=== LP360:VR Salon ===
at The Fishbowl from May 11 - 14, various show times.
The makers of @pixelfed, the Fediverse photo sharing platform, have just created a slick new guide to the Fediverse at:
It's got a list of Fedi projects, a list of mobile apps for Fedi platforms and an opt-in directory of people to follow.
The directory is particularly interesting as it works very differently to FediFollows or Trunk. You add hashtags to your profile plus a special extra hashtag #Fedi22, then submit your profile to the site, and it will become searchable for the tags in your profile.
(And, yes, Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, see here for details: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108215973331591896)
@exquisitecorp I only do computer tasks in the morning, I don't think I could give you any useful ritual if you're a night owl.
Generally, I "create" in the morning, I "maintain" in the afternoon, and I "explore" in the evening. I wake up with the sun, and read when the sun sets.
“It’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
- Gilles Deleuze
A cautionary crypto tale, told with raucous distain.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/20/techscape-beanstalk-cryptocurrency
..."Still, the reasoning goes, the simulation hypothesis might be true. It’s possible enough that we have to take it seriously. Bostrom estimates a 1-in-3 chance that we are sims. Chalmers estimates about 25%."
...
"But before we adopt too relaxed an attitude, consider who has the God-like power to create and destroy worlds in a simulated universe. Not a benevolent deity. Not timeless, stable laws of physics. Instead, basically gamers."...
read more,
https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/04/lets-hope-we-dont-live-in-simulation.html
=== Wetland Project ===
Starting Tonight
Stream & FM Frequencies by Location @
http://wetlandproject.com/program.php
@charlotte I know right? Grrr
Your Soundtrack for #EarthDay
== Slow Radio Broadcast & Internet Stream is back on April 22 ===
https://wetlandproject.com/program.php
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#theStage #global #climateChange #slowMedia #stream #theAuditorium
"In the early days of pellet production, lumber waste was indeed the principal raw material, but Conservation North, which keeps tabs on local producers, has found that whole trees increasingly feed this growing industry."
Currently, about 90 percent of the wood pellets produced in Canada are used to power electricity plants overseas.
very cool, 'SmartKnob' an open-source input device with software-configurable endstops, virtual detents, haptic touch feedback, and a round LCD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA
New episode of Artists and Hackers podcast is a mini episode on Winterbloom's open source music hardware for Eurorack modular synthesizers.
https://www.artistsandhackers.org/winterbloom
We talk with Thea Flowers of Winterbloom and get into hacking the Big Honking Button with CircuitPython, a fork of MicroPython.
=== Techno ===
A QUEER FEMMECENTRIC (TRANS)CENDENTAL RAVE EXPERIENCE
APRIL 16
DANCEFLOOR FACILITATED BY
. EMERENCZ RA | SOL
. DJ DENISE
. NANCY DRU
$15/PYWC NOTAFLOF
DRAG PERFORMANCE/HOSTED BY EROTIK CLOWN
11PM TIL LATE LATE
1965 MAIN STREET
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE INCLUSIVE SPACE
#dance #theStage #theAuditorium #604 #778 xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (#Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (#Squamish) Sel̓íl̓witulh (#TsleilWaututh) #bcca #ca
@tty ya it's so rude.
@neauoire 🃏🃏🃏😝
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.