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Meta Platforms (META) is preparing for the start of a courtroom antitrust battle Monday with the US government in a case that could force Mark Zuckerberg to break up his $1.3 trillion empire and sell one of its crown jewels: Instagram. If Zuckerberg is not able to convince President Trump to settle before the trial begins in a Washington, D.C., court before US judge James Boasberg, Meta will become the second Silicon Valley giant in two years to face off against the government’s antitrust watchdogs. finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zu…
FROM WELFARE HANDOUTS TO WATER ALL FUCKING CORRUPT The Boston Water and Sewer Commission and its fired general counsel Michael Flaherty have finalized a separation agreement that pays the ex-city councilor $253,670 on conditions that he won’t sue or disparage the quasi-public agency. msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-city-…
‘He Was Trying To Encourage Me’: UK Reform’s Nigel Farage Downplays Rift With Elon Musk Over Tommy Robinson’s Arrest, Still Brands the Tech Billionaire ‘A Hero’ (VIDEO)
Nigel Farage addresses his relationship with Elon Musk amid tensions over Tommy Robinson's arrest, reaffirming Musk’s influence on his policy perspectives while continuing to label Robinson a "hero."
J'ai un immense respect pour le Royaume du Maroc, lequel a su protéger ses sujets de confession juive durant la seconde guerre mondiale. Mais je ne comprends pas la politique actuelle de compromisssion de sa Majesté Mohammed VI à l'égard du régime sioniste.
Peut être y a t'il un lien avec l'acquisition de logiciels de surveillance de la population du type eagle et l'usage de ceux d'espionnage genre Pegasus/Predator ?
🔴 Le chef du parti Israël Beiteinu, Lieberman, se moque #natenyahou et de son gouvernement : des missiles « Pessah 2025 » de #ymen et #gaza ... des millions de colons se réfugiant dans des abris et 59 Israéliens dans des tunnels du Hamas.
Marble bust of a man with a long, pointed beard, wearing a taenia, a kind of ancient Greek head covering in this case resembling a turban. The face is somewhat gaunt and has prominent, but thin, eyebrows, which seem halfway fixed into a scowl. The ends of his mustache are long a trail halfway down the length of his beard to about where the bottom of his chin would be if we could see it. None of the hair on his head is visible, since it is completely covered by the taenia.
Tan Yuling, Noble Consort Mingxian, was the first consort of the last Chinese emperor. she died aged 22 in 1942 under mysterious circumstances after an injection by a Japanese doctor
Cat's levitating basins, happens all the time. Reminds me of those 3-D sidewalk drawings that are so realistic people and animals will avoid falling off.
Highest level democrat Lindy Li leaves the Democrat party over corruption and wokeness. Has her life threatened and her reputation destroyed. She now tells all with Stephen Gardner https://x.com/lindy
Today, Ecuadorians will decide their future in a presidential election that pits conservative Daniel Noboa against leftist Luisa González, as drug trafficking
Did the United States intentionally hide and suppress information about the upcoming 9/11 attacks? Information that would have saved thousands of lives were the towers and buildings like building 7 br
A groundbreaking collaboration has emerged as a dissident Russian publisher releases an American novel that critiques the January 6 prosecutions, blending sharp satire with poignant political commentary.
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MIRIAM UNLEASHED: THE MEGA MARATHON! 😱🤣 The ONE & ONLY Miriam Margolyes brings her most OUTRAGEOUS stories to the Graham Norton Show! From shocking confess...
Ich will hier nicht mehr weg. Das war der blanke Horror, dass das Jugendamt mich aus Hamburg vertrieb, aber jetzt will ich auch hier bleiben. Weil jetzt hab ich eine neue Schule und neue Freunde und neuen Matheclub ... und niemand hier will mein Leben kaputt machen.
It was pure horror that the CPS stole my life in Hamburg, but now I want to stay here. Because I have a new school and new friends and a new math club ... and here nobody wants to destroy my life.
