LinkMe: Rogue Posting Edition
June 24, 2024 1:23 PM Subscribe
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Per the recent MetaTalk about this, I thought I would try what I suggested and just make another LinkMe post and see what happens.
Per the recent MetaTalk about this, I thought I would try what I suggested and just make another LinkMe post and see what happens.
LinkMe: https://brinkterminal.com/
a text game made to promote this https://brink.iv.studio/ [⇔ Linked]
posted by juv3nal at 1:49 PM on June 24
a text game made to promote this https://brink.iv.studio/ [⇔ Linked]
posted by juv3nal at 1:49 PM on June 24
LinkMe: https://jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-data-center-energy-usage-environment?utm_campaign=defector&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter The earth-shattering environmental cost of AI
posted by onebuttonmonkey at 1:57 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
posted by onebuttonmonkey at 1:57 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
LinkMe: How psychology helped the Oilers through the Stanley Cup playoffs (this little CBC clip made me curious about the prevalence of sports psychology in general, at an elite level)
posted by elkevelvet at 2:20 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
posted by elkevelvet at 2:20 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
LinkMe: Will we continue scientific research? (1972), by Alexander Grothendieck. Translated by Peio Borthelle. [via trivium] -- I read about 1/3 of it, then got distracted. Seemed thoughtful though.
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 2:53 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 2:53 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
LinkMe: Related to the Jacobin story above, Bloomberg looks at AI power consumption.
"Globally, there are more than 7,000 data centers built or in various stages of development, up from 3,600 in 2015. These data centers have the capacity to consume a combined 508 terawatt hours of electricity per year if they were to run constantly. That’s greater than the total annual electricity production for Italy or Australia."
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 3:06 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
"Globally, there are more than 7,000 data centers built or in various stages of development, up from 3,600 in 2015. These data centers have the capacity to consume a combined 508 terawatt hours of electricity per year if they were to run constantly. That’s greater than the total annual electricity production for Italy or Australia."
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 3:06 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
Linkme: someone better suited than me should do a post on Reggie Jackson’s comments live on FOX on his experiences playing in the 1960s.
posted by wittgenstein at 3:39 PM on June 24 [9 favorites]
posted by wittgenstein at 3:39 PM on June 24 [9 favorites]
Linkme: Corydoras Taxonomy Shake Up (about Phylogenomic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on morphological and molecular data
posted by pipeski at 3:48 PM on June 24
posted by pipeski at 3:48 PM on June 24
LinkMe: "Performative busyness" - Why your boss still values it and what to do about it, in Fast Company. Or like the bumper sticker I once saw,
Jesus Is Coming
Look Busy
I've had difficulties with this expectation myself, especially during the fast-food beginnings of my working career.
posted by Rash at 3:56 PM on June 24 [6 favorites]
Look Busy
I've had difficulties with this expectation myself, especially during the fast-food beginnings of my working career.
posted by Rash at 3:56 PM on June 24 [6 favorites]
LinkMe: On dromomania: I think most everybody thinks their travels are more interesting than they really are and that they are more well-traveled than they really are. I fall into both of these categories, and here are some musings on why. by Sophie Fuji
posted by chavenet at 4:02 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 4:02 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
LinkMe: You Are Not Immune To Propaganda. A look into how the Japanese government has successfully injected government propaganda into the anime industry, and why.
posted by lock robster at 4:08 PM on June 24 [4 favorites]
posted by lock robster at 4:08 PM on June 24 [4 favorites]
LinkMe: Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history. The story of the (in)famous canned pasta and a tribute to Betty Ossola, a pioneering female entrepreneur that got lost in the history of Italian-American food in the USA.
posted by JoeZydeco at 4:50 PM on June 24 [6 favorites]
posted by JoeZydeco at 4:50 PM on June 24 [6 favorites]
from https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden-administration/index.html
[snip]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department over his alleged role in one of the largest U.S. government breaches of classified material. As a result, he will avoid imprisonment in the United States.
CNN reports:
Under the terms of the new agreement (PDF), Justice Department prosecutors will seek a 62-month sentence -- which is equal to the amount of time Assange has served in a high-security prison in London while he fought extradition to the US. The plea deal would credit that time served, allowing Assange to immediately return to Australia, his native country. The plea deal must still be approved by a federal judge.
posted by aleph at 5:16 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
[snip]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department over his alleged role in one of the largest U.S. government breaches of classified material. As a result, he will avoid imprisonment in the United States.
