As most of you know, I deactivated my Twitter account earlier this month. …I thought that if I left Twitter, I could find a new social network that would give it some competition (Twitter’s monopoly on the social space is a big reason it can ignore people who are abused and harassed, while punishing people for reporting their attackers), so I fired up this account I made at Mastodon a long time ago.I thought I’d find something different. I thought I’d find a smaller community that was more like Twitter was way back in 2008 or 2009. Cat pictures! Jokes! Links to interesting things that we found in the backwaters of the internet! Interaction with friends we just haven’t met, yet! What I found was … not that....
50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong
What would you say if I told you that drums can sing? The best jazz drummers have always understood this as fact. Allison Miller has even made it a core part of her artistic mission — as drummer, a composer and a bandleader, notably with her ensemble Boom Tic Boom....
"The index of radio refraction does have a lot of variation, which might throw off your calculations, so you can also look at the difference in brightness between the visible flash and more-attenuated UV and x-rays."
Directed by Jenn Nkiru - Produced by Four Tet + 3D (Massive Attack)
... "Every nation seeks its friends in France & Italy / And all across the seven seas / And goddam guns and guts and history / And bitter love still put a hole in me," she sings over dubbed-out drums and bass, as a piano breaks apart the melody in the distance."Bite my head off / Steal my world / We'll always be another risk worth taking."...
“Love’s a shitshow that requires work.... But nothing can distract from the fact that, in spite of it all, love is still magic.”
posted at 06/22/2018 We're more than happy to announce that David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke release their first collaboration album entitled 'Risha' today with Glitterhouse Records! "Risha is a collaboration that fully works. It may come as a shock to 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand aficionados (and who knows to Einstürzende Neubauten ones to, ...
Together, GitHub and Microsoft will work to make software development easier, more accessible, more intelligent, and more open.
Today, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. I want to share what this acquisition will mean for our industry and for developers. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of our daily life...
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Our customers keep sending us their personal information, even though we've repeatedly asked them to stop. The EU told me I'm the heir to some ancient European throne that makes me exempt from the GDPR, but we should probably still try to fix that.
"Ugh, TMI." "Yeah, that's some tantalizing meat info."
Recent reports that streaming is now the 'biggest money-maker' for the music biz have prompted hyperbolic claims that Spotify and co have 'saved the music industry'. In reality, this could not be further from the truth....The estimated amount of money that a single stream earns an artist on Spotify is $0.00783. Even though one listener might stream their favourite track hundreds of times, and a stream does not necessarily represent a missed sale, this is a pitiful sum....
"But there are seven billion people in the world! I can't possibly stop to consider how ALL of them might interpret something!""Ah, yes, there's no middle ground between 'taking personal responsibility for the thoughts and feelings of every single person on Earth' and 'covering your eyes and ears and yelling logically correct statements into the void.' That's a very insightful point and not at all inane."
