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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20m

“A 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of white American evangelicals believe that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, compared with 81 percent of ultra-Orthodox Jews and 44 percent of respondents overall.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 2h

Thinking about Maggie Cheung again.

David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 19d

Mowing the lawn listening to Metric and thinking about Maggie Cheung again.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 2h

I am definitely drinking less than earlier this year. And I rarely go out for coffee, mostly just when I'm out of town.

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 4h

“Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.”

I've had >10 data centers go up within 10 miles of my house in the last 5 years.

All are riding the AI bubble to make finances work. None have a decommissioning plan.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 4h

There are many problems in this world, and this one is relatively small, but how the fuck is iLok still a thing? Or any other kind of physical dongle?

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 5h

You know the "people" who run @bsky.app don't care about people. Tech bros are biggest losers on the planet.

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 9h

Enjoyed reading this Mark Fell interview with Tone Glow. Particularly like the passages about UK polytechnics being centres of radical creativity (seems lost now), and about being in symbiosis with yer material. Lots of class music examples throughout too.

toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 5h

Luthier shops smell the best, aside from that pot of hide glue that's usually bubbling somewhere.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 16h

Reasonable

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 17h

Dude you QTed was co-creator of a tv show called Halt & Catch Fire.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 17h

I loved Halt and Catch Fire. That's it.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 17h

Good shit!

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 18h

Hopefully you'll get it spun up eventually. Those old heavy boxes were built like tanks.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 19h

But does your new toy work?

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 19h

I got a thing for oscillators. My bass is really just four oscillators and a giant body for an amplifier.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 19h

Sick

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Brad Cohan @thebradcohan.bsky.social · 21h

For @treblezine.bsky.social I chatted with reformed posthardcore greats Black Eyes who have a great new record out today on @dischord.com , first in 20 years, called ‘Hostile Design’ and it rules .. a must grip

www.treblezine.com/black-eyes-i...

Black Eyes interview - "This isn't a nostalgia trip" | Treble

Reunited and releasing their first new album in two decades, the D.C. band discuss their next chapter

www.treblezine.com

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 21h

now playing [cd - SLAM CD 505]
info: slamproductions.bandcamp.com/album/explor...
Max Roach: drums
Mal Waldron: piano
Recorded at the Desingel Arts Centre, Antwerp, Belgium. 20 Sept 1995.

cover art for the Max Roach and Mal Waldron CD "Explorations... to the Mth Degree" issued by SLAM Records in 1999

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 23h

JFC

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Fluid Motion (2002)

Sam Rivers
Doug Matthews
Anthony Cole
Jonathan Powell
David Manson

Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers - Fluid Motion (Full Album) - YouTube

The full album for Fluid Motion / Music by Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers playlist Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers - Fluid Motion / Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers F...

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Sick

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Probably.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 1d

Some sources say the 10th, others 11th, so let’s just celebrate the magnificent Fred Hopkins, who was born around this time of October in 1947, all weekend. Play some Air! Or any of the many other recordings he made such significant and memorable contributions to. (📸Tom Copi).

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 1d

So many politicians/candidates for office here who claim to care about people but still don't use alt text.