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#new #newmusic #ska #reggae #electronic #alternative #caturday #morning #evening #Saturday #Saturdaynight #music #essential

Finally!!!

The new album 'Home Made Sweet Musical Fudge' has dropped on #Bandcamp .

Includes the tracks ' Collect Your Thoughts ( Boo-Buh-Boo-Buh-Boo-Buh-Boo), 'The Sound' and 'When The World Goes Too Fast For Me'.

Get Home Made Sweet Musical Fudge here:

wroykommutr.bandcamp.com/album

#Unrwa #Essential #Survival

"‘We literally survive thanks to the Unrwa’, says displaced Palestinian" [ ± 1min]
by MiddleEastEye

youtube.com/shorts/xqY2rh097rU

Quote by MEE:
"Jan 30, 2025
"If the agency stops providing aid, we will have nothing to eat or drink.”A Palestinian woman says that displaced Palestinians in Gaza rely on aid from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees for survival and warns that without it, “everyone will suffer”.
An Israeli law, adopted in October and set to take effect on Thursday, bans Unrwa’s operations in Israel.
The law includes occupied East Jerusalem despite its internationally recognised status as Palestinian land.Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of Unrwa, said that enforcing the ban would severely impact the agency’s ability to operate in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, where a fragile ceasefire remains in place."

#StopTheGenocide
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant

Not surprised at all to see this news happen so quickly after the lawsuit by a former employee was brought to light.

Again, my biggest thought here is @ryne who I know work(ed) for OSOM for quite some time now after leaving Android Police.

Smartphone maker OSOM shutting down this week.

androidauthority.com/osom-shut

Android Authority · Everything is not OSOM: The company born from Essential's ashes is shutting downOSOM, the company founded by former employees of Andy Rubin’s Essential, is effectively shutting down later this week.

I support MEGA.
Make #education great again.
Learned #knowledge is power.
Education is a huge key to unlocking many doors towards progressive mindsets. It is essential for enacting aligned progressive changes in society.

The poorer & more disadvantaged you are, the more important it is to be able to freely & openly access the golden fields of #educational #opportunities. #PublicLibraries are 100% #essential to poor folks without funds to access formal educational paths. Always help to defend & help protect our public #libraries!

"The elephant-sized problem in the #generativeAI room is the #unpredictableveracity of the responses. As a problem, it should be considered more important than ease-of-use and the creation of an interface that leans full-tilt into people’s tendency to #anthropomorphise the product.

It’s not just more important, it’s #essential."

fasterandworse.com/known-purpo

Faster and Worse · Known Purpose and Trusted Potential.The ethics of an interface which simulates 100% confidence on a product which is anything less than 100% accurate.
Ms. Magazine · Women’s Rights Are Essential to Democracy. Why Do Philanthropists Treat Investments in Women as a Special Interest? - Ms. MagazineIn the last two months, the Supreme Court heard two case to limit nationwide access to abortion care. The chaotic state of play for abortion rights in the United States illustrates the consequences of failing to integrate efforts to strengthen democracy into strategies for advancing gender equity and vice versa. For philanthropic leaders, the twin goals of strengthening democracy and advancing gender equity presents a compelling case for simultaneous investment. Divorcing gender justice from democracy is inconsistent ideologically, and it’s also irrational and unnecessarily expensive. To separate them is to delay success and pay for it many times over.