@davidbures there are lonelier paths to tread. this here idiot is trying to write a modern-looking/behaving desktop app in Swing in 2024.
today I found a bug. I mean, there's a lot wrong; i mean, even in Java terms it's the API that time forgot (older than concurrency, generics, enums, even older than Collections) and there's a lot missing, but after all this time actual bugs are few and far between. but I found one. and i rate my chances of getting a fix... low.
It's from the film "Sun Valley Serenade", released in August 1941 (~ 4 months before Pearl Harbor, to frame it into a timeline) but, since I've never seen it, for me it would be a new film 😄
Someone here was giving examples of cultural appropriation and like half of it was #Jewish#Swing musicians. Denying the influence of #klezmer on #Jazz is almost as bad as denying the influence of #blues and #ragtime... But I guess that that would be considered an embarrassment, like a problematic fave from an author's youth, or an ill-considered early collaboration...
They'll edit us out of #American cultural history just like they did from Poland to Iraq. Nu... Nothing is new under the sun.
Today in Labor History December 18, 1830: The "Swing Rioters" went on trial on this date. The rioters were agricultural laborers who fought for a minimum wage during the early decades of the 19th century. During this time, England shifted from self-sufficient, open fields to farms rented by tenant farmers. Technology, including the increasing use of threshers, and a surplus of labor, drove down wages. Farm workers in the "swing" counties of the south and east of England responded by destroying farm machinery. Hundreds were arrested, jailed and executed.
A year ago I started a little personal #Fedi project to every week share #newRelease music + a variety of other tracks from all sorts of eras & genres too.
I called it #BearTracks for my own humour & just to sort of see what I was doing.
It's over 500 tracks now. Lots of good music, quite a bit you might