A resident in Tehran films the US and Israel bomb densely populated neighborhoods in Tehran. These are clearly massive munitions with little to no regard for civilian casualties. Indeed, the entire neighborhood is engulfed in fire and smoke.
Just as Israel did in Gaza.
“The nuclear fatwa is dead,” Trita Parsi told CNN. “Elite opinion as well as public opinion has shifted dramatically on this, which shouldn’t be surprising since Iran has been bombed twice in the midst of negotiations by two nuclear-equipped states.”
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Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.
Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
An Iranian woman films her neighborhood being bombed by Israel. As she seeks cover, Israel strikes again, in what appears to be a double-tap strike.
The woman films her own death.
Some Iranians in the diaspora dance and celebrate this, believing these are democracy bombs...
Follow the news, not the leaders.
Pierre Boulez, whose centenary we celebrated last year like no other I can recall, died ten years ago today. seenandheard-international.com/2016/01/r-i-...
Arnold Whittall, 90 years young, reviewing in Gramophone this volume on Schoenberg, ed. Alexander Carpenter, and with contributions from other friends and colleagues. Nice to have a mention for my own little chapter.
Something has changed. A side of America that most Europeans never encountered face to face is now in charge. Europe had a decade of warnings and the first Trump Administration to prepare for this. We chose not to.
To meet this moment and secure our future, we must also change.
More C18 Boulez—or Boulezian C18
SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?”
RFK JR.: “Absolutely.”
SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”
RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻♂️
The absence of what? Never heard of them and have no interest in finding out about them. Use public transport. Improve it, make it more affordable. Discourage and ultimately ban private cars, insofar as possible. We won’t be the ones who shall have ‘fallen behind’.
The post-WWII order we’ve known hasn’t just crumbled. It has collapsed — and WWIII is looming.
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"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world [...] "Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians of the mind. Books are humanity in print."
---Schopenhauer
My favorite period of F. W. J. Schelling's writings are roughly the years from 1809 to 1818, which produced the Freedom Essay, The Ages of the World drafts, The Stuttgart Seminars (1810), Clara, and the Deities of Samothrace (1815)
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In 2019, I asked Roger Norrington if he’d write an article for our Berlioz150 series. I received a brief response: “Yes I’ll try to do that for you, Mark. Sir R” A week later, an email: “Is this any good for you?” 950 perfect words followed.
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Roger Norrington conducting
Here is a man who truly lived for music: a pioneer with endless creative ideas and appetite for oceans of repertoire, and such zeal to share this with fellow musicians and audiences. Rest in piece, Sir Roger Norrington.
Sir Roger Norrington: pioneer, enthusiast, provocateur. I saw him conduct so many times, mostly with the OAE, always with a twinkle (and often with "jazz hands"!). His Beethoven cycle with his London Classical Players opened my ears to period instruments. RIP
© Manfred Esser
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About 95% Fanny Hensel's 450+ works were for voice and/or piano only (because sexism).
This is obviously sad for her--she wanted to write more for larger formats and other genres, but didn't get the support. (see: sometimes Felix was a little bitch)
3) Das Meer erglänzte weit hinaus (H335) - since you're making me choose, this is my favorite Hensel lied. I love anything that sounds like water... and this is about the shining sea, and then fog, and then longing and sadness. UGH IT'S TOO MUCH
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We have taken this overhaul as an opportunity to update the About page. Here, if you're curious, but nothing exciting.
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The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
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