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Thrilled to receive such a thoughtful and complementary review from Frans de Waard for Black Tent’s Managed Retreat 10":
“Active listening … ambient on edge, spacious and down to earth. Ritual music … for an urban environment.”
#theStudio
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I’ve been mulling over the idea of registering a RFC 1480-style locality domain under
.usfor a long, long while (think 20 years or more). However, it’s been pretty borked for over a good portion of that time. There’s a reasonable guide to obtaining a locality domain that was updated last year that relies heavily on archived websites (well, text files on HTTP servers) for critical resources.It’s honestly a bit disappointing; if this process were smoother, I’d argue it was a good prospect for a process of commoning aligned with the Indieweb ethos, but instead, it’s experiencing a bunch of obsolescence and subject to organizational failures and privatization. Entirely disappointing, but fundamentally unsurprising.
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envelopes and escapades - sunday afternoon composition sketches #theStudio
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work/ms in progress 🪱 🚀 ✈️
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🔖 Black Tent – "Managed Retreat" –
she’s here. orders are officially shipping for the Black Tent “Managed Retreat” lathe cut 10", with posters & digital downloads available
in addition, 100% of digital sales, and any profits past the minimum price on physical merch (posters, zines, records/tapes) will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds through May 15.
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🔖 Yang et al., "Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps" –
Using network traffic that we intercept en route to the telemetry server, we implement a proof-of-concept background activity classifier and demonstrate the feasibility of inferring the ongoing background activity during a meeting — cooking, cleaning, typing, etc. We achieved 81.9% macro accuracy on identifying six common background activities using intercepted outgoing telemetry packets when a user is muted.
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🔖 Gomes and Barros, "The Bias in Ontologies: An Analysis of the FOAF Ontology" –
For the analysis, the theoretical framework of Discursive Semiotics is used, which studies the formation of meaning as a phenomenon from a model called Generative Trajectory of Meaning (GTM). From this perspective, we can understand bias as a product of semiotic processes – figurativization, thematization, and discursivization (Greimas and Courtés 2013) – involving the KOS developer social-cultural contexts (Gomes and Barros 2019a, 2019b). From this theoretical understanding, all the elements that constitute the FOAF ontology – classes and properties – are analyzed, as well as its documentation available online. We concluded that bias is an inherent feature of a KOS and that Knowledge Organization could focus on conducting studies on technologies that enable information retrieval, taking into account this aspect of its tools.
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I absolutely love working with Acid Lich. Color comp of the risograph sleeve/poster art for my upcoming EP.
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🔖 S.I. Rosenbaum: "His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent." –
For two decades, Jewish clergy across the country had come to depend on TropeTrainer to help prepare kids for their bar and bat mitzvahs, rites of passage in which young adults chant aloud from the Torah for the first time. But the software wasn’t just a study aid — it was a deep archive of sacred text and music, comprising dozens of different traditions, made easily searchable and infinitely customizable.