If you’re concerned about @GregAbbott_TX’s intent to seek pardon of a murderer who not only thought it was ok to kill a protester — but actually planned it — you need to read this from Austin’s own local alternative paper, @AustinChronicle.
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-04-07/might-have-to-kill-a-few-people/
Recently, I uploaded a video from Bell Laboratories, Inc. featuring the first example of synthesized computer speech. Regrettably, this was the first upload of mine to receive a copyright violation. However, this was not due to the content of the record itself, but rather due to someone who had sampled parts of the record and used them in their own song. As far as I understood, YouTube's copyright and content ID match requires original creations that do not contain samples from another recording.
I conducted research to determine who now owned all of Bell Labs' patents and copyrights and discovered that it was Nokia. I was able to submit a form for licensing requests via their website and explained the nature of my channel and the copyright problem I had encountered while trying to showcase their record on YouTube.
To my pleasant surprise, Nokia was incredibly accommodating and granted me a no-charge lifetime license, on the condition that I add the message "Courtesy of Nokia Corporation and AT&T Archives" to the video, which I was more than willing to do.
Unfortunately, this process required me to edit the video and re-upload it. However, it is now up once again, and the copyright has been filed with the claimant, including all details of the license I received from Nokia.
The last three Sunday Night Movies have been the Ghostbusters movies (1, 2 and Afterlife...next week is the 2016 Movie).
One thing I'm glad that never changed in those four movies (and even the cartoon) are the visual and sound effects for the Proton beams. I love how energetic and wild they look, but also the sound effects. Lots of wild sounding thuds and and sizzles everywhere.
Kinda glad they didn't go for a stock sound, and glad that sound hasn't really shown up anywhere else outside of Ghostbusters.
Texas' decent into Fascism continues....
So the Gov of Texas states he's going to pardon a murderer.. because said murderer killed a BLM protester. A murderer who bragged on social media before committing the murder about how much he wanted to kill protesters. Fuck the GQP.
Fuck the so-called party of "law and order" and "social responsibility". The scariest part is that those on the right could actually obtain control over the federal government. It is the duty of every American citizen to ensure that those people don't get in charge ever again.
If you support the those on the right, you're part of the problem too!
i believe in the Users.
i believe in the Grid.
i believe that in there, in the Digital Frontier, is our destiny.
i believe that corporations, brands, and politicians have no place there.
i believe queer folk, trans people, internet weirdos and techies lay proper claim to the Grid, as we were its earliest natives.
i believe in our ability to use the digital world to improve the real world, and vice versa.
i believe in spite of it all. tell me why i should panic about the latest crisis and i will believe twice as hard.
we are the ones we have been waiting for.
So, I made some struan bread last night/this morning. It came out better than it had any right to.
The recipe just didn't work. There were a lot of ingredients to the bread, which I expected, but once everything was put together, it made for a very hard chunky dough. My mixer wasn't having any of it (making that ugly "I'm burning my motor" noise), and when I hand kneaded it, it was just rough.
I ended up adding almost triple the water it asked for to get it into a fairly dense but proper feeling dough. It called for three rises, though, and all three worked BEAUTIFULLY.
But I think where things went wrong for the second time was it said to punch it down and put it in the fridge overnight. I did so, and when I took it out of the fridge to rise to room temperature, it rose very lightly. Even after warming up the oven and leaving it in there for an hour to rise, it barely rose. I think Seattle "room temperature" is just too cold for good rising in any season other than Summer.
So I just baked it. And, you know? It's good. It's dense, but it's good. I think I either need a whole new recipe, or just use the ingredients and ignore the instructions, putting the bread directly in the oven instead of trying to get it to rise out of the fridge.
It's actually really good tasting. There's a LOT of stuff in it, like rolled oats, corn meal, cooked brown rice, yogurt (subbing for buttermilk) giving it a good texture. Also the repeated rising and punching down gave it a real subtle sour taste that's just BARELY there.
I've got two weeks of this bread now, I think I'll make it again, but this time, follow my own instincts instead of the instructions.
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