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Tulog ng Tulog - Gracenote (2023)

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Buo na 2023 ko 😭😭😭

Last year sabi ko buo na 2022 ko dahil nakita ko naman Autotelic. Ngayon Gracenote!!! 😭😭😭 So 1 year at a time babyyyy hahahaha

Napaka special lang ng gabi na 'to dahil 1st time ko mag attend ng mga gantong event na nasa pinaka harap. Tapos 2nd time ko mag attend ng music fest na MAG-ISA!!!!! Waaaah

I've been through a lot lately, halos kulang lagi sa tulog, trabaho tas kauwi halos wala na pahinga, literally stressful pero kinaya. Kaya deserve na deserve ko 'to 😭😭😭 I'm just really happy although nakakatakot magbyahe ng gabing gabi mag isa pero pusssshhh.

Since highschool pinapakinggan ko na Gracenote tapos college kahit legal age na syempre di parin nakakapag attend ng mga gigs nila.

Ngayon, as long as may pera at keri sa budget, pussshhh.

As usual wala ako halos pictures dahil ninanamnam ko bawat minuto with them. Ay shalaaa hahahaha

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SM Cares, Global Peace Foundation launches Global Youth Summit 2023

SM Cares, together with the Global Peace Foundation (GPF), recently launched this year’s Global Youth Summit. The event, which marks the first of a four-leg series, was launched last August 11, 2023, Friday, at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall in Pasay City. The Global Youth Summit is an annual gathering of thousands of students and youth leaders from all over the Philippines, where they will be…

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🎶NEW RELEASE 🎶

GRACE NOTE by J. Bengtsson is NOW AVAILABLE!! The Princess of a Hollywood dynasty falls for a homeless runaway foster kid in this emotional, second chance, found family, forced proximity, rock star romance you won’t want to miss!

🥁Grab your copy here: https://mybook.to/GraceNote 

🎧Audiobook: https://amzn.to/3pnZFgf

🎼Add to Goodreads TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58083376-grace-note

Blurb:

I’m the privileged youngest child of the famous McKallister family. He’s a runaway foster kid living rough. We were never meant to meet. This is where our story begins. It’s nowhere near how it ends.

Grace

The beat. The cheers. The thrill of the unknown. I shouldn’t leave the safety of the music arena—my last name is McKallister, after all, and I’m intimately familiar with worst-case scenarios. But I’m drawn by the talent and the turmoil behind the weary eyes of the drummer on the streets. I’ve never seen anyone my age as wild and unrestrained, a lightning bolt of electricity that never hits the same spot on his bucket drums twice. He plays with such confidence, such rage. I have to know who he is and where he learned to bang out drum solos like he owns the night.

I want to help him. No, to save him. If only Rory will let me.

Rory

When I play, I’m in my element. I know how to draw a crowd and how to keep them riveted. For a small period of time every day, I’m special. Talented. Going somewhere. Little do they know I’m going back to nothing: no family, no friends, no roof over my head. When the music ends, I fade into the background like the undesirable I am. And then she shows up, so pretty and polished and pure. I don’t expect her to stay and talk. I definitely don’t expect her to sit down on the sidewalk and drum a song onto my thigh. Yet here she is—anyone’s ultimate dream girl—promising to save me.

Too bad Grace stumbled upon me a decade too late.

Find more books by J. Bengtsson here: https://jbengtssonbooks.com

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Gracenote on stage!

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Good riddance to the Open Gaming License

Last week, Gizmodo’s Linda Codega caught a fantastic scoop — a leaked report of Hasbro’s plan to revoke the decades-old Open Gaming License, which subsidiary Wizards Of the Coast promulgated as an allegedly open sandbox for people seeking to extend, remix or improve Dungeons and Dragons:

https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634

The report set off a shitstorm among D&D fans and the broader TTRPG community — not just because it was evidence of yet more enshittification of D&D by a faceless corporate monopolist, but because Hasbro was seemingly poised to take back the commons that RPG players and designers had built over decades, having taken WOTC and the OGL at their word.

