diversgens

Ambient / Drone / Dark / Industrial & Cinematic Music

[diversgens @_diversgens]

New album out today: https://t.co/c6lJ1nZIXL

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Next.ink @nextinpact]

Ubisoft assigné en justice pour la fermeture des serveurs de The Crew https://t.co/QeD8CLqD9y

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@SchnockRevue Période de vide sanitaire, peut-être ... : https://t.co/gkPjivZ51i

[Le Zelenskyste 🇫🇷🇺🇦 @VolodimirZelen1]

Ce drapeau, c’est celui qui flotte dans les manifestations anti-corruption, d’Athènes à Varsovie.

Ce drapeau, c’est celui qu’agitent ceux qui se battent pour la démocratie, de Géorgie à la Moldavie - de Minsk à Maïdan.

Ce drapeau, c’est le drapeau d’une superpuissance de 400 millions d’habitants.

Ce drapeau c’est mon drapeau. Et j’en suis fier, en tant que Français Européen.

Vive l’Europe. Vive la liberté. Et que les ketaïnomanes aillent se faire voir sur Mars. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@pbeyssac @cmcpen Dans la mesure où cela peut être complètement désactivé je ne pense pas que cela soit si extrême. Par contre si cela était imposé, il serait légitime de parler de pourrissement et de bullshit. Il faut néanmoins rester vigilant.

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@pbeyssac Il s'agit uniquement d'une case à cocher dans les paramètres de courrier de Pronote. C'est totalement désactivable par l'administrateur qui peut également fixer une autre plage horaire. Le paramétrage de Pronote est très granulaire et parfois complexe

[julien bayle @julienbayle]

I just released a new book about #MaxforLive both in French and English versions.

You can grab the English version on @leanpub :
https://t.co/Fn73R4waaZ

@Ableton @cycling74 #abletonlive #liveobjectmodel

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

gottaDoItNow https://t.co/dy3OcZDe70

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@SchnockRevue La version de Barry Adamson & Anita Lane n'est pas mal non plus (une génération plus tard)
https://t.co/enL88ieUFD

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@Ableton Semble plutôt interessant dans un domaine qui manque d’outils dans Live

[Etienne Parizot @parizot]

ABSOLUMENT MAGISTRAL ! Puisque @Charlie_Hebdo_ à fait cet édito, tellement juste, puissant et intégralement impeccable, je n’ai rien d’autre à dire moi-même. À faire circuler. Partout. Pour l’honneur de l’esprit français ! 🙏🏻👏🏼

[diversgens @_diversgens]

S’en souvenir aujourd’hui

[Aurélien @AurelienSal]

@MathieuPasquini @SchnockRevue Effectivement, c'est un monologue exceptionnel

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@spicyplume @beaudonnet ils sortent au compte-gouttes jusqu'aux élections
https://t.co/8aegdvA85a

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Homicide rates in different areas of the world

[Xavier Gorce @XavierGorce]

Matière grise
In newsletter @LePoint du 08-04-2024

[Mailo @HelloMailo]

La citation du jour..
#vieprivee #securitenumerique #donneespersonnelles #privacy #Ethique #mailo

[diversgens @_diversgens]

@gavinski_s Seems fun to use. The sound of the demo is believable

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

iPad / iPhone app to unleash your inner turntablist:

Skratch It! (Giveaway details below)

This is by the same developer as the Amen Break Generator app. I don't have time today to make my own demo of this, so I've attached the dev's vid. Pretty fun!

You can import your own samples, it also comes with some nice samples already built in. Note that it is an Inter App Audio app, not AUv3. Costs $5.99

I'll put a link below with a link to the appstore and some more description.

🟪 Giveaway:

One person on Twitter will win a free copy (I have 5 copies to give away on my Patreon, link in Twitter Profile). Winner will be picked at random 2 days from now. I'll put the winner name in a reply to this tweet once picked, and DM them their code. To have a chance to win:

✅ Follow me
✅ Like this
✅ Quote Tweet or Retweet
✅ Write a comment, any comment

Good luck!

#dj #scratching #turntablism #iosmusic #ipadmusic