Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 7
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 12:18:12 JST 
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Late at night, neighbours silent. Watching a TV series, paused and made some pan bread. Together with olive oil on top, yummy. Now a last coffee, then the rest of the episode, then to bed. Feeling better now than the last two days. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 11:59:13 JST
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I'm not sure and wil have to monitor a bit, but right now posting via Pleroma interface works a bit better than via the classical interface. I hope the administrator of the site will some day find time and resocurces to fix errors that keep gnusocial.jp from functioning properly.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 11:55:43 JST
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That looks better.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 11:54:59 JST
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Trying out if the Pleroma interface of gnusocial.jp works better than the classical interface.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 10:45:49 JST
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https://www.thejc.com/life/the-non-jewish-israel-supporters-who-have-lost-friends-over-gaza-itxvxzwl
Happened to me as well, online and in real life. Lost a lot of acquaintances on X, Mastodon, Bluesky. Esp. people of liberal stance. In RL, carrying a Magen David, I wasn't served in a bakery, shunned in a supermarket, received hard stares. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 05:05:15 JST
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♪ Mahaleo, "Hay Hay" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew585nCy2VM
From the same concert, Paris, 2027. And as the audience explodes, so does the band.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 04:53:54 JST
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♪ Mahaleo, "Vololona" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aD3twopLQw
One of my favourite songs of this Madegassy super band. It's taken from a life concert in Paris, 2007, and the audience is so in sync with the musicians. Wonderful. Great that there are subtitles now, I never knew what the song was about :-)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 06:22:33 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Isabelle Laudenbach (guitarra), "Pajarillo verde" (Canción popular venezolana) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McAUBiOORwg&t=464s
Beautiful! Rubio's sparkling voice, in duet with the second voice of Laudenbach's articulate guitar play. Both lend light-heartedness as well as depth to the song.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 05:15:29 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Lucas Vázquez, "Historia de tres amigos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGhyoj1Ad8
"The story of three friends, of sweet freedom,
if they became anarchists, it was not by pure chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
called Los solidarios who despise power
Wanted and persecuted, by the countryside and the city,
if they ended up in jail, it was not by mere chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
three leaves of black clover, against the wind of power.
Continuing with their habit of flouting authority
if they crossed the border, it was not by chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
the black shadow of the people against the brightness of power.
After a while they returned here,
if the bourgeois trembled, it was not by chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
three black bullets of lead, aimed at power."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 05:05:18 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Marcel Bagés (guitarra), "Anita, la miliciana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Wfhp3vU0
Anita, the militiawoman
“The winds of the people carry me,”
ruins, battles, and death,
we lost the war.
What if I never see you again?
I fight for a new world.
I joyfully raise my flag,
I am that militiawoman
who smiles in the face of war.
Between the trades of exile
in a forced expatriation,
celebration and hope
with the death of the tyrant.
My face hidden in the dust
of a long dictatorship,
resistance and memories,
our ideal endures today.
I fight for a new world.
I firmly raise my flag,
I am that militiawoman
who smiles in the face of war.
My name is Ana Garbin,
of ideas and dynamite,
and with my companions,
infinite militiawomen.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 04:57:39 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) & Joris Van Waesberge (guitarra), "Canción de soldados" https://youtube.com/watch?v=KMjOndkC66o
Written by Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Interpretation, arrangement, and rendition are splendid!
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 10:27:43 JST
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Patrick Wintour, "More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/leading-cultural-figures-call-for-release-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti
Not just that the petitioners praise a convicted mass murderer. The Guardian doesn't even report why he got 5 life sentences. Unbelievable. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 08:24:26 JST
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Vittoria Benzine, "The Special Effects Maestro Behind ‘Alien’ and ‘E.T.’ Gets a MoMA Tribute" https://news.artnet.com/art-world/moma-carlo-rambaldi-centennial-screening-series-2720449
I'd love to be there. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 12:42:29 JST
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Wonder if wordpress . com has some shady deal with #AI clusterfucks because I see strange accesses to a variety of posts of mine. These accesses make no coherent sense, so it looks like content scraping and AI feeding to me. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 09:30:38 JST
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"On the Record" https://video.i24news.tv/video/brightcove/6385620241112/6385620241112_hls
Ariel Oseran interviews Ehud Olmert who is very critical of the Netanyahu government's policies.
Thank you to i24News to broadcast an interview that so openly runs counter to its more conservative and national security stance. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 08:38:29 JST
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Oh, a new book by John Bellamy Foster (author of "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth"):
"Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" (2025) monthlyreview.org/9781685901233/
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 06:22:44 JST
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I wonder if Netanyahu's plea to President Herzog for a pardon in the current investigations is solely about the bribery and corruption charges or whether there is some clause asking for a general pardon to shield him from possible future investigations re: the Gaza Strip war.
Because if that's the case, that would make any charges by the ICC moot. (Due to the principle of subsidiarity in the Rome Statute the ICC only has jurisdiction if the judiciary of the state the suspect is citizen of is incapable or unwilling to investigate on its own.)
(I don't think that Netanyahu is guilty of any crime regarding the execution of the war in the Gaza Strip. But there is still a call for an investigation regarding the utter intelligence failing that left Israel unprepared and surprised on October 7 2023.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 05:59:49 JST
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Fucking war criminal! https://thehill.com/homenews/5628447-defense-secretary-authorizes-drug-boat-strike/ -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 02:12:36 JST
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I remember how shallow the then new CDs of the late 1980s with their 16-bit engineered recordings sounded. No overtones to the harmonic first, a flat sound that forced recording to accentuate the pitches: the highs, the bass-lines, the beat. The sound never felt voluminous.
This changed a bit with the advent of 32-bit recording in the early 1990s, but then the new listening habit of clear high pitches, bass- and rhythm driven groundlayer, repetitious melodies rarely going beyond a third or quart, had already influenced listening and markets.
The emphasis on almost violent expressivity over phrasing and modulation can best be heard by comparing Dolly Parton's tender "I will always love you" (1973) with Whitney Houston's paroxysmal rendition (1992).
Thus, looking back, I feel like noticing some parallels in music as in cinematography. In both depth and nuance has been lost, replaced by harsh contrasts, and the attempt to balance the feeling of sensory deprivation by adding effects.
Obviously it had the side effect – welcomed by the industry – of nudging people to purchase even more of the same sensory malnutrition to satisfy their hunger. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 15:31:36 JST
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That explains a lot why modern film/video looks so visually unsatisfactory and aligns it with the boring contemporary video game imagery: The cleanliness of the images results from grain- and texture reduction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XptD8ohC77w
(with links to papers in the description)
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