Brad Mehldau performs his ‘Between Bach’ and J.S. Bach’s Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865, from his album ‘After Bach II,’ due May 10 on Nonesuch Records: bradmehldau.lnk.to
0:00 - Between Bach (Mehldau)
6:05 - Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865 (Bach)#BradMehldau #Bach
Lava piling up at the berm north of Grindavik:
The dark material on the ground is the cooling lava from the eruption that was the one before the prior one.
You can see the greenhouse in the middle of the image, with lava on its north side. It was protected by a small berm.
You can also see the small fissure on the side of Grindavik that pour out lava that burned three houses in the town.
The berms now are high enough supposedly to keep the new lava from breeching them. We’ll see.
Around the 5:00 mark I kept expecting to hear Keith Jarret groaning as he played.
For those of you DnDers, a new update is coming that changes some of the mechanics, but is also officially replacing race with species.
Trump says illegal immigrants are “not people,” they’re “animals,” precisely echoing the language of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and other mass murderers whose evil shadows the darkest pages of humanity’s history. You can smell the crematoria in his words.
re: #4 Belafon
For those of you DnDers, a new update is coming that changes some of the mechanics, but is also officially replacing race with species.
Ah, they’re finally coming out with their version of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Remaster (the rule changes to keep them safe from Hasbro’s literal rules lawyers & clean up silly problems)
North America still suffering the deleterious effects of certain German immigrants.
We have fans of both ladies on here.
Rhiannon Giddens just wants to talk about the banjo. Beyoncé was listening.
The Grammy- and Pulitzer Award-winning musician was tapped to collaborate on ‘Cowboy Carter’
wapo.st (gift link)
With a fantastic glamour shot of Rhiannon, which she says she will do if it helps her promote the banjo.
KYW’s version of the shooting in Levittown, Bucks County.
audacy.com
re: #13 Ace Rothstein
Maybe he’s trying to launch a civil war before his first trial.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Lava piling up at the berm north of Grindavik:
The berms now are high enough supposedly to keep the new lava from breeching them. We’ll see.
Trust in the berms but keep your go-bag packed
re: #18 jaunte
Haha that one works, but I was already reading it 😺
re: #18 jaunte
I got Pop-Ups telling me to subscribe.
I hate that fat orange motherfucker with the power of a thousand suns.
I am livid at Trump supporters. But I am almost more livid at the people who claim to oppose what Trump stands for but won’t vote that way. That includes both the tankie Left and the “moderate” Republicans.
Apparently there were serious fires and explosions in several Russian refineries, Syzran and Novokuibyshevsk, [ETA] last night. The assumption is that Ukraine hit them with drones.
The refineries account for about 10% of Russia’s oil refining capacity. There is no word on how much production has been degraded, nor how long it will take to buy the needed parts on the black market and repair the plants.
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Gerashchenko Xitter post
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Euromaidan Press Article: Ukraine’s security service attacks 3 Russian refineries in Samara Oblast overnight
Ukrainian Security Service strike drones hit three oil refineries belonging to Rosneft in Russia’s Samara Oblast on 16 March, Ukrainian Pravda reported, citing an anonymous source.
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The sources reported that these plants process about 25 million tons of oil annually, which is nearly 10% of Russia’s oil refining capacity.
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Favorite quotes from Xitter comments:
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Signore Palmerosa
@Signore_Palma
I have limited experience in chemical engineering, but I am fairly certain that this part should not be on fire.
FridayNightEcon 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
@FridayNightEcon
Oh, sure, now everybody is an expert and thinks they can tell when a raging multi-story fire at a petroleum facility is problematic or not.
re: #25 jaunte
That’s a good way into the interior of Russia.
Yes, that definitely is a long way in. The article is saying 1235 kilometers. Which is about 767 miles.
Supposedly some guy was arrested in Moscow and charged with helping with the Ukrainian drones. It being Russia, I have no idea what the guy was really suspected of, if anything.
re: #26 ckkatz
Might be like the guy they sicced the Hound on in Fahrenheit 451. Hadn’t done anything wrong but the State needed a victim.
Oh no!! Pineapple flavorings appear to be unavailable:
Colorado brewery teams with Tombstone on a frozen-pizza-flavored beer
re: #26 ckkatz
And Novokuybyshevsk is about 1600 km from Kyiv.
re: #29 Cheechako
What a slippery slope! Next thing you know, there will be beer flavored pizza. Probably in Chicago…
The old saying that comes to mind is “Just because one can, doesn’t mean one should”.
He’s the most flagrant campaign finance criminal in US history and it’s barely a footnote of a scandal
Does this mean Trump has spent at least $47 million in political donations on his lawyers?
nytimes.com
Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein….
