@fredmbarros

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Ethno/musicologist, software developer, guitarist at gentleweep.com, Brazilian living in Toronto

#music #ethnomusicology #musicology #digitalHumanities #socialSciences #drawing #tech #softwareDevelopment #foss

Really?!

Does anyone have a suggestion for a PowerPoint alternative that has at least a subset of the following features?
- is able to include video and audio
- based on plain text editable source files (bonus points for markdown)
- can be version controlled with git (prob a direct consequence of the previous bullet point)
- open source

I know im probably asking too much and also that I could simply code an HTML/JS app, but this would take more time than I can afford to at the moment.

As an academic, for more than 20 years I have been researching nationalism. Also, since my teenage years I’ve collecting words that can have contradictory meanings but sound alike—such as accept and except, for ex. I guess the fact that only today I realized that nationality and rationality could be on this list says something about the current state of things.
The best thing I heard about AI so far reads more or less like: I want an AI to do chores for me while I make art, not an AI that makes art while I do chores.
Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?
@felimwhiteley , in the latest LNL you mentioned something you boosted or tooted or whatever about a person who compared the OpenAI copyright bs with SciHub. I tried to find it but couldn’t. Any chance you could help me with this? Thanks!
So, this article has a long history that started back in 2016, just before I became a father, so you can imagine why it took so long... Well, it’s finally live in the Latin American Music Review and I’m beyond stoked about it!

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@quietmarc good point. I’d also add to this that, contrary to general belief, so-called bourgeois liberal democracy, on one side, and Athenian or direct democracy, on the other, aren’t the only forms of democracy possible. Go read Pierre Clastres’ work in South America, for example.