Follow me on Bandcamp to hear my ambient recordings: billgregg.bandcamp.com/album/source...

Source of the Hardware, by Bill Gregg

12 track album

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Among the crimes of the current US regime, this poses an immediate, severe threat to the well-being of every American. Musk and his gang uploaded our social security files to an unsecure server. Blatently illegal! Of course, no one has been arrested for this. www.bankinfosecurity.com/breach-round...

Breach Roundup: DOGE Uploaded Social Security Data to Cloud

This week, DOGE posted sensitive data on an outside server. A phishing attack affected 750,000 Canadians. A hacktivism warning from the U.K. NCSC. An Ingram Micro

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Had a great time reuniting & playing at the Trumansburg Farmers Market with my pals from "The Bluehounds", a folk and blues trio that we had for 15 years. Here's me (fiddle) Gary Kline (banjo) and Greg Grodem (guitar) playing at the Farm Sanctuary near Watkins Glen in 2010!

My private music lesson schedule is totally filled less than halfway through the first month of 2026. I will have to start a wait list for new students. It's like the old days as in this photo of my 2008 student recital at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts

Nice article on the $1.7 million renovation project at the wonderful fine arts conservatory where I have been teaching music for the last 22! years. www.weny.com/news/local/t...

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts Secures Full Funding for Renovations

TRUMANSBURG, NY (WENY) — The Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) reached its fundraising goal to make some much-needed upgrades to the facility. With a project price tag of $1.7M,

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This pretty much removes all hope: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Moment world secures compromise deal at Cop30 that sidesteps fossil fuels – video

World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the Cop30 conference in Brazil that would increase finance for poor countries coping with global warming but omits any mention of t...

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Very interesting (and, unfortunately, timely) essay regarding societal collapse: aeon.co/essays/the-g...

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays

Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

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Taking a break from preparing for my next concert, I took my camera out and captured the front yard lilies looking glorious!

I will be on stage at the Genesee Country Village's Fiddle and Folk Festival Saturday, August 16th. This is a show on the traditional fiddle styles of New York State's southern tier with lots of fiddle tunes to demonstrate this unique style of traditional folk music. www.gcv.org/event/fiddle...

Fiddle & Folk Festival - Genesee Country Village & Museum

Fiddle & Folk Festival will bring together musicians on different stages around the Museum grounds for a weekend of non-stop entertainment!

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Caught this blossom with the dew still on the petals in our front yard.

The EmPower+ program enabled us to have a mini-split heating and cooling system installed at our house. Check it out, especially if your household is in the low-moderate income range. www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs...

I've adopted a "pet" spider, a Phidippus audax, an honored guest who doesn't make webs and patrols our kitchen, eating up flies and other noxious insects. They are remarkably intelligent, and this one allows me to touch it now that it's used to me. Link to info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidipp...

Phidippus audax - Wikipedia

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The definition of "unsustainable": www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-d...

Prescient article from May 13, 2025 Scientific American on the danger from the current regime's attack on weather and climate services: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Facing Huge Cuts—That Could Cost Lives

Weather experts warn that staff cuts at the National Weather Service that have been made by the Trump administration are a danger to public safety as tornadoes, hurricanes and heat loom this spring an...

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My summer music season kicks off with this party in Spencer, NY. I will be playing fiddle and autoharp with my friends Rick Biesanz (autoharp, harmonica etc.), Gary Kline (banjo, guitar) and Ernie Williams (guitar). 11 AM until 3 PM allevents.in/spencer/part...

For this 4th day of July, 2025, I direct your attention to Frederick Douglas' speech delivered in Rochester, NY in 1852: constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

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What's up? Catastrophe! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

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📢Reminder ahead of 🌊#WorldOceanDay - let us know of any activities, on June 8 or in the surrounding weeks, that will highlight #ocean oxygen, #eutrophication, and/or #deoxygenation! We will amplify these efforts via our channels and include them in the upcoming issue of the #GO2NE newsletter.

Big Data, AI and Crypto companies reap huge profits; we utility customers are forced to subsidize them. Tyranny, IMO. eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-p...

Struggling to get the garden in this Spring due to the relentless rain. Worth the effort. Here is a photo of my vegetables from a couple years back in mid-summer. Wonderful food, and the exercise keeps me vigorous in my advancing years.

The recent (likely illegal) dismissal of the the head of the US copyright office impells me to stop posting artwork or photos for the tech bros to steal and generate their AI Slop. I have shut down all literary, art, and musical presence on the internet. Read this: issues.org/generative-a...

I "retired" from biotech in 2005 and started teaching at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts. 20 years on, I'm still bringing music into the lives of people in my community. Found this photo from my 2008 student recital. I was teaching mostly guitar then, but have added piano & violin/fiddle.

On a sunny late November day last year, my wife's Queen Elizabeth rose graced our yard with one last beautiful blossom.

Looking forward to the, always amazing, CayAC art show opening May 2nd. One of my paintings will be displayed (in "Hell", of course). cayugaartscollective.weebly.com/annual-sprin...

Annual Spring Show

Open gallery hours for the Annual Spring Show in June

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Our beloved cavachon, Dash, 10 weeks old, on the trip home from the breeder, March 19, 2022.

The reason I was in Monterey in the mid-1960's was that I was studying the Russian language at DLI en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense...

Defense Language Institute - Wikipedia

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In 1966 (!!!) I lived two blocks from this magical place, Lovers Point Park, in Pacific Grove, California

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Rather than take classes & paint decorative images, I experiment with improvisational paintings. Instead of depicting what my eyes see, I paint what's in my mind. Example - "Nest in the Storm":

Sunset from my backyard. One of the reasons I live in Upstate NY in the Fingerlakes region!