Thugs in Australia attacked protesters using a "less lethal" rubber shrapnel grenade, and caused injury to protesters (or was it just one protester?) who plan to sue.
The use of plural pronouns to refer to a single person makes this article a pain to read. Please don't do that. Please make reading easier by using a gender-neutral singular pronoun to refer to a person of non-binary gender, as I do,
The latest propaganda term for drilling for fossil gas is "nation building".
Global heating disaster will generally tear down nations, not build them.
Various countries blocked the EU's Orwellian "chat control" proposal, so they have redrawn the proposed legislation to achieve similar pervasive surveillance with changes in the details.
For instance, companies offering email or messaging accounts would have to make clients scan their faces. Anonymity in email would be impossible.
These would almost surely be done using nonfree cr…apps, which is an injustice in itself -- using a nonfree program is inviting the entity that controls it to mistreat you through malicious functionality.
The article refers to a decision which might be made on Nov 12. Since that is now in the past, can anyone tell me what was decided?
*The US is planning for the long-term division of Gaza into a "green zone" under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a "red zone" to be left in ruins.*
This plan seems designed to allow Israel to annex half of the Gaza Strip, while driving the Palestinians in the other half are driven to beg to leave.
*Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in,* according to UNRWA.
Global heating is causing bigger droughts and bigger floods.
Iran is one place that tends to get drought.
You could say that the oil Iran has exported has brought the drought, but oversimplified recrimination about past mistakes is a distraction. Every country has participated in extracting and using fossil rules to the extent that it was profitable or useful.
Those most responsible are the fossil fuel companies and their owners. They have lobbied hard to thwart efforts to curb global heating, and they are doing it even now at the Cop30 conference to make sure it doesn't achieve its purpose.
A warning that Icelandic could be forgotten and lost in just one generation, because the unwise tendency to use bullshit generators is leading Icelanders to read English instead.
US citizens: press your congresscritter to protect affordable medical treatment by signing a discharge petition, or thank per if perse already did so.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
US citizens: call on your state to make the state tax system fair for everyone. That means closing loopholes that benefit the rich, taxing extreme wealth appropriately, and investing those revenues back into education, healthcare, infrastructure, and other public goods that strengthen our communities.
US citizens: call on your members of the House and Senate to keep medical debt off credit reports.
See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
But we do it pretty regularly.
Even more often recently, now that so many bands actually want the show to end by 10pm or earlier. Kids today I tell you, get off of my lawn.
Last Saturday we actually had three shows: we had the four metal bands in main, with a dubstep party after, and we also had three industrial bands in Above DNA icn an unrelated event.
Here's Saturday's timeline:
| 1:30pm: | Main Room: | Load-in and sound check for the Krisiun show. |
|---|---|---|
| We stage what gear we can on stage, the rest in the green room or on the balcony. | ||
| 5:30pm: | Above DNA: | Load-in and sound check for the Suicide Queen show. |
| 6:00pm: | Main Room: | Doors open. |
| 6:30pm: | Gorgatron, 30 minute set, 15 minute stage changeover. | |
| 7:15pm: | Pyrexia, 30 minute set, 15 minute stage changeover. | |
| 8:00pm: | Abysmal Dawn, 45 minute set, 15 minute stage changeover. | |
| Above DNA: | Doors open. | |
| 8:30pm: | Our Graves, 45 minute set, 15 minute stage changeover. | |
| 9:00pm: | Main Room: | Krisiun, 60 minute set. |
| 9:30pm: | Front door box office flips from Krisiun to Sanzu. | |
| Above DNA: | Vile Augury, 45 minute set, 15 minute stage changeover. | |
| 10:00pm: | Main Room: | Krisiun: "Thank you good night! Hail Satan!" |
| We strike the gear near the front of the stage (wedges, mic stands, etc.) and immediately begin building a DJ coffin there (table, mixers, CDJs, monitors). | ||
| Meanwhile, we rope off the right side of the room under the balcony and start staging gear load-out there, hauling cases down from the balcony and green room. | ||
| 10:15pm: | DJ coffin is live. DJ Zarkin gets a brief sound check. | |
| We gently chase the bands out of the green room because it's Sanzu's green room now. | ||
| 10:20pm: | Bands verify that what's downstairs under the balcony is all of their stuff, and we start hauling it out to the busses. | |
| 10:30pm: | Doors are open for Sanzu. Music is playing, customers are coming in. | |
| Above DNA: | Suicide Queen begins their 60 minute set. | |
| 11:00pm: | Main Room: | Krisiun's merch booth in DNA Pizza finally loads out. |
| 11:30pm: | Above DNA: | Suicide Queen ends, and we exit the Above customers into Main. (Always exit through the gift shop! Always!) |
| 2:30am: | Main Room: | Wub wub wub wub wub scritch "Thank you good night!" |
So that's... a lot. It is such a frenetic mess of activity, and it's all over in 20 minutes, because of planning and checklists.