I have yet to see any indication that the TikTok app is any worse in terms of privacy than any of the other major social media apps and a vast number of other apps both in the iOS and Android ecosystems. What we’re seeing in Congress now is just protectionist China-bashing. There’s lots of legit stuff to be concerned about with China, but these attacks on TikTok and Dul, for example, are political bipartisan grandstanding of a very bad kind, and it’s disgusting.
re: #33 ckkatz
Here in Milwaukee when a drunk spills a beer on a pizza, you eat the pizza ofc.
re: #36 Patricia Kayden
Oh, but he was talking about an ECONOMIC BLOODBATH, not a literal bloodbath, amirite?
re: #39 Charles
Heh. He said what he said. We all saw the violent riot he incited on January 6th 2021. We know exactly what he meant as do his sycophantic supporters.
re: #37 Amory Blaine
Here in Milwaukee when a drunk spills a beer on a pizza, you eat the pizza ofc.
Seems perfectly obvious to me. Can’t waste good beer after all! ;)
Previous post re TikTok became an interesting thread:
Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenwei..
@Gregnee The problem is that if you don’t have a background in these areas, all you likely have access to for information is essentially political hype. That’s not your fault, these are complex issues both technically and in terms of policy, and politicians of both parties routinely leverage this to their own advantage, even when they know better. That’s what’s happening with these issues, because China is a much easier target than the domestic entities such as data brokers who are enormously more damaging to U.S. residents than anything China does.
Follow the money.
Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenwei…
@Gregnee The underlying problem of course is that U.S. industries —completely voluntarily as they were only concerned with their profits —turned over most manufacturing to China. That’s where their real power is, and there’s no obvious way to undo that. I worry much less about TikTok than I do about Twitter/X or Truth Social, and other far right domestic social media, which are actively platforming disinformation and individuals to promote fascism and undermine democracy right here. It’s like the politicians who want to ban Dul, irrespective of the fact that this would have horrible consequences for all manner of agriculture, search and rescue, power infrastructure, and other critical industrial areas. It’s not DJI’s fault that they are widely considered to make the best drones in the world. But politicians can’t be bothered with the details. It’s all about the slogans (and the votes, and the money).
I have often warned that state and federal efforts to bring “age verification” and government-ordered content micromanagement (like the cases currently before the Supreme Court) would remake the U.S. Internet into a Chinese-style Internet, where breaking the rules can indeed land you in prison or a “rehabilitation” camp. But politicians of BOTH parties here seem all too willing to emulate China when it comes to this!
I could have gone my whole life without hearing a presidential candidate promise a “bloodbath” if he wasn’t elected, but not in this timeline.
re: #39 Charles
Oh, but he was talking about an ECONOMIC BLOODBATH, not a literal bloodbath, amirite?
Hoping DARK BRANDON and DARK KAMALA know what’s coming and give His Ass-Holeyness and his thugs no mercy when they fail.
It would be nice to see Trump’s Thugs get the shock of their lives when the DC Militia is laying in wait for them and this time every last one of them are arrested and held without bail when DARK BRANDON implements the Insurrection Act on them
re: #38 Patricia Kayden
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I’ve seen some of girlfriends too. So damn depressing the scum want us to go back to that.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
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And according to literal decades of the same whining and moaning from the billionaire class, I can only conclude that those countries are jobless, blighted hellholes because all the billionaires took their money and ran…right?
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re: #47 Targetpractice
S*ithole countries, as Trump would say.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
Europe has Socialism for all
The US just has Socialism for the rich and corporations.
if i ever get ssh access to my own brain i look forward to frequently using the reboot command
No one who uses the phrase “Democrat friends” has any.
re: #51 Patricia Kayden
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Of all the things that aren’t happening, that is certainly one of them.
Silverman on Security
@silvermansecurity.bsky.social
The major category error I’ve observed since the NOV 2020 election, further compounded by the events on & since 6 JAN 2021, is to try to understand what began as soon as the election was called for Biden as a series of crimes.
The immediate refusal by the Trump appointed head of the General Services Administration to begin the transition may have been committing crimes or administrative infraction, but it was actually an insider threat act of subversion.
Similarly, Congressman Perry (R-VA), who has had his phone seized as part of an investigation into his role in the 6 JAN attack on the Capitol & insurrection has claimed immunity under the Speech & Debate clause. Let’s leave that bit aside for a minute.
What Congressman Perry, who is also a brigadier general, is accused of is being an insider threat undertaking acts of subversion against the US government. That anyone takes the claim that conspiring with Bannon, Giuliani, and Ginni Thomas is covered under the Speech & Debate clause is absurd.
re: #11 retired cynic
We have fans of both ladies on here.
Rhiannon Giddens just wants to talk about the banjo. Beyoncé was listening.
The Grammy- and Pulitzer Award-winning musician was tapped to collaborate on ‘Cowboy Carter’
wapo.st (gift link)With a fantastic glamour shot of Rhiannon, which she says she will do if it helps her promote the banjo.
(psst. she also won a MacArthur Genius Award).
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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