Cualquier tarde (bueno, también por las mañanas), en cualquier iglesia de Praga o Viena, como he podido comprobar estos días, y hablo de decenas de salas simultáneamente, se programa un concierto de la cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi. Imagino que lo mismo sucede en otras capitales europeas y me atrevo a suponer que es algo ligado al boom turístico de estos tiempos post covid.
La elección de estos cuatro conciertos sin duda tiene que ver con su carácter popular, que la gente lo reconoce como música culta "pero" amable, el estilo barroco permite además un acercamiento casual menos exigente al oyente y, también, no requiere un gran conjunto instrumental, ni en número de músicos ni tampoco en virtuosismo. Violín solista, conjunto de cuerdas y continuo...
Las cuatro estaciones no son simplemente una obra popular que los turistas reconocen; se han convertido en una especie de “unidad básica” del turismo europeo. Parte del paquete que da un toque cultureta. Una moda que viene con otras notas como lo de los freetours y las visitas guiadas. Pero eso para otro día. Saludos desde Viena.
@javierarmentia No te creas, hace +20 años ya me sorprendió la programación musical de Praga en sus iglesias.
Silver Spook Games
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Mind the glitched, gun-toting ATMs or you'll disappear like tears in rain! In my #cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 2 - out on #Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/
Neofeud 1: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
#indie #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #visualnovel #Steam #indiegame #noAI #artist #art #scifiart
💔 "Displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza City go about their daily lives and prepare for the winter season amidst a shortage of basic necessities and limited shelter options.
The scars of destruction caused by the Israeli aggression remain visible across vast areas of the Gaza Strip."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0FD068gORw
#Gaza #Palestine #winter #humanrights #video
ajuvo ✔
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Mikhail Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister launches “The Army of Robots”.
This is the promo video.
In his LinkedIn post he writes
“Make robots fight instead of people.”
Lisa Melton
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Another farmers market Saturday, another batch of flower photos to share this week!
The Master Carver and a Message (2024) (documentary about a sculptor in Nigeria)
Alex Akselrod
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RE: https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/117337441129357708
If you needed yet another reason to avoid US produced food products...
Alex Akselrod
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"Driscoll’s berries are on many Canadians’ plates and all over Canadian grocery stores, with their tagline claiming to be “only the finest berries.”
But a whistleblower lawsuit in California alleges the finest berries were not sent to Canada: instead, millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border, and the company tried to cover it up.
California resident and former Driscoll’s employee David Harada claims in the lawsuit that by Driscoll’s own estimates, about 50 per cent of all shipments to Canada from 2022 to 2024 had fruit that exceeded Canadian safety levels."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/whistleblower-allege-driscoll-s-berries-9.7359158
[offre 1 place de théâtre en ma compagnie ce samedi soir à Paris]
C'est la 1ère fois que je lance une invitation originale comme ça. Je me retrouve avec 1 place, contiguë à la mienne, ce soir 21h Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Oh les beaux jours, de Samuel Beckett (avec Catherine Frot).
Personne de mes proches dispo. Alors j'ai pensé à Masto ;)
On est à h-4 mais sait-on jamais !
Si intéressé-e me contacter par MP.
On veut connaître la suite aussi 👍🏻
Lisa Melton
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Watch this trailer and you will be waiting with bated breath for the October 16th opening (the day after which is a #NoKings Day of Action). There is a reason the cowards/alleged champions of free speech, who by the way are the most powerful, privileged, and greedy people on the planet (and who just kowtowed to #Xi with Trump presiding) are refusing to run the trailer.
#Streisand Effect anyone?
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Lisa Melton
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George Michael deserved better than this. https://www.comicsands.com/george-michael-vmas-tribute-controversy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
@mxu @krisfreedain ❤️❤️
@legoktm the chromebook was tiny (low-end AMD processor, 4GB RAM) but I wrote Libra Shrugged in LibreOffice on a netbook of similar spec and it's fast as hell.
@davidgerard nope, performance is perfectly acceptable so far; this is on my 1-year old machine with 16GB RAM and a bunch of other stuff running in the background.
Esparta :ruby:
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"People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI"
https://www.404media.co/people-training-openais-ai-fired-for-using-ai-to-train-the-ai/
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Neofeud 2 is my #scifi adventure game where an ex-robo-marine and a rebel hacker struggle against CEO-King trillionaires & an empire on its last legs. Get it on #Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/ #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame #retrogame #NoAI #scifi #art #artist
@krisfreedain I'm not, I'm back in Amsterdam 😭
@Gina darn. Wish I could have sent that to you earlier 😀
Today's new iPhone Duo iOS 27.1+ content: DeviceHinge and toolbarVerticalCompressionBehavior.
Explore how they work for free:
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Lisa Melton
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The theft of the FBI agents/applicants' personal data is quickly becoming a major counterintelligence headache. I'm also aghast at how close to the internet this data was held. Call me old fashioned but some data shouldn't be stored in the cloud at all. https://www.reuters.com/world/shinyhunters-hackers-say-they-stole-psychiatric-medical-records-fbi-staff-2026-09-25/
