Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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How to Talk About Fascism in Trump's Second Term
Once the “Fourth Estate,” now the sideline observer. When did journalism start treating democracy’s meltdown as casual news? It’s time to ask: where’s the outrage?
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-talk-about-fascism-in-trumps-second-term/
Watched this movie the other day, was half joking with my brother that the imagery was prophetic. Too soon. :(
I made the right decision not to stay up and watch the impending doomscape.
RIP Quincy Jones - such a massive figure and yet I still didn't realise half of the stuff he'd done - The Italian Job soundtrack, for example.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/quincy-jones-musician-michael-jackson-producer-dies
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One more In These Times comics section before the election
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-ceasefire-gaza-trump-harris
M.Bjoernstroem, a Swedish mechanic/air traffic controller/one man construction company/videographer, in his latest 5 hour video where he builds a base for his new garage. #ASMR for middle aged blokes.
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In this excerpt of The Atavist's latest, Mira Ptacin recounts Christopher Pohlhaus' plans to build a fascist training compound in rural Maine. The local journalists, veterans, lumberjacks, and policymakers weren't having it.
https://longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-concerned-citizens-drove-a-neo-nazi-out-of-rural-maine/
The piece that piqued me, for #organ and #choir is here, introduced by Revd Dr Sam Wells at St Martin's in the Fields last Thursday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yQHZNerpU&t=1715
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OMG the McMaster-Carr website is an absolute fucking TREAT. In SO SO MANY WAYS.
Check it out, honestly. If you've never used it before, just go. Just click around. It is fucking *BRILLIANT*.
I was at a recital yesterday of some choral and organ church #music, and after looking up one of the composers, was surprised to find that he wrote one of those annoying viral tiktok tunes you hear all the time.
So here's Thomas Hewitt Jones a couple of years back on how that ended up going viral.
https://youtu.be/5BxjG0AwAT8?si=JaVlVkymikVNeBBs
And more recently how the internet / social media / AI generative music puts creativity at risk:
First time ever commuting with Mrs Davoloid to our respective new buildings at Stratford. Lovely open examples following #Brutalist tradition. And a thoroughly nice day.
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State-affiliated Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others; they entered their networks and spent months intercepting US traffic - from individuals, firms, government officials, etc - and they did it all without having to exploit any code vulnerabilities. Instead, they used the back door that the FBI requires every carrier to furnish:
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The way autism is currently diagnosed seems quite unreliable, to me.
I feel this would be ok if it were not generally taken to be so definitive and consistent 🤷♀️
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This hits hard.
https://mixmag.net/feature/rip-danielle-moore-crazy-p-singer-frontwoman-house-music-tribute-obituary
"Danielle Moore believed in the idea of dancing as a deliberate act of community or a salve for personal anguish and the numerous benefits that came with moving together on a dancefloor. It was this experience that enabled a shy and otherwise under-confident woman to perform as though she owned the stage."
Aww this is so unfair. Crazy P frontwoman Danielle Moore dies at only 52. Only discovered this chilled blend of funk, house and soul in recent years.
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the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
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What idiot called it "the plot holes in the script of Disney's The Lion King" and not "Lacuna matata"?
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The free speech shitgoblins got what they wanted, and they're still not happy.
They’re still following the rest of us wherever we go, spewing the same tired nonsense.
Why? Because it turns out that shouting into an echo chamber isn't nearly as satisfying as they thought it would be.
Today's video essay: How Twitter Became the Loneliest Reich
Just heard this overhead. What's the vertical and horizontal separation required over London? Possible near miss. #AVGeeks
- Location
- Mostly London
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