CNN reports:
Under the terms of the new agreement (PDF), Justice Department prosecutors will seek a 62-month sentence -- which is equal to the amount of time Assange has served in a high-security prison in London while he fought extradition to the US. The plea deal would credit that time served, allowing Assange to immediately return to Australia, his native country. The plea deal must still be approved by a federal judge.
posted by aleph at 5:16 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
LinkMe: soap, linguistically
A picture of how a word traveled the world.
posted by Vatnesine at 5:26 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
A picture of how a word traveled the world.
posted by Vatnesine at 5:26 PM on June 24 [2 favorites]
LinkMe: Anime Studio Gainax Files for Bankruptcy. Gainax is the studio that made the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, amongst other beloved productions. Their mismanagement has been near-legendary, so this news, while sad, wasn't surprising.
posted by May Kasahara at 5:27 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
posted by May Kasahara at 5:27 PM on June 24 [3 favorites]
LinkMe: Opinion | Are the justices re-examining same-sex marriage? Majority’s ruling in an immigration case could signal an appetite to revisit marriage equality
posted by NotLost at 8:03 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
posted by NotLost at 8:03 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
LinkMe: Neom: An Update on the World's Most Ridiculous City. I thought this an interesting review of Saudi Arabia's "line city" project. Why MBS keeps promoting these super-expensive, off-the-wall ideas is puzzling, to say the least.
posted by SPrintF at 8:07 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
posted by SPrintF at 8:07 PM on June 24 [1 favorite]
Mod note: [Added to the sidebar and Best Of blog!]
posted by taz (staff) at 1:05 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
posted by taz (staff) at 1:05 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
Daði Freyr (Daði & Gagnamagnið) – Think About Things (Official Video) [YouTube, in English]. I've got a decent YT feed based on 1. paying for Premium, and 2. lots of music playlists I play a lot. This odd video was suggested. It is weird and lovely! The setting, the sweatshirts, the singer's gently furrowed brow.
posted by Glinn at 6:58 AM on June 25 [4 favorites]
posted by Glinn at 6:58 AM on June 25 [4 favorites]
LinkMe: This year’s Color Our Collections. “Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, #ColorOurCollections is an annual coloring festival on social media during which libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions around the world share free coloring content featuring images from their collections.”
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:14 AM on June 25
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:14 AM on June 25
LinkMe: Violent suppression of protests in Kenya is being covered by @JonathanMBR@mstdn.social
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 11:12 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 11:12 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
.. and an undersea cable is coincidentally cut, limiting internet access?
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 11:12 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 11:12 AM on June 25 [2 favorites]
LinkMe: Glissonic makes a fretless acoustic woodwind, based on a soprano saxophone: Glissotar (While this isn’t an electronic wind instrument, EWI enthusiasts are intrigued.)
posted by Jesse the K at 11:47 AM on June 25 [1 favorite]
posted by Jesse the K at 11:47 AM on June 25 [1 favorite]
LinkMe: I don't have a link for this, and I don't know how this works, and I've almost posted a curiosity-driven AskMe about it, and I'm not even sure what it's even called.
I would like to know more about the kinds of incidental or stock library soundtrack music used in the general area of vintage and historical films, particularly industrial films and B-movies from, say, the 1940s through the 1960s or even 1970s.
I'm talking about the kind of total nonsense "music" or even "anti-music" used on film soundtracks on, say, Jam Handy industrial movies or Roger Corman films. The kind of music you often hear on B-movie schlock or shorts that's frequently featured on MST3K episodes.
The music I'm talking about ranges from big band and swing sounds - but so totally awful and so bad as actual music it just doesn't make any sense to me why someone would hire a big band to record it even for film stock libraries and use. Or wild jazz or free jazz sounds that also don't make any sense whether as stand alone music or in the context of the film.
This music often wildly edited and cut and interposed both within a shot or scene or as transitions between shots or scenes.
A certain subset of this kind of music would include the weird free range analog synth noodling and weird Delia Derbyshire or Wendy Carlos riffs or sound design that you might find in, say, old NASA films and shorts or industrial films, which I do understand and "get" easier given the context of SCIENCE! and space and stuff.
But I'm more curious about this "industrial" film library music where it sounds like someone randomly scattered ants over blank sheet music and then hired a big band to play that nonsense that's somehow less musical than a bunch of sneakers tumbling in a dryer.
