Maybe start with the millions of pounds of food the UK throws out every year? Getting mad about food that was never going to be in your empty stomach is wild to me. Says a lot about your morals.
I’ve struggled to be musical all my life–took lessons, took college classes, did ear training, etc. I think I finally cracked the code, and it’s surprisingly simple: Learn to play melodies by ear (starts with singing) Learn only enough theory to: know your way around your instrument (scales, arpeggios) understand chords understand song structure Experiment (ie have fun!) The most anal formal exercise I’d recommend is learning to hear relative scale degrees (two very good apps available for that)–though I think that skill would be developed by transcribing (playing by ear), it’s helpful for your confidence level to have graded exercises you can have some success with. But my experience with most of my music teachers is they fall into one of two traps: For classical music, it’s: Learn how to translate written notes into notes on your instrument. Go to 1. For instance: I was taking clarinet lessons and I remember my teacher saying goodbye to his last student–a kid–and the teacher said, “If you bring me the sheet music for it, we can learn to play it.” And I thought what a missed opportunity that was for that girl to learn to hear and transcribe music–obviously not a skill he thought was important to the teacher at all. And I’d understand now wanting to do that for piano, which is really complicated, but learning to play a melody by ear on a single note instrument is a very achievable goal, especially when you have someone that can tell you what key it’s in and what the first note is. The trap for jazz music is: Learn what are the “right” notes to play. Play them in any random order. I used to blame teachers for just being bad at their jobs, but I think students (and maybe parents/administrators) are also to blame. I ran across a senior guy who was trying to get back into piano. He’d played for a few years and it was clear he had no idea of how to be musical–no idea of how to construct a simple bass line, no knowledge of how to define a chord. So I said, “Hey, I’ll work with you even though I don’t play piano, I think you need to learn this song and just play the root and the five in the left hand, and sing the melody while you play, and use a metronome.” What an amazing exercise I thought: it would help teach him timing, develop his ear, develop his feel, let him be expressive with his voice, let him embody the melody, lear to work the bass, etc. Aren’t I brilliant teacher? You know what this guy did? He pulled out his phone to show me some recordings he did of him playing the song the way his music teacher had written it out for him; it was what I expected–just haltingly reading the music with no sense of time. I wasn’t sure, but I think he wanted me to praise him for playing such a complex piece. For him, and maybe for a lot of students (and certainly for parents and administrators), they don’t actually want to master music, they want to impress people. And maybe for the musically disinclined, haltingly playing a complex written piece is more impressive than a 2-note bassline in time with an expressive voiceline sensitive to dynamic; since most people in charge of music education (parents and school administrators) don’t know music, maybe they would promote a teacher who taught the former and fire a teacher who taught the latter… For jazz programs, I think they’ve got a lot of theory they’ve got to cram into the kids heads, and we can learn theory a lot faster than we can develop musically, so if you’re going to be judged on “performance” of your students, you’ll be rewarded for having them be able to pass essentially paper exams set to music more than for having them skillfully play pentatonic blues. I don’t know what the answer is, but for some reason, actually mastering music is very low on the list for both teachers and students. What’s all y’all’s experience with music and music education?
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You’re talking about perfect categories comparing them with the real world. Diffraction from objects without the loss of energy doesn’t exist, but allows us to solve a simpler equation paving a way to the understanding geometry of the phenomenon. Real world diffraction is affected by the properties of the material, mostly characterized by linear dielectric permittivity. When you start taking it into account, suddenly the light starts to penetrate into the material, often inducing heat – the primary source of the losses. Equations become messy, but it kinda allows you to calculate things with high precision.
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What’s up with that “put America above foreign countries” point? When has that not been true? Every president since before the country was founded happily bombed children to make oil $0.02 cheaper. Or does it mean to make it ‘better’ than foreign countries in various metrics? I guess then it makes more sense, but still would apply to pretty much all prior governments.
