So today I comped yesterday acoustic guitar tracks, made extensive tweaks to the drums, and recorded bass guitar. The penultimate song on the second sideSister album is starting to shape up.
I kept the bass really simple.
We have now seen three interstellar objects passing through the solar system--and each of them is distinctly different.
Comet 3I/ATLAS is by far the biggest, fastest & oldest. It's probably older than our solar system, making it the most ancient object we've ever seen up close.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/third-interstellar-object-3i-atlas/ #space #science #astronomy #nature
The California National Guard cut off soldiers' access to vital military information because of what Ken Klippenstein reported on Tuesday, the independent journalist writes. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-triggered-another-federal-investigation
Ukrainian court recognizes same-sex couple as a family in historic LGBTQ+ victory
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/court-recognizes-same-couple-as-a-family-in-historic-lgbtq-victory/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation
NBC reporting on a guy on Vermont refurbishing payphones and setting them up on cell dead zones for free. I kinda want to give him all my money. Thats is fucking awesome.
It's all fun and games until people's blood pressure medication starts killing them.
FDA Cuts Will Limit Scrutiny of Troubled Foreign Drug Factories, Inspectors Say — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-cuts-drug-factory-inspections
Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/minister-airstrike-children.html
#Auschwitz #Museum having to put out a #statement because #fake #history pages have started using #AI to generate fake images of the #prisoner #barracks.
My mom was listening to a political podcast in Cantonese and it's hilarious to me that they just refer to MAGA as 愚蠢人 (stupid people）as a matter of course. They don't beat around the bush... they just call it as it is.
This dumb password rule is from Sprint.
Sprint "upgraded" their security and disallow special characters.
https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/sprint/
#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules
It's Spy vs Spy in 2025, but nobody had to beg parental unit(s) for money to buy a copy of Mad Magazine. The future is here!
Running the old Nvidia driver again. We shall see if it freezes now. Well, "we," as in, "me, myself, and I." You wouldn't see a thing, of course. How did we get here?
I had this PC freeze again. There is nothing wrong with its temperature. It happens to be running the open-source Nvidia 570 driver. Although 550 has bugs, I think I'm going to go back to using it. I had problems using what I think was the 550 open source driver in the past. The 550 Nvidia proprietary driver is offered as a selection. It never froze my system.
Now, should it freeze again, I'll be knee deep in the system log files. When I looked last time, a watchdog timer fired on a GPU op.
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
50-60k lines and nothing works, I would literally kill to look at this. lmao.
Our house martins fledged today. Husband saw the grand departure but I missed it. However they were soon back in their nest with parents still feeding them. I’d been so worried about them when they first started rebuilding last year’s nest as we were in another dry spell so I’m happy that they got it together. The other pair gave up on theirs and went to our neighbours (who had stickier mud obviously). First time they’ve had house martins and they were delighted. So happy endings all round.
It was inevitable that sooner or later, the invasive little Argentine ants would show up in a SoCal lo-rise hotel room.
I think the entire lower part of California is built on one titanic anthill. Our house in south OC certainly was. I can't tell you how many times I'd find them crawling up my legs or even in my bed. Ugh.
Well hey, Wikipedia confirms it: “The Very Large Colony, which covers territory from San Diego to beyond San Francisco, may have a population of nearly one trillion individuals.”
ICYMI from 2019:
Jeffrey Epstein used Donald Trump’s “modeling agency” as a template for his own agency founded with Jean-Luc Brunel, who was charged with raping minors and died of apparent suicide by hanging in 2022.
Reporting by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
Did a Miami-based modeling age...
No safe place. Today’s cartoon by Dennis Goris. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc