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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @glyph@mastodon.social when we banned AI album art at Mirlo we also made this resource for alternatives: https://docs.mirlo.space/how-tos/making-your-own-album-art.html
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Alex Rodríguez
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mastodon 4.5.18Jazz trombonist, writer, organizer; Co-founder, Mirlo
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr fun fact: a self-proclaimed anarchist, Antonio Maggio, published the first 12-bar sheet music with "blues" in the title, in 1908. Fascinating story, detained without trial after McKinley was assassinated: https://www.bluescenter.com/2017/07/27/814/
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@aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social reminds me of John Perry Barlow's aphorism, turning the Silicon Valley cliche upside-down: "The best way to invent the future is to predict it"
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@3wordchant@social.coop @CaitlinWaddick@social.coop @ansate@social.coop @brainwane@social.coop @wu_lee@social.coop got a message saying "you can't be authenticated, contact your administrator"
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@seachanger@alaskan.social this is a great resource, I think you will find some sources here: https://libguides.amherst.edu/genAI/ethics
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@dec23k@mastodon.ie @diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt @Pionir@masto.bike @patrislav@chaos.social @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @seabass@social.seabass.systems @dpnash@c.im @loren@flipping.rocks have you recently received abdominal surgery? You may be entitled to constipation
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@lina this is a good resource and I bet the librarian who put it together would be a good person to email https://libguides.amherst.edu/genAI/ethics
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@lislegaard@sonomu.club Samuel Blaser's trombone tribute is pretty fun: https://mirlo.space/samuel-blaser/release/routes
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@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr yes, intercultural exchanges happened in the context of deeply unequal access to publishing, remuneration, etc. Copyright law itself is a product of this racism, as Matthew D. Morrison makes abundantly clear in his history of copyright and blackface minstrelsy, _Blacksound_. All I was pointing out is for light-skinned immigrants from places other than Northern Europe, this was not as simple as "white man steals credit from black man." First of all, Maggio would not have been considered white, and indeed the discourse on swarthy Sicilian anarchists at the time was racialized. Italian immigrants claims to whiteness through appropriating Black music really picked up a few years later with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I wouldn't say it's that simple. It also points towards how freedom-oriented people and practices influenced each other in urban space. Ben Barson's recent book _Brassroots Democracy_ is an amazing portrait of this era
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@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr interestingly, under immense pressure from society, Maggio later renounced both his jazz and anarchist past
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@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr can't know for sure but my guess is the latter. State violence is no joke and he got a heavy dose
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@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr publishing industry, definitely racist though! The fact that he could have this "first" was of course overdetermined by skin color / racial caste
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@rwg@aoir.social it's a disturbing sign—in English, "my" can either connote possession ("my bike") or kinship ("my brother"). The idea that so many people have been tricked into believing either of those things about something like Facebook is ... Not Good
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@freebliss@post.lurk.org my path to open source software world came from coop development so feel free to reach out if I can offer anything from that perspective
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@freebliss@post.lurk.org congratulations! Let us know how we can support that aspiration
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@carliermusic@musicians.today lots of great stuff on @mirlo@musician.social --- for jazz I recommend Samuel Blaser https://mirlo.space/samuel-blaser/releases
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@shauna oh wow, I live nearby in Holyoke and this is the first I'm hearing of it. Bummer, but not surprising. Thanks for bringing the news over to this corner of the Internet
@kim my understanding is that it's because they don't prioritize minimizing audio latency in how the tools are designed. JackTRIP, Sonobus, FarPlay are examples of tools designed to minimize latency (even better than zoom in my experience!) Longer distances make this problem worse but most of the latency is in the software design and hardware setup. For example, if connecting via Bluetooth headphones it increases latency a lot
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@ntnsndr I was wondering if you two had connected, I share your concerns. It feels like A Corps only make sense if you ignore coops. Which a lot of people in the US do, but clearly that's a choice and not just garden variety ignorance on his part if he asked you for advice
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@care_save : 👋 would also love to catch up and hear what you've been up to since our zoom chat a couple of years ago, sounds like we're both still working on the same stuff!
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@adamgreenfield@social.coop @nick@bath.social @da5nsy@social.coop sounds like what the Folk Technology folks are trying to organize fwiw https://folktechnology.org/
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@kissane right there with you, parenting in these times is something else! Be good to yourself and gentle with each other, I hope our paths cross again once you've made it through
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@adamgreenfield@social.coop @nick@bath.social @da5nsy@social.coop yes I met one of the organizers, LX Cast, in Portland last month
They are hosting monthly zoom calls that just started late last year.
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@Wtebbens @fkinstitute the answer isn't just having the right idea, though. That has been clear for at least a few years (thanks in large part to your efforts, which are deeply appreciated!) I see so many people who get it and are ready to build (or already building) what you call for but very little higher-order support—training, consultation, incubation, etc. Whose resources will help make the space for these ideas to go from experiments to sustainable initiatives? We can't just bootstrap it.
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