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Artist, musician, hacker. Renoise user. jamesbritt.com neurogami.com I also run ruby-doc.org [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@jamesbritt on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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#GulfOfZelensky

Would be a shame if people submitted snarky comments about Bezos and WaPo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/28/signs-of-hope-submissions/

The Hungergames

A must read if you have the slightest interest in food, Italy, public health, the EU, the selling of "tradition".... I was both saddened and surprised by the map showing rates of childhood obesity. https://www.politico.eu/article/mediterranean-diet-child-obesity-italy-health-europe/ […]

This is fucked up. This show changed my life. https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-sounds-slated-be-cut-wnycnypr/ NEW SOUNDS SLATED TO BE CUT FROM WNYC/NYPR.

U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts Consumer and business sentiment is wobbling as fiscal support fades and fears rise that tariffs will lead to higher prices. #GopEconomics […]

More Google #AI fail

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o Gene Hackman and his wife found dead at their home

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-economic-agreement-us-72ee2cfa720f6a42455c5425007060e6 "According to one Ukrainian official, some technical details are still to be determined. However, the draft does not include a contentious Trump administration proposal to give the U.S. $500 […]

This is just bonkers. https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/ #Race #America

I have segments of icy snow sliding off the roof, and each time it makes this load "plop-chunk" sound. Ah winter. #Catskills

They Live (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ #uspol #movies #trump #musk

One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists Gets an Overdue Revival https://news.artnet.com/art-world/barbara-shermund-new-yorker-cartoonist-caitlin-mcgurk-2609899

A Neo-Nazi group running from Russia is rebuilding in the US after the government says law enforcement will deprioritise far right extremist groups. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

Potential first major red flag that the AI bubble is going to burst - Microsoft are cancelling opex they'd committed for AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/microsoft-cancels-leases-for-ai-data-centers-analyst-says

Listening to Thelonius while doing household chores 🎶

Interesting Fediverse/Mastodon oddity, you can put dynamic variables in posts. Left: how I see the post Right: the post https://void.rehab/notes/a4fh6wx4mlfrinaz Feels like this is gonna get abused on #fediblock 🤣

Dear newbies who follow me: I will not follow anyone with a default profile pic, zero bio info, zero posts. It's just sus as all hell.

Going to see the Orphism exhibition at the Guggenheim this week. https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/harmony-and-dissonance-orphism-in-paris-1910-1930 #ART #NYC #Orphism #AbstractArt

Went to report a bug on the Parallels forums and I just gotta say: I am impressed. Take notes, website hosts, this is how you respect your users in a dark political time.

lmao

A reminder... Tina Smith is a senator from Minnesota. You've seriously fucked up when you get a Minnesotan this mad. #elonmusk

Around a dozen current & former federal workers are behind a new website created outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about #DOGE dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for #government workers to share how their workplaces are being […]

Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/arts/design/leigh-bowery-tate-modern.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE4.SZJ0.MesZIS5USBfz&smid=url-share

I know this is unlikely, but I would like every call between Trump and Trudeau to end with Trudeau saying, "By the way, fuck you." #OhCanada

This is awful. Just awful. It should be bigger đź« 

I wonder how many consumers of low-quality news are going to drive into #manhattan today because they heard #congestionpricing was cancelled... then get charged $9.

Firing America’s senior military leadership overnight and replacing them with party loyalists is definitely dictatorship stuff, if anyone is under a rock right now.

When I tell people that I don't really use "AI" assistants, "AI" bros will always tell me: Yeah so you can't criticize them because you don't use them, $whateverrandom model I use is awesome and does everything perfectly and you just don't invest the time to find which model under which […]

This guy is so full of shit and his voters aren’t having any of it. #republicans #congressman #georgia #voters #gaslighting youtu.be/j0rpCpyJKG0?...

Don’t EVER tell me public pressure doesn’t work. Yet another reversal. “Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the #Trump administration has blinked. A plan to […]

Republicans want to kill your grandparents. They want to cut Medicaid by nearly a trillion bucks so billionaires keep more money in their accounts. Medicaid pays for nursing home care.

A sad moment in U.S. history by Bernie Sanders. I would say also for all the World. #BernieSanders #USPolitics #Worldpolitics #newworldorder

VF: “In private, Republicans fear Trump might incite his followers to commit violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions… scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff...” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

By the time they're talking to you to record the soundbite, they already know what they want you to say, they just need to get you on camera saying it. There are some amusing aspects to how this played out in this case […]

Found on bluesky in reference to Donnie Diapers. https://bsky.app/profile/kirinlemondx.bsky.social/post/3limemkeki22l

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQAPrbDY0qs Instrumental alchemist Paul Metzger improvises hauntingly beautiful music on his self-modified 23-string banjo. Over the past 30 years, he's honed a sound that's percussive, rustic, ornate and entirely original. #Banjo

This guy woke up, got email he was fired and by 3:45pm locked out of everything digital, He writes, "Additionally, before I could fully print off my government records, I was also locked out of my electronic personal file that contained my secure professional records." If You work for the […]