Revolutionary Suicide

Welcome to 2013 and the truly Post-Thatcher Age, and Welcome to Julian Cope’s long delayed new album REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE: eleven sumptuous and highly charged songs that teem with outrageous orchestrations and compellingly-crafted words of protest, activism and historical richness. Weep along with the dreadful beauty of the Archdrude’s most ep...

Balloon Internet

Though both are powerful and iconoclastic performers, The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender find a way to join together without crowding each other out.

When a studio engineer and drummer from New Orleans met one of the best trombone players in Richmond, Va., a funky, danceable, street-style brass band was born. Watch 11 musicians squeeze behind NPR Music's Tiny Desk, turn up the funk and fly the "RVA" flag high.

Pina

Pina - Butterfly (acoustic version) by pina kollars on YouTube

In an eerie new video from Low, the band plays inside a glitter-filled snow globe, wearing period costumes, while giant, alien creatures look on. It's a strange interpretation of "Plastic Cup," a song ostensibly about a friend's history of drug abuse and dependence on others.

PRISM Break

The users's habits made PRISM possible. By changing our habits we can break out of it.

“The deeper you delve, the greater the rewards – the 26-year-old Gothenburg native has produced an album of stunning emotional complexity and awe-inspiring musicality. She shared a few thoughts with The Fly about religion, organs and black metal…”

The Ballad of Boogie Christ

The Ballad of Boogie Christ will be released on June 11 via Lonely Astronaut Records.

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me. Though singer Matt Berninger had barely rested his voice from a show in the area the night before, the septet dutifully gives a lush, gorgeous performance.

Google Inc. has agreed to acquire map-software provider Waze Inc. for about $1.1 billion, a person with knowledge of the deal said, seeking to keep competitors such as Facebook Inc. from eroding its lead in mobile-navigation programs.

Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data  including figures on US collection

Friendica and the Red Matrix and Privacy

Friendica and the Red Matrix and Privacy
For the record, Friendica and the Red Matrix (aka "Red") have not turned over any of your data to any government agencies in any country.

Why? Because, doh! we're decentralised. We don't have your data, your photos, your personal communications with friends and family.

You do!

the place to be
This is worth resharing because it's right, and thanks to @Michelle Fink for asking the original question "...why the NSA PRISM "revelation" means Friendica is the place to be?".

♲ Thomas Willingham
Probably the simplest way to put it would be something like:

If a three letter agency wants to spy on you as an individual, they're going to spy on you. By spreading communications across thousands of different servers spread over the entire world - who communicate with each other using military grade encryption - it becomes both expensive and impractical for governments to casually monitor their citizens. In Friendica, you would need to track over six thousand (and growing) completely isolated services. If you use Facebook, they need to track one - which is the only reason doing so is feasible.
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Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Chilly Gonzales

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Chilly Gonzales by TheCreatorsProject on YouTube

NIN - Came Back Haunted (2013)

Mr. X wrote the following post 2 weeks ago:

Trivia: Many people know Friendica as a network aggregator - which will pull your friends' content from other network and web services. What many people don't realise is that Friendica also incorporates its own "social network service" - which is more powerful and secure than most of the alternatives that you may be using.

#justsayin

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Happy Birthday MIDI

The MIDI Revolution: Synthesizing Music For The Masses on Npr

You can't hear it, not exactly, but it's in almost every song on the radio. It's a 30-year-old technology that hasn't changed much over the years but is now used in ways that its creators likely never imagined. In contemporary music, there's nothing closer to a universal translator than MIDI.

Simply put, MIDI is a way for computers to understand musical instruments. Until 1983, when the technology was first demonstrated in a presentation to the National Association of Music Merchants, synthesizers were stand-alone electronic instruments, incapable of linking up with computers. But the idea for MIDI goes back to 1978, when engineer and synthesizer designer Dave Smith put out the Prophet 5, one of the earliest musical instruments to include a microprocessor. ...

I remember my first experiments with MIDI in the late 1980's ... triggering my drumset into some samplers, using the sounds with a hardware sequenzer and was totally gobsmacked about the results. That was fun
(I did some recordings, but lost them later .. too bad ... )