird wonder.

In Windows 11's Kernel32.dll (well, KernelBase.dll) the check for "twain_32.dll" is still there. I wonder when it was the first time that thing was put there.

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting
Why don't contractors stay in touch with potential customers? And I extended my blog streak to three years.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/tooting-my-own-horn-three-years-and-counting/

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting – Bob Mueller
I extended my weekly posting streak to three years this week. Still don't have the pool up. And I wonder about conspiracy theories.

I often run into web pages that make me think "I wonder if this is the worst page on the Internet today."
Today's candidate is Bell's outages checker. The javascripty text box thing for the address is a mess, and reloading the results page (you know, a thing people might want to do to get an update on their ISP's current failure) makes you go through the address dance every time.
Maybe avoid piling on the back-breaking straws here, broken ISP…

I wonder why Google News thinks I like classic cars...
I look at EVs and hydrogen cars occasionally but not classic ones hmmm

As expected, I had a nap after the event dinner, woke up around 23:00, and went out for drinks. Having a nice cherry (#meggy) #beer. Wonder how related it is to the Belgian #kriek?

How to find #deadcode in your #Java services
https://blog.picnic.nl/how-to-find-dea

In 1963 Claudia Cardinale starred in Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) and The Pink Panther (La Pantera Rosa). I wonder if she thinks of it as the year of the cat.
#Films

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/272 B7B4

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I got to migrate my blogs to a new provider. That made me wonder if I really want all the archive to still be online in these days. Then I thought of one small post I made about a friend's suicide many years ago and how still almost every year someone leaves a comment. To him, not to me, not to my blog post. This post's perfect place seems to be nested amongst dozens of others in the archive where only those who know still get back to it. I guess this little big thing makes me keep m…

"Despite its promise of no-code, Al-powered app creation, much of the work was reportedly done manually by engineers in India."
Reminds me of how Amazon's automated unstaffed stores were actually staffed by people in India watching video feeds and verifying what people bought.
Finnish context: Wonder if R-Kioski's unmanned kiosks use the same idea? And Starship's (Alepa) grocery delivery robots?

From the XMRig benchmarks. https://xmrig.com/benchmark
I wonder why the CPU with 384 threads and 384 GB RAM is doing a little bit better than the CPU with 768 threads and 768GB RAM… oh, for some reason they only ran 384 threads on the fancier CPU.
I wanna see about mining because I have a fr…

This week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: …

How One Quiet Man Became Everyone's Sage: The Spiritual Recasting of Einstein
Galina Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19695 https://

How One Quiet Man Became Everyone's Sage: The Spiritual Recasting of Einstein
This paper critically examines the central thesis of Kieran Fox's "I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein"-namely, that Einstein's intellectual development constitutes a coherent spiritual path culminating in a form of pantheistic mysticism shaped by both Western and Eastern traditions. Fox presents Einstein as the modern heir to a long-suppressed lineage of rational spirituality, extending from Pythagoras and Spinoza to Vedanta and Buddhism, unified by wonder, revere…

My first three starter words don't have any overlapping letters.
Gee, I wonder what it could be...
#Wordle
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And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

I’ve got some thoughts, and some questions.
Do you think pushback from Senate Republicans had anything to do with trumriff’s recent reversal? I do, though I haven’t seen it discussed, and wonder why. If you haven’t read about this, I can refer you to Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter of April 7, where she writes, “Seven Republican senators have now signed onto a bill that would limit Trump’s ability to impose tariffs. The power to levy tariffs belongs to Congress, but Congress has permit…

Sonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …

If you ever wonder why our lab stays motivated to research stuttering, or whether funding for speech research is justified, just watch this very powerful video by Drew Lynch: #Research #Funding #Science #Stuttering #NIDCD #NIH

“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Cycling question: trying out saddles, in the UK
UK cycling people, is there somewhere you'd go to sit on different saddles to test if they're comfortable? Is that a thing?
I've worked out that my (default came-with-the-bike) saddle isn't the right shape for me: it's giving me an achy tailbone, as well as I think being a bit too narrow for optimal sit-bone comfort.
For context, I'm an "occasional cyclist for pleasure and/or practical reasons", shall we say. No ambition to be super fast.
Looking around online, I think I want something more like the Rido R2 or one of the Selle ones, shaped to have air under the tailbone area. Or maybe even a noseless one like the Spongy Wonder, though I don't like the look of how the metal frame sticks out at the front of those.
What's the chances a shop would have more than one of those and a willingness to get them out for a test sit? Or, better still, is there a loan scheme anywhere, so you can actually "test drive" them for a bit? Or do people usually just buy and be willing to sell again?
I'm in Nottingham, and I know there are bike shops I could get to, but I'm not seeing "come in and try all these saddles, we'll help you to find the right one" kinds of messaging.
Could also potentially travel elsewhere at some point if it turns out there's some kind of "best place in the country for that question".
Advice welcome!
#cycling #BikeTooter #AskFedi #UK

Great, just what I needed. Apparently even Amazon now have a web crawler which collects data to do what they describe as "improve our services, such as enabling Alexa to more accurately answer questions for customers".
It also looks like they use crawled data for training LLM too. So now, any data you have on your website could be used to train the next LLM AI model too.
Wonder if it has anything to do with this #AlexaPlus thing?
Information on the Amazon website at #Amazon #LLM #noAI #Alexa