<p>I think seeing captured film reels from WWII in grade 10 social studies of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves by Nazi labourers and hearing classmates gasp, several of them breaking down, openly weeping, was a turning point in my view of humanity; I expect parents today would be outraged at such shocking material being put before schoolchildren...</p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/genocide/" rel="tag">#genocide</a></p><p>1/2</p>
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<p>While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.</p><p>Here’s the real history.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/his</span><span class="invisible">tory-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#Tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>New <a href="/tags/intro/" rel="tag">#intro</a>!</p><p>I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia. </p><p>My website <a href="https://meljoann.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>meljoann.com</a> includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media. </p><p>Some stuff I love: </p><p><a href="/tags/musicproduction/" rel="tag">#musicProduction</a> <a href="/tags/videoproduction/" rel="tag">#videoProduction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/experimentalmusic/" rel="tag">#experimentalMusic</a> <a href="/tags/electronicmusic/" rel="tag">#electronicMusic</a> <a href="/tags/randb/" rel="tag">#RandB</a> <a href="/tags/earlymusic/" rel="tag">#earlyMusic</a> <a href="/tags/improvisedmusic/" rel="tag">#improvisedMusic</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/knitting/" rel="tag">#knitting</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#scienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/alternativecomedy/" rel="tag">#alternativeComedy</a> <a href="/tags/anarchism/" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Klaviermusik am Abend<br>20. Juli 2026, 21:00 Uhr </p><p>Beethovens "Waldstein"-Sonate (25. April 1934)<br>Joseph Lanners "Altwiener Walzer" (Welte Mignon, 1905)<br>Bachs Italienisches Konzert BWV 971 (11. November 1938)<br>Schuberts Impromptu Nr. 4 f-Moll D 935 (12. und 13. Juni 1950)</p><p>Artur Schnabel</p><p><a href="https://radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/17737/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/17737/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radioklassik.at/programm/sendu</span><span class="invisible">ngsformat/17737/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#piano</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>"There were no books on web design, no best practices."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inn</span><span class="invisible">ovative-designs-of-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/earlyweb/" rel="tag">#EarlyWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/design/" rel="tag">#design</a> <a href="/tags/webdesign/" rel="tag">#WebDesign</a></p>
<p>Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".</p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy<br>Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25</p><p>Rudolf Serkin, piano<br>San Francisco Symphony Orchestra<br>Edo de Waart, conductor</p><p>Live rec. Louise M. Davies Hall, San Francisco, September 16 1980</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@Pierrette" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Pierrette</span></a></span> ?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53B_RUcEjE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53B_RUcEjE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53B_R</span><span class="invisible">UcEjE</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>The Mother of All Demos was "a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-z</span><span class="invisible">dhzMY</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth</span><span class="invisible">er_of_All_Demos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/computers/" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="/tags/demo/" rel="tag">#demo</a> <a href="/tags/motherofalldemos/" rel="tag">#MotherOfAllDemos</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Giacomo Puccini "La Fanciulla Del West" </p><p>MET<br>21st February 1970, New York</p><p>Minnie: Renata Tebaldi<br>Dick Johnson: Sándor Kónya<br>Jack Rance: Anselmo Colzani<br>Joe: Andrea Velis<br>Handsome: Richard Best<br>Harry: Robert Schmorr<br>Sonora: Clifford Harvuot<br>Trin: Gabor Carelli<br>Jim Larkens: Raymond Gibbs<br>Wowkle: Frederica von Stade<br>...<br>Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York</p><p>Conductor...............Fausto Cleva</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQJZypH_8c" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQJZypH_8c"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQJZy</span><span class="invisible">pH_8c</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Dorking Cockerel, public sculpture in Dorking, Surrey, England. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorking_Cockerel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorking_Cockerel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorking_</span><span class="invisible">Cockerel</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/statue/" rel="tag">#statue</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#map</a></p>
<p>An abandoned pottery factory, somewhere in <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#France</a></p><p>The small French <a href="/tags/pottery/" rel="tag">#pottery</a> works thrived for decades. It remained modest, while competitors expanded and modernised. While this gives the <a href="/tags/ruins/" rel="tag">#ruins</a> a quaint charm, it was certainly a major factor in their closure!</p><p>Inside, the upper floors have long rows of wooden racks stacked with 100s of moulds. Heavy pieces were moved on wooden carts along a rail system.</p><p><a href="https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/industrial/faiencerie-s-pottery-s-france/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/industrial/faiencerie-s-pottery-s-france/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.obsidianurbexphotography.c</span><span class="invisible">om/industrial/faiencerie-s-pottery-s-france/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ceramics/" rel="tag">#Ceramics</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#France</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#Urbex</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/auspol/" rel="tag">#Auspol</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/italianhistory/" rel="tag">#ItalianHistory</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/dodgyandgreatleaders/" rel="tag">#DodgyAndGreatLeaders</a></p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> or more like dipping into</p><p>B. A. SANTAMARIA<br>ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:<br>THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM<br>MA THESIS<br>UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE<br>1934</p><p>and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.</p><p>i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre. </p><p>the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.</p><p>in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.<br>I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.</p><p>On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck. <br>(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)</p><p>Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”</p><p>The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?</p><p>Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them? </p><p>1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.</p>