One breadfruit tree produces hundreds of pounds of tasty, nutritious fruit within a few years of being planted. Apparently all they need is high temperatures, good soil, and plenty of water. That’s it. No maintenance. Capitalists don’t use them because there’s no way to profit from them. I think I learned about this from a random tiktok video. I remembered Herman Melville’s other book, Typee, a memoir about how he ran away from a ship in the South Pacific and lived among indigenous people for six months or a year or so and had the time of his life. He loved those people, and they lived on breadfruit. All they did (simplifying obviously) was hang out, swim, and eat breadfruit. And meanwhile, we are here breaking our backs and/or brains, paying more for groceries every week while wages stagnate, and none of it has to be like this. Of course people want a little variety in their diets, of course there’s already enough food for everyone, but with breadfruit alone we could provide basic nutrition to everyone for free or next to nothing with no questions asked. Food insecurity, starvation, food deserts, malnutrition, animal suffering, pollution, none of this needs to exist. It’s all there so that the Epsteinists can buy more yachts. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but I was just thinking about this. I’m not even sure I’ve tasted breadfruit.
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It was a long, elaborate attempt to say that, wherever you go, you will be affected by those around and coerced to accommodate the majority of them in one way or another. That’s how societies work. Lamenting that you have no recourse is a waste of time. Also, if 99% of them are in agreement about how things should be done and you are the remaining 1% there is a good chance that you are the problem and not the 99%. Now, I’ve not denied that things are bad and that things need to change. We don’t disagree on that point. I just think your logic is fucked and leads to worse things in the end.
From Dane Flore Hate to see him go, but love to watch him leave. Short-eared Owl
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn’t mean the government’s spying powers will disappear. Surveillance under Section 702 of FISA “operates under yearlong certifications approved by the FISA Court,” the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law explained this week. The current certification will remain in place until March 2027 under the yearlong certification issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on March 17, 2026. “In order to pressure members to accept a bill without meaningful reforms, surveillance hawks are claiming that Section 702 surveillance will ‘go dark’ on June 12 if Congress hasn’t renewed the law,” the Brennan Center said. “Contrary to that claim, Congress planned for potential lapses and made very clear that Section 702 surveillance may continue under existing certifications even if the statute sunsets. Members must not be fearmongered into passing a reauthorization without protecting Americans from warrantless government access to their private communications.”
By Misión Verdad – Jun 11, 2026 At the end of the 20th century, the landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean displayed the aftermath of a widespread structural dismantling. The 1980s and 1990s, administered under the economic dogmas of the Washington Consensus and executed by technocratic teams trained in global financial centers, installed dynamics of subordination that reduced the sovereign capacities of states within the region. That fragmentation created a social void driven by the privatization of public functions and the transfer of political power to transnational corporations. The statistics of exclusion, unemployment, and material impoverishment that filled the continent confirmed the historical outcome of a model that emptied institutional frameworks to be replaced with corporate management overseen by the White House. Hugo Chávez’s victory in the 1998 Venezuelan presidential election reversed this continental inertia. Although the initial Venezuelan government program was focused on efforts of internal transformation through a Constituent Assembly and strategic recovery of the oil industry, the dynamics of hemispheric siege by the empire forced a rapid doctrinal transformation. Venezuela understood that the viability of the national project required establishing an autonomous regional environment capable of breaking the unipolarity of international relations after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Therefore, presidential diplomacy took on a totalizing character, projecting the Bolivarian agenda beyond the borders of Venezuela to help lay the foundations of a multipolar order. Integration became a pillar of strategic security confronting the continued relevance of the Monroe Doctrine. In his discourse at regional forums, Hugo Chávez conducted a rigorous diagnosis of the prostration of the continent, highlighting the perversion of false paradigms that sought to limit the continent’s destiny in adopting significant decisions. The construction of the new regional map required, from this perspective, understanding that unity depended on a firm geopolitical determination. Thus, he would state at a debate held during the restructuring of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), defining the nature of the hemispheric struggle as: “If there is will, there would be a thousand paths, but if there is no will, there will be no path.” The clash of visions and the insurrection of ideas (2001-2004) One of the most important scenarios of open confrontation against the US-led unipolar order occurred at the Quebec Summit of the Americas in 2001. At that forum, the Washington delegation pushed for the signing of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an economic annexation project that aimed to institutionalize the Monroe Doctrine throughout the hemisphere. Hugo Chávez took a position of absolute resistance against the consensus overseen by the White House, becoming the only leader to condemn the colonial nature of