DJM (freelance for hire)
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“We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (’TAM’) in human history.”
Russia & China not included...
Can anyone take this seriously?
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The music you know. The story you don’t.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson tells the story of the Grammy-award winning band chronicling their evolution, highs and lows, spiritual meaning, and lasting legacy.
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Random Access Memories – Daft Punk
The fourth and final studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 17 May 2013.
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Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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Blind singer, guitarist and songwriter Clarence Carter, born January 14, 1936, in Montgomery, Alabama, has died at age 90. He was part of the classic Southern soul sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JzGZYI_Hw
Read more: https://soultracks.com/clarence-carter-dies/
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The new scramble for Congo
Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk
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Le Marsupilami par Franquin
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Like a painting of a meal in ancient Rome... but living the good life, for sure...
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Un article du Monde de février qui fait froid dans le dos, à de multiples niveaux : Jacob Helberg, le chantre de la Pax Silica, et l'extrême-droite française...
LM: https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2026/01/24/jacob-helberg-l-emissaire-de-donald-trump-aupres-de-l-extreme-droite-francaise_6663901_4500055.html
archived: https://archive.is/stOSw(l'article existe aussi dans la version en anglais du Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/02/08/jacob-helberg-trump-s-direct-link-to-france-s-far-right_6750263_117.html )
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A very long #MustRead post by Edward Ongweso Jr: Pax Silica vs Iran War...
https://www.thetechbubble.info/p/how-much-a-dollar-cost
Worth your timeUpdate: Pax Silica on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Silica
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Couverture d'un hors série "Des gaffes et des chats" en 2011, avec le chat dingue, compagnon de Gaston, dessiné par Franquin.
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"Hé ! Si tous les généraux et amiraux du monde, quelles que soient les couleurs et les étoiles, avaient chacun un chat sur les genoux, hébin moi je me sentirais vachement mieux, moi !"
🗨️ "Que voulez-vous lui répondre quand il a raison ?!"
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Ca vous dit une petite morue aux fraises pour ce soir ? Recette de Gaston, bien sûr...
Si vous voulez tenter chez vous :
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RE: https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/115860992408453697
New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study’s Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the effects of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau
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C'est jeudi, c'est bébé marsupilami ! (non mais !)
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Marsupilami's valentine...
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Just found this and I'm not able to have a valid understanding of it...
Climate Impact of Decreasing Atmospheric Sulphate Aerosols and the Risk of a Termination Shock
Old thread 🧵 on X: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1456615526952755200.html
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Dans la jungle des néobanques : Arnaques, trafics et clients lésés
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C'est la #Chandeleur... (3) Gaston fait des crêpes... mais le #Marsupilami est rapide...
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Mass Exodus from Alleged Scam Compounds in Cambodia After Chen Zhi Arrest
Viral videos show mass exodus of Chinese nationals from hotspot scam compounds in Sihanoukville, Kandal, Battambang, Kampot and other border towns as an analyst likened the fears to major crackdowns linked to scam kingpin Chen Zhi’s arrest and extradition to China.
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U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/technology/trump-rubio-european-tech-disinformation-digital-services-act.html
Archive: https://archive.is/UUa7OIncludes Thierry Breton...
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Le chat fou en période de fête...
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AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
"How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya
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Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists traced tens of thousands of transactions and found major crypto trading platforms awash with dirty money.
#Crypto #Binance #USPol #MoneyLaundering #China #NorthKorea #Scam #PigButchering #AML #ICIJ
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Couverture et dessin original pour "Le cas Lagaffe"
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Les inventions de Gaston...
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Today makes it 5 Years since the #LekkiMassacre in #Lagos.
20 10 20
5 years since the Nigerian Government opened fire at its citizens for protesting against SARS and bad governance at the Lekki toll gate.
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Energy for whom?
Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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Enfin, j'ai trouvé l'explication complète de quelque chose que je comprenais globalement, sans avoir jamais fouillé totalement le sujet : la différence entre les "billions ou trillions" en langues françaises et anglaises.
FR : Échelles longue et courte https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89chelles_longue_et_courte
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Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez' documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/
If you're interested in #Africa #History #UN #Jazz it's really worth your time.
If you want to better understand what happened when #Congo "tried" #Independence from #Belgium in 1960, how USA conspired to kill #PatriceLumumba and why there was a war in #Katanga, then there's a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.
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Croquis de César, le chat qui aurait inspiré le "Chat Dingue" de Gaston, par André Franquin.
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C'est la #Chandeleur... (2) Gaston fait des crêpes... montgolfières...
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C'est la #Chandeleur... Gaston fait des crêpes... flambées...
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Saturday Fever – Jivaro
https://amf.didiermary.fr/saturday-fever-jivaro/
Groupe sud-africain de musique disco et bubblegum, les quatre membres de Jivaro ont été actifs à la fin des années 1980. “Saturday Fever” est sorti en 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NF662aB93A
One of – if not the – strongest South African kwaito/bubblegum albums in existence, Jivaro’s 1989 masterpiece “Saturday Fever”, the album features various heavy hitting tracks that perfectly encapsulate the post-boogie/proto-house movement that had taken over the country’s airwaves and clubs at the time.