<p>Our reporting found at least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign.</p><p>To better understand the chemicals’ effects on children, we spoke with an activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma in 1965.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/charles-mauldin-selma-tear-gas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/charles-mauldin-selma-tear-gas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/cha</span><span class="invisible">rles-mauldin-selma-tear-gas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> that I'm never happy with:</p><p>I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it. </p><p>You may know me from:</p><p>@alexicon@tech.lgbt (Oct 2022-Sept 2023)<br><a href="https://firefish.lgbt/@alex" rel="nofollow">@alex@firefish.lgbt</a> (RIP) (Aug 2023)<br><a href="https://xim.ca/@alex" rel="nofollow">@alex@xim.ca</a> (Sept 2023-May 2024)<br>@alex@kitty.social (May 2024-Oct 2024)<br><a href="https://anarres.family/@alex" rel="nofollow">@alex@anarres.family</a> (Oct 2024-Aug 2025)</p><p>I'm a neurodivergent (AuDHD / GAD / cPTSD[?] <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/pawb.fun/neocat_thinking.png" class="emoji" alt=":neocat_thinking:" title=":neocat_thinking:">), ace/aromantic pan/aegosexual, 40s year old from <a href="/tags/ottawa/" rel="tag">#Ottawa</a>, <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a>. 🇨🇦 </p><p>Interests include: <br>• <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> (including <a href="/tags/startrek/" rel="tag">#StarTrek</a> & <a href="/tags/doctorwho/" rel="tag">#DoctorWho</a>) <br>• <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <br>• <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a><br>• <a href="/tags/genealogy/" rel="tag">#genealogy</a> <br>• <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <br>• <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> (when I can afford to)<br>• ....way too many special interests.</p><p>(Please don't reply to the introduction post. Mentions or DMs are OK.)</p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Wagner - DIE WALKÜRE</p><p>Siegmund: James King<br>Wotan: Theo Adam<br>Hunding: Martti Talvela<br>Sieglinde: Leonie Rysanek<br>Fricka: Ursula Boese<br>Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson<br>Gerhilde: Danica Mastilovic<br>Ortlinde: Isabella Doran<br>Waltraute: Gertraud Hopf<br>Schwertleite: Lili Chookasian<br>Helmwige: Liane Synek<br>Siegrune: Elisabeth Schärtel<br>...<br>Das Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele <br>Karl Böhm</p><p>Bayreuth, Festspielhaus, 26. Juli 1965</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAOQCKlCZig" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAOQCKlCZig"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAOQCK</span><span class="invisible">lCZig</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite<br>Arrangement: Arturo Toscanini</p><p>Arturo Toscanini: <br>NBC Symphony</p><p>Date: 5 August 1952</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2XnXPRnbI" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2XnXPRnbI"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2XnX</span><span class="invisible">PRnbI</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Béla Bartók - Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1, Sz. 26</p><p>Piano: Géza Anda<br>Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra<br>Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay</p><p>Recorded in 1959</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2tTbAap7M" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2tTbAap7M"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2tTb</span><span class="invisible">Aap7M</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br>"Die Zauberflöte</p><p>Franz Crass - Sarastro<br>Roberta Peters - Königin der Nacht<br>Evelyn Lear - Pamina<br>Fritz Wunderlich - Tamino<br>Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Papageno<br>Lisa Otto - Papagena<br>Hans Hotter - Sprecher<br>Sieglinde Wagner - Dritte Dame der Königin<br>Martti Talvela - Zweiter geharnischter Mann<br>...<br>RIAS-Kammerchor <br>(Chorus Master: Günther Arndt)</p><p>Berliner Philharmoniker<br>Karl Böhm</p><p>Recording: June 1964,</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIcXmlKKpZ5rvquI5McJ3clNvhTBe0ZX" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIcXmlKKpZ5rvquI5McJ3clNvhTBe0ZX"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=</span><span class="invisible">PLzIcXmlKKpZ5rvquI5McJ3clNvhTBe0ZX</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Sergei Rachmaninoff<br>Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18</p><p>Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist<br>Leopold Stokowski, conductor<br>The Philadelphia Orchestra</p><p>Recorded on April 10/13, 1929</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fbyk6Yyak" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fbyk6Yyak"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fbyk</span><span class="invisible">6Yyak</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Vincenzo Bellini "Beatrice di Tenda" </p><p>Teatro di San Carlo<br>4th May 1962, Naples</p><p>Beatrice di Tenda: Joan Sutherland <br>Filippo: Mario Zanasi <br>Agnese: Margreta Elkins <br>Orombello: Renato Cioni</p><p>Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples</p><p>Conductor...........Nicola Rescigno</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8oWvDenVs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8oWvDenVs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8oWv</span><span class="invisible">DenVs</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Niccolò Paganini<br>Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7 "La Campanella"</p><p>Violin: Ruggiero Ricci<br>London Symphony Orchestra<br>Conductor: Anthony Collins</p><p>Recorded: February, 1955</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl1h9hI5u8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl1h9hI5u8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl1h9</span><span class="invisible">hI5u8</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_R</span><span class="invisible">adio_Van</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internetage/" rel="tag">#InternetAge</a> <a href="/tags/packetradiovan/" rel="tag">#PacketRadioVan</a> <a href="/tags/arpanet/" rel="tag">#arpanet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Wagner - SIEGFRIED</p><p>Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen<br>Mime: Erwin Wohlfahrt<br>Der Wanderer (Wotan): Josef Greindl<br>Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger<br>Fafner: Kurt Böhme<br>Erda: Lili Chookasian<br>Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson<br>Stimme des Waldvogels: Erika Köth</p><p>Das Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele<br>Karl Böhm</p><p>Bayreuth, Festspielhaus, 28. Juli 1965</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGg3i6V0yTg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGg3i6V0yTg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGg3i6</span><span class="invisible">V0yTg</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>"Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">999/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
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