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🕳️ #VanishingCulture arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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“Globally, women’s human rights are under attack,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. “Instead of mainstreaming equal rights, we’re seeing the mainstreaming of misogyny." via @apnews.com #WomensRights #Equality

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While Crisafulli pathetically looks for good news stories as TC Alfred bears down, people in the Redlands, a Liberal party stronghold, are without power, sheltering in safe rooms.

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🔥🔥🔥 I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity “If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days. The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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President Zelensky goes back to the battle field, The US with its cohort of cowards, forward to historical obscurity. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

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60 Free Film Noir Movies. Watch 'em online

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The Far Reach (95 x 150cm - oil and acrylic on canvas) *prints available

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The war on women never goes away.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Current mood... There's something strange going on down here A sickening implosion of mistrust and fear A vast corruption that's about to boil A mixture of greed and the smell of oil ... Kevin Ayers Whatevershebringswesing 1971.

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THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the news cycle w/ a stream of outrage porn to distract, scare, & confuse. These are the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week: NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

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RFK Jr just said the quiet part out loud - America's is normalising the rise of a new 'Hard Power', led by a dynastic leaders and their families while every other American family will be made to prepare for military service, under the guise of health for 'strength'.

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Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

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the US freeze on international aid is a clear prosecutable crime against humanity. #usaid

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Over 8,700 recordings made in 1924 and documented by DAHR will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025! This includes thousands of recordings that have already been digitized by the UCSB Library for free public access.

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Birthday kayak, first of many this New Year.

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Entering the US public domain tomorrow, #PublicDomainDay: All works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924. 🥳 Highlights include Faulkner’s “The Sound & the Fury,” Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” & Mickey Mouse’s first talkie. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

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Someone did anti-AI glaze for audio!

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The complete discography of Agustín Barrios Mangoré, the great Paraguayan guitarist and composer, is now online, along with audio from the most comprehensive collection of his 78rpm discs. adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...

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More than 4,000 new audio files have been loaded to DAHR, bringing the total to over 78,000. adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...

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The first part of Arthur Pryor’s personal record collection arrived at the UCSB Library yesterday. 47 Berliners and a dozen 7” Victors. Pryor was a pioneer recording artist as a soloist and trombone player with Sousa’s Band as well as a composer and bandleader.

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The age just published an article about how a landlord realised he couldn’t get a renter to pay off his ENTIRE mortgage and had to pay some of it himself. Incredible stuff.

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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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UCSB has several discs by Orquesta Tipica Argentina "F. Chidichimo" making their way to the digitization lab. Recorded in Argentina ca. 1937, and issued in the US by Columbia. We don't know the source of the matrixes. Does anybody know? adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...

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i'm sure that I'm late to this but pretty much clears up any confusion lol

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Khaled 'Abu Diaa' Nabhan, a Palestinian man who moved many last year while saying goodbye to his killed three-year-old granddaughter, Reem, has been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/l31q2z

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Did you catch the @nbcnews.com spot on the recording industry lawsuit against our library? www.nbcnews.com/now/video/re...

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Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... (🚫🧱) Want to show your support? ⬇️

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If you're a musician, do not opt in to allow your work being an AI learning dataset. Two minutes why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXnE...

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Work has begun on the Mamakos Family DionysiaTrust Collection, assembled by John Afendras (1897-1976), a Greek-born violinist who led a career in San Francisco as a performer and conductor of the Municipal Band in the 50s. An eclectic and exciting collection! www.library.ucsb.edu/mamakos-fami...

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Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand to protect dogs' welfare www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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