It's like that at Cyberdelia too: striking the movie screen and ~100 chairs and transforming back into a dance club takes like... 5 minutes. Maybe 10. Blink and you'll miss it.
In Summary: Go Team!
Come to our 40th Anniversary Party this Friday and tell our crew how awesome they are.
I have been asking for access to this important technology for years but have not found it. Here is some circumstantial evidence that one such filter exists. I guess this is a Snapchat thing? How can I download and run this without using Snapchat? I assume the answer is "no". Ok, how else can I press button receive candy?
"Your royal highness," [Mary Bruce asked], "the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust -- "
At that moment, the president cut in, his voice vibrating with anger. [...]
"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial," Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him, or didn't like him, things happen."
"You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that," he said to the reporter.
macOS 14.7.7 running openssh @10.2p1.
Update: The fix was to put "IPQoS none" in sshd_config. It used to be sufficient for that to be in .ssh/config on the client side, but it seems that changed recently.
Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day."
Simply providing a soundtrack to your day might seem innocent enough, but it informs how Spotify's algorithm works. Its goal isn't to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. [...]
Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened. [...]
It found that while new music discovery is traditionally associated with youth, "16-24-year-olds are less likely than 25-34-year-olds to have discovered an artist they love in the last year." Gen Z might hear a song they like on TikTok, but they rarely investigate beyond that to listen to more music from the artist.
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For months, border agents have been brutalizing civilians and making absurd excuses for their barbarity. After ICE detained a clarinet player performing with her band outside an ICE facility, they alleged she "attacked" an officer; when agents shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, the Department of Homeland Security claimed he once flipped Secretary Kristi Noem "the bird"; and the 79-year-old man who was dogpiled by a gaggle of agents -- as assault that left him with broken ribs and a concussion -- was said to have "impeded" officers. How will they spin pepper-spraying a baby?
On Saturday, Evelin Herrera and Rafael Veraza were heading to a Sam's Club in Cicero, Illinois, with their one-year-old daughter, Arinna, when they heard commotion in Chicago's Little Village. After pulling into the store's parking lot, they saw a "convoy of federal vehicles," and decided it was best to leave. Herrera began recording, and as they passed the vehicles, a masked agent pointed a pepper-spray gun through his window and fired into their car.
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Check out these photos from opening night!Reagan was president, Back to the Future, Rambo and Rocky IV were the highest-grossing films, the number one song that week was We Built This City, and Microsoft Windows 1.0 had been released the day before. It was not a great year.
I was not here in 1985. My tenure running DNA Lounge began a mere twenty-six years ago, in 1999 (Clinton, Phantom Menace, The Matrix, Steal My Sunshine, Napster).
The earliest show I can clearly remember seeing at DNA Lounge was the Machines of Loving Grace show in 1992. I know I had seen shows here before that, though. Probably Thrill Kill Kult in 1990, and I was almost certainly at this Consolidated show in 1991, which is amongst our earliest known video evidence of the club!
So what is your earliest memory of DNA Lounge? Share it in the comments.
Even you youngsters, I wanna hear from you too.
(I asked that question of one of my staff last night, and they said, "Oh that's easy! It was the KMFDM show in 2002 and you kicked me out for being under age!")
Anyway, forty years is a long-assed time, so we're celebrating with a big party: three rooms of DJs, plus four live bands!
- In the Main Room: the return of Meat vs. Death Guild, our blood-spattered BBQ-themed industrial party that originally ran from 2003 through 2011.
- In the Lounge: the return of Turbo Drive, our Synthwave party that originally ran from 2012 through 2022.
- In the Dazzle Room: 8bitSF, our Chiptunes party that we have been hosting irregularly since 2009.
- And in Above DNA: live performances from Halou (who first performed here in 2002!) Hectorine, Identical Homes, plus a "Midnight Massacre" performance by Shark in the Water.
Hope to see you there...
Also, photos are up of our epic Twenty-Fifth Halloween party. We had a great showing in the costume contest this year: sometimes I'll feel a bit judgy about who wins, but this year everyone who made it to the finalist round was extremely worthy. Great job, everybody! You got the memo.
The zeitgeisty winner was, of course, Luigi (a Mario/Mangione mashup with a Nintendo light gun!) The crowd went absolutely nuts for that one; like twice as loud as for second place.
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