THIS IS COOL: Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers covers Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You’ on bass & trumpet with a live orchestra
Was not expecting that but it sounds 🔥
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I think I just found my favorite band. Spirit Fingers Trio. I've just been getting into Mohini Day, she's a beast on the bass. Greg Spero on the keys and the monster, Mike Mitchell aka Blaque Dynamite on the drums.
With Apple Pay, your real card number never really leaves your device. When you add your card, the bank creates a special replacement number called a Device Account Number (DAN). That DAN is stored securely inside the phone’s Secure Enclave chip, not on Apple’s servers. When you pay, your phone sends this DAN plus a one-time cryptographic code to the merchant. The merchant never sees your real card, and Apple doesn’t process the transaction itself. It’s basically: phone → bank → done. Everything sensitive stays on the device.
With Google Pay, the idea is similar but the path is different. Instead of storing everything only on the device chip, Google often uses cloud tokenization. Your card info is linked to Google’s servers, which generate payment tokens during transactions. When you tap to pay, a token is fetched/created and sent to the merchant, then validated by the bank. So it’s more like: phone → Google server → bank. Still secure, but it relies more on the cloud.
So both systems hide your real card number. Apple leans more toward hardware-based security (on-device chip), while Google leans more toward server/cloud-based token management.
In simple terms:
Apple Pay locks your card inside your phone.
Google Pay locks your card behind Google’s servers.
Either way, the shop never gets your real card details; which is why mobile payments are often safer than swiping your physical card.
Tryna pay rent while tryna pay bills while tryna knock down old debt while tryna fix your credit while tryna save a little while tryna heal from the stuff you don’t talk about while tryna stay positive when life keep throwing rocks while tryna live right and still forcing a smile through all the pressure… it gets overwhelming, it gets heavy, it’ll have you feeling like life got you in a chokehold, but stay focused, breathe, keep pushing, everything you’re fighting for is lining up even if you can’t see it yet. 😮💨❤️
Anthony Jackson played the iconic bassline on The O’Jays’ song “For the Love of Money”. He was only 20 years old when he recorded it, and the bassline was so influential that he received a co-writing credit for the track. (R.I.P.) 🌹 #LongLiveTheCulture ✊🏾
Nujabes, one of the pioneers of Lo-Fi Hip Hop through Samurai Champloo, sadly isn’t here to see his impact - but it’s beautiful that Watanabe honored him with a sonic tribute in Ghosts.