fascinating (and gorgeous!) chart showing the evolution of recorded-music revenue over the last 50 years

the first thing that jumps out at me is how much smaller the overall pie is post-streaming. the streaming services and major labels have successfully managed a) to dramatically devalue recorded music and b) to put a much larger percentage of it directly into their own pockets. it's one of the single biggest upward transfers of wealth in history — from artists to billionaire corporations

Szilajka Erzsebet is a Hungarian artist who creates her works of art using ordinary pebbles.

photo: https://www.demilked.com/amazing-pebble-art-szilajka-erzsebet/

#art #nature

"When you study the Holocaust on an academic level, you learn two things: First, yes, however bad you thought the Nazis were, they were worse. And second, they were totally average, ordinary people. The second point is key. It's why historians are warning us now about Republicans."

And I think that today's Nazis in the USA and UK are further to the right than Hitler was at this stage of his rise. The Germans didn't just march in and start gassing Jews on Day 1.

Graphically visualizing the erasure of a 16kbit #EPROM with a UV source in 16 seconds!

This time lapse shows all of the bits being flipped from 0 to 1 over about a 24 minute period. The first bit flips at 8 minutes.

What's fascinating to me is the bits "twinkle" as they flip back and forth before settling.

#RetroComputing #TimeLapse

One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO
Widescreen 4K version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkQmnuCsGM

THEM: If it was important, you'd remember

ME: [has ADHD] I frequently forget that close friends of mine exist