So Forbidden Planet is the first film to have an all-electronic score. It was made by Bebe and Louis Barron who were not referred to as musicians so as not to offend the musicians' union and instead their score was described as "Electronic Tonalities". The sounds were created via circuits made by Louis. This was before commercial synthesizers existed. Early electronic music was mostly made with things like scientific test equipment, tone generators, or home made circuits. #Monsterdon

Right now, mainland Britain has got almost enough wind and solar power to meet our electricity demand. Add in the power from nuclear and a small dash of gas (used solely to maintain enough mechanical inertia to stabilise the grid) and we are having to export 4.4GW to neighbouring countries. The need for that safety inertia will fall away with new renewable sites like Dogger Bank, whose inverters are capable of ‘grid forming’ as opposed to merely grid following…
https://grid.iamkate.com

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

I haven’t ranted in a while, so here goes:

The Project 2025 Junta bears an uncanny resemblance to a fundamentalist Islamic tradition.

With the only difference being that most fundamentalist Islamic organisations are more liberal, in that they do not exclude by race.

Experts have tested over 140,000 food samples across Europe to check for pesticide residues.

🔹Over 98% of tested foods met legal standards
🔹Most had no trace of pesticides at all
🔹The overall risk to our health is very low

Fruits, vegetables, and other everyday foods on our shelves are regularly checked. They continue to be safe to eat, share, and enjoy.

📊 The European Food Safety Authority have created an online tool so you can explore the results for yourself ➡️ https://europa.eu/!wx6Bfd

Putin murdered three siblings last night: Stanislav, Roman and Tamara.

Their parents lost all three of their children...

A Russian missile hit the Martyniuk's family home in Zhytomyr region last night. Mom and dad are in hospital, the doctors are fighting for mom's life.

Roman, 17, was about to graduate from school. Stanislav and Tamara will forever be 8 and 12 years old

Deepest condolences. A heartbreaking and devastating tragedy caused by Russian brutality
#AureFreePress #News #press

This is going to go on a bunch of slideshows under ‘why you don’t drive through floodwater’

🍰 Seven years ago today, the #GDPR came into effect ⚖️ But the past years have shown that passing a law is not enough – we need to enforce it too.

We made it our mission to ensure that the fundamental right to #privacy is respected by the private sector.

🤝 Learn how you can support us: https://noyb.eu/en/support

#MakePrivacyReality

I miss the days where the president’s name could appear in a news headline without being followed by the words “meltdown” or "spiral"

#NorthCarolina Methodists are telling #ICE to GTFO from sacred ground.

Churches and schools have been exempted from law enforcement for a reason, and the ICE thugs achieved nothing but terrorizing preschoolers and their families.

The Methodist conference is joining dozens of other religious groups who are suing over this invasion of their sanctuaries.

#immigration #trump #fascism

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article307054346.html

Two words continue to shape the UK's political economy:

austerity

Brexit

Both these ideas find their origins in the Tory party of the new millennium (although to be fair, austerity in more general policy terms has a much longer pedigree)... the tragedy is that a Labour Party claiming it had a mandate for change, seems unwilling to move away from either....

#politics #austerity #Brexit

h/t William Keegan/Observer

Youldon brook near Creason woods on Wednesday #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mosstodon

Thread! You read.
https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/114567099767994063

I'm sorry but requiring me to ask permission before entering Nick Cleggs house, going into his fridge and making a Scooby Doo-style sandwich then leaving with all of his valuables and his wife would 'kill' my desire to eat a Scooby Doo-style sandwich from the contents of Nick Cleggs fridge and run away with his wife

World’s Oldest Song Is 3,400 Years Old and You Can Listen to It Today

By Livia Pereira

https://mymodernmet.com/hurrian-hymn-oldest-song-world/

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs

#music #ancientworld #culture

This whole Agile Coach debacle has helped me realize something that hadn’t fully landed with me before: agile started as a movement driven by builders to «build better», but it is largely dominated now with people who don’t know how to build and look at agile as a management process style. These are MBA-like folks who are trying to figure out how to manage an IT organization. But that wasn’t what agile was about. It was about a better way to build stuff, better stuff, by collaboration and not getting stuck in our ways.

#OnThisDay, 25 May 2018, Mia Mottley is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Barbados. She is the first woman to hold the role, and has since been re-elected.

Under her leadership, Barbados became a republic, 55 years after it declared independence from Britain.

The @internetarchive, but as a WAP2 site. (Inside Openwave 6.2 SDK)

#WhereIsMySurprisedFace "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

Jessica Reinisch, a historian who studies international conferences at Birkbeck University of London: “What is happening now is a reverse moment. It’s a closing down of borders, closing of spaces … a moment of deglobalization.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5 (Archive link: https://archive.is/iYdBT)

Last year, a 40MW solar park was built just a few kilometers away. Yesterday, I attended the grand opening, which featured technical tours. It was fascinating to explore the technology and learn about the strategic planning behind the project. Exciting news: a battery storage is also planned!

Check out this German TV report on the project: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/landkreis-neu-ulm-geld-aus-solarpark-fuer-neues-leben-im-dorf,UOubwrZ?UTM_Name=Web-Share&UTM_Medium=Link&UTM_Source=Link