M Is FOR MASHUP - June 20th, 2018
Mashups I'd Like To Hear
By DJ Useo
Mashups are made in pretty much every style. Pop, Rock. Techno, Hip Hop, & many others are regularly paired up, resulting in even more sub-genres. As someone with wide exposure to mashups, you'd think I'd have heard it all. Yet, there's many tracks I'd like to hear made, without me being the mixer. Here's a few specific tracks I'd enjoy hearing someone create. Perhaps you'll be inspired to suggest more, & possibly even mix some yourself.
01 - Oz vs Pink Floyd
02 - The Simpsons vs Kraftwerk
03 - Picasso vs Queen
04 - Gostbusters vs C, S, N & Y
05 - Breakfast Club vs AC/DC
06 - Star Trek vs David Bowie
I do my part to bring you wild mashup pairings, too, such as this one I released a few days back -
"Moog Thing" ( The Troggs vs Doug McKechnie ) 60s Garage Rock over Late 60s Moog.
( www.hulkshare.com/djuseo/moog-thing )
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2018/06/moog-thing-troggs-vs-doug-mckechnie.html )
Many more bizarre pairings coming soon when the "IT IS TO LAFF - funny mashups" comp returns.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Fall of the American Empire (NY Times Column)
Trump turns his back on everything that makes America great.
Paul Krugman: What Did the Romans Ever Do for Us? (NY Times Blog)
The Pax Americana, the three generations of relative peace and prosperity that followed World War II, was different in every detail from the Roman Principate. Not only are we vastly richer than Rome could have imagined, we're also a lot nicer: America has done some terrible and shameful things, but nothing like what the Romans did when they got angry. Still, our sort-of empire, like Rome's, has been held together mainly by soft power rather than violence.
Paul Krugman: "Thinking About a Trade War (Very Wonkish)" (NY Times Blog)
You can see hints of what might be to come in what's already happening. So far we've had only small skirmishes in what might be the looming trade war, but the effects don't seem trivial to soybean farmers already facing sharp price cuts and steel users already facing much higher costs. If the trade war happens, expect to see many, many more stories like this.
Josh Marshall: Family Separation, Evil Via Policy and The Internal Contradictions of Trumpism (TPM)
What we've seen this weekend is that evil practiced on children, by design, with quotes from senior administration officials floating around saying it's great was just too much. This created a sort of 10 car pile of contradictory BS answers. It's awesome. The Democrats made us do it. It's not happening. And here we are. […] But we should recognize how deeply embedded the need for these actions is in Trumpism. This isn't a byproduct. Child separation as punishment, on display, was always a feature not a bug.
Jonathan Chait: Why Trump Is Using Hostage Tactics on Family Separation (NY Mag)
You refuse to negotiate with the hostage-taker. Trump wants to paper over his internal divisions by getting Democrats to give him something in return for ending a policy he can't defend. The negotiations themselves obscure the entire source of responsibility. If Trump wants to end family separation, he can and will. If Democrats pay him off for taking children literally hostage, Trump will keep taking more hostages.
Rebecca Shapiro: Trump's Approval Rating Climbs To Personal Best, Tying His First Week In Office (Huffington Post)
The Gallup poll was conducted last week, before public outcry over the president's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Tierney Sneed: Judge Strikes Down Kobach's Voter Law- And Orders He Take Legal Ed Classes (TPM)
Her 100-plus page opinion also knocked Kobach, who defended the law himself in court, for his "history of non-compliance with this Court's orders," and imposed "sanctions responsive to Defendant's repeated and flagrant violations of discovery and disclosure rules." She ordered he take six hours of legal ed classes.
Andrew Tobias: Glam Up the Mid-Terms
It's hard to guess who is more thrilled with Trump: Putin, China, North Korea's dictator or (though I digress) America's white supremacists.
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Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
"IMMORALITY, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND DISSEMINATION OF DOCTRINES CONTRARY TO THE ESTABLISHED DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH.
"FUCK TRUMP!"
MEET A NAZI.
MEET ANOTHER NAZI.