Gamers were right to be worried. Giant companies love to rugpull their fans, tempting them into a commons with lofty promises of a system that we will all have a stake in, using the fans for unpaid creative labor, then enclosing the fans’ work and selling it back to them. It’s a tale as old as CDDB and Disgracenote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#History

(Disclosure: I am a long-serving volunteer board-member for MetaBrainz, which maintains MusicBrainz, a free, open, community-managed and transparent alternative to Gracenote, explicitly designed to resist the kind of commons-stealing enclosure that led to the CDDB debacle.)

https://musicbrainz.org/

Free/open licenses were invented specifically to prevent this kind of fuckery. First there was the GPL and its successor software licenses, then Creative Commons and its own successors. One important factor in these licenses: they contain the word “irrevocable.” That means that if you build on licensed content, you don’t have to worry about having the license yanked out from under you later. It’s rugproof.

Now, the OGL does not contain the word “irrevocable.” Rather, the OGL is “perpetual.” To a layperson, these two terms may seem interchangeable, but this is one of those fine lawerly distinctions that trip up normies all the time. In lawyerspeak, a “perpetual” license is one whose revocation doesn’t come automatically after a certain time (unlike, say, a one-year car-lease, which automatically terminates at the end of the year). Unless a license is “irrevocable,” the licensor can terminate it whenever they want to.

This is exactly the kind of thing that trips up people who roll their own licenses, and people who trust those licenses. The OGL predates the Creative Commons licenses, but it neatly illustrates the problem with letting corporate lawyers — rather than public-interest nonprofits — unleash “open” licenses on an unsuspecting, legally unsophisticated audience.

The perpetual/irrevocable switcheroo is the least of the problems with the OGL. As Rob Bodine— an actual lawyer, as well as a dice lawyer — wrote back in 2019, the OGL is a grossly defective instrument that is significantly worse than useless.

https://gsllcblog.com/2019/08/26/part3ogl/

The issue lies with what the OGL actually licenses. Decades of copyright maximalism has convinced millions of people that anything you can imagine is “intellectual property,” and that this is indistinguishable from real property, which means that no one can use it without your permission.

The copyrightpilling of the world sets people up for all kinds of scams, because copyright just doesn’t work like that. This wholly erroneous view of copyright grooms normies to be suckers for every sharp grifter who comes along promising that everything imaginable is property-in-waiting (remember SpiceDAO?):

https://onezero.medium.com/crypto-copyright-bdf24f48bf99

Copyright is a lot more complex than “anything you can imagine is your property and that means no one else can use it.” For starters, copyright draws a fundamental distinction between ideas and expression. Copyright does not apply to ideas — the idea, say, of elves and dwarves and such running around a dungeon, killing monsters. That is emphatically not copyrightable.

Copyright also doesn’t cover abstract systems or methods — like, say, a game whose dice-tables follow well-established mathematical formulae to create a “balanced” system for combat and adventuring. Anyone can make one of these, including by copying, improving or modifying an existing one that someone else made. That’s what “uncopyrightable” means.

Finally, there are the exceptions and limitations to copyright — things that you are allowed to do with copyrighted work, without first seeking permission from the creator or copyright’s proprietor. The best-known exception is US law is fair use, a complex doctrine that is often incorrectly characterized as turning on “four factors” that determine whether a use is fair or not.

In reality, the four factors are a starting point that courts are allowed and encouraged to consider when determining the fairness of a use, but some of the most consequential fair use cases in Supreme Court history flunk one, several, or even all of the four factors (for example, the Betamax decision that legalized VCRs in 1984, which fails all four).

Beyond fair use, there are other exceptions and limitations, like the di minimis exemption that allows for incidental uses of tiny fragments of copyrighted work without permission, even if those uses are not fair use. Copyright, in other words, is “fact-intensive,” and there are many ways you can legally use a copyrighted work without a license.

Which brings me back to the OGL, and what, specifically, it licenses. The OGL is a license that only grants you permission to use the things that WOTC can’t copyright — “the game mechanic [including] the methods, procedures, processes and routines.” In other words, the OGL gives you permission to use things you don’t need permission to use.

