Notices by Joshua A.C. Newman (joshuaacnewman@xeno.glyphpress.com)

@mattly
Wunderbar! Please support me as I continue developing! HTTPS://patreon.con/joshua !

There are still bugs, but I share prototypes with longtime supporters who want! And it’s reliable in some circumstances already.

I’m trying to build it into my first dedicated instrument in the coming weeks to peer into the unknown unknowns.

I went to take a picture of the back of the #ObliquePalette prototype 0.5.5 and it came out like this. So I gotta share.

The front, in the second image shows the inputs & outputs. Analog knobs, 3.5mm jacks for Eurorack, pin headers for Arduino (or other electronics) & servos.

(It's for turning computers into machines for making art, fucking around, and falling in love. You talk with it using the extremely powerful graphical language, #plugdata.)
#modularsynt #synthdiy #eurorack #computerart #

I want to take this moment to remind everyone that Fascists are losers.

They win sometimes because they just like to hurt people, or because they cheat, or because they seized an opportunity, but remember:

They make themselves enemies of the universe. They believe that sulking rage and violence will beat the universe into a form their liking.

But truth is a vast, interlinked web of everything that has ever happened.

And Fascists are violent romanticists who cannot discern truth.

The reason the Nazis didn't invent the atomic bomb is because they refused to use Jewish Physics.

That is, they thought they could dominate the world without the benefit of the truth because it conflicted with their romantic fantasies about astrology, race, theosophy, politics, and a bunch of other fields that they figured they could dominate with ideas that were literally just a dare to defy them.

Fascists, remember, are losers.

The Middle East didn't stop existing after Ancient Times.

Misirlou is probably from the 1920s, or about 45 years before Dick Dale recorded it. It was Ottoman, at least, perhaps Maghrebi. But decidedly a modern piece of music.

Here's a modern piece of music that turns out to have equally Ancient Origins! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2mb1vgNg70
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114931889896223598

I was handed this clearly as a conduit to send it to @epidiah .

Next nationwide demonstration, April 19!
#handsoff

Do a bad job for the Fascists.

@futurebird @jandi @wmd
It’s weird becuase it’s designed primarily for sound, but #plugdata is what I’m working on developing a pedagogy around. https://plugdata.org

It's been a while since I was actively excited about a new computer.

I'm actively excited about the @mntmn Reform Next.

It's Open, repairable, modular, and looks cool af in its raw aluminum (I GUESS you can also get it in a brilliant aubergine or black).

It runs off replaceable, standard LiFePO4 cells & you can mod it with other battery chemistries without changing the charging board.

The modularity is really approaching LEGO/Eurorack/ISO bike standarrd levels.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next/updates/technical-deep-dive

@ekis You also might want to mess with #plugdata !

https://plugdata.org

@mekkaokereke @ohmu
I did not know these things could look beautiful.

@futurebird @nikink @bri_seven
I get that the Torment nexus AS WRITTEN is bad, but it’s inspired me to build something I’m calling Ormentay Exusnay and my version is good because I am a disruptor and have reached Series A venture capital funding so I am very smart.

It's, like, ”so weird" that Christians claim to be so pro-Jew, and yet vote the exact opposite way as Jews.

It’s almost as though they think we're a function in their marketing program, not people.

#fediblock

@cstross @Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @nyrath
Stewart Brand’s big fear was Communism making everyone conformist. So he talked himself into being a Newt Gingrich supporter because, by the 80s, he was rich and felt like he deserved it. After all, everyone told him what a wise visionary he was.

@Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @cstross @nyrath
Of the first variety, yeah.

They’re “Libertarians” because they inherited the empty land from the guys who shot all the people living there and figure that means they deserve it.

@Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @cstross @nyrath
Again, look at the giant shit Stewart Brand took in the collectivist pool.

@cstross @nyrath
The ridiculous thing is that all it takes to undo that learning is one generation of austerity that damages education and then we have to start pulling lords off horses again.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
Yeah, and in ... Arizona, I believe, where they literally ran out of water because they'd been buying it from a municipality that then needed it and stopped selling it to them, and they couldn't make themselves admit that they were so wrong that they were all about to die in the desert.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
Unions and squats seem like a pretty fuckin good model of governance.