Sierra Nevada mountains just north of LA, CA, USA. Jagged snow covered peaks rise above green trees and a yellowish plain. A small blue lake peeks around a bend.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel -Maya Angelou
Pic of the day
#photography
Really hate this iteration of the world where people are unable to hold both notions that Iran was under a fundamentalist dictatorship which needed to go to benefit the people but the US attacking Iran was only to benefit western imperialism and not the Iranian people.
The Cassandra Complex are back on tour!
Very much enjoying listening to this while I work, one of my absolute favourite records and a huge influence on young Rodney's musical direction.
open.spotify.com/album/2i88O2...
I've been up since 5 am working on finalising the shows and promotional stuff for the winter tour of The Cassandra Complex. Now it's past 1 in the morning and I'm still working on it.
Press release inbound very shortly if all goes as planned...
UK friends: the government is doing a big public consultation into the future of the BBC. I urge you to answer as many questions as you can, particularly in keeping government interference out of the BBC, and in stopping it becoming ad-supported.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Right now UK is pretty much running the electrical grid on renewables and Nuclear.
1973: Awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Newcastle University.
1983: The first winner of the Martlesham Medal in recognition of his achievements in computing.
1993: Received a certificate from Hendon College, having completed a basic course in information processing on a personal computer.
I particularly like the last honour mentioned on his Wikipedia page, it tells you a lot about what kind of man he was:
Thinking today about Tommy Flowers, one of the greatest computer engineers of all time. He designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer. all the way back in 1943, but his work was kept secret for decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_F...
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should cede control of the world to fascist child rapists high on ketamine.
With the US Dept of Defence currently insisting that its AI provider (Anthrophic's Claude) be enabled to use autonomous weapons, this study is extremely timely. And very, very scary.
www.kcl.ac.uk/shall-we-pla...
Just got an email from a "fan" complaining that we released a song called Nazi Goths Fuck Off, and he doesn't like that we are telling our fans like him to fuck off - but he's not a Nazi, the "Left" (whoever they are) just call him that.
Here's my reply:
Hyperestis "high priestess" is a synth, guitar, darkwave band in Portland, Oregon USA.
I have 3 streaming albums -
Find me on streaming platforms, Bandcamp, and Ampwall.
I have an upcoming cover on Mar 1 and will be singing a song on the new Stabbed By Prongs on Feb 25.
Playlist me for 🖤🖤🖤.
Also we are finishing work on a cover version for the 40th anniversary celebration of our friends in Girls Under Glass. Don't know when that will be coming out, but we will let you know...
Now back to working on our own new album 😉
The Cassandra Complex studio update: it's been a busy week!
We just delivered a remix for Canadian hardcore industrial act Skull Cultist - that will be coming out on a charity compilation album in aid of Ukraine. More details about that soon.
UK people, you know what to do...
ALL of the expansions? Good grief! That's... a lot.
Thank you for the kind words, that's very much appreciated.
The full 3 hours of music and interview of The Cassandra Complex on French radio is now up on YouTube - and yes, the interview is in English, my French is definitely not good enough to do an interview in :-)
youtu.be/hf4NdQfSj7E?...
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
Something, something, freedom of speech etc.
U2 come back with a vengeance. This band make me proud to be Irish.
(The whole EP is really good, will be on continuous rotation here this week I think)
youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook?...
So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.
We really are not a very good-natured country.
The point is to normalize that narrative now, so they can use it to explain vote manipulation in the midterms.
…and there it is.
Other countries can do it, why can’t we?
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
