hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0Fugueur, dromomaniac.
Does things in @mediateletipos@assemblag.es. Also in other places and times.
#sound #psychogeography #ecoanarchism #soundecology #tech #livecoding #mediaprogramming #fedi22
"Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through."
@pluralistic@mamot.fr on #Apple's "parts-pairing" fuckery:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
Hot take: abstracts are spoilers.
A company named following the early-noughties convention of squishing the final syllable (think "Grindr", "Flattr", and othrs) doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
'Songtradr is a music marketing company that says it will "continue to operate Bandcamp as a marketplace and music community with an artist-first revenue share"'
https://thequietus.com/articles/33440-epic-games-sells-bandcamp-to-songtradr
Hmmm, I believe I'll be ordering a copy of this:
Hartmut Abendschein, "Concrete Strategies" -- Exercises on “Oblique Strategies” on @tkbks@mastodon.art
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Now listening: #JohnZorn, "Homenaje a Remedios Varo" (2023)
Sonja Graf - play #chess like a boss.
(Bonus: Vera Menchik, her eternal rival, looking at her board position over her shoulder.)
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And this via @gaviota@weatherishappening.network:
The Space Lady playing "Major Tom" at the Plaza in Santa Fe on March 19, 2013
framework radio is dedicating two programmes to the life and work of #SteveRoden. The first one is already online:
And hey-ho, @ubuntustudio@mastodon.art 23.10 Beta has been released.
As per the release notes, there are improvements to #Pipewire's #JACK support and the #UbuntuStudio Installer.
Get that thread rollin'.
https://ubuntustudio.org/2023/09/ubuntu-studio-23-10-beta-released/
Who called it "TERF protest" and not "astroterfing"?
It's Saturday night in my corner of the planet, so it's time for me to come up with another crazy-ass business idea. This week, it's the Drunk Book Club.
We meet once weekly in your nearest 100 Montaditos. This week, we're drinking and reading (not necessarily in this order) Salomé Voegelin's The Political Possibility of Sound.
I really feel the #Fediverse has made a better person out of me.
For one, I now talk to bots.
I didn't know I had it in me.
The Portuguese (BR) translation of Luciano Ramalho (@lr@ciberlandia.pt)'s #FluentPython book (2nd Edition) is available online under a CC BY-NC-ND license:
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