People are celebrating the “hip hop-ification” of country music.

They’re treating it like a victory lap. The last holdout has fallen. Total cultural dominance achieved.

I think it’s the opposite. This feels less like a triumph and more like a death knell.

Country music started as Black music. The banjo came from enslaved Africans. DeFord Bailey was a star of early country radio, until he wasn’t welcome anymore. The culture slowly expelled the people who built it, then rewrote the origin story.

Hip hop stayed relevant because it resisted that process. When white artists crossed the line, they got called out. Gatekeeping was not a bug. It was the immune system.

Kid Rock was the warning shot. He started in hip hop, then pivoted to country. He’s trash, but even he knew there were limits. He cosplayed. He didn’t try to erase the lineage.

The next wave will not be that restrained. Especially when the original line between country and blues was racial segregation pretending to be taste.

When rich white artists make country that sounds like hip hop, strip out the history, and call it innovation, that’s when hip hop actually dies.

Rock already went that way. We know how this ends.

These are the worst days of winter. I could hardly have WiFi today. We live without electricity without internet 😔💔. We are living in extreme cold and suffering. I can't light a fire because of the heavy rain. Please help me buy a gas cylinder to cook for my family.
Please donate 🙏 please share 🙏

@aral
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Wow.

“The authorities in Rhode Island were still searching for a gunman who killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University, after a man who had been detained was released, the mayor of Providence, R.I. announced at a news conference late Sunday night.”

nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/us…

Ein neuer Blogbeitrag wurde in unserer Galaxie veröffentlicht: '„Selbstverständlich ist eigentlich gar nichts, wenn man es genaunimmt!?“'
Link: lunaria-galaxie.de/blog/selbst…

#Forum #Community #Blog #Spiele #Radio

RE: mastodon.social/@jimbsr/115720…

Smartphone and Laptop Manufacturers Face Higher Prices

#tech

Toward The Mill - Canvas Print

justin-farrimond.pixels.com/fe…

The path leads forward into our past. A mill ahead, Hamlet's perhaps?

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #InteriorDesign #Heritage #Watermill #Sepia #Canvas #Print #Vintage

Video footage posted to social media shows a passerby dressed in a white T-shirt and dark pants crouching behind a parked car before sneaking up behind a gunman, grabbing him and wrestling away his firearm. The bystander then points the weapon at the gunman, who falls to the ground.

The intervention drew wide praise, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns called it the “most unbelievable scene.”

apnews.com/article/shooting-au…

#BondiBeach #press

Pour un Noël blanc

Quelques droits réservés Gérald Brosseau 2025-12-14
Canada, Québec, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Cette création est mise à disposition sous un contrat Creative Commons.
creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

#PhotoDuJour
#Photo
#Photographie
#Quebec
#CreativeCommons
#mft
#gimp
#rawtherapee
#SaintJeansurRichelieu
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La Photo Du Jour
(www.gb-photodujour.com)
Sur internet depuis 1998

Indonesia’s Tin Exports Surge as Supply Concerns Dissipate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/indonesia-s-tin-exports-surge-as-supply-concerns-dissipate?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

Indonesia’s Tin Exports Surge as Supply Concerns Dissipate

Indonesia’s exports of tin recovered in November, in a sign that concerns are easing over supply disruptions caused by the country’s crackdown on illegal mining.

^Bloomberg

Two found dead at home of Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/12/14/reiner-singer/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-WashPost

Today was a day for escaping to the country.

Here's a poppy field in Northern Tasmania.

#Tasmania #lutruwita #flowers #bloomscrolling

Israel Apologists Hasten To Use Bondi Shooting To Attack Anti-Genocide Activists

anarchistfederation.net/israel…

Château Secret is a stunning abandoned home in France. Inside are many beautiful rooms, including a library with vintage sewing machines.

#Photography #Urbex #UrbanExploration #AbandonedPlaces #Photographer

'A bright light': Brown University student identified as shooting victim by church

abcnews.go.com/US/bright-light…

#Brown #shooting #press

'A bright light': Brown University student identified as shooting victim by church

Ella Cook was one of two people killed in the campus shooting on Saturday.

^{Leah Sarnoff (ABC News)}

Judge pauses #Trump administration’s #noise restrictions against #Eugene protesters

opb.org/article/2025/12/14/jud…

A judge has temporarily blocked new noise restrictions against protests near the Eugene Federal Building, which has been the site of frequent anti-#ICE activism in recent months.

Judge pauses Trump administration’s noise restrictions against Eugene protesters

A judge has temporarily blocked new noise restrictions against protests near the Eugene Federal Building, which has been the site of frequent anti-ICE activism in recent months.

^{Nathan Wilk (OPB)}

Hong Kong - X5826, Extra 1959.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: Toni Frissell Photograph Collection
Date: Available upon request (no specific date mentioned)

Keywords: Toni Frissell, Sports Illustrated, Hong Kong, Photography

Description:
The Toni Frissell photograph collection includes black and white and color images taken by renowned photographer Toni Frissell for her work with Sports Illustrated. The collection spans 1959-1960 and features photographs of various subjects, including a sightseeing tour in Hong Kong.

Notable Biographies:

* Toni Frissell (1907-1995) was an American photographer known for her portraits of notable figures, including politicians and celebrities.
* Sports Illustrated is a leading sports and entertainment magazine founded in 1954 by Alex Salkin.

Locations mentioned:
Hong Kong
Other locations may not be explicitly mentioned in the provided text.

#HongKong-X5826 #ToniFrissell #SportsIllustrated #HongKong #American #AlexSalkin #ToniFrissells #hongkong #china #photography

loc.gov/pictures/item/20217178…

Another study showing the literally parts-per-million size of an LLM poison pill.

hackaday.com/2025/12/14/it-onl…

#llm #corruption

It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds

It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that…

^Hackaday

Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their L.A. home from apparent stab wounds nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-f…

#press

Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their L.A. home from apparent stab wounds

LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home Sunday, according to a source close to the Reiner family

^{Chloe Melas (NBC News)}

It really is devious how #tiktok is punishing creators who talk about Israel’s or ICE’s crimes.

They don’t just shadowban the videos, but when those people go live, they’ve #banned certain terms from the comments, and typing them is held as a #strike which goes against the creator!

And not just that, but the terms are only banned for certain users, so other people may type them just fine to elicit doubt on the matter.

Ex-#IDF leading the ’safety team’ so #hasbara to be expected I guess…

Hongkong: Verleger Jimmy Lai schuldig gesprochen

Der prodemokratische Verleger Lai ist von einem Gericht in Hongkong verurteilt worden. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, gegen das sogenannte Sicherheitsgesetz verstoßen zu haben. Das Strafmaß wird erst später verkündet.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/hongkong…

#Hongkong #Lai

Hongkong: Verleger Jimmy Lai schuldig gesprochen

^{tagesschau.de}

Wow.

“The authorities in Rhode Island were still searching for a gunman who killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University, after a man who had been detained was released, the mayor of Providence, R.I. announced at a news conference late Sunday night.”

nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/us…

This follows what I am seeing in tests. Far fewer injection vulnerabilities, far more aurh issues. The apps didn't change, the attackers got better.

stateofsecurity.com/identity-s…

#auth #vector

Identity Security Is Now the #1 Attack Vector — and Most Organizations Are Not Architected for It

Tweet How identity became the new perimeter In 2025, identity is no longer simply a control at the edge of your network — it is the perimeter.

^{MSI :: State of Security}