Hier ist mein Matheclub noch toller. Ich war schon auf vier Mathereisen in verschiedenen Städten und wir haben dort übernachtet und viel Mathe aber auch viele Spiele gemacht.
My math club here is even better! I have already been on four math trips to different cities where we stayed overnight and did a lot of math and games. I don’t want to leave. It was terrible that the CPS stole my Hamburg, but now I want to stay here.
@relentless_eduardo I started my new school a year ago. I had to because the school principal was organizing everything to bring me into the children home. So I am for one year at my new school.
In Hamburg war ich beim Mathezirkel. Schon in der 4. Klasse durfte ich da mitmachen weil ich beim Tag der offenen Tür vom Gymnasium Allee war und mich Herr Demadewitz dann eingeladen hat weil ich so Interesse hatte.
In Hamburg I was in a math club. Already in grade 4 I was allowed to come because I told Mister Demandewitz at the open day of the Gymnasium Allee, I am interested in math and so he invited me to the math club.
🇨🇳⚔️🇺🇲 🔴 La Chine va travailler au démantèlement des États-Unis et c’est presque terminé.
Toutes ces bases militaires américaines en Asie de l’Est et dans le Pacifique ont un seul objectif : déclencher une guerre avec la Chine.
L'empire américain fou et stupide.
Pékin n’est pas sans le savoir. Ses armes défensives sont prêtes et elle mène une guerre différente et efficace pour fermer ces bases dans les années à venir.
🪷 Antinous-Ganymede resides in this stunning Beaux-Arts style museum ... the #LadyLever Art Gallery ... in Port Sunlight ... a suburb of Liverpool England ... Port Sunlight is a Victorian era model community built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory. The name is derived from Lever Brothers' most popular brand of cleaning agent, "Sunlight" ... appropriately, there is a glass dome skylight which lets sunbeams cascade down on #Antinous #Ganymede. 🪷
Read these words over and over... Can evil be anymore in your face? Could it possibly be anymore blatant? THIS is the face of evil... THIS is the mindset of the enemy... Make no mistake, World War III has begun and the lines are already drawn... Steel your mind and your body, prepare for battle, in both mind and body... This is NOT nation vs nation... This is "the system" vs humanity... And it is life vs death... If we lose, humanity ends FOREVER... WE MUST NOT LOSE! BY ANY NECESSARY, WE MUST NOT LOSE!--Gary Williams
Islamic preacher Zakir Naik entered a taxi in London and said loudly to the taxi driver: - Brother, please turn off the radio, because according to the instructions of the Holy Quran, I am forbidden to listen to music, because during the time of Prophet Muhammad there was no music, especially Western music, which is the music of the infidels (kafirs). ) The taxi driver politely turned off the radio, stopped the taxi and opened the door. Zakir asked him, - Brother, what are you doing...? The taxi driver politely replied: - In the time of the Prophet: There were no taxis; There were no bombs; There was no theft; There were no speakers in the mosque to wake up the children, the elderly or the sick; There were no suicide attacks; There were no AK-47s; So shut up, go outside and wait for your camel...
The White House has announced a series of Holy Week events led by President Donald Trump, organized by the newly established White House Faith Office. The week of observance ahead of Easter will include the issuance of a Holy Week proclamation, a special video message, an Easter dinner, and a worship service for White House staff.
PULSE POINTS: ❓What Happened: The White House is organizing a series of events to celebrate Holy Week and Easter, led by President Donald Trump. 👥 Who’s
Mr. Wonderful just went full throttle on China—calling for Trump to slap a 400% tariff on Chinese imports and keep the pressure on until Beijing comes crawling to the negotiating table.
This is so cool, a tool where you can draw *that* icon/keyboard shape which you always have in your head but can never quite remember aaaaand... it helps you find the most similar unicode characters!!
https://shapecatcher.com/
Oneirogen Codex marks the first proper entry in the multi-part series of concept albums that most of my music is a part of. This one is about the quest to understand and control dreams, and the psychic and paranormal powers that result from that pursuit...
