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Minister O’Donovan announces the New Basic Income for the Arts scheme

Ireland loves art.
They know, what is precious.

"The Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan TD, today announced the successor scheme to the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme."

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Synchronstimmen gegen KI-Training: Hilf mit! | GoodCrowd.org Stell dir vor: Die Stimmen von Stranger Things, Bridgerton oder His & Hers – einfach weg. Ersetzt durch KI-Klone. Klingt nach Science-Fiction? ...

Stell dir vor: Die Stimmen aus Stranger Things oder Bridgerton – ersetzt durch KI.
Neue Verträge zwingen uns Synchronsprecher*innen zur Freigabe fürs KI-Training, ohne zusätzliche Vergütung oder Mitsprache.
Der VDS sammelt Spenden für ein unabhängiges Rechtsgutachten.
goodcrowd.org/synchronstim...

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Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Focusrite-Forte-Linux-7.0

We can do more across music communities. If you want to share ideas about how US Americans can organize against ICE and violence against US citizens and immigrants -- or you're one of our colleagues around the world wanting to voice your perspective -- DM me for my Signal contact.

Scientists Discovered a Cow That Uses Tools Like a Chimpanzee Veronika, a brown cow in Austria, uses sticks and brushes as multipurpose tools to scratch hard-to-reach spots

Veronika, a brown cow in Austria, uses sticks and brushes as multipurpose tools to scratch hard-to-reach spots

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished. www.wired.com/story/veroni...

People who don't want their OS watching their activity get nonstop notifications begging them to enable it.

Meanwhile visually impaired people can't even get 2005-era OCR as a standard feature.

The AI industry doesn't ever seem interested in solving problems they didn't fabricate.

Big Glitch! 🤣 Best wording ever.

plugdata 0.9.2 is huge update for this free sound exploration powerhouse - CDM Create Digital Music plugdata, the visual programming environment for sound and media based on Pure Data (Pd), is becoming its own scene. It's a great place to start patching your own sonic experiments, and if you haven't...

One free tool opens a portal to some of the most bleeding-edge synthesis and effects tools out there. Let's break it down -- what's there for creators, but also why pretty much everyone will want to grab this, whether they patch or not.

Tactical Tech facilitated conversations with educators at Ars Electronica, introducing Critical Change Labs.
This session created space for educators to network and explore how this methodology can strengthen democratic engagement classrooms.
Find out more: ars.electronica.art/criticalchan...

Pikimov, free no-signup motion design, video editor, gets serious with v4 - CDM Create Digital Music The After Effects and Capcut alternative is starting to look like a real alternative. Pikimov v4 landed this month, no-signup, in-browser, and free for macOS, Windows, Linux, and (critical in educatio...

This really can replace After Effects, CapCut, and more, inside your browser. Rotoscoping, expressions, 4K, motion tracking, 3D models, more: @pikilipita.com

If only there were a simple open source cross platform package manager for VST Plugins. ✨
Or at least VST management being a part of iLok... 🫠

That sounds amazing. ✨ Need to try that too. I‘ve got two of them around for Foley.

DPC Latency Ranking - Which laptops and Windows tablets offer the lowest latency Our DPC Latency ranking shows the list of all tested laptops and tablets and their ability to use them for real time audio and video.

Interesting. #musicproduction #pcaudio

www.notebookcheck.net/DPC-Latency-...

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.

40 years of Amiga: The music machine for the desktop For the first time, you could create your own real-sounding songs on a computer – The Amiga made it possible. It was also the nucleus of the tracker culture.

Nice article about the Amiga. :)
#trackermusic #computermusic

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Ansel Adams nails exactly why we love #fieldrecording

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Accessibility is an area Mixxx has struggled with for a long time, and as an all-volunteer project we have struggled to recruit devs to address it. If you have a passion for accessibility and are interested in a chance to have a big impact, hit us up.

Nice! 🙌

Fender's New Music Creation App Supports Linux Fender Studio is a new free cross-platform DAW for Linux, backed by the iconic instrument maker. Details on what it can do inside.

Fender has released a free, cross-platform DAW based on Studio One Pro - and yup, it runs on Linux too! #fender #linux

🚨Plugin Update🚨 Olympia Noise Co. has updated ‘Patterning 3’ to v3.1.1! Update fixes a bug with SHARE not showing up after audio export. Update yours now in the App Store!

apps.apple.com/us/app/patte...

small illustration of a girl holding a pencil with the text "support human artists"

Buchla 200e modular synthesizer setup.

Can't wait to see the great Suzanne Ciani perform tonight at Elevate Graz.

#synthsky #modular #ElectronicMusic

Congrats!!! Such a lovely synth! Still love mine after 5 years. ☺️

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi - CDM Create Digital Music It's free, it's fast, it's fun, it's bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. "You probably don't have any use for bop," its developer says humbly - but w...

Right now, we can all use some bop in our lives. I love the intro: “You probably don’t have any use for bop."

So, in the *inverse* of all the music tech that's convinced we need it when we don't have a use for it, this one is humble and we do! Free, fun, friendly, fresh:

Haha great point! 😆