I really enjoyed this set today from Clôture Électronique, employing tape loops, modular synth, bowed double bass and more.

It was in part a tribute to his dad, who played decades ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPK-jFq88s

@ExperimentalMusic
#experimentalMusic

I got my newly-repaired monitor back a couple of days ago, so today I went through the process of calibrating it and the room via SoundID. Way better results this time!

Now I can get back to work. 👍🏻

[I'll probably go through this again, as I discovered that a couple of settings on the back of the repaired monitor didn't match the ones on the other one, which might account for the frequency response differences.]

#musicStudio #musician

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/117439400242485272

You'd think it'd be obvious. We're all so indoctrinated all our lives by rich fascists.

ICE is out in SOMA this morning.

If you see them, call Rapid Response.

#ICE #sanFrancisco

I remember when I worked in Sausalito, I'd often see a mix of boats anchored out in Richardson Bay, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge off Sausalito. I guess I was charmed by the independence and self-sufficient nature of it all.

I think it's sad and a bit wrong that this guy (and his friends before him) is being forced off the bay at this point in his life. He's the only one living on his boat in the middle of the bay; why not leave him be?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/anchor-out-sausalito-richardson-bay-22467562.php

#sausalito #wayOfLife #freeArticle

RJ Mitte, who played Walter White, Jr. on Breaking Bad, has passed.

Very sad to see.

https://apnews.com/article/rj-mitte-breaking-bad-death-7f37c962a98362d95b1fcc7b2c6cf5c5

#television #breakingBad

For all of your 'sharing-protest-photos-while-hiding-faces-from-authoritarians' needs.

free!

https://masque.onestla.tech/

#resist #protest

5 /

“But that should not be: what is good for the ruling class must also be good for the whole of society, with which the ruling-class identifies itself.

Therefore the more civilization advances, the more it is compelled to cover the evils it necessarily creates with the cloak of love and charity, to palliate them or to deny them–in short, to introduce a conventional hypocrisy which was unknown to earlier forms of society and even to the first stages of civilization, and which culminates in the pronouncement: the exploitation of the oppressed class is carried on by the exploiting class simply and solely in the interests of the exploited class itself; and if the exploited class cannot see it and even grows rebellious, that is the basest ingratitude to its benefactors, the exploiters.”

One hundred and forty-two years later (and really, going back a couple thousand years), not much has changed.

4 /

“Since civilization is founded on the exploitation of one class by another class, its whole development proceeds in a constant contradiction. Every step forward in production is at the same time a step backwards in the position of the oppressed class, that is, of the great majority. Whatever benefits some necessarily injures the others; every fresh emancipation of one class is necessarily a new oppression for another class. The most striking proof of this is provided by the introduction of machinery, the effects of which are now known to the whole world. And if among the barbarians, as we saw, the distinction between rights and duties could hardly be drawn, civilization makes the difference and antagonism between them clear even to the dullest intelligence by giving one class practically all the rights and the other class practically all the duties.”

3 /

“With this as its basic constitution, civilization achieved things of which
gentile society was not even remotely capable. But it achieved them by setting
in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities. From its first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization; wealth and again wealth and once more wealth, wealth, not of society, but of the single scurvy individual–here was its one and final aim. If at the same time the progressive development of science and a repeated flowering of supreme art dropped into its lap, it was only because without them modern wealth could not have completely realized its achievements.”

2 /

"The central link in civilized society is the state, which in all typical periods is without exception the state of the ruling class, and in all cases continues to be essentially a machine for holding down the oppressed, exploited class.

Also characteristic of civilization is the establishment of a permanent opposition between town and country as basis of the whole social division of labor; and, further, the introduction of wills, whereby the owner of property is still able to dispose over it even when he is dead. This institution, which is a direct affront to the old gentile constitution, was unknown in Athens until the time of Solon; in Rome it was introduced early, though we do not know the date; [4] among the Germans it was the clerics who introduced it, in order that there might be nothing to stop the pious German from leaving his legacy to the Church.”

1 /

I’m almost finished reading ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’, by Frederick Engels (1884). The book traces the advances of humankind from savagery to barbarism and finally onto civilization.

Near the end, he writes a description of civilization which sounds all too familiar.

“The stage of commodity production with which civilization begins is distinguished economically by the introduction of (1) metal money, and with it money capital, interest and usury; (2) merchants, as the class of intermediaries between the producers; (3) private ownership of land, and the mortgage system; (4) slave labor as the dominant form of production.

The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite
supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman, and the single family as the economic unit of society."

#capitalism #history

A nice article about the health benefits of eating sardines, with links to several recipes.

As part of our dinner yesterday, we had broiled sardines with thyme and lemon. Super good!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/well/eat/sardines-health-benefits-recipes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE._1kC.Yj2kl1oVKq2i&smid=url-share

#food #giftArticle #cooking

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/arts/jay-maisel-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVE.YYvZ.q65Ze6qK7515&smid=url-share

#photography #giftArticle

Well, this is interesting. The Dodgers majority owner is being investigated by the DOJ.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2026-08-20/la-sp-mark-walter-dodgers

#baseball #finance #dodgers

I'm sure they just wanted to go to the Farmer's Market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/goats-bus-portland-oregon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.hDb4.rBR0E1JHJ0NG&smid=url-share

#portland #teamGoat #giftArticle

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-sUf0hMdGQii-5n1gguk9vg%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

Living here is surreal.

#RealEstate #SanFrancisco

My email provider informed me that I'm running out of space, so I'm going through old mail with attachments, seeing what I can get rid of. Discovered a bunch of photos I took which I... emailed to myself, for some reason. 🙄

Anyhoo, I might be posting some occasionally for fun. Here's the first.

#photography #blackandWhitePhotogrophy

Dunno what's in store for this #caturday, but it's bound to be interesting.

#catsOfMastodon

I went BOWLING today!

The first time in fifteen years.

Haha, I had to figure out how to do it all over again. I've been in leagues twice in my life, the last time around 2010.

I think my average back then was around 175. Today, I got a 79 and a 115. Hahahaha, but I had a smile on my face.

A simple pastime. Next time, I'll be better.

Big place. Sixty lanes! 🎳

#bowling