One of numerous #Cats alphabets/fonts
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Mayra Andrade – reEncanto
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Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade‘s live album “reEncanto” is a fusion of her classic and contemporary songs.
Mini Doc
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Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade's live album "reEncanto" is a fusion of her classic and contemporary songs.Didier J. MARY (AMF) (African Music Forum)
The mine dumps of Silicon Valley
"While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated."
africasacountry.com/2024/10/th…
The links between the political and economic history of South Africa and the US and what that means now.
Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band
Avoudé
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Enouwo Lagnon
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Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band - Avoudé (Official Video)From the forthcoming album, Avoudé on We Are Busy Bodies. Lead vocal, guitar - Dogo du Togo Lea...YouTube
Music from the movie "Subway"
Luc Besson - 1985
I say guns don't kill people
People kill people
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Music by Eric Serra
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Bataclan... WORDS FAIL ME FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THERE. I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU...THE ONLY SONG THAT CAME TO MIND WAS THIS. MORE APT THAN YOU THINK...PEACE TO ...YouTube
It's only Mystery - Arthur Simms
OST Subway
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
Heavier Yet – Seun Kuti
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Executive produced by legendary musician Lenny Kravitz and Fela Kuti’s original engineer Sodi Marciszewer as artistic producer, here’s Seun Kuti’s new EP, “Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head).”
T.O.P
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Out Now! Stream the new single and pre-order the album: https://found.ee/SKE80TOP ‘Things Over People’: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 sing against the oppression of n...YouTube
uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist
A huge blocklist of sites (~950) that contain #AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.
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A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-BlocklistGitHub
The SEO / AI spam has really gotten out of hand in search engines! I didn't want to install additional software / block lists, but the first two hits in my search today were both non-obvious spam that I wasted a decent amount of time reading before getting suspicious... so I finally gave in and installed uBlacklist with the blocklists you recommended.
Thank you for the tips.
From the vault
Who remembers when Belgian #kittens invaded Xwitter in 2015 to make sure that any leaking of operational details during an antiterrorist operation were drowned out (via hashtag)?
More info:
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Belgians post pictures and videos of cats using the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown in an attempt to bury tweets about police anti-terror operations in the cityBBC News
3 October 1980 - The Police released Zenyatta Mondatta, the last of the Police's early era albums.
Don't Stand So Close to Me
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De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
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#NewWave #PostPunk #Reggae #Rock #80sMusic
In my Channel you can find the whole Discography (5 Studio Album): Nel mio canale puoi trovare l'intera Discografia (5 Album Studio):- The Police - Outlandos...YouTube
Sharhabil Ahmed – Argos Farfish / Zulum Aldunya
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Sharhabil Ahmed, also known as the “King of Sudanese Jazz,” was born in 1935 and is the founding father of the Sudanese Jazz scene. His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation.
Contemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from Arabic musical [...]
#60smusic #AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #Jazz #Soundcloud #Sudan
Sharhabil Ahmed - Argos Farfish / Zulum Aldunya - Old African MusicDidier J. MARY (AMF) (African Music Forum)
Copying is Not Theft…
Contains videos & cartoons by Nina Paley on this subject.
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#AI #AIArt #Copyright #Creativity #Piracy #PiracyIsNotTheProblem
Copying is Not Theft 🏴☠️ - we need to regularly say it again as copyright maximalists tend to always claim the same fud over and over...Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
Protecting my intellectual property rights, but not yours
Artificial Intelligence vs intellectual property rights is a kind of war that will last until the AI bubble explodes (and it’ll be sooner than later…).
Our tech-oligarchs are pushing a lot of messages, explaining to creators, authors and artists, that what they do really has no value, so they shouldn’t be compensated […]
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Artificial Intelligence vs intellectual property rights is a kind of war that will last until the AI bubble explodes (sooner than later...).Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
Freeware, if you like... - An extremely bad take on content scraped by AI bots for Big Tech to train their LLMs "for free".Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
In 1991, acclaimed South African artist Helen Sebidi’s artworks were presumed stolen in Sweden. Three decades later, a caretaker at the residential college where they disappeared found them in a ceiling cupboard, still in their original packaging.
Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
The Bar-Kays began in Memphis as a studio session group backing major artists at Stax Records. They toured with Otis Redding in 1967, and were tutored for greatness by Al Jackson Jr, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, etc.
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#60sMusic #SoulMusic #Funk #Stax #Instrumental
Bar-Kays - Soul Finger - The band began in Memphis as a studio session group backing major artists at Stax Records.Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
All my Feeds
On my 2 #WordPress blogs, I'm trying my best to respect the open web, web standards, as well as the people who visit them.
Here's a page that offers all the feeds (#RSS, Atom, MF2, JF2) where my articles/posts are published:
All my Feeds - This blog is all about the open web, and web standards. RSS is one such standard. List of available feeds.Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
Puisque #POSSE est dans l'air du temps - suite au billet de @molly0xfff - j'avais publié il y a peu un article en français (pour changer) dédié à #WordPress dans ce contexte, mais avec beaucoup d'autres informations
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IndieWeb pour WordPress - l'esprit POSSE - "Publish ou Post (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere ou Everywhere" dans un billet en françaisDidier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))
"Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences."
Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=82WW9dVbgl…
IMDb imdb.com/title/tt4772188/
No words spoken in the film, only real animals' sounds
#Movie #Animation #Adventure #Cats #Caturday
The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flo...YouTube
Professor Rhythm 3 (1991)
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The 1991 record “Professor 3” by Professor Rhythm is a vivid reflection of urban South Africa as apartheid was ending. Thami Mdluli’s production project had young and old dancing to a sound that sought to unite Blacks within Southern Africa. The late 1970’s and 80’s had been trying times for people of color. Professor Rhythm […]
Professor Rhythm 3 (1991) - Throughout the 80's, Mdluli was member of chart-topping groups Taboo and CJB, playing bubblegum pop to stadiums.Didier J. MARY (AMF) (African Music Forum)
It’s Disco Time! An (almost) exclusively feminine selection. Only great ladies and divas who illustrated the era of dancefloors and ballrooms, singing on Soul, Funk or Disco music.
Disco Time!
Let’s start!
🇫🇷 Pour ceux qui ont du mal à dormir actuellement...
🇬🇧 If you have trouble to sleep at the moment...
#IdeesNoires #Franquin #Comics #Palestine #Ukraine #DarkThoughts
LA DYSTOPIE AGRICOLE KENYANNE (1/3)
Si vous n’avez qu’un article à lire aujourd’hui, le voici. Merci à @cybeardjm de me l’avoir fait connaître.
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C’est ahurissant, purement dystopique. Il s’agit ni plus ni moins que de supprimer en totalité le tissu de petits producteurs et des fermes paysannes au Kenya. William Ruto, le président, est une sorte de Milei africain et il est lui-même un grand propriétaire terrien (il connaît donc son affaire, on peut dire de manière cynique).
Il abandonne aux grandes firmes agro-alimentaires l’exclusivité absolue de toute la production agricole et horticole (pour ceux qui l’ignorent, le Kenya est un des plus gros producteurs de fleurs, lesquelles sont exportées notamment aux Pays-Bas et revendues ensuite dans toute l’Europe).
Et, en les noyant sous un océan de normes absurdes, de technicité et de jargon, de supprimer tous les petits producteurs locaux (je traduis et cite 😀
« Les règles obligatoires, que le gouvernement a déclaré être « ancrées dans la loi », signifieront que seuls les grands agriculteurs, les entreprises et les importateurs seront autorisés à fournir des fruits et des légumes au Kenya, tout commerçant achetant des fruits et des légumes à des agriculteurs non certifiés s’exposant à de lourdes sanctions.
Les sanctions s’appliqueront aux intermédiaires, aux distributeurs, aux transformateurs ou à tout acheteur direct qui achète des fruits et légumes à un agriculteur qui n’a pas été certifié comme ayant mis en œuvre la norme kenyane KS1758 de 55 pages, obligatoire. »
On a déjà vu dans l’histoire des politiques de destruction délibérée de la petite paysannerie : l’exemple qui vient à l’esprit est bien entendu la collectivisation des fermes dans les régimes communistes – sauf qu’il n’était pas question de confier la production, bien au contraire, à quelques conglomérats privés ! On pense aussi aux politiques agricoles coloniales, et même aux plantations esclavagistes. Autre tragédie vécue par les paysans du « global south », leur soumission aux multinationales des semences et OGM : le cas de l’Inde est célèbre et très documenté, notamment grâce aux travaux et activités militantes de Vandana Shiva. Mais là encore, les producteurs restaient propriétaires, la plupart du temps, s’ils parvenaient à survivre, de leur ferme (je n’oublie pas cependant le taux de suicide effarant des agriculteurs pieds et mains liés à ces fournisseurs criminels, en Inde et ailleurs). En Chine, on sait comment l’exode rural, orchestrée par le gouvernement, a servi à alimenter les villes portuaires, devenues les usines du monde, en main d’œuvre corvéable à merci et privée de tous droits.
Mais là, ça va beaucoup plus loin – ce qui n’est pas peu dire.
L’objectif paraît évident :
1. Le Kenya vend la totalité de son marché alimentaire (et horticole), de la production au consommateur, à quelques acteurs privés surpuissants. Il verrouille toute la filière de manière à la réserver à quelques supers producteurs, lesquels s’enrichiront fabuleusement, comme on l’imagine.
2. Ces derniers pourront s’accaparer pour presque rien les terres rendues disponibles (c’est-à-dire : la totalité des terres : cela s’appelle vendre un pays entier non ? Pour de plus en plus de gouvernements dans le monde, organiser littéralement l’accaparement des terres, brader leurs territoires, pour satisfaire l’avidité des entreprises étrangères, extractives ou agricoles, est devenu un sport national.)
3. Les anciens paysans seront ou bien re-embauchés en tant qu’ouvrier.eres agricoles par ces géants de l’agro-industrie (qui pourront certainement être redécorés aux couleurs du greenwashing pour l’exportation européenne)
4. ou bien ils/elles iront grossir le précariat qui s’amasse autour des grandes villes, servant de main d’œuvre à bas prix pour les entreprises – par exemple, autour de la Silicon Valley kenyanne :
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5. ou bien encore, les femmes, notamment, seront incitées à aller travailler dans la domesticité (avec tout ce que cela suppose d’exploitation, y compris sexuelle) dans les sinistres pays du Golfe.
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La seule chose qui paraît certaine, c’est que tout cela va finir dans un bain de sang. Que ces lois délirantes induisent l’emploi de la force militaire et la violence de l’État.
Je traduis le reste de l’article dans les commentaires ci-dessous :
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@Reporterre
#Kenya #Agriculture #Neoliberalisme
As many as 89 Kenyan domestic workers have been killed in Saudi Arabia over the past two years. That's why former domestic workers warn others about traveling to the Gulf countries to work under the Kafala system.Shadrack Omuka (Toward Freedom)