But maybe the OGL grants you permission to use more things, beyond those things you’re allowed to use anyway? Nope. The OGL specifically exempts:

Product and product line names, logos and identifying marks including trade dress; artifacts; creatures characters; stories, storylines, plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents, language, artwork, symbols, designs, depictions, likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and graphic, photographic and other visual or audio representations; names and descriptions of characters, spells, enchantments, personalities, teams, personas, likenesses and special abilities; places, locations, environments, creatures, equipment, magical or supernatural abilities or effects, logos, symbols, or graphic designs; and any other trademark or registered trademark…

Now, there are places where the uncopyrightable parts of D&D mingle with the copyrightable parts, and there’s a legal term for this: merger. Merger came up for gamers in 2018, when the provocateur Robert Hovden got the US Copyright Office to certify copyright in a Magic: The Gathering deck:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/14/angels-and-demons/#owning-culture

If you want to learn more about merger, you need to study up on Kregos and Eckes, which are beautifully explained in the “Open Intellectual Property Casebook,” a free resource created by Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/openip/#q01

Jenkins and Boyle explicitly created their open casebook as an answer to another act of enclosure: a greedy textbook publisher cornered the market on IP textbook and charged every law student — and everyone curious about the law — $200 to learn about merger and other doctrines.

As EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kit Walsh writes in her must-read analysis of the OGL, this means “the only benefit that OGL offers, legally, is that you can copy verbatim some descriptions of some elements that otherwise might arguably rise to the level of copyrightability.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators

But like I said, it’s not just that the OGL fails to give you rights — it actually takes away rights you already have to D&D. That’s because — as Walsh points out — fair use and the other copyright limitations and exceptions give you rights to use D&D content, but the OGL is a contract whereby you surrender those rights, promising only to use D&D stuff according to WOTC’s explicit wishes.

“For example, absent this agreement, you have a legal right to create a work using noncopyrightable elements of D&D or making fair use of copyrightable elements and to say that that work is compatible with Dungeons and Dragons. In many contexts you also have the right to use the logo to name the game (something called “nominative fair use” in trademark law). You can certainly use some of the language, concepts, themes, descriptions, and so forth. Accepting this license almost certainly means signing away rights to use these elements. Like Sauron’s rings of power, the gift of the OGL came with strings attached.”

And here’s where it starts to get interesting. Since the OGL launched in 2000, a huge proportion of game designers have agreed to its terms, tricked into signing away their rights. If Hasbro does go through with canceling the OGL, it will release those game designers from the shitty, deceptive OGL.

According to the leaks, the new OGL is even worse than the original versions — but you don’t have to take those terms! Notwithstanding the fact that the OGL says that “using…Open Game Content” means that you accede to the license terms, that is just not how contracts work.

Walsh: “Contracts require an offer, acceptance, and some kind of value in exchange, called ‘consideration.’ If you sell a game, you are inviting the reader to play it, full stop. Any additional obligations require more than a rote assertion.”

“For someone who wants to make a game that is similar mechanically to Dungeons and Dragons, and even announce that the game is compatible with Dungeons and Dragons, it has always been more advantageous as a matter of law to ignore the OGL.”

Walsh finishes her analysis by pointing to some good licenses, like the GPL and Creative Commons, “written to serve the interests of creative communities, rather than a corporation.” Many open communities — like the programmers who created GNU/Linux, or the music fans who created Musicbrainz, were formed after outrageous acts of enclosure by greedy corporations.

If you’re a game designer who was pissed off because the OGL was getting ganked — and if you’re even more pissed off now that you’ve discovered that the OGL was a piece of shit all along — there’s a lesson there. The OGL tricked a generation of designers into thinking they were building on a commons. They weren’t — but they could.

This is a great moment to start — or contribute to — real open gaming content, licensed under standard, universal licenses like Creative Commons. Rolling your own license has always been a bad idea, comparable to rolling your own encryption in the annals of ways-to-fuck-up-your-own-life-and-the-lives-of-many-others. There is an opportunity here — Hasbro unintentionally proved that gamers want to collaborate on shared gaming systems.

That’s the true lesson here: if you want a commons, you’re not alone. You’ve got company, like Kit Walsh herself, who happens to be a brilliant game-designer who won a Nebula Award for her game “Thirsty Sword Lesbians”:

https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/

[Image ID: A remixed version of David Trampier's 'Eye of Moloch,' the cover of the first edition of the AD&D Player's Handbook. It has been altered so the title reads 'Advanced Copyright Fuckery. Unclear on the Concept. That's Just Not How Licenses Work. No, Seriously.' The eyes of the idol have been replaced by D20s displaying a critical fail '1.' Its chest bears another D20 whose showing face is a copyright symbol.]