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdGaXbQEUw8&feature=share
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitcn-KMM5s
In addition to being a talented instrumentalist, composer and arranger, Verckys was a showman whose dance moves and stage antics won him avid fans of his own. So self-confident was he that in 1968 he started a record company, Éditions Vévé, and persuaded Youlou Mabiala and several other members of OK Jazz to record for him in breach of their contracts with Franco. When Franco found out about it he fired the lot but then relented in consideration of 40% of the new company’s earnings. This episode convinced Verckys that he no longer needed Franco; he left OK Jazz to form Orchestre Vévé.
More infoCongo’s turbulent and exhilarating ’70s: Nightclubs and dance floors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. Exuberant crowds, still giddy from independence a decade prior, grooved to the sounds of the country’s classics. In fact the whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze. Encouraged by the fantastic productions of the Ngoma label, vibrant radio waves had been spreading the Congo sound from Leopoldville all over the continent, becoming the countries’ No.1 export. The unexpected success nurtured an incredible wealth of talented musicians. One of them was Verckys, who, at age 18, became a member of the country´s most dominant and influential band; Franco’s OK Jazz.
This “relationship” however was short-lived as Verckys, aka Georges Mateta Kiamuangana, now a versatile and potent multi instrumentalist, had plans of his own – the formation of Orchestre Vévé in 1968, with the aim of reinventing and modernising the Congolese sound. Blending the ever influential prowess of James Brown with Congolese Merengue, Rumba and Soukous, Verckys stripped away the conventional approach that O.K. Jazz had pioneered, allowing his saxophone-laced melodies to dominate.
Around 1970 a new important area began with the foundation of the label “les Editions Vévé” on which Verckys would release his own productions. A studio was built and Verckys started recording young urban artists, with guitar-driven Cavacha sounds; Les Freres Soki, Bella Bella, Orchestre Kiam and many more shot to stardom overnight, making Verckys a very wealthy man.
But that wasn’t enough for an ambitious man with a vision. He built a sprawling entertainment complex called Vévé Centre, and dispatched a team to learn the intricacies of record pressing to set up the first pressing plant in the country. This was followed by the construction of the Congo’s most modern recording studio in Kinshasa, in which he recorded the legendary Tabu Ley Rochereau.
Orchestre Vévé’s popularity poured across borders and in 1974 the band travelled to Kenya for a 2 month tour. “Bassala Hot”, “Cheka Sana” and “Talali Talala” were some of the tracks recorded in Nairobi for the Kenyan market.
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What’s next for the Nigerian left?
Although the #EndBadGovernance protests attempted to address lingering questions from the #EndSARS era, the potential for the left to transform Nigeria’s political landscape remains a question.
https://africasacountry.com/2024/10/whats-next-for-the-nigerian-left
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"Ce n’est pas parce que ça a raté que c’est un échec et mieux vaut manquer des trucs qui ne marchent pas que l’inverse comme disait le roi des Shadoks, car, rappelons-le, plus ça rate, plus on a de chances que ça marche."
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"Lorsque le roi des Shadoks décida que la maladie mystérieuse était terminée il autorisa tout ce qui n’était pas interdit à se dérouler comme d’habitude tout en tenant compte des exceptions imposées par les conditions particulières.
Comme ils n’avaient rien compris à la nouvelle règle annulant l’ancienne à laquelle ils n’avaient rien pigé, les Shadoks décidèrent de faire comme avant, c’est à dire n’importe comment pourvu que ça pompe." -
When will African leaders resist the neocolonial summons?
140 years after imperial powers at the Berlin Conference carved up the continent and its resources, Africa’s leaders are still trooping to global centres of capital, committed to selling the continent down the river.
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🎶🎶 Brenda Fassie songs
🔗 https://amf.didiermary.fr/brenda-fassie-songs/
A quick selection of Brenda Fassie songs. Let’s begin with the song that started it all, the “ultimate” side-chick anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoWQuI80ejo
In 1983, Brenda Fassie formed “Brenda and the Big Dudes” (with Blondie and Pappa Makhene), and that same year she had a breakthrough hit with “Weekend Special,” singing in the disco-flavored “bubblegum” style. “Weekend Special” sold over 200,000 copies and had an extended life in cover versions and remixes.
More Brenda Fassie songs
More on her YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A0Po7cQy44
Primal scream, she’s got the body of sin
Should be a law against such an invention
A little smile to let you see that she knows
And can sense the smell of your intentionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTfiqgSBYJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpxYWRPq6c
The song tells the story of a mother who is killed while fetching water after being struck by lightning and trying to protect her baby under a tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDRjJ7eNHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwehnJG3uOA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4J4C48bIbc
“Memeza” means shout or scream.
See also: Black President (1990) – Vulindlela (1997)
If you want to know more on Brenda Fassie’s life and music, here’s a short documentary :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyu2IxguOWk
#OldAfricanMusic #Pop - #80smusic #90smusic #Disco #Documentary #Kwaito #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica
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Paix et amour ! Dépression et solitude…
https://www.didiermary.fr/paix-et-amour/
Réflexion imaginaire sur le besoin de trouver la paix intérieure, dans un monde toujours plus complexe, face à une humanité qui se laisse aller…
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Untangling the roots of Empire
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
https://africasacountry.com/2024/05/untangling-the-roots-of-empire
"[...] common narratives that center the agency of White Westerners who bring technology to the agrarian frontier while devaluing the knowledge of indigenous people and smallholder farmers the world over."