I only had the faintest notion of the Bund as a thing; "the war on memory" may be apt.
h/t @seachanger ; via a link from the Guardian article from Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… - read it in light mode for the spot illustrations to make visual sense.
If you're looking for some affordable artwork options without resorting to AI, may I suggest the work of Perplexing Ruins? He's an illustrator that works mostly in fantasy and sci fi who runs a super cheap Patreon that offers illustrations. He mostly intends them for #TTRPG use but I've confirmed with him that using them as album art is totally cool!
This batch of Other People's Music selections includes a couple of hip-hop adjacent/influenced releases that mix in some unusual influences to end up ion weird places! Plus some folky pop, alt synthwave, guitar instrumentals & more!
Okay, I'm still #mixing but it's time to look toward #mastering, which I'll be at soon enough.
So, those of you that do your own mastering (or do it professionally, if you don't mind sharing your secrets):
1) What does your mastering chain look like? Ideally, in generic terms (eg saturation -> EQ -> compressor -> limiter rather than Fab Filter Pro 9 -> UAudio LA1176 -> Izotope MasterBlaster 9k) because I'm using stock Ableton plugins for the most part apart from the limiter
i would second @elsemusic on the importance of a couple good meters. an lufs, a max dbfs, and specto.
my chain on the last couple project was a multiband comp(sometimes, as needed)->saturator->compressor->EQ->limiter.
regarding the difference between saturation, compression, and limiting...
a saturator as you said is essentially a light distortion. but this means that to some extent you will also get a little bit of compression out of a saturator, depending on how hard you push it. more push, more distortion and compression.
the only difference between limiting and compression is in the values. a limiter is meant to be fast attack and fast release with a high Input to Output ratio (aka, VERY compressed). In fact, since musings my new mastering limiter is actually a compressor plugin set to 20:1 ratio and the timing and threshold where ever i needed it for the program.
anyways, the reason i started putting multiband compressor in front of everything is because often times what you perceive to be a tonal problem isn't an overall tonal problem but only on the attacks of one or more elements. so with the multiband you can tame the, let's say, 1k of the attack of a lead melody without sucking the 1k out of the entire mix. i did install a dynamic EQ recently, but haven't got to playing with it.
@elsemusic oh also... and i would love to hear others' opinion on this one... i use to master to -0.5dBFS, but with musings i switched to -2.0dBFS. it seems to play nicer with bluetooth audio and seems to be the standard for most internet streaming services? i feel like CD audio was always normalized straight to the 0.0dbFS mark (as long as true peak wasn't over, in which case -.1 or -.2 whatever is necessary to get there). what is going on with max dBFS values?
@benda @elsemusic Bandcamp specifically asks for -1 db masters so that's what I shoot for. It helps that I always used that as a benchmark before, figuring it gets real close to 0 db but gives you a little breathing room in case something weird is going on internally that boosts the signal at all...
@elsemusic wild. every service has a different standard. i mean i guess the good thing about shooting for -2, is i can just add, for example, one dB of gain for bandcamp.
@benda @elsemusic I mastered mine to -0.1dB which was the setting used by iZotope. Bandcamp still accepted it. When I was researching for LUFS and RMS values I determined that you just need to worry about the dB values. Other services will adjust what you submit to meet their standards anyways.
2) If you have one of two "simple tricks" that you think I should know for materials, share them! Again, keep it as generic and widely applicable as possible!
Thanks for anything y'all want to share! This is only my second time attempting a genuine mix and master, so I've still got a lot to learn.
Hi, I’ve mostly been recording solo piano. I’ve yet to discover a compressor that doesn’t smear the sound a little. So I use the tiniest touch of equalization and then a limiter on the master bus. The most transparent plugins I have for these are the UA Precision Limiter and EQ. There’s a bit of harshness I haven’t been able to tame, so I’m not there yet. Special case I guess. Hope this helps. Oh and Seventh Heaven on a send for reverb.
I used to spend 30 minutes or more per track futzing around with various plugins and chains (especially Ozone). Then I got sonible smart:limit and I get results I’m happy with in about 30 seconds.
