David Menestres
@abstracttruth.northsky.social
Destroy the original. Fax the images to Newark. davidmenestres.com Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/LGjqTCbctIfzanv6jEdM4Q88-gRORqbNrxZoWuHUs8BTfG7-NpFGao1HC8l7SHZs
Talked to some people who wandered by. As usual, nobody knew what happened here. But two people, Darden school students, wanted to know more. So I told them. And we talked for 30 minutes. And they ended up writing this: the first time any passer-by has written anything.
In Lochiel, Arizona, a single ancient cottonwood tree stands in the way of the construction of Donald Trump's border wall. For two weeks, demonstrators have occupied the tree and defended it against construction crews and border patrol. They invite you to act in solidarity. crimethinc.com/lochiel
The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
crimethinc.com
New one from Mali Obomsawin out in October Andrew Broder - turntables, electronics Adam O'Farrill - trumpet Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet Allison Burik - bass clarinet Yuma Uesaka - tenor saxophone Noah Campbell - tenor saxophone Magdalena Abrego - electric guitar Zack O'Farrill - drums
Automatic, by Mali Obomsawin
8 track album
mali-obomsawin.bandcamp.com
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
thestar.com
Sharing this crucial data because this is a plague that has followed me my whole radio career and I don't know what folks are expecting me to do with untagged files (or what I, a radio guy, am supposed to do with just a streaming Spotify link)
David Menestres@abstracttruth.northsky.social · 2d agoI wrote a basic guide on how to tag your audio files with the correct metadata. It will take you longer to read this than to tag your files. This is essential for many reasons, but especially for folks sending out promos. davidmenestres.com/how-to-tag-y...
I have seen firsthand the terror and tactics the National Guard have inflicted on the residents of D.C., particularly in lower income housing not far from my neighborhood.there were jump outs just this past Friday at Brookland Manor. And troops bothering picnickers at Malcom X Park. Not. Normal
Today marks one year of living in an occupied D.C. If someone or a news organization tells you that this is the new normal, then they have just chosen to ignore the people who live here and live it. They have given up.
I wrote a basic guide on how to tag your audio files with the correct metadata. It will take you longer to read this than to tag your files. This is essential for many reasons, but especially for folks sending out promos. davidmenestres.com/how-to-tag-y...
How to Tag Your Audio Files – tone science
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Successfully migrated my account to @transrights.northsky.social!!!
After nearly an hour of public comment, the board agreed to not pursue either of the two "safety" proposals from MVP. Commenters were overwhelmingly opposed and the board rejected the proposals as "not serious."
Reminder the federal government has repealed the finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2d agoJuly was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S., dramatically marking an already scorching summer on.wsj.com/4qhjNfe
What's everyone reading these days? Need some suggestions.
I wrote a basic guide on how to tag your audio files with the correct metadata. It will take you longer to read this than to tag your files. This is essential for many reasons, but especially for folks sending out promos. davidmenestres.com/how-to-tag-y...
How to Tag Your Audio Files – tone science
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This brings us ever closer to the scenario @fractalecho.bsky.social and I laid out in our Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline piece, in which Microsoft's pursuit of an accessible controller will be used to lure disabled vets back into battle as remote drone operators. newrepublic.com/article/1793...
How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War
The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.
newrepublic.com
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2d agoSo, this is real, I just checked
Virginia is the only state in the American South that hasn't banned or restricted access to abortion since the US Supreme Court undid Roe v. Wade in 2022. This fall, voters will decide what's next. "Amending Virginia: Reproductive Rights" is available to watch now.
Watch Amending Virginia: Voters will decide reproductive rights' future four years after Roe
The second episode of our limited series on constitutional amendments is out now.
vpm.org
Absolutely insane to me that Disco doesn't automatically tag wav files with the correct metadata. Why do so many people pay for this service? Also insane to me that artist/labels aren't uploading files with the correct metadata in the first place.
Might fuck around and Hope the light of compassion Shines on us all, dude
Didn’t think AlphaTheta would enshittify the formerly Pioneer reputation so quickly
Peter Kirn@pkirn.bsky.social · 2d agoThere is a *huge* security flaw in AlphaTheta (Pioneer DJ) hardware and software, including CDJ, XDJ, and Rekordbox for desktop and mobile. Here's when you'll actually see the issue, what happened, and how to protect yourself, in detail. (Especially as I see some misinformation!)
What's everyone reading these days? Need some suggestions.
There are almost 40 Braxton albums available on the Leo Records Bandcamp page; dive in! anthonybraxtonleo.bandcamp.com/music
Anthony Braxton
Born in Chicago and a key early member of the AACM, Anthony Braxton is is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, a MacArthur Fellow and an N...
anthonybraxtonleo.bandcamp.com
deeply annoyed to discover my favorite collard seeds are out of stock
icymi there's a campaign to put the first data center in a national park site
jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · 5d agomy latest: i can confirm there's been a concerted campaign to develop a data center in northern virginia within a historically important national park site relying on help from a senior advisor to the interior department under the first trump admin will the land swap happen? for @heatmap.news
In english by Ruth Rubin, but there are yiddish versions out there too. Great work as always @kimkelly.bsky.social
Ballad of the Triangle Fire
Ruth Rubin's ballad commemorating the fire that killed 146 young women on March 25, 1911 in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. From of her lecture "Yiddish Folksongs of Social Significa
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Shaun Richman@shaunrichman.org · 2d agoI said I'd like to take the kids to Greenwich Village...for lunch, the park and to see the Triangle Shirttwaist Factory. My 10-year-old, in the other room, perked up and asked "the Triangle factory?" "Yes. How do you know about that?" "I read about it in @kimkelly.bsky.social's "Fight To Win."
Excited to share the premiere of my film The Witness tree, which explores narratives of colonialism & climate change through the biodata sonification of trees in Virginia, sponsored by Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, Religion, Ecology, & Expressive Culture Initiative. ism.yale.edu/events/2026-...
The doves in the yard sound like very depressed owls.