At often features weird key shifts and tempo changes and other improbable structures or wild flourishes that.. just don't seem to exist outside of low budget films and productions.
I get the part about sound libraries and stock houses for film and why someone like, say, Roger Corman or Jam Handy would rely on affordable soundtrack libraries and stock.
But who made and composed that stuff? How was it made? What is it even called?
posted by loquacious at 1:28 PM on June 25 [1 favorite]
I would like to know more about the kinds of incidental or stock library soundtrack music used in the general area of vintage and historical films, particularly industrial films and B-movies from, say, the 1940s through the 1960s or even 1970s.
I'm talking about the kind of total nonsense "music" or even "anti-music" used on film soundtracks on, say, Jam Handy industrial movies or Roger Corman films. The kind of music you often hear on B-movie schlock or shorts that's frequently featured on MST3K episodes.
The music I'm talking about ranges from big band and swing sounds - but so totally awful and so bad as actual music it just doesn't make any sense to me why someone would hire a big band to record it even for film stock libraries and use. Or wild jazz or free jazz sounds that also don't make any sense whether as stand alone music or in the context of the film.
This music often wildly edited and cut and interposed both within a shot or scene or as transitions between shots or scenes.
A certain subset of this kind of music would include the weird free range analog synth noodling and weird Delia Derbyshire or Wendy Carlos riffs or sound design that you might find in, say, old NASA films and shorts or industrial films, which I do understand and "get" easier given the context of SCIENCE! and space and stuff.
But I'm more curious about this "industrial" film library music where it sounds like someone randomly scattered ants over blank sheet music and then hired a big band to play that nonsense that's somehow less musical than a bunch of sneakers tumbling in a dryer.
At often features weird key shifts and tempo changes and other improbable structures or wild flourishes that.. just don't seem to exist outside of low budget films and productions.
I get the part about sound libraries and stock houses for film and why someone like, say, Roger Corman or Jam Handy would rely on affordable soundtrack libraries and stock.
But who made and composed that stuff? How was it made? What is it even called?
posted by loquacious at 1:28 PM on June 25 [1 favorite]
possibly it's broadly under the category of incidental music, maybe a "loop" of which wikipedia says
Short sequences of recorded music called loops are sometimes designed so that they can be repeated indefinitely and seamlessly as required to accompany visuals. These are often used as background music in documentary and trade films.posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 1:34 PM on June 25
I would love a post about terrible incidental music in classic bad movies. Digging up examples would be a fun project.
I am reminded of the Technology Connections video about the "ringing telephone" sound effect, which acquired some record-player wobble over the decades and sounded just a tad wrong in a bunch of big-budget movies.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 5:31 PM on June 25
I am reminded of the Technology Connections video about the "ringing telephone" sound effect, which acquired some record-player wobble over the decades and sounded just a tad wrong in a bunch of big-budget movies.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 5:31 PM on June 25
LinkMe: nice recent article at Defector about Angel Reese that, for a change, focuses on her basketball playing. (archive)
posted by mediareport at 4:33 PM on June 26
posted by mediareport at 4:33 PM on June 26
LinkMe: In addition to nuking the MTV News archive, Paramount takes offline the entire clip archive of comedycentral.com in a stunningly ironic move, considering the whole premise of The Daily Show is "highlighting absurdity by being able to pull from an archive recordings of things powerful people had said in the past." I mean, just (holds head in lap, screams)
posted by MarchHare at 7:24 PM on June 26
posted by MarchHare at 7:24 PM on June 26
That link didn't work for me, MarchHare, but this one did.
posted by mediareport at 4:50 AM on June 27
posted by mediareport at 4:50 AM on June 27
But who made and composed that stuff? How was it made? What is it even called?
Funnily enough, it's called "library music," and there's a big subculture of folks who collect it. "Production music" is another useful search term. I was just listening to some of my KPM records the other day. The ones with a bit of funk, electronic bloops and/or psychedelic guitar are very much sought-after.
posted by mediareport at 5:00 AM on June 27
Funnily enough, it's called "library music," and there's a big subculture of folks who collect it. "Production music" is another useful search term. I was just listening to some of my KPM records the other day. The ones with a bit of funk, electronic bloops and/or psychedelic guitar are very much sought-after.
posted by mediareport at 5:00 AM on June 27
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