MEET THE LEADER OF THE NAZIS!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Running way too late for this early in the week. Ack.
Brings In Millions
Facebook Fundraiser
A fundraiser organized on Facebook to help immigrant families separated at the border has raised millions of dollars in three days.
By Tuesday morning, more than 100,000 people, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, had donated more than $4 million to the "Reunite an immigrant parent with their child" fundraiser, started by Bay Area couple Dave and Charlotte Willner over the weekend with an initial goal of raising $1,500.
The recipient of the funds, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), was overwhelmed by the support, tweeting that they're experiencing more donations than ever before, even causing their website to crash.
RAICES is a Texas immigration legal services provider that plans to use the proceeds to directly fund the bond payments that allow parents to be removed from detention while they wait for court proceedings as well as legal representation for children in Texan immigration courts.
"We are collectively revulsed at what's happening to immigrant families on our southern border," the fundraiser page said, referencing the news that almost 2,000 immigrant children have been separated from their parents since the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy kicked off last month.
Facebook Fundraiser
Found In "Alice's Restaurant Bed"
Obamus coronatus
It lived an uneventful life in Earth's oceans 500 million years ago, but now this newly discovered creature has an unusual honor: It's been given the scientific name Obamus coronatus, a name that honors President Barack Obama's passion for science. ("Coronatus" means "crowned.")
The tiny, disc-shaped animal was about a 1/2 inch long, with raised spiral grooves on its surface. It spent its entire life embedded on the ocean floor, likely never moving, according to scientists from the University of California-Riverside.
A second small animal, an egg-shaped critter that may have looked like a raisin, was also discovered. It was given the name Attenborites janeae, after the English naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, who was known for his science advocacy and support of paleontology. (Janeae is a nod to Jane Fargher, a co-owner of the property where the fossils were discovered.)
Both are among the earliest animals to exist on Earth. They were discovered in a remarkably well-preserved fossil bed in a southern Australia mountain range.
The researchers dubbed the fossil bed "Alice's Restaurant Bed," a tribute to the Arlo Guthrie song and its lyric, "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
Obamus coronatus
Childhood Home Declared 'National Treasure'
Nina Simone
The National Trust for Historic Preservation declared the childhood home of Nina Simone in Tryon, N.C., a National Treasure on Tuesday, a designation granted to fewer than 100 places across the country that could open the site at 30 Livingston St. up to significant funding and protections.
"Designating her birth home, her childhood home, as a National Treasure, will ensure that people for years and decades to come know who Nina Simone is," said Adam Pendleton, one of four New York-based artists who purchased the home last year. "She is known historically as the voice of the Civil Rights movement, and that's so critical. If we think about what the Civil Rights movement is now and what it was, what an incredible thing to say."
The home began to receive attention shortly after it was put on the market.
It had been unprotected, with purchasers having the option of demolishing it. But then Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, Ellen Gallagher and Julie Mehretu bought the home in 2017. The group has now partnered with the National Trust's African American Heritage Action Fund to work toward finding a new use for house and preserving it as a part of Simone's legacy.
The future of this once-forgotten landmark is looking up. In the coming months, a preservation assessment to determine the physical needs of the house and a market and feasibility study will be conducted, according to Leggs, after which the group can begin making plans to open the house to the public.
Nina Simone
MTV Movie Award's Best Villain
Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan slammed Roseanne Barr while accepting the Best Villain award at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Monday, and fans were shook.
Jordan won the award for his role as Erik Killmonger in "Black Panther,"beating out actors Josh Brolin, Adam Driver, Bill Skarsgård and Aubrey Plaza for the honor.
In his acceptance speech, Jordan opened by saying, "I'm shocked that I won this award for Best Villain. I thought Roseanne had this in the bag."
Damn, Michael.
Michael B. Jordan
Pew Survey
Facts
Only a quarter of U.S. adults in a recent survey could fully identify factual statements - as opposed to opinion - in news stories, the Pew Research Center found in a study released on Monday.
The survey comes amid growing concerns about so-called fake news spread on the internet and social media. The term generally refers to fabricated news that has no basis in fact but is presented as being factually accurate.
Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc's Google and other tech companies have recently come under scrutiny for failing to promptly tackle the problem of fake news as more Americans consume news on social media platforms.
The main portion of Pew's survey polled 5,035 adult Americans aged 18 and above in February and March. The study was intended to determine if respondents could differentiate between factual information and opinion statements in news stories.
Only 26 percent were able to correctly identify all five factual statements. On opinions, about 35 percent were able to correctly identify all five statements. Roughly a quarter got most or all wrong in identifying facts and opinions, the research showed.
Facts
Civil War Brewing
Rupert
President-for-now Trump (R-Amoral) has created a firestorm thanks to his decision to separate the children of unauthorized immigrants from their parents and detain them in holding facilities that - as still images, video and audio have now indicated - include chain-link cages. And predictably, Fox News has toed the commander-in-chief's line, with Laura Ingraham on Monday going so far as to dub these establishments "essentially summer camps [or] boarding schools." That may be going over well with the right-leaning channel's core viewership, but for those entertainment creators who are presently doing business with Fox, it has increasingly become an untenable position - and they're now speaking up against it.
Over the weekend, Seth MacFarlane, whose animated Family Guy has been a Fox hit for 16 seasons, tweeted that he was "embarrassed" to be working with the network, thanks to comments such as those by Tucker Carlson. Carlson, the Fox News host, informed the public that the truth was the opposite of whatever the mainstream media reports.
With over 43,000 likes to date, MacFarlane's social media post clearly struck a nerve with many on the platform. And now, he's been joined by two other Hollywood heavyweights. In a series of tweets published yesterday and today, Judd Apatow - who severed ties with the Fox network after the 2002 cancellation of his series Undeclared - went to town on Fox for its coverage of the aforementioned child-separation policy, while proclaiming solidarity with MacFarlane for his outspoken stance against his bosses.
Joining in the chorus was also Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan, who likewise made it clear that he stands with MacFarlane - and against Fox, despite the fact that 20th Century Fox Television produces his long-running sitcom.
Given the growing outcry against Trump's ongoing policy, and Fox News's steadfast desire to stand by the president, one can only assume that this is only the beginning of a mounting entertainment-industry backlash against Fox.
Rupert
Wishes He Wasn't So Right
James Hansen
James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't.
NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases.
The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen's predictions given the technology of the time.
"I don't want to be right in that sense," Hansen told The Associated Press, in an interview is his New York penthouse apartment. That's because being right means the world is warming at an unprecedented pace and ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting.
Hansen said what he really wishes happened is "that the warning be heeded and actions be taken."
James Hansen
Alleges 'Extensive' Employee Sabotage
Elon Musk
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk accused an employee of "extensive and damaging sabotage" to the company's operations in an email sent on Monday to company employees.
Musk said an employee had made code changes to the company's operating system and exported "large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties," according to the email, which was obtained by Reuters.
The company is investigating whether the employee "was working with any outside organizations," the email said.
"As you know, there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die," Musk wrote, listing Wall Street short-sellers, oil and gas companies, and car company rivals.
The accusations of sabotage come a week after Musk announced layoffs for 9 percent of the company's workforce. Although Musk said the reorganization does not impact production associates and is not expected to delay manufacturing targets, thousands of employees lost their jobs.
Elon Musk
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 11.46 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 6.51 million.
3. "Code Black," CBS, 6.18 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 6.13 million.
5. "World of Dance," NBC, 6.07 million.
6. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 5.91 million.
7. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 5.89 million.
8. "NCIS," CBS, 5.886 million.
9. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 5.86 million.
10. "Little Big Shots," NBC, 5.68 million.
11. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 5.5 million.
12. "Instinct," CBS, 5.27 million.
13. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 5.14 million.
14. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 5.09 million.
15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.05 million.
16. "Mom," CBS, 4.96 million.
17. "Bull," CBS, 4.95 million.
18. "Mom" (Monday), CBS, 4.81 million.
19. "The Ingraham Angle" (Monday), Fox News, 4.57 million.
20. "48 Hours," CBS, 4.35 million.
Ratings
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