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Tooting my horn here in the Fedi since 2022!

Hot Take Maker - Breaking News Breaker
Occasional Jumper of Sharks

In favor of saving the world and stopping the bullshit. Known to punch nazis.

Chochenyo turf walker. Flâneur de Sarthe

Please join me when I play records and stream live audio on Mixlr.

My book "Vinyl Vitality"
coming soon here:
https://mark-metz.com/music

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markmetz, to random
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This is why the cartels are armed to the teeth. The USA is a weapons clearinghouse.

““The defendant was the leader of a drug and firearms trafficking organization that smuggled large numbers of firearms from the United States into Mexico. The organization then traded the firearms for hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine, which were distributed throughout the United States.”

Southern District of New York | Leader Of Houston-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty To Leading Large-Scale Methamphetamine Distribution And Importation Conspiracy | United States Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leader-houston-based-drug-trafficking-organization-pleads-guilty-leading-large-scale

markmetz, to random
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Oops

Two Catholic Nuns Who Went on Missionary Trips Come Back Pregnant

https://www.insider.com/two-catholic-nuns-went-on-missionary-trips-come-back-pregnant-2019-11

markmetz, to random
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Ouch…
What was I saying about those NFTs?

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Yuck. I have never trusted fake sweeteners.

"Other studies have found that sucralose can adversely affect gut health, so we wanted to see what might be happening there," Schiffman says. "When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues – the tissue that lines your gut wall – we found that both chemicals cause 'leaky gut.' Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. The chemicals damage the 'tight junctions,' or interfaces, where cells in the gut wall connect to each other.”

Chemical found in widely used sweetener breaks up DNA. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230531/Chemical-found-in-widely-used-sweetener-breaks-up-DNA.aspx

markmetz, to random
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“The Georgia statute is broadly written” to allow the inclusion of violations of federal law as well as some other states’ laws, said Morgan Cloud, a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta and expert on the state’s RICO law. “For example, acts to obstruct justice committed in Arizona might be relevant if the goal of the enterprise, of the racketeering activity, was to overturn the 2020 presidential election nationally, as well as in Georgia.”

(Gift link, no paywall)

Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states https://wapo.st/42moS8r

markmetz, to random
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The Daily Show’s A.I. is pretty %#€%ing funny…

https://youtu.be/JONzK-AUzro

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Which is it? Senile or savvy?

markmetz, to random
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Fascinating and alarming tale in today’s “AI wants to murder you” department.

“…perhaps one of the most fascinating presentations came from Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, who provided an insight into the benefits and hazards in more autonomous weapon systems.

… he cautioned against relying too much on AI noting how easy it is to trick and deceive. It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.”
:understatement font:

He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human.”

🧵

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“However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation.

Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

🧵

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“He went on:

“We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’.

So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

This example, seemingly plucked from a science fiction thriller, means that: “You can't have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you're not going to talk about ethics and AI” said Hamilton.”

:cautionary tale font:

This little nugget was found deep in this wonky doc:

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/

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Summary article here:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

markmetz, to random
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“The motive behind the white baby challenge, and much of trad wife culture, is a fear of the so-called “great replacement” – a baseless conspiracy theory that believes white people are being “replaced” by migrant people from the global south, while feminists repress the white birthrate via abortion rights. To defeat this so-called “white genocide”, as one Stewart fan expressed it, far-right women need to “Make White Babies Great Again!” On far-right Telegram channels, I found posters following her lead. One far-right woman posted she planned to have six babies, as that was above the “optimum replacement rate”.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/white-supremacy-trad-wives-far-right-feminist-politics

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@SrRochardBunson 🤣

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“Our results indicate that the algorithm amplifies emotional content, and especially those tweets that express anger and out-group animosity. Furthermore, political tweets from the algorithm lead readers to perceive their political in-group more positively and their political out-group more negatively.”

Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941

markmetz, to random
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Hey America, take note.

That election in Türkiye? You know, the one where the guy who’s been in power for 20 years just got “re-elected”?

He got there by brutally ratfucking the system, the schools, the media, and the rule of law.

The GQP loves this guy, (incidentally, so does Putin)

Let them back in power, and that’s the kind of “democracy” we’ll have here.

You’ve been warned.

markmetz, to random
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That the far ends of the horseshoe are mad that the deal has been made just illustrates one thing.

Nobody knows how the sausage is made in Washington better than Biden.

markmetz, to vinylrecords
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C'mon over and help me dig thru the stacks... It's time to take a break from the hot takes and shift into analog gear for a while.

Spinning vinyl from 7-10(pst)

I'm thinking easy-listening Exotica thru the dinner hour and then early electronica like Kraftwerk later on.

