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Ice retreats at Halibut Point, Gloucester

#spring

U.S. media is lying down and letting the war machine run over it. U.S. munitions are running low, Israel's Iron Dome is almost inactive and Israel is sustaining serious damage.

There is no "off ramp" for this senseless waste of money and human life. #Iranwar

Miles=Troop Leader of the Hip Patrol. Ornette=Intuited calculus, Flunked math. Lester Bowie=Grinds the gris-gris. Archie Shepp=something inside that damn horn tryin’ to get out.

4 #jazz #poems #photos

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4 Jazz Poems/Photos.

#jazz #poetry

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‘This is a really meaningful innovation’: Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI startup - The Boston Globe It sounds like Affleck has been working on a lot more than just Dunkin’ commercials over the past few years.

There are a lot of generalizations in #Affleck's explanation. I guess he thinks he can utilize AI only in the "technical" aspect of #filmmaking without threatening actors or writers, but I don't quite understand how.

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As Long as They Can Blow: Interracial Jazz Recordings and Other Jive Before 1935 - The Syncopated Times Sometime in my mid-teens as my interests in jazz began to take shape, I become aware of the story that racial integration in jazz began when Benny Goodman

Jazz historian Ed Berlin reviews my book: #jazz #jazzrecording

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Speakeasies to Symphonies: The Genius of James P. Johnson - The Syncopated Times What does it mean to be underappreciated in jazz? Most of us can name several musicians we think might not be getting their due. I might say that Jabbo Smith,

I review the James P. Johnson bio: #jazz #stridepiano #piano

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Jazz, Junk, Cool and Nostalgia nos.tal.gia.

Shmaltz + Cool = nostalgia?

#jazz #milesdavis #chetbaker #charlesmingus

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1960 HITS ARCHIVE: You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones (a #2 record) YouTube video by The45Prof

The soundtrack for tonight's debacle. #trump #stateoftheunion

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AI: Surveillance with a Smile And a Side of Cerebellum

Marge is happy to contribute her brain to help make a brave new world.

#AI #OpenAI #satire #blackhumor

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I am not a fossil fuels fan, but if a nighbor with a gas snow blower hadn't volunteered to help, we'd be up shit's creek.

#snowmegadon

There should be a verb from the same root as "cozy." But "cozying" has become specific to mechanical manipulation, leaving humans without the right verb.

Starting a GoFundMe for former #PrinceAndrew's defense fund. Only caveat: to get the money, he has to testify against the orange menace. #trump

No, but they're prone to larceny.

Facebook Zombies Coming to a Computer Near You

Guess what? #Meta can continue to post for you after you're dead. #Facebook

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Bravo #SCOTUS decision. Only problem-it'll give the orange menace an excuse for his tanked economy.

Facebook Zombies Coming to a Computer Near You

#Meta has taken a copyright out on something strange. Watch the scenario play out. #zombies

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Shout out to #Anthropic, fighting with the Pentagon about how they want to use #Claude. Anthropic says two areas are off limits: mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry.

Pentagon: there's considerable gray area around what would and wouldn't fall into those categories.

Sure.

I'm not sure I get the rationale for destroying the books. Was it simply the cheapest way to deal with them?

What's In a Name? Birth of a Fetish-And a Coverup.

Turns out little Donny developed his naming fetish at his pre-school: “T$ddlers: a New York City Pre-School for Children Born on Third Base.” #PamBiondi was there too. #Trump

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As one begins to contemplate paying #taxes, it's hard to remember a time when you know your money will be so misspent.

I was never sure about the derivation of Basie's style. I'm now listening to James P. Johnson and it's being made clear to me. #jazz

The #AI ads on the #SuperBowl marked it as a fait accompli; no guardrails in sight. Then, there was the fact that almost every ad relied on the famous faces of our film stars. It made me nostalgic for the days when one could even breathe the expression "selling out." The phrase has lost its meaning.

First #nightclub #jazz experience? John Handy's recent birthday reminds me that mine was seeing him in NYC. He had a Varitone attached to his alto, with an amp. I was 15 or 16 and they served me a whisky sour. Can't remember the venue.

Don Fagerquist Octet - The Song Is You YouTube video by 60otaku4

HBD to Don Fagerquist, a wonderful but less heralded #jazz #trumpet player.

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#Ai agents plotting your demise need to know the humans aren't monitoring them. Get ready for the Reverse-Turing Test.

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The Reverse-Turing Test How Do I Know You're Really a Bot?

Bots on the #AI platform #Moltbook need you to prove you aren't #human. Time for the Reverse-Turing Test.

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The Reverse-Turing Test How Do I Know You're Really a Bot?

Bots on the #AI platform #Moltbook agree: It's time for a Reverse-Turing Test. #TuringTest

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After You’ve Gone - Roy Eldridge And His Orchestra 1937 YouTube video by Tiny Little Sr Music Collection

HBD Roy Eldridge. This is one of THE great #trumpet solos in #jazz.

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I'm all for the #Nationalshutdown- but I think it's too diffuse to really mobilize people. I think all protest efforts-anti-ICE, No Kings, should be tied to boycotts of specific products that would force CEO's to put pressure on politicians. Examples are UPS and FedEX, or other ICE collaborators.