the US proposal at a time when the regional balance of power was unfavorable to sovereign ideas. The audacity of Venezuelan presidential diplomacy lay in understanding that the unity of the periphery required a profound rectification. Facing the current that confined the continent’s destiny solely to technical discussions about tariffs, livestock quotas, or customs rates managed by the elites, Chávez postulated the absolute primacy of political action. According to the Venezuelan leader, economic integration should be the direct consequence of a firm state determination, and never its original cause. “Here came the perverse notion that integration is an economic fact. No!” he declared. “Economic integration must be, in our view, a consequence and not a cause … the horses that are pulling and that must pull integration must be the horses of politics and society … integration must begin with politics, we must convince ourselves of that, otherwise we are doomed for the most resounding failure.” Amid the hostility of governments subordinate to Washington, Caracas wove a strategic alliance with the popular movements of the continent. This construction materialized on December 14, 2004, in Havana, where Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro signed the founding protocols of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). The birth of this bloc broke the regional inertia by proposing a model based on mutual respect, complementarity, and cooperation. The joint declaration of ALBA stood as the antithesis of FTAA, explicitly prioritizing the strengthening and shielding the most vulnerable nations of the Caribbean and South America against the appetites of US domination. This initial platform demonstrated that resistance to the dictates of the Washington Consensus required its own institutional architecture, formally inaugurating the period of political offensive in the region. From Mar del Plata to CELAC The deployment of this integrative strategy reached its peak geopolitical impact in November 2005, during the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. There, the political project led by Hugo Chávez, in tune with social currents of the region, dealt a historic blow to the FTAA project. This milestone shattered the supremacy of the “Inter-American System,” a structure that Washington imposed following World War II to govern international relations within what it considered its exclusive sphere of hemispheric influence. Venezuela then accelerated the construction of political security bodies and autonomous institutions. The first major qualitative leap occurred in 2008 with the founding of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), conceived as a wall of sovereign defense to resolve regional conflicts without the intervention of the US State Department. At the same time, the coordinated push of this bloc forced the Organization of American States (OAS), in 2009, to repeal the 1962 resolution that expelled Cuba from the Inter-American system. The maturation of this diplomatic offensive materialized in December 2011 with the founding of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Caracas. This event set a precedent: for the first time in modern history, the 33 nations of the continent unified their political positions in their own organization, explicitly excluding the United States and Canada. Upon assuming the presidency of the founding summit, Chávez consolidated the strategic objective of dispensing with the Pan-American tutelage of the North. The creation of CELAC required neutralizing the tensions promoted by the conservative sectors of the continent. While the core promoters of the agreement were laying the foundations for a sovereign regional system, the Colombian government, led by Álvaro Uribe during the preparatory phases, systematically worked to slow down and undermine the consensus. The irreversible integrative dynamics of the time, though, forced even the subsequent government of Juan Manuel Santos to join the nascent regional community. A determining factor for this new bloc’s success was the incorporation of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states, nations that had historically unaligned with continental politics. This geopolitical isolation was overcome thanks to Petrocaribe’s cooperation diplomacy, a mechanism that integrated the Caribbean into the regional architecture long before the 2011 summit. Four Times When Hugo Chávez Chose Peace The horizon of regional unity In this regional context, the historical milestone consisted of breaking the conceptual paralysis of its time, upholding regional unity as a viable, strategic, and urgent political project amidst a context of absolute neoliberal subordination. The relevance of this legacy lies in valuing the political act of proposing, designing, and defending a horizon of autonomous project amid the inertia of the Washington Consensus. Examining this history confirms that the proposal for a Latin America and the Caribbean integrated on their own terms closed a cycle of institutional dominance. Confronting the rules imposed by transnational interests, Hugo Chávez called upon the region to build a path based on collective determination and popular sovereignty: Venezuela could withdraw from the OAS and call upon the peoples of this continent to free ourselves from those old instruments and to form an organization of the peoples of Latin America, of free peoples … If there is will, there will be a thousand paths. Gallegos used to say: ‘Venezuelan plains, horizons like hope and paths like will.’ But if there is no will, there will be no path. If we put our will into play … a thousand paths will open up … to make the Bolivarian utopia of a truly united, strengthened, and globalized Latin America and the Caribbean a reality, but for life. 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As AI companies get ready to go public and we get a deeper look at their inner workings, it’s only natural to have questions about their finances, like “Do they make money?” and “How?” Here are a few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.
