Les gens de gauche avec un beau capital culturel qui viennent te dire « ça suffit maintenant les juifves de gauche, fin de la récré, en rang deux par deux et je ne veux pas entendre moufter, y’a peut-être à la limite quelques brebis galeuses, mais #NotAllLFI », est-ce que vous mesurez la violence de vos propos ?
Billet écrit en juin 2024 et qui aurait peut-être dû rester dans mes brouillons…
Il est de bon ton de rappeler, à juste titre, que l’individualisme est au cœur du projet néolibéral. Chacun sa merde. Et l’eugénisme cool « post #covid » et la sauvegarde à tout prix de nos modes de vie quitte à se condamner collectivement à crever de chaud, de soif, de faim, noyés, cramés et/ou asphyxiés, sont des preuves parmi d’autres de l’hégémonie de cette charmante mentalité.
À gauche, l’individualisme est donc un gros mot, et individualiste une insulte. Mais si la gauche conspue l’individualisme et prône la solidarité et le collectif, le décalage entre le discours et les actes, entre la théorie et la pratique, est criant.
Et si vous avez lu les épisodes précédents de cette série, vous savez que ce décalage me disrupte le cerveau disponible.
I don’t remember where I read, ages ago, about how when faced with a choice, if you make a carefully thought out and well-reasoned rational decision, then logically, any other rational person confronted with the same choice will follow the same logic and come to the same decision.
Which in a weird way creates a moral, societal obligation to follow the logic and make the rational choice.
The problem of course, is that most people aren’t rational. Or to be more precise, reason isn’t the only or even the main driver when making choices (or forging an opinion, etc.).
I was interviewed by Sam (@ethicalrevolution@climatejustice.social) about my new album offbeat over on #NHAM.
As I wrote on Mastodon in what turned out to be an interminable chronicle of the making of offbeat :
I’ve never released an album. I write and publish individual songs that progressively outline and become part of albums, sometimes jumping around from one album to the next.
But collaborating on projects on the fedi has taught me something I usually lack : patience. Weeks or months often go by between the moment I finish a song and its release.
Which has probably put me in the necessary headspace to think of a whole album before I’ve actually finished any of the songs.
So the other day, I was playing around with an entirely different UI paradigm for my music site, and got pretty far along, and then I hit a snag.
I searched and scoured the slop-riddled Web and didn’t find answers to my questions.
After a while, that duck.ai link started tugging at my willpower...
In the first post in this series, I explained why I used PHP to generate the playlist of my new hand-crafted music site from a large-ish XML file, instead of doing it locally like I used to (damn you Chrome and Firefox for dropping XSLT support!)
Thing is, depending on the speed of your device and your internet connection, it takes a few short seconds for PHP to do it’s thing on the server, before sending the result in one go to your browser.
And this slight delay has been nagging at me since day one.
So, thanks to @limebar@mastodon.social and @scy@chaos.social who implemented this feature for TIBR and TIBtv, I discovered how to send metadata to the system media player when you play my music on my site (using the Media Session API).
What this means is that you can now see the title, artist and artwork in your system player when you play a song on sknob.fr/music.
It could have ended there, but that’s when things got out of hand...