As I've gotten old, I tend to focus on less. Taking less bs, giving less f**cks, less tolerance for intolerance. Remembering to stop and smell the bacon.
My interests are current events, cooking, gardening, fermenting, regional foods
36. Don't Explain
1957 is also the year of Max Roach's first recording with the singer Abbey Lincoln. This album, *Abbey Lincoln with the Riverside Jazz Stars* (Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Max Roach), will be the first of 10 years of creative music, mutual love, and, as we will see later in this series, of many battles for civil rights.
This song, “Don't Explain”, is a wonderful ballad written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. This interpretation is amazing in so that the musicians (especially Dorham and Rollins) manage to bring their own creativity into the playing without hindering Lincoln's moving interpretation.
Hush now, don't explain
You're my joy and pain
My life's yours, love
Don't explain
ps. I'm running for Commissioner of Agriculture in North Carolina. Whale tales aside- I'm here for solving rural areas' economic challenges. And I can't do it alone, so if you can, help me win this thing!
Website: taberfornc.com
People ask why I talk about elections and voting so much.
It’s because there’s always hope.
Florida Democrats flip Republican House seat in Special Election – WFTV:
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/florida-democrats-flip-republican-house-seat-special-election/BDGBNIJ3CZECRMX6NTSZQVYZX4/
Unexpectedly stumbled on this giant troll sculpture while birdwatching in West Seattle! I knew there were new troll sculptures around; didn’t know I’d be seeing one today. 😄
Sculptor: Thomas Dambo
The cynic in me believes that Fediverse integration only exists so that Zucc can show regulators that they care about open source software.
But that doesn’t really matter. Federation is coming. It looks like it will be a slow, drip feed, ratchet effect. The switch is more like a dial, with the end goal being “Federation on”.
My opinion is that most people on Threads won’t care, don’t know, or don’t care about Federation. After all, the option to do so is buried in the app settings, and looks like it’ll be opt-in.
Regardless of all of Zucc’s shitty actions, which includes genocide (I seriously cannot stress enough about this genocide thing), my main issue with threaderation is that we will get a flood of users who are at best ignorant and at worst hostile to our norms. They will see our posts and they will break the sanctity of our community — where the marginalised, disgruntled, and alternative make their home.
At the moment, the Fediverse is a niche – a popular niche, but still niche. What happens to our culture, and our way of life then?
Defederation from Threads is NOT being closed minded. It is not being against “the open Web”. It is about protecting those of us who live on the Fediverse who are on the fringe of existence IRL.
He's just straight up announcing his plans to be a dictator, and the frog of democracy is so fully boiled at this point that most folks are just shrugging and tuning it out.
It's a terrifying time to be alive in large part because not enough people are terrified
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/is-hiding-his-fascist-plans-in-plain-sight/
This is a big deal:
The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c
The future of the open web is .. the open web.
W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.
We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.
Encourage your friends to follow us here!
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
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