While the October 2024 embed was one of the more preposterous embodiments of Western corporate media’s special relationship with Israel, outlets continue to do a fine job of sanitizing Israeli brutality even when their reporters are not physically viewing the region from inside an Israeli armored vehicle. Since March of this year, Israel has killed at least 3,613 people in Lebanon and displaced 1.2 million, obliterating entire villages and otherwise expanding the ecocidal policy honed in the Gaza Strip. There has been no remotely comparable destruction on the Israeli side, and a recent Reuters article (5/31/26) that had attempted to suggest some symmetry now comes with the preface: “This May 31 story has been corrected to remove a reference to tens of thousands of Israelis being displaced by Hezbollah fire, in paragraph 3.” Like in Gaza, where genocide proceeds apace in spite of a declared ceasefire (FAIR.org, 10/21/25), the media tend to report “ceasefires” in Lebanon without caring to highlight the fact that it’s not a ceasefire when Israel is still pummeling the country and massacring people, all the while setting the stage for a massive land grab with its creeping so-called “evacuation orders.” … As Battah remarked to me, the media’s acceptance and deployment of such arbitrary vocabulary creates “artificial structures” and a sense of orderliness, when in reality “there’s no yellow lines, there’s no yellow, there’s no colors—these are just illegal invasions.” And because media are committed to sanitizing Israel’s behavior rather than questioning it, “colonization becomes normalized.” The eagerness of journalists to do Israel’s bidding is all the more confounding given that Israel is currently the No. 1 killer of journalists in the world. A recent Associated Press article (5/29/26), for example, reduced the pulverization of Lebanon to simply “ongoing fighting in southern Lebanon between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.”
Last Monday, California Reps. Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, and Pete Aguilar visited Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center as the hunger strike in the immigration jail entered its second week. The Democrats met with three of the hunger strikers, who gave them a petition, signed by some 150 people inside the facility, speaking of inhumane conditions inside the jail and degrading treatment by staff. The Adelanto ICE jail is run by private prison company GEO Group. The next day, GEO Group staff entered a unit “in riot gear holding pepper spray, tear gas canisters and zip ties,” and removed two of the people who had met with congressional staff the day before. And on Wednesday, they removed the third person, according to other detainees. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260612121142/https://truthout.org/articles/hunger-strikers-in-adelanto-ice-jail-moved-to-solitary-after-meeting-congressmen/
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Are you sure? Male politicians are infamous for not facing consequence. This woman fucked a minor and got nine months, my country’s president fucked countless minors and an airport took his name after he died
When the Open Social Web Hybridizes: Raccoon for Friendica is a new app… Mastodon. And it even has a little Lemmy in it! That’s why the Free Software + Fediverse duo is such a valuable resource. @fediverse Raccoon 1.0 was finally released for Android in recent days, a rather innovative client originally created for #Friendica, but which has now become one of the most innovative apps for the user experience on #Mastodon. The app is available for Android (already on the Play Store and Izzidroid, and will soon be available on F-Droid), but a #Debian package has also been released. An iOS version remains to be seen for its success. The app introduces some very important innovations to the federated app landscape. 1. Navigate the Fediverse from an app, even without creating an account Raccoon is the only app that lets you browse the Fediverse even without an account. When you install it, you can select any Friendica or Mastodon instance and “leverage” its local public and federated timelines. This way, users can explore multiple instances before choosing which one to open an account on. Of course, even after adding an account (the app manages multiple accounts), you can browse the timelines of servers other than the one you signed up to. 2. “Browse through” messages: “swipe” navigation Unlike all other social apps (both those for the Fediverse and those for commercial social networks), #RaccoonForFriendica lets you open a post in your timeline and continue browsing through previous and next posts by simply swiping left and right. This is a truly interesting ergonomic innovation. 3. Finally a formatting bar in social apps Since the app was created for Friendica, it features a built-in formatting toolbar reminiscent of Lemmy clients (in fact, the developer @janTeko first experimented with app development with a Lemmy app). The formatting toolbar can also be used for Mastodon instances running the Glitch-soc fork, such as infosec.exchange, tech.lgbt, and my poliversity.it instance, which was the one the developer experimented with. In addition to being more immediate, writing formatted posts is also made easier by a “preview” function that helps avoid errors in Markdown or BBCode coding. 4. Finally, Mastodon users will be able to enjoy Fediverse groups too. As you may know, Mastodon doesn’t support the display of group posts. Even if you select a group, you’ll still see a single timeline where top posts alternate with replies. Searching for a thread on Mastodon is therefore very complicated, but the #Raccoon developer has found a way to enable “topic” viewing across all accounts that are “activitypub groups,” be they #Lemmy, #NodeBB, Piefed, Mbin, Peertube, Wordpress, Mobilizon, Flipboard, etc. This idea also came about thanks to the fact that the developer had previously tried his hand at developing an app for Lemmy and was able to experiment with the formatting bars and display of Lemmy “communities,” which are nothing other than “#activitypub groups.” 