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I don't at all get your point about BlueSky being weird tho.

That is going to make a damn nice Rail Trail when Republicans destroy trains, electric powered trains, and urban transportation.

#CyclistsForRailTrailsByWayOfPoorGovernance

Yemenis rally around 9-year-old girl shot by Houthi sniper A little girl that had been fetching water was reportedly shot by Houthi rebels and is currently in critical condition.

Note that there are a few different images of this scene, some with her brother who moved her across the street.

The Yemeni girl, Ruwaida (or Rowaida) Saleh survived the shooting and, with the latest news I can find, was recovering in critical condition.
www.newarab.com/news/yemenis...

Fact Check: Photo of a child lying on a road in Yemen dates to 2020 An image from Yemen in 2020 of an injured child lying on a road while another child tries to drag her away from the scene has been shared with captions falsely suggesting that it shows Palestinian sib...

These fake anti-Israel postings go on essentially constantly, but this one is somewhat unique in that the same lie about this photo was told, and debunked, in 2023. Yes, this fact check is two and a half years old, but the fake story is making the rounds again.

www.reuters.com/fact-check/p...

A photo of a girl who was shot in Yemen by Houthi rebels is being "rebranded" tonight on social media with the claim that Israel shot shot her this week.

The original shooting, from August 2020, was posted on social media with the identical photo (first photo):

x.com/Alsakaniali/...

Give it five minutes.

Well...

And as far as the whole "AI could never do this"...

At least for a little while.

Still, it is likely to send music in a different direction.

But it isn't any kind of brand new invention.

Angine de Poutrine absolutely deserves credit for that.

Making it into a thing people want to hear is hard.

Experimenting is easy.

And that's the really hard part.

And still making it work and sound like music.

There's a ton of music out there where not only is every other measure in a different beat, but different instruments are overlaying different beats on top of each other.

Even more than Angine de Poutrine.

A lot of modern symphony and wind ensemble music is all over the map with experimenting with beat.

And Angine de Poutrine is using the same emphasis techniques to make their experiments in beat still sound like music to us.

I'm pretty familiar with 5/4 and 7/8 and the different musical patterns that musicians use to navigate those beats and make them still feel familiar.

I haven't analyzed it but it sounds like some of their songs are in like 5-and-a-half/4 time.

Probably people should spend more time talking about the beat in their music.

Because we as listeners need some way to make sense out of what we're hearing.

But, artists who venture into extreme innovation mainly just produce noise.

I'm not saying the music isn't innovative. It clearly is.

Khn's guitar is really hardly microtonal at all. Part of it uses quarter steps instead of half steps. That's it. That's all the "microtone" you're getting.

But Angine de Poutrine's music ALSO remains centered on a 13 note scale.

So you've heard microtonal music all your life. But still centered on the basic 13 note scale.