Posting LP covers as a thread below.

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@vinylrecords
Front and back cover. (It opens up to the surprise inside… next toot)

Side One 1. MUSCLE SHOALS NITTY GRITTY (By Herbie Mann; Herble Mann, ASCAP Time: 6:47) 2. CLAUDIA PIE (By Herblo Mann; Herbie Mann, ASCAP. Time: 4:38) 3. CAN YOU DIG IT (By Ed Birdsong: Ayer-Bird, ASCAP. Time: 5:51) Side Two 1. BLIND WILLY (By Sonny Sharrock; Night Song. BMI. Time: 4:7) 2. COME TOGETHER (By John Lennon & Paul McCartney: Maclen, BMI. Time: 10:00) 3. PANAMA RED'S PANAMA HAT (By Herbie Mann: Herbie Mann, ASCAP. Time: 5:11) HERBIE mann MUSCLE SHOALS nITTY GRITTY The personnel on Come Together is: Herble Mann, flute; Roy Ayers, vibes; Eddie Hinton, guitar; Barry Beckett, piano; David Hood & Miroslav Vitous, basses; Roger Hawkins & Bruno Carr, drums. On Panama Red's Panama Hat the personnel is the same as above with Eddie Hinton on bottleneck guitar and Jimmy Johnson added on guitar. The personnel on all the other selections is: Herbie Mann, flute; Andrew Love & Ed Logan, tenor saxes; James Mitchell, baritone sax; Wayne Jackson, trumpet; Roy Ayers, vibes; Eddie Hinton, guitar; Barry Beckett, piano; Davld Hood, bass; Roger Hawkins, drums. On Can You Dig It, Jimmy Johnson joins the above on guitar. On Blind Willy, Roger Hawkins plays jews harp and is replaced by Bruno Carr on drums. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Recording engineers: Jimmy Johnson & Marlin Greene Photography: Joel Brodsky Album design: Haig Adishian PRODUCED BY TOM DOWD This record has been engineered and manufactured in accordance with

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@vinylrecords
Herbie and a hotty as American Gothic ‘70s style.
#JigsawJazz
#Analog
#Vinyl

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@vinylrecords
Fun Fact: Hunter S. Thompson loved him some loud Herbie Mann crankin on his reel-to-reel.

He toted one along to every hotel room writing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72.

I just reread it to get a savage peek into the roots of the rat-fucking from the right…

HERBIE MANY MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER Featuring David Newman SIDE ONE SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT (Traditional. Arranged by Herbie Mann; Herbie Mann, ASCAP. Time: 3:27) MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER (By Herbie Mann; Herbie Mann, ASCAP. Time: 6:50) DIPPERMOUTH (By Herbie Mann; Herbie Mann, ASCAP 8:50) SIDE TWO RESPECT YOURSELF I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG (By Otis Redding & Jerry Butler; East/Memphis-Time, §MI. Times $147) (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION (By Mick Jagger & Keith Richard; mediate, BMI, Time: 6:49 STEREO ANTIC MY NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10023 ATLANTICRECORDING CORPORATION, 1841 BROAD
HERBIE MANA MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER

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Dude had some swagger… check the faux-velvet make-out scene on the inner sleeve of Push Push, his only LP with Duane Allman.

Inside he wrote:
“Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On" is the best album of the year!!
P.P.S.
It all the priests, rabbis & ministers had messages that were as believable and honest as the music of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye (and if they could also sing as well!!) there would be a lot more love and a lot less hate in this world.”

MERBIL PUSH PUSH WHAT'S GOING ON SPIRIT IN THE DARK MAN'S HOPE SIE NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE WHAT'D I SAY STEREO/SD 53. EMBRYO Sold under license from Atlantic Recording Corporation CRC NOI SPANKUINO
Herbie Mann Push Push LP cover..

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@vinylrecords
Wrapping it up tonight with one of the best renditions of “Makin’ Whoopee” to be found anywhere by the great Ray Charles live in 1964.

Thanks for tuning in if you did, and enjoying the covers if you didn’t.

Follow me & the hashtag (for my mellow sets) and (for bangin beats and disco).

And please jump on my book launch mailing list! (link is on my profile) My philosophical treatise on the glory of analog is coming out later this year!

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Haha! That one is actually pretty tame. Kind of an early back-to-the-land vibe.

“Huggin’ and a Chalkin’” by Hoagy Carmichael would get you cancelled in a heartbeat…

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@shacker @vinylrecords

So much good stuff in his catalog… and he worked with so many of the greats!

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@mike805 @vinylrecords
Thanks! Bookmarked

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