as it's #BandcampFriday I bought these other two recent #klezmer albums I had been waiting for this occasion to buy as well.
Night Bird by my friend Rebecca Mac, violinist from the Boston area: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/night-bird
and Through The Walls, by British violinist Anna Lowenstein
https://annalowenstein.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-walls
I think I just vibe coded Lil Finder Guy onto my Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/01/i-think-i-just-vibe-coded-lil-finder-guy-onto-my-mac/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Apple escalates fight with India antitrust watchdog over access to global financials https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/01/apple-escalates-fight-with-india-antitrust-watchdog-over-access-to-global-financials/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
From European fashion houses to content creators, everyone is talking about "sashiko" — traditional Japanese needlework. But a new book from a third-generation artisan asks the world to remember the craft's https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/05/02/style-design/sashiko-needlework-new-book-traditional-craft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #styledesign #sashiko #japanesecrafts #books
has Cloudflare has lost its corporate mind? Now it's giving the worst people a way to automate their worst behavior. https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
@dangillmor I'm surprised it took this long TBH selling the worst people things to ruin the internet and the rest of us things to defend against them has always been Cloudflare's M.O
I'm honoured to have been elected to the Board of Directors of @fdroidorg , the most well-known #opensource alternative to Google's Play Store. :fdroid:
Imagine Microsoft deciding from now on what you can install on your laptop. No internet, you can only download things through the MS app store. Apps that MS has approved. Who wouldn't find that suffocating? Yet that is what Google wants to do on our Android phones (and what Apple already has - a closed ecosystem).
https://f-droid.org/en/2026/04/28/board-appointments-2026.html
1/4
@Gina Wow! Congratulations to them and you!
Internet Archive
Every time I see someone using LLMs to code, I want to shake them and ask "If LLMs are supposed to be so good, why isn't your code good?" 🫨
I will say I have experienced one exception to this, which is the very responsive maintainership of Optique, which has successfully introduced feature after feature without any regressions and while maintaining good docs: https://optique.dev/
But it stands out because it seems to be such an exception to other projects that use AI. It's gotten to the point where I will sometimes dismiss a project out of hand if I see Claude has contributed.
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be completing my PhD in Clinical Psychology starting this fall at The University of Kansas! Thank you to everyone who has helped me get this far (too many amazing people to list here) 💖 #ClinicalPsychology #PhD
PC Gamer just posted:
The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
Only roles "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible for awards.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories/
salute to my friends who have this new album out of historical #klezmer music from the KMDMP project I volunteered for years back. looking forward to listening to it.
https://klezmerinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-from-the-kiselgof-makonovetsky-corpus
@mekkaokereke Bridgetower not only could play it brilliantly, but made some improvements to it in mid-performance. Beehoven accepted GB's changes and incorporated them into the piece.
I did not know that!
Oh man, okay, this is the second time this week that Trump has falsely claimed that the BBC lawsuit was about them using AI. It wasn't. (Trump also said this during his 60 Minutes interview, didn't get any pushback.)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mksx6vq5dx2u
Every time I see someone using LLMs to code, I want to shake them and ask "If LLMs are supposed to be so good, why isn't your code good?" 🫨
So Schwab, Fidelity, and Vanguard bent the knee to #Trump. Got it. Sell their stock and mutual funds. Everything Trump Touches Dies. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/schwab-donations-southern-poverty-law-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.lC74.1Cla0qc10Jai&smid=url-share
DECRIMINILIZE ABORTION
this is the way
❝ It's official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a71163004/england-wales-decriminalise-abortion/
in the wake of Blender's unfortunate, "dropping a banana peel on the ground and slipping on it"-type post a few days ago, i feel like it should be noted that they did, in fact, post a response today where they apologized and announced policy changes and open discussions that i think pretty reasonably address the problems. thank you, blender.
https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/
I recently discovered, and became mildly obsessed with, Neural Amp Modeler or NAM. An open source project which lets anyone create and share profiles of guitar amplifiers. These model files can be used to very realistically simulate the amp digitally using a VST plugin.
And the results are amazing. I was jamming with a friend today and these models, running on a laptop then going through a 100W power amp and a cab with a Celestion V30, sound totally believable like vintage Marshalls, Mesa/Boogie or Freedman amps. It's so good I think I'll build my rig around it.
Pope Leo names priest who criticized Trump's immigration crackdown as West Virginia bishop
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pope-leo-names-priest-who-criticized-trumps-immigration-crackdown-as-west-virginia-bishop?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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