Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Les 6 et 7 décembre, je serai au PSL XXL à la Villette (Paris) pour tenir un stand sur Linux et la musique. Avec des démo (guitare, kalimba électrique et autres), des explications et des découvertes. Si je suis en forme ce week-end je tente la démo chant !
#opensource #meeting #linux #fedora

November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Avatar - Abduction Song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X55...
An excellent song. The rythms guitars are top ...
#metal #song #video #clip #music

AVATAR - Abduction Song [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Avatar Metal

www.youtube.com

November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Glenn Branca - The Ascension
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeYM...
Some interesting experimental guitars ...
#music #noise #guitar #rock #experimental

Glenn Branca - The Ascension (1981, Full Album, High Quality)

YouTube video by kuliio

www.youtube.com

November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

#joke

November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Fausto Romitelli - Professor Bad Trip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1G...
Contemporary Italian composer obsessed with psychedelic rock and distortion: a true scholarly synthesis.
#music #experimental #classical #score

Fausto Romitelli - Professor Bad Trip

YouTube video by Precipotato

www.youtube.com

November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Added DrumGroovePro as a VST3 plugin to the Audinux #fedora COPR repository.

A free, open-source MIDI drum groove sequencer VST3 plugin. Create, organize, and play custom drum patterns with an intuitive interface.

github.com/InToEtherion...
audinux.github.io
#vst #opensource #audio #linux

November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Murder, Magic, and Medicine - John Mann
books.google.fr/books/about/...
The next reading in my list ...
#book #magic

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

People have always been curious about the plants and animals with which they coexist. Primitive cultures identified edible and poisonous plants largely by trial and error, and then used them for hunti...

books.google.fr

November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Laibach - Brat moj (My Brother)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6b...
#clip #industrial #rock #music #dark
A very interesting clip. Quite dark, but interesting

Laibach : Brat moj (My Brother) / Laibach Revisited

YouTube video by Laibach

www.youtube.com

November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

#joke

November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM

Reposted by Joseph Curwen

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Added Tenacity (an Audacity fork) to the #fedora Audinux COPR repository.
tenacityaudio.org
audinux.github.io
#linux #audio #opensource #sound

November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Added KholorsStation to the #fedora Audinux COPR repository.
A Live, color-coded spectrogram of your tracks.
github.com/QuentinFAIDI...
audinux.github.io
#audio #linux #opensource #vst

November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Alice Cooper - Gutter Cat vs. The Jets:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJM...
A West Side Story cover. A nice one :)
#music #rock #hard #song

Gutter Cat vs. The Jets

YouTube video by Alice Cooper - Topic

www.youtube.com

November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Reposted by Joseph Curwen

Mathis Hammel

@mathishammel.bsky.social

Énorme ❤️ sur la Python Software Foundation qui vient de refuser un financement de 1.5 M$ du gouvernement américain qui comportait une clause anti-DEI.

Une décision exemplaire d'intégrité pour que Python reste fidèle à ses valeurs.

We were honored when, after many months of work, our proposal was recommended for funding, particularly as only 36% of new NSF grant applicants are successful on their first attempt. We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.” This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole. Further, violation of this term gave the NSF the right to “claw back” previously approved and transferred funds. This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to the PSF’s values, as committed to in our mission statement:
The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
Given the value of the grant to the community and the PSF, we did our utmost to get clarity on the terms and to find a way to move forward in concert with our values. We consulted our NSF contacts and reviewed decisions made by other organizations in similar circumstances, particularly The Carpentries.

In the end, however, the PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.

October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Coroner - Dissonance Theory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aJQ...
#metal #musicsky #music #album
An excellent album !

Coroner – Dissonance Theory (2025) | The Return of Swiss Technical Thrash Legends [Full Album]

YouTube video by HEADBANGER CHANNEL - RELEASES AND PROMONTIONS

www.youtube.com

October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

#poetry #dark

A corona lifting away
Distant feeling of inhumation
And deeply touched by a dark ray
Was this emotion

An horizon of visible forces
Taken by despise
A volunteer remorse
For a human wise

The danger of days
And load of humiliations
Hope for new ways
to feel life as a negation

October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Reposted by Joseph Curwen

Tomas Mihal

@tomastakno.bsky.social

... MEULE, vážení...
youtu.be/BzSuQJwyHJI?...

𝗠𝗘𝗨𝗟𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗥 𝗗'𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗗

YouTube video by MEULE

youtu.be

August 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

24-7 Spiz - Don't Push Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWF2...
#metal #rap #music
An old album, an old song, with good bass and good rythms !

Don't Push Me

YouTube video by 24-7 Spyz - Topic

www.youtube.com

October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Imperial Triumphant - Rot Moderne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJHk...
#metal #death #music
It sounds like Portal, it's good, but quite hard to listen to ...

Rot Moderne

YouTube video by Imperial Triumphant - Topic

www.youtube.com

October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

UFO Sighting - Voices of infinity
www.jamendo.com/track/222017...
Made with #opensource tools on Fedora.
Using an electric kazoo, through an echo and then the track has been slowed down.
#music #ambiant #dark

UFO Sighting - Voices Of Infinity | Jamendo Music | Free music downloads

Discover Voices Of Infinity on Jamendo Music

www.jamendo.com

October 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Pryapisme - A La Zheuleuleu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANS...
#music #rock #metal #8bit #progressive
Rock in opposition again. Really funny music, and so complex too.

Pryapisme "A la Zheuleuleu" (Official Audio - 2017, Apathia Records)

YouTube video by Apathia Records

www.youtube.com

October 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Joseph Curwen

@josephcurwen.bsky.social

Ultra Zook - La plasticité mentale du monsieur
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEpT...
#rock #progressif #music
A Rock In Opposition band singing in french ... A good one !