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D’Angelo, Soul’s Modern Visionary, Dead at 51

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.

Rolling Stone
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry
Responders ask for $25 million to contain the disease. They have $2.2 million.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-rages-with-61-death-rate-and-funding-running-dry/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“the music industry would find new ways to hegemonize, now arm in arm with the world’s biggest tech companies. And the laser focus from all directions on a handful of the biggest stars now feels of a piece with all the other ways billionaires and their lackeys hog all of society’s resources …

That’s also the logic that governs the labors of armies of stans, the Beyhive and Swifties and others who will swarm, insult, even dox you online if you voice a discouraging word about their beloveds. “

“we thought the whole music world was loosening up, that online discourse would foster a new eclecticism of taste and an almost unlimited range of discourse.

Like pretty much everyone else’s hopes about the internet, ours have come back to bite us in the ass. What we’ve gotten instead is indeed a click-based media economy, in which publications do try to produce as many headlines about a handful of big names” https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/taylor-swift-pitchfork-new-yorker-music-reviews-poptimism.html

Grumps Blame It for Everything From the Rise of Taylor to the Fall of Pitchfork. They Don’t Even Understand It.

Criticism’s most abused straw man.

Slate
Package Hallucinations: How LLMs Can Invent Vulnerabilities

USENIX
En direct, reconnaissance de la Palestine : Emmanuel Macron doit rencontrer des membres des sociétés civiles palestinienne et israélienne ce soir, avant son discours à l’ONU

Le président français, accompagné par le ministre des affaires étrangères démissionnaire, Jean-Noël Barrot, doit rencontrer à 19 h 30 (heure de Paris) des membres des sociétés civiles palestinienne et israélienne. Puis, à 21 heures, il prononcera un discours pour annoncer la reconnaissance de l’Etat de Palestine par la France.

Le Monde.fr
In 18th/19th century, tie-on pockets for women went away in favor of form-fitting clothes. Women lost autonomy, not being able to take valuables in public & depending on men. They began carrying small bags but still vulnerable w/o full use of their hands. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250909-how-womens-pockets-became-so-controversial
'Girls need to carry things too!': How women's pockets became so controversial

Why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? For centuries, the humble pocket has been a flashpoint in the gender divide of fashion. Is that finally set to change?

BBC

Registration is open for the free virtual conference–Deep Dive: Data Governance from the Open Source Initiative.

The three-day event will cover data governance, ethics & accountability, open infrastructure, and open source AI, and highlight real-world case studies.

📆 Date: Oct 1–3
🔗 Register at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf

Deep Dive: Data Governance Conference

Speakers As part of our original Deep Dive:AI, we gathered a diverse collection of leaders to collaborate in drafting a definition for “Open Source AI”. Speakers from law, academia, NGOs, enterprise,…

Open Source Initiative

when it comes to music, are you mostly:

🔁 encouraged I want as much data as possible

An album-by-album listener
49.3%
A playlist creator
15.3%
A "shuffle everything" creature
35.4%
Poll ended at .

Return to Paradise on BritBox looks promising.
Instant comfort binge.

#DisassociatingFromEverything