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reillypascal , 3 days ago to Privacy

"US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) had a different interpretation of the email, telling Wired that it 'seems to show that the FBI is actively pushing for more surveillance of Americans, not out of necessity but as a default.'"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/fbi-urges-employees-to-look-for-ways-to-collect-americans-messages/

#Privacy #Surveillance #TechNews #Legal #FBI

molly0xfff , 12 days ago to Random stuff

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

rasterweb , 20 days ago to Art

I made a sketch of a traffic cone and also wrote up a blog post about the inspiration...

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/04/21/traffic-cone-sketch/

#art #procreate #sketch #drawing #cone

A sketch of a traffic cone.
A sketch of a traffic cone.
A sketch of a traffic cone.

reillypascal , 1 month ago to contemporaryMusic group

New blog post — I have a track coming out April 12! it's on a new album by the electroacoustic trio Apply Triangle with works by 33 composers, and it was recorded remotely during lockdown.

I talk about collecting amateur radio samples to use in the piece, the album project, and there's even a poem.

#IndieWeb #Composer #Musodon #Bandcamp #ContemporaryClassical #NoiseMusic #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #MaxMSP @contemporarymusic

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/04-05-2024

reillypascal , 1 month ago to contemporaryMusic group

I'm getting my music on PeerTube, and here's the next one! It's for 2 pianists, 2 percussionists & "no-input mixer." The outputs of the mixer are connected back to various inputs, and I can unmute various channels to get feedback. The percussionists are playing a homemade speaker instrument, megaphone & more.

#Musodon #Composer #ElectronicMusic #NoiseMusic #Experimental #ExperimentalMusic #Noise #ContemporaryClassical #Piano #Percussion @contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/raJPvm2wD7nhn2Vrrve4Vy

reillypascal , 2 months ago to contemporaryMusic group

A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.

#Musodon #Orchestra #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #ContemporaryClassical #ContemporaryMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #NeueMusik #PeerTube @contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/fz2qPi51xAQAXWjBboT1DL

reillypascal , 2 months ago to Privacy

"But Meta’s version of consent offers users a Hobson’s choice — of paying at least €9.99/month for an ad-free subscription (per each account they have on Facebook and Instagram); or agreeing to its tracking.

No other choices are available, despite the GDPR stipulating that for consent to be a valid legal basis for processing people’s information it must be freely given."

#privacy #DataPrivacy #gdpr #tracking #regulation #TechRegulation #tech #TechNews

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/no-consent-or-pay-pls/

reillypascal , 2 months ago to contemporaryMusic group

I'm setting up on PeerTube; here's another one of my compositions for MIDI keyboard, cello & percussion

The MIDI keyboard has DX7 E-PIANO 1 tuned to 19-EDO & glitchy "databending" samples. The cello has a wah pedal & small amp that feeds back with the cello's contact mic.

https://makertube.net/w/7Bux8qi7gh4bu8iJokmQPQ

#musodon #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #contemporaryclassical #contemporarymusic #microtonal #xenharmonic #neuemusik #maxmsp #synth @synths @contemporarymusic

reillypascal , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Hi everyone! I'm a composer & audio developer. I also like fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, software-defined radio, leftist politics & learning new things.

My music tends toward the glitchy, noisy, microtonal side of things, and I like to use Max/MSP and incorporate audio samples from my software-defined radio hobby. You can find my music at my site, SoundCloud & PeerTube:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
https://soundcloud.com/reilly-spitzfaden
https://makertube.net/c/reilly_spitzfaden_composer/

#Introduction #Introductions #NewHere

HauntedOwlbear , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Art

Make 2024 the year that we stop ceding cultural ground to fascists.

The fash love attaching themselves to cultural and artistic movements and subcultures with the express intention of claiming everything and everyone within those subcultures as their own.

The corollary of this is that we have to support anti-fascists within subcultures that are subject to this.

No, not everyone interested in medieval history is a "deus vult" chanting neo-monarchist who has wet dreams about a new crusade against a Muslim infidel.

Nor is every Crusader Kings or Divinity player out using the Steam forums as a recruiting platform for the alt-right.

Not every neo-pagan is also a neo-Nazi, nor every satanist, heathen, or Asaturar - hell, the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, which should hold some sway in this, repeatedly speaks out against racism within heathenry, in the face of a long and organised project of entryism by the international far right.

Nor is every black metal fan or musician a racist, homophobe or bigot.

And not everyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in ancient Greek philosophy is a mammoth-hunting sexist, crying "men's rights" at the sight of a woman with a voice.

The same goes for enthusiasts of romantic landscape painting, classical sculpture, European architecture, fantasy fiction, goth, furry culture, and LARP.

Fascists specifically want to lay claim to a certain kind of cachet, coolness, cultural validity, rebellion, or edginess.

This list - which could be far longer - comes from my own experience fighting them out of spaces I enjoy being in or am adjacent to.

But more specifically, fascists want everything. Today it's someone's niche tabletop gaming hobby or music subculture, but the end game is that they wish to be the cultural arbiters of what is acceptable, what is decadent, and what art and culture mean.

Fascist works and movements exist within the fields I've named, but their broader project is to devour culture and shit the remnants back out as a bland narrative of white supremacism, stripped of context, diversity, history and deeper meaning.

Do not go along with this.
Do not go along with them.

Support anti-fascists within fields and subcultures subject to far-right entryism, appropriation or activity.

By agreeing to let fascists lay claim to that weird special interest group over there, by dismissing the people in that subculture who're actively fighting them off as apologists, cat's paws or useful idiots, we accept the fascist narrative that they - and only they - get to own and define culture.

Do not take their fucking word for it when they say something belongs to them.

They think the world belongs to them, and they're wrong about that, too.

#AntiFascism #art #culture