5. Other interesting features Among other features, you can view the HTML code of messages; send scheduled posts; fully configure the interface; support for writing in HTML, useful both for Mastodon Glitch-soc and for writing WordPress posts by integrating the plugin “Activitypub for Wordpress” from @pfefferle and the “Enable Mastodon App” plugin from @alex integrate translation libraries 6. What’s still missing? The app features all the features found in most other Mastodon apps, except one: the correct handling of Mastodon posts that quote other posts. These are still displayed in a fairly primitive way. The developer is trying to decide whether to adapt to Mastodon specifications or reinterpret the feature in a more personalized way. It must be said that, unfortunately, the implementation of quoted messages (already present in Friendica for ages) was implemented by Mastodon very late, only in recent months, and in a very “personal” way that many other software developers did not appreciate. 7. Raccoon is an app that will benefit users who already use Mastodon but also those who have never “tried” the Fediverse This app has been under development for almost two years, and the beta version is just over a year old. However, version 1.0 has resolved all previously encountered issues. Based on user feedback, the developer will evaluate whether to create an iOS version and even a Windows version. Anyone who wishes to allow reporting of application errors can enable anonymous crash reports. 8. Links and Resources This is the developer’s profile: https://androiddev.social/users/janTeko This is the app repository: https://github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica/ This is the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livefast.eattrash.raccoonforfriendica This is the link on IzzyDroid (the app will be released on F-Droid soon, but is currently under review): https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.livefast.eattrash.raccoonforfriendica Here is the developer’s blog: https://livefasteattrashraccoon.github.io/blog/ Finally, from here you can download the .apk or .deb package without using the online stores. line: https://github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica/releases/latest/ One last recommendation The public’s response will be important to enable the further development of this app. If you want to test it on Mastodon, I recommend using instances running the glitch-soc fork. Among these, I’d recommend the infosec.exchange instance, which is well managed by @jerry. And of course, but only if you communicate in Italian or Esperanto, I’d be happy to host you on my poliversity.it instance. Regarding Friendica, I recommend two instances: friendica.world, managed by @ruud and featuring a rather lively timeline, and, of course, social.trom.tf, excellently managed by @tio. If you communicate in Italian, I’d be happy to host you on my poliverso.org instance. Greetings to all and let me know if you need further information, if you have tried the app and how you found it. Francesco You can also interact with me through the Mastodon account @informapirata and the Friendica account @notizie
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Striking a child is outlawed in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland but remains legal in England and Northern Ireland. Proposals to make physical punishment illegal have just been dropped in Northern Ireland – similar plans were abandoned in England last year. Alba, Cymru, and Éire showing compassion for their population as usual. I’m curious what the justification for dropping such proposals were. “Can’t even give your own kids a good beating these days. It’s political correctness gone mad!”? I was struck regularly as a child. Even if some of us “turned out fine” (and there’s people who didn’t), there’s more to it than how we are 20, 30, 40 years down the line. Especially when parents get carried away in the heat of the moment and go further than they intended. The way some adults interact with children it’s like they think children have the memories of goldfish. Like they’re some other species. A pet or something, until they reach around 16-18. Children are just small inexperienced people, they still experience the present, pain, and emotions. Not only do they experience that but they now have a paradox in their heads of “this person is my care giver and yet also beats me”. It’s fucked up. It’s authoritarian. Obedience through violence. And it’s even more fucked up that two parliaments have dropped proposals to stop it.
De Oranje-warmloopshirts van het Amsterdamse kledingmerk Patta trekken de aandacht met een kek en doordacht ontwerp. De verkoop begon vrijdagmiddag en het was met een uur uitverkocht. Patta-medeoprichter Guillaume Schmidt vertelt aan NU.nl hoe het shirt werd ontvangen.
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A screenshot from an account with “Middle-Earth” in the name, bringing up the Thalmor from Elder Scrolls, posted on the Star Wars community. What the fuck is going on?
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Oh yeah, I forgot Che was a doctor
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“He thought, that editing a beloved movie after 20 years was a good idea”.
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Thrustmaster T16000M is pretty good and the sort of thing you would be looking for as a reliable option that is comfortable for entry level. Currently £50 on Amazon. Any keyboard and mouse that is functional to go with it would be fine.
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