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This girl is on fire with new screencaps of MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR via Gracenote, Youtube TV and Rotten Tomatoes.

14 ALL NEW Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur episodes streaming February 3rd only on Disney+. 🌕🦖✨🔥

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New screencaps from Youtube TV and Gracenote! (Fit to Print and Small Valley Farm)

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Cappuccino at gracenote in Boston. Best coffee in town.

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Még egyszer az olimpiáról

Na nem arról van most szó, hogy milyen volt a Szajna vize, kit sértett meg/miért volt remek a megnyitó - inkább arról, hogy miért is vagyunk "sportnagyhatalom." Ez pedig összefügg valahol a belefeccölt pénzzel és az átlagos mentalitással (á la: ha nem az aranyért mész ki, akkor egy gerinctelen álmagyar vagy).

Szóval most ki van adva az enesónak, hogy a környező országokhoz mérjük magunkat - lásd: https://www.nemzetisport.hu/parizs2024/2024/08/erodemonstracio-parizsban-szollosi-gyorgy-jegyzete

Nyilván Pogi Gyurinak ki volt adva az is, hogy végig dehonesztálóan írjon az eseményről (hiszen a mi álmainkat törték össze ugye anno), de ha már most ezt a tárcát így kinyögte, akkor pár dolgot igazán leszedhetne az archívumból.

Pl. ezt: https://www.nemzetisport.hu/parizs2024/2024/07/nyolc-nyolc-kilenc-deak-zsigmond-jegyzete

A szerző itt még arról is ír, hogy az enesó kollektívája még lefelé kozmetikázta a becsléseit, miközben "nem tudja komolyan venni" a Gracenote-t, mert a cég folyamatosan változtatta, igaz egyre pozitívabban a becsléseit. Amúgy nagyjából bejött a Gracenote becslése.

A 19 szerzett érem egyáltalán nem lebecsülendő, de a Deák Zsigmond-féle 25-től jócskán elmarad. S bizony az éremfetisizmus visszaköszönt a kommenteknél is, sőt: https://www.nemzetisport.hu/parizs2024/2024/07/schmidt-adam-elfogadna-ha-23-ermet-szerezne-a-magyar-kuldottseg

valamint

https://infostart.hu/sport/2023/12/17/gyulay-zsolt-akar-10-12-olimpiai-aranyat-is-nyerhet-magyarorszag-parizsban

Az élsportba rengeteg pénz megy világszerte, és talán itthon jobb felhasználással, nem pedig zsebtöméssel lehetne is realitás ennyi érem, ez így viszont csak arra lesz jó, hogy megkérdőjelezzék a befektetett munka ár/érték arányát. Vagy takarózhatunk a "regionális sportnagyhatalmi" státuszunkkal, amely izzadtságszagú, mert nem ezt kellene kommunikálni jobb esetben, nem ez volt előre megbeszélve.

De mi akkor is győzünk, ha vesztünk, hiszen minden meccs addig tart, amíg meg nem nyerjük.

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Amouage Interlude Man

Amouage Interlude Man

Nose: Pierre Negrin

notes: oregano, pepper, bergamot; incense, opoponax, amber, labdanum; oud, leather, sandalwood, patchouli

Interlude Man opens with a dense, sweet, medicinal-herbal resin; a little odd, but salubrious.

Then in a few minutes the sweetness drops away and we’re just left with a dry peppery oregano gracenote over a yawning abyss of darkness.

No, really. It’s hard to describe as a smell, it’s more of a sense. Darkness, eerie whistling wind, impending doom. Haunted-house vibes. And pleasant dry herbs.

Over the next hour the medicinal-resinous chord returns. it has an interesting hollow, chilly quality. And that’s mostly what ends up dominating the drydown: eerie medicinal resin, with occasional flickers of plain vanillic caramel.

Interlude is…interesting. it’s a controversial scent, to judge by the reviews. The herbal-medicinal quality is more unusual than pleasant, even for me; the overall effect is Gothic and spooky, in sort of an autumnal, garden-gone-to-seed style, that feels very appropriate to late October.

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Prabowo Presidenku Gibran Wakil presidenku (My President - Ingat Gemoy) ...

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God bagpipes are stupid.

