Are you looking for a micro-tonal, looping guitar/drums duo? French-Canadian?

If so:

October:

Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was later convicted of 2023 charges stemming from livestreaming a bomb threat as he drove around former President Barack Obama's D.C. neighborhood, was sentenced Thursday to time served and three years of supervised release.

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The filing also said Taranto had driven to Obama's neighborhood shortly after Mr. Trump posted the former president's purported address on Truth Social and Taranto shared the post. He was also found guilty of illegally carrying two firearms without a license, and unlawfully possessing ammunition at the time of his arrest.

Today:

A man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
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Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum that Routh has yet to accept any responsibility and should spend the rest of his life in prison, in accordance with federal sentencing guidelines. He was convicted of trying to assassinate a major presidential candidate, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm as a felon and using a gun with a defaced serial number.

Today is National Create a Vacuum Day.

It's also National Stuffed Mushroom Day.

wtf.

Music blogger Adam Neely has a feature-length YT post about generative AI being used to produce music, focusing on AI music making company, Suno and its sociopathic tech-bro CEO, Mikey. It's a very good 90 minutes.

And towards the end he has some spicy things to say about our broader current political situation.

Love seeing these formerly a-political YTers stepping up.

At the end of a long (and very good) segment on renewable energy, Alec from Technology Connections lets loose.

As Hank Green did two weeks ago.

That's the part people miss when they talk about control. They imagine it as something imposed from outside. But the most durable form of control doesn't need enforcement. It reshapes what feels reasonable to expect. When you speak and nothing happens enough times, your mind adjusts. It recalibrates the cost benefit calculation. Expression becomes something you do for yourself, not something you do to affect reality. And once that shift happens, silencing becomes unnecessary. You can talk all you want.

vs. Pete:

But the ground is clearly shifting because all of us together have been doing the work of shifting it: things that can sound old-fashioned protesting, calling out members of Congress, even just speaking up in person or online, all of it is adding up into an accelerating change in the power dynamics of this country.

Walk for Peace is "the 120-day, 2,300-mile journey by Buddhist monks — with loyal dog, Aloka — walking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness of peace, loving kindness, and compassion across America and the world."

For some reason, their path takes them through our little town. They'll be coming within a half-mile of our house this morning, but we're not exactly sure when. So we went to see them yesterday as they were just getting into town.

There were quite a few people lined up to see them along their route, which was nice to see. Though the owner of the business where we parked was not happy about our using his lot for the three minutes we were there.

They were handing out flowers to the crowd; my wife got one.

Note how all the monks are wearing proper running shoes except the first two, who appear to be wearing barely more than socks.

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This morning, as they passed near my house.

Really nice turnout. News helicopter spent a while watching them cross the Haw River valley before they got to where I was.

Singing Giant Steps ?

Camille Bertault e Nelson Faria

I'm wheezing just watching.