>Music which contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music",[2] can be found in many parts of the world, including bagpipe traditions, among them Scottish pibroch piping; didgeridoo music in Australia, South Indian classical Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music (both of which are accompanied almost invariably by the Tanpura, a plucked, four-string instrument which is only capable of playing a drone); the sustained tones found in the Japanese gagaku[9] classical tradition; possibly (disputed) in pre-polyphonic organum vocal music of late medieval Europe;[10] and the Byzantine chant's ison (or drone-singing, attested after the fifteenth century).[11] Repetition of tones, supposed to be in imitation of bagpipes,[12][13][14][15] is found in a wide variety of genres and musical forms.

Drone music - Wikipedia

Nice. I am in the process of mourning a death and cannot really abide by listening to conventionally structured music, yet I also need something to shut out the ambient sounds and increase concentration. I am still debating whether or not I should be doing even this, but it feels necessary and I have already gone a week without music.

Fairly remarkable in the sense that we are literally seeing this in a courtroom, but absolutely unsurprising that it is in Portland: >During closing statements, defense lawyer Michelle Burrows told the jurors that not only does she self-identify as a progressive and “anti-fascist,” she is going to make herself an “I am Antifa” t-shirt to wear after the trial. She told the jury that the negative reputation surrounding Antifa is false and painted the organized militant group as activists that fight for social justice and civil rights, despite their extensive documented history of carrying out acts of violence. >In defense of Antifa, Burrows told the jury, “Resistance in this country has never been peaceful.” But I also like the way that she walks it back here, lol: >However, as she argued before the jurors, Ms. Burrows admitted that the “black clad people” that had physically beaten Andy Ngo were “terrorists.” OK... So you want to make a tee shirt that represents your affiliation with a group of people who engage in terrorism..? >The defense attorney went on to claim that journalist Andy Ngo does not have clean hands. She implied that Ngo is also a “doxxer” because he posts publicly available mugshots of the crimes that Antifa-affiliated individuals have committed on his Twitter account, in which he has more than one million followers. Seeing that the lawyer calculated that, to some degree, people naturally dislike doxing is also something that I find encouraging. Doxing as a tactic may be quite limited as a tactic - eventually there will be enough of a consensus to outright illegalize the process, as is already the case to some degree in California. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jury-finds-all-antifa-defendants-not-liable-in-andy-ngo-attack-defense-attorney-declares-i-am-antifa?utm_campaign=64483

Let's see how this pans out - Niger is preparing for combat. Wonder what the NATO crowd will tell their colonies to do in ECOWAS.

Niger coup: US envoy holds 'difficult' talks with junta

Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met Niger's military leaders for over two hours.

>“[T]hings quickly got out of hand. Lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas,” the suit claimed. What you would expect from famous elites who think that they are charismatic enough to force everyone to just go with what they want.

Lizzo loses nearly 220,000 Instagram followers since lawsuit

No profile pic for now - in mourning. RIP Hassan.