I approach the water tower on Crow Hill, Cape Porpoise, from Soule driveway. 9/18/2025

Ezra (le garçon à gouines du duo) présente les aspects physiques du zine Harry Potter dans nos vies trans.

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 42 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse. Strap in, this is a big one.

With me today is Dr. Timnit Gebru. I'll be honest, I wasn't familiar with Timnit's full background until I started researching her for the show. The wonderful Elena Rossini suggested I reach out to her. I did know Dr. Gebru was an active member of the fediverse, well liked, and vocal critic of big tech and the atrocities being committed in the world. When I started actually looking into Timnit's background, I'm now extremely nervous and humbled to be speaking with her. Timnit is Ethiopian born, came to the US when she was 15, attended Standford for electrical engineering and computer vision, then proceeded to work for the world's largest Tech companies. Apple, Microsoft and Google. It was at Google that she published a historic paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜". This caused Google to accept a resignation that she never offered, which led to more than 7,000 people from within Google and academic and civil societies to sign a letter condemning her firing. She then founded DAIR, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

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Finally got this hooked up to the Pico W that will power it. Still a lot to do, but I am oddly amused watching this thing boot up

En 1969, la région parisienne fait face à une saturation croissante des transports en commun. Pour désengorger le réseau, un projet de ligne express régionale est imaginé : le Métro Express Régional Défense-Étoile. L’acronyme, MERDE, était purement technique et descriptif :

Métro

M.e.r.d.e.

Mais ça passait pas bien, on a donc changé le nom.

The year was 2008. The name of the project was Botany Bay, and for the first time there were enough people interested in our music that we couldn’t escape the idea of taking it live anymore... For Laura – my then-singer and musical partner – it was a dream come true. For me, it felt like a nightmare in the making.

But as the months went on, our little "you-and-me-against-the-world" outfit grew into a four-piece band. And somewhere along the way, my nightmare turned into something I never dared to hope for: a steadily growing live audience, the rush of actual applause and actual feedback... and the surreal joy of hearing people sing our songs back to us. If I’d known it would only last four years, I would have savored those moments even more. But that’s another story.

This clip goes back to where it all began: Laura and I in a cramped rehearsal room in the Bad Godesberg station building, trying to figure out how many synths two people could reasonably juggle at once. Here, we’re working out how to play Kismet, the opening track of our then-current album, live, for the very first time.

(for those wondering about the technicalities: Laura is playing a Korg Wavestation and a Kurzweil Micro Piano; I'm playing a Yamaha VL70 with a breath controller and an M-Audio MIDI keyboard connected to a Yamaha TG77)

A home recording (not studio quality, sorry!) made in response to the start of a war last year. The song is by Paul Weller, from way back when, however it is my twist on his awesome tune.

Highly recommend listening to the original!

Disclaimer: AI training is strictly prohibited.

Hello, Hefka Le Nekopunk here ! But for the OST Comp Jam 8, I am dropping the nekomimi and the Punk attitude. My first intention was to make something into my usual highly-aggressive style, but it would have turned completely uncoherent with both the themes of the game jam, cause I chose both themes. The theme is « One summer night » and the picture looks pretty something related to Lo-Fi. That means I tried to make calm chiptune for once!

So, exit the blast-beats (excepted on "Kesäsota", which is a battle theme), I’m lowering the BPM and trying to make something calm. Actually, this project is kinda relatable to what is happening in real life. I’m getting sick of the surrounding negativity everywhere and I was wondering if video games could be used as a therapy against anxiety. Summer night have to be calm and peaceful, and the fact we are talking about « ONE » summer night makes me think this night has to be special. I wanted this night to be a processus of self-heal.

Of course, no one said we can heal from whatever makes you sick so easily, so it’s not all about Lo-Fi. A 3/4 waltz on « En attendant l’aurore », an aggressive reggae beat on « Interlude 1 », an exotic scale here, a chromatic one there… Sometimes the tempo is rising so you can breathe peacefully when it slow down. Like the sea, it’s not a flat line. Tomorrow the tempest will be a long-gone remembrance.

What you can listen is the non-loopable versions. These are free and you may use them if you credit me as « Hefka Le Nekopunk ». A link to my main website (hefka-games.fr) would be appreciated but not required.

Cover art made by myself with Aseprite

A Tribe Called Quest - Push It Along

MI SENTO UNA LAVATRICE

Mi sento una lavatrice,

si che pulisce il peccatore

ed io trionferò.

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