In a resounding victory for law and order, a federal judge has upheld a Trump immigration policy allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out enforcement operations at churches and other places of worship—dealing a sharp blow to progressive religious groups who sought to shield illegal immigrants from the consequences of breaking U.S. law.
A federal judge has upheld a controversial Trump-era policy allowing ICE operations in places of worship, challenging claims from religious organizations about violations of liberty and attendance declines.
(The Center Square) - Small businesses owners applying for federal loans will now face extra identification requirements following changes by the Trump administration.
It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
At this point, if you're posting AI images, I'm going to assume you've seen the discourse and you just don't care. I'm not going to warn you or try to correct you, I'm just going to unfollow.
I mean, I'll use context clues and I might give someone a break if it was an accident, or they felt they had a legitimate reason to post the Bad Stuff this one time...
But if you post it in a favorable light, or use it to make your album covers or whatever, I'm out.
I'll be adding this as a rule for Other People's Music submissions. No AI in the music or cover art if you're going to submit. If you submit anyway and I realize it/catch you, I'll block you everywhere ( and, if the review is already live, I'll delete it).
I'm the same way. If you pass off AI content as real, you're blocked. If you post and label them as AI, that's ok (even though I don't like anything about AI to be honest).
My partner's youngest WILL NOT listen to the latest (and excellent) Tears For Fears album because the cover art was A.I. and they will not abide. I wish I could tell them what they're missing, but I can't fault their boycott, even as an OG TFF fan. Personally, I'm disappointed in TFF's artistic decision and... isn't one of the duo a pro photographer anyway?
President Trump underwent the first annual physical of his second term Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and he received an overall healthy report, which was released on Sunday.
"President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State," the White House physician said.
The nation's deficit so far into fiscal year 2025 set a record as the House GOP moves forward with its budget reconciliation bill, which includes more than $5 trillion in tax cuts and projected economic growth that would only cover about 16% of its cost.
A hefty price tag: The current framework that was adopted by the House on Thursday also includes $521 billion in defense and immigration spending and a minimum of $4 billion in spending cuts.
Newly-declassified FBI documents shine new light on the FBI’s mishandling of its relationship with anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, on the FBI’s double standards on defensive briefings given to Trump and Hillary Clinton, and other key elements of the debunked collusion saga.
Trump's first attempt at declassifying Crossfire Hurricane documents in January 2021 was thwarted. But now, the FBI records have been released, revealing in part new details on the FBI's problematic Trump-Russia probe.
He didn’t lead a movement—he nuked his own party. The Dems came out of the Obama era weaker, more divided, and utterly leaderless. And that failure, that collapse of the so-called “Team Obama” brand, played a much bigger role in the unraveling of his marriage than anyone might’ve guessed.
Should I let myself be catfished by someone pretending to be an average looking polish chick who is 10 years behind on her education? Hard choices, @chris
Der sächsische Schriftsteller Jörg Bernig wehrt sich gegen den erneuten Versuch, ihn aus der Öffentlichkeit zu verdrängen. Schon 2016 hatte er den Westdeutschen den Spiegel vorgehalten. Über Mechanismen und Hintergründe der sozialen Vernichtung.
C'est drôle. Ils nous alertent sur les dérives de certains imams et prêtres, mais jamais sur celles de certains rabbins qui tiennent des discours ouvertement racistes, anti-goyim et anti-musulmans sans que cela ne choque en rien le préfet de Tel Aviv, monsieur Bruno Retailleau.
🇨🇳Wang Wentao, ministre chinois du Commerce : La Chine est devenue le principal partenaire commercial de plus de 150 pays... Comme le dit le proverbe : « Quand l’Occident se couche, l’Orient se lève. » Les exportations chinoises sont devenues plus avancées technologiquement et ont acquis une large reconnaissance sur les marchés internationaux.
🔴 Une agitation d’en Israël sioniste une accusation choquante déclenchent une tempête de controverse. La fille du ministre de l'Établissement apparaît dans une vidéo horrible et accuse ses parents de l'avoir agressée sexuellement.
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