Liz Story's album "Solid Colors" from 1983 sort of summarized a kind of solo piano zeitgeist of its day, no matter what you might have thought of Story's playing or compositional skills (I loved it).

But in 2026, it sounds quite dated.

This evening, Bandcamp pointed at the album below. Right now, I feel it plays the same role in 2026 as Story's did in 1983. The influences are more Frahm than Evans, but .. lovely in a very 2026 sort of way.

#piano #bandcamp #lovely

https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-the-forest-sings

It seems to me that the last several years have demonstrated the shortcomings of FOSS as a set of organizing principles for computing, so I've developed a set of principles meant, not as a replacement, but as a corrective, and written them out as a sort of manifesto. Check it out here: https://destructured.net/casa

Feedback welcome. Much thanks to @zoy and @alderwick and @neauoire for theirs.

Make your voice heard!
Contact audio hardware manufacturers that don't support Linux and let them know you exist!

#Zoom #Linux #Audio

Discovered today that #LWV's online Voter Guide, #Vote411, has wrong information for #NewMexico - it says in-person voting is only available on Election Day. Not true: NM early voting started October 6, with expanded early voting since Oct 17.

Vote411 says the bad info comes from Google Civic API and they can't change it. Great. I'm steaming. LWV is supposed to be about providing accurate information to voters, and here we are passing along Google's bad information.

#voting #vote

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Surprising no feminist ever, when women are able to have a say in who they are married to, it literally saves their lives.

Abstract

This paper exploits the variation occurring from the different timing of divorce law reforms across the United States to evaluate how unilateral divorce changed family violence and whether the option provided by unilateral divorce reduced suicide and spousal homicide. Unilateral divorce both potentially increases the likelihood that a domestic violence relationship ends and acts to transfer bargaining power toward the abused, thereby potentially stopping the abuse in extant relationships. In states that introduced unilateral divorce we find a 8–16 percent decline in female suicide, roughly a 30 percent decline in domestic violence for both men and women, and a 10 percent decline in females murdered by their partners.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/121/1/267/1849020?login=false

@Lana

Congrats to #TheOnion

https://bit.ly/2AeY0zK

New episode is out!

Shane (@stranded_output), Conor (@techcelt) and Amolith (@amolith) chat to the developers of the Ardour (@ardour) digital audio workstation.

Episode is edited by Jake (@jbauer)

#linux #lads #opensource #craic #mastodaoine #tech #technology #chat #shenanigans #podcast

https://linuxlads.com/episodes/168/

@composergreg @ranjit @alisynthesis when you are customizing, you could also get this awesome Palm Mute Pedal from Denmark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXbwecQ_J4

Otto is an old student of mine, and he has always had amazing ideas.

Love the recording by the way! What luxury to have that piano sound around!

"“The last person to die from an unexploded bomb dropped in world war two probably hasn’t been born yet,” he told me. "

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/it-could-knock-a-whole-street-down-the-art-of-defusing-a-second-world-war-bomb

Sorry I missed your call. I was in a meeting with the forest.

Holy shit.

James T. Kirk lives in Santa Fe and drives a Subaru Crosstrek.

#startrek #khan #kirk #wrathof #santafe #newmexico

This is such a fine article, and as a white collar dude (who does his own construction) that has often advocated for shifting attitudes to the trades, very thought provoking & eye opening.

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician

Wow, what a cover! Milan's "The Watch" covers Supper's Ready by #Genesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUo5CZips1Q

"Personally, I was too busy chilling to worry too much about personnel; it's a great slice of laid-back, decade-spanning nu-jazz"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/the-trelleborg-connection-route-108-chill-out

Find the duo in the Slow Balearic Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-balearic-playlist

#nujazz #music #alternative #independent #artist #sweden

Sodium Citrate is the secret ingredient to make any cheese into smooth, creamy nacho cheese sauce.

Coincidentally, Sodium Citrate's chemical formula is ...

Na₃C₆H₅O₇

🥳 We have an AI policy now!

🛑 The first sentence gives the essence: "We do not accept any contributions that contain content created using Generative AI"

👀 You can read here in full 👉 https://community.karrot.world/t/karrot-ai-policy/2953

#NewMexico rain, when it happens, is so much more interesting than when I lived in California. In California, rain meant "grey everywhere". Here, it's easy to see where it's raining and where it isn't. #NMWX

#quotes #history #fashion