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Detroit, early 1980s, techno is invented by three friends who happen to be black:

High school friends Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May, known as the Belleville Three, are known as the creators of techno music. Kevin Saunderson is the person who made sure techno music got to the masses by 1983.

The History of Techno Music from Black Music Scholar

Techno came out of Detroit in the 1980’s as underground dance music and subculture. Techno music took technology and made it a black secret.

The three tracks linked on that page would play in any house club today. I'd've danced the crap outta these when I was clubbing. HT to https://playvicious.social/@paralithode for suggesting I google "black inventor techno".

#blackhistory #musichistory #erasure

(I may or may not be chairdancing to Tranzister right now)

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Folks, this is Sister Rosetta Sharpe, the queer black woman who invented rock and roll, before Elvis, Little Richard, or Chuck Berry were out of short pants

https://www.theroot.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-queer-black-woman-who-invent-1823198999

#blackhistory #musichistory #erasure

(Source: https://playvicious.social/@paralithode)

1) in the pandemic world, vote-by-mail is the only truly safe and equitable option

2) Trump has been beating the "vote-by-mail = fraud" hard and loud

3) If the election in November doesn't go Trump's way, I'd give >50% odds he won't concede; America never has a "valid" election again

Listening: Scene on Radio's "The Land That Never Has Been Yet", on America's do-called Democracy http://www.sceneonradio.org/season-4-trailer-the-land-that-never-has-been-yet/

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My privileged, suburban zip code in Gilbert, AZ is 12 square miles. I remember when we had 18 cases of #covid19. We're at 530 now.

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"everyone has essentially admitted that the hundred-year history of compulsory school in America was mostly a subsidized childcare effort meant to drive business, employment, consumption, debt, &c."

https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1281951417230655488

Starting another Scene on Radio series: Democracy. Expecting to be educated, and expecting lots of examples of elite whites being horrible. This is NOT "white people being portrayed as shitty" - that's what we do to non-whites.

Installing iOS 14 beta on my carry phone. sure hope I don't brick it.

From a thread I posted on Play Viscious, re-posted here for posterity:

• My wife and I watched part 1 of the PBS documentary "The Vote" last night and I am learning a LOT. Some notes (a thread):
• If I learned anything about women's suffrage in school was quickly forgotten, pretty much everything in there was new. I think I knew Susan B. Anthony's name and Ida B. Wells.
• I think this documentary started to help me see intersectionality in action some? the fight for the ability to vote included conflicts over who should be granted the franchise first: educated white women, or black men. And black women getting left out either way (it was black men).
• The fight for voting rights for women was absolutely necessary, but it hurt to see the racist attitudes and decisions coming from the white suffragettes from leadership on down.
• Frederick Douglass was a huge proponent of women's suffrage - and he and the black women's suffrage clubs were pushed out when it seemed like black involvement would set back the cause in the jim crow south.
• also: white men are bastards

My mood tracker finally started asking about coronavirus and I was kind of like “that’s what I’ve been saying!”

But props to MoodPath - the app has daily questions and prompts to help tease out what’s affecting mood, and it really helps me get past “today I’m MEH” 😐

John Gruber responds to a new article in The Guardian that people with even mild coronavirus systems can be having serious brain disorders (for example strokes, encephalomyelitis, and psychotic episodes):

Germany yesterday reported 298 new cases of COVID-19.

The U.S. reported over 55,000. Just yesterday. It is raging out of control here in the United States. It’s that simple. We’ve lost any handle on it we might have had, infections are now raging out of control, and a large segment of the population has decided to pretend it isn’t happening and isn’t a big deal if you do get it.

For those of us who’ve been taking this seriously since March, it’s soul-crushing that this is where we’re at after four months of isolation. It sucks. We who’ve done the right thing are the ones most yearning for — and let’s be honest, most deserving of — a few tastes of normalcy.

I am begging everyone I know - please recognize that it is insane, or worse cruel, to pretend this isn't happening, or that it's a plot from people on the other end of a political spectrum to inconvenience you or steal your precious individual liberties... this is hundreds of thousands of friends and families suffering or dead.

Do the right thing — stay home as much as you can, wear a mask and keep your distance when you’re out. You don’t want to get this and you don’t want your family to get it.

Brainstorming in steel

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my skills aren't up to my vision and my vision isn't up to my heart and my heart isn't up to the task

Got some 18ga sheet steel, a plasma torch, and an idea

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Had a man tell me yesterday that wearing having to wear his mask, which was hot and in which he "couldn't breathe" was "socialism".

Wife and I watching Scandinavian Noir mystery series on Acorn

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as seen on twitter 😂

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https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1278769857102635009?s=20

Some thoughts on crimes against BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) voters I left in a thread on Twitter

https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1278807752005939200

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After realizing that my moods had been on a crash for a while -- due to you know, 2020 -- I decided to grab the first mood tracking app I could find and start journaling/recording, so I can get an "outside" view of my inside brain.

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