@Jamcula

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BBC racconta la chiusura della carriera di Mulatu Astatke, con un ultimo concerto

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy073xp2yj0o

#jazz #world #Ethiojazz #Africa #Ethiopia
#AfricanMusic

Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke: The godfather of Ethio-jazz plays his last live concert

Mulatu Astatke has been blending jazz influences from home and abroad for the past six decades.

My god. Everyone needs to read this:

“The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI”

(from @pluralistic)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

It’s all just so gross and absurd. Words that also happen to describe the VP.

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-students-education-deaf-blind-grant-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Diversity #Education #Disability #Disabled #Students #Trump

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

ProPublica

A reminder that while Netanyahu was bombing Iran, and while Trump was bombing Iran, not only did Iran never have a nuclear weapon, but the Israeli Govt is still committing genocide of Palestinians, taking Gaza by forced occupation (a war crime), and a new Harvard study shows per the Israeli military itself at least 377,000 Palestinians are dead or missing.

Continue to raise your voice. Do not be silent to this ongoing genocide perpetuated every day by war criminals. Silence is complicity.

This website Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

🔗 https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

404 Media

Glendale, which is a city in LA County, just canceled its contract with ICE.

Because protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works.

#LosAngeles #LosAngelesProtests #AbolishICE

Wired's reporting of the CFPB canceling its plans to regulate data brokers is deeply disappointing.

EFF has fought for years against data brokers selling your information with little to no oversight. It's a serious threat to privacy—and with your support we'll keep pushing back. https://eff.org/no

https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/

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Cybersecurity Community Must Not Remain Silent On Executive Order Attacking Former CISA Director

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On 8 April 2013, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87.

And that day is today. You may dance a merry jig and drink a small beer, good citizens of England xx

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