Gracenotes are so fucking stupid.

Why do they all have to play caddywumpus with the stupid beat.

Ooo grips have to end on the beat. Doublings have to be on the beat.

Why can't you just pick a side!!

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Kagabi lang ako ulit nakaattend ng gig ng paborito kong banda, ang Gracenote. Hindi planado pero nagtanong lang ako sa kasama ko ng "kelan tayo maggig?" tapos sinend nya sakin yung sched, edi ayon meron palang gig ng Tuesday sa 12 Monkeys.

Sabi ko magkita nalang kami sa Starmall Shaw at don na kumain, nagcrave na naman ako sa Marugame, pinacheck ko muna kung meron don kaso wala daw :( Edi ayon nauwi na naman sa Mcdo. Hahaha pero okay lang kasi busog naman.

Nakarating kami ng mga 8:30 siguro sa venue, medyo konti pa lang ang tao at hindi pa nagstart. First time namin manood sa 12M, pero yung dating pwesto nila sa likod ng megamall ay ilan beses na kami nakapunta. Mas malaki yung pwesto ngayon. Umorder muna ako ng san mig light, yung tipong isang bote palang malalasing kana kasi ang mahal 170 ba naman. Hahaha.

10pm na yata nagstart tumugtog yung unang banda, buti tatlo lang. Tapos last yung Gracenote, kaya tumayo na kami, kasi pag tumutogtog sila nagmomoshpit kami eh. Hahaha. Nakakamiss grabe. Dati kasi before pandemic, nakaka3 gigs ako per week or higit pa. Samantalang ngayon eh kung kelan lang maisipan.

After nila tumugtog nakikipagkwentuhan yung banda samin, nagpipicturan. Swerte lang namin kasi matagal na kaming fans kaya kilala na kami at ang dali dali pang magpapicture.

Nung nakita ako ni Eunice (vocalist) sabi nya "lika dito lika dito" paglapit ko sabi nya "kamusta kana, okay kana?" nakakausap ko din kasi sya sa viber minsan at nakakapagshare ng konti. Tinanong nga din ako kung ano ginawa ko kasi ang payat ko na, yung usual na sinasabi ko na "tamang stress lang at samahan ng sama ng loob" natawa sya pero tinanong nya ako ano nakakapag pastress sakin, tawa lang naman ako ng tawa kasi dinadaan ko lang sa biro ang lahat. Hahaha. Sabi pa nya "sabihin mo sakin, tara gawan natin ng kanta" --- kung di lang ako nakapagpigil baka nagshare na ako e. Hahaha.

Si Jazz (bassist) naman, tinanong ako bakit ako nakadeact sa fb, sabi ko nalang secret. Pinipilit nya ako magsabi. Ayoko nga. Pero ang sarap pa din sa puso ng tinatanong eh. Alam mong may pake.

Dami din bagong fans na nanoood, nakakatuwa at nakabonding din namin sila. May pagplano na nga ng swimming sa Pansol, ewan kung matutuloy. Ang sarap din makakilala ng mga bagong tao eh. Wow sawa na sa luma. Hahaha. Napakasaya lang ng gig kagabi. Lagi naman talaga masaya. Hindi nakakasawa, iba talaga pag mahal mo no?

Share ko lang yung latest single nila "tigil"

Tigil nalang natin 'to

Pigilan natin 'to

Tigil nalang natin 'to

At alam kong walang patutunguhan

Wag na natin ipilit pa

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sa wakas nakita ko rin yung idol ko Ma'am Eunice Jorge layo kase ng gig nila ok lang kung sa Moa, Ayala Mall Manila Bay, Cavite or Las Pinas. Pero Happy ko dahil may picture ko susunod naman autograph po

My Favorite Song ng Gracenote (Lagi ako Like sa mga Kanta nila po) Minsan Lang Naman TAONG ROBOT Summer Song Bakit Ganyan Ka? Parang Kailan Lang Stargazer Thank you po Global Youth Summit and SM Mall of Asia Very Very Happy po ako Kahapon To Meet My Idol with Pictures

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Nielsen-Owned Gracenote to Track Disability Representation on TV (EXCLUSIVE)

Nielsen’s TV content analysis company Gracenote will begin tracking on-screen disability representation as part of its inclusion data, which currently covers talent gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

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