Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

New music!

I've just released my new solo synthpop track, "Eternal September".

Created with free and open-source software (especially @ardourdaw@twitter.com) and free to stream and download on @SoundCloud@twitter.com.

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/eternal-september

This week's blogpost:

The "De Roucy" Hours?

(In which I suggest that Prof. Rossi got her identification of the original patron completely wrong).

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-de-roucy-hours.html

Von #Scholz Entscheidungskompetenz zu erwarten, ist wie mir Fähigkeiten im Eiskunstlauf zuzutrauen. #Zeitenende

This is what that Berlin hotel were the giant aquarium collapsed looks -- and smells -- like now. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/aquarium-berlin-unfall-1.5736531

The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵

Théâtre de Beaulieu in #Lausanne was built to plans by local architect Marcel Maillard between 1952 and 1954. It was inaugurated on November 19, 1954 with a concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Ernest Ansermet. It was, and still is, the largest theatre in #Switzerland. #architecture #photography

Back in the Usenet days, people used to put a "now playing" line in their posts & it was always a little performative & pretentious but damn it turned me onto a lot of new music.

And now its officially official.
https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/

Digitale Forschung in der Theologie - freue mich sehr, bei dieser Tagung von @VanOorschot_FEST und Knut Wormstädt
vom 29.-31.3.23 in Aachen mit vielen Akteur*innen aus #DH und #Theologie eine Response halten zu dürfen. Eine Anmeldung ist bis zum 10.3. per Mail möglich, s. Programm

“The #fediverse is like #email.”

Yes.

Now read this and understand it:

“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

Via @cancel

NEW BETA IS OUT!

Highlights:

* LanguageTool integration
* Status bar for the editors
* A ton of bug fixes and performance improvements

https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1

Chalch, Chien, Chiis, Chlette, Chlotz, Chlütter, Chrüsi, Chümi, Grampolschybe, Schotter, Stei, Stutz usw.: lauter kreative #schweizerdeutsch|e Wörter für #Geld. Sie sind das Thema der 162. #Idiotikon-Wortgeschichte: https://www.idiotikon.ch/wortgeschichten/chuemi-chlotz-chluetter

#LeGoldenSnack existe depuis 2002 à proximité du port et du minitrain de #Pully, mais la Municipalité demande aux gérants de faire place nette d’ici au 31 janvier. #unbelievable #PullyNEWS

http://bit.ly/PullyNEWS20230118

Just published "Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches" (fifth edition) by @StefanMuelller #openaccess #tbls
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/380

Ausschreibung Junior Fellowships https://www.infoclio.ch/de/ausschreibung-junior-fellowships-0 #infocliojob

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

RBB:
- Schlesinger bot amtierender Kulturchefin Vertrag über all-in 450 T EUR an.
- Rundfunkrat Stohn zu 1,4 Mio Anwaltshonoraren: man könne den Eindruck gewinnen, dass die vom RBB hauptsächlich beschäftigte Kanzlei Lutz und Abel „möglichen Mittätern des Systems Schlesinger hilft, den Kopf aus der Schlinge zu ziehen“.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/rbb-skandal-patricia-schlesinger-bot-kulturradiochefin-450-000-euro-18614425.html