𝓻𝓻𝓪 @rra@post.lurk.org

Thanks everyone for voting, even the cheaters with dormant .social accounts.

Let's get this show on the road, find a way to pump your mpv's, mplayer's and vlc's into an old boombox, dust of your old kangol hat and let's hit it.

To comfort the dissapointed I shall start the show with some truly weird 80s electro by the mysterious Danan Potts.

Tune into https://echo.lurk.org:999/echochamber
and hang out and have a chat at. https://echochamber.lurk.org/
Tomorrow 20:00 CET, standard time.

I have been streaming every Friday night on https://echo.lurk.org and will probably keep doing this for as long as I have records and the time to pick and play them.

Its a comfy little stream with a few listeners, knowing who listens and what they enjoy makes picking songs more direct.

#icecast2 #stream #audio #records #cmos4040 #genres #electro #bizarro #vinyl #mp3

Since I have never ran a successful poll on here, I will try again.
Next Friday the Theme of the stream should be:

webp: Anybody using it for their work or projects? On the surface it sounds very interesting but I feel I'm completely lacking broader context to develop an informed opinion and that "one does not simply introduce a new image format" :) (licensing, implications on computing ecosystems at large etc., google's role and motivation here and so on) https://developers.google.com/speed/webp are there articles, essays, talks on this? #webp

Oh hey, I moved to post.lurk.org. Thank u to @rra for the invite uwu :3

📄 Writing Theory During a Pandemic
by João Florêncio

https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/announcement/view/16

Over two decades after Paula Treichler wrote the landmark book How to Have Theory In an Epidemic - a critical reflection on the intertwined clinical and cultural dimensions of the AIDS crisis - some academic colleagues, even some in the Humanities, appear to still insist that no theory can be produced about an epidemic during an epidemic and that all we should do is wait for our turn. In so doing, they unwittingly endorse the right-wing narrative that, over the last few years, has been painting the Arts and Humanities as useless disciplines led by “radical lefties” intended on using public funds in order to simply be a nuisance to the status quo. According to that narrative and its technocratic neoliberal ideology, the only useful knowledge is the knowledge of “Science.” Yet, as the responses to COVID-19 are already showing - as the responses to AIDS had already shown - and as any medical humanities scholar will confirm, no epidemic is a purely medical event capable of being solely understood by means of graphs and data sets.

Open and Shut

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

https://github.com/veggiedefender/open-and-shut