Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online-20000-recordings.html

Do you know about snapplanet.io? I've been playing around on it at the breakfast table, keeping an eye on the #Greenland #glaciers I have instruments on and it's just struck me again how mindblowing it is that I can download and process *on my phone* and for *FREE* a world's worth of high resolution satellite images from #ESA #Sentinel2. The future is amazing.

Here have a free image of Inglefield Bredning in NW Greenland yesterday.
#snapplanet

(Full Res version here: http://snapplanet.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/s/A/2024/06/23/17318306767857306391/53d29bc27f3cc4c.jpg)

Probably the last Sand Martin image for this evening....

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

I'm going to say this again. I am totally uninterested in workarounds and hacks to try bypass Google's horrible AI Overviews. They solve NOTHING. In fact, they help make the situation WORSE. 99.999% of #Google users won't know about them and/or won't use them. They reduce pressure on Google to actually fix these systems. And of course, Google can choose to block them at any time.

My recommendation is to stop thinking in terms of "techies 'tricking' Google" and start thinking in terms of the policy efforts required to make things better for ALL users. Get off the techie high horse and start thinking about people beyond our tech communities, and the impacts that Big Tech is having on them in increasingly negative ways.

The "Man or Bear?" debate has dominated internet discourse for the past week or two (TL;DR In a viral TikTok video, a man asks eight women if they’d rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear. Seven say they'd prefer the bear). Here's a unique perspective from Laura Killingbeck, a contributor to Bikepacking magazine, who actually did leave mankind behind to live in nature with bears. "'Would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear?' is just another way of asking, 'Are you afraid of men?' she writes. "It’s the same question I’ve been fielding for the entirety of my life as a solo female traveler. It’s the same question that hovers over women all the time as we move through the world."

https://flip.it/HIYNCz

#LIfestyle #Travel #ManOrBear #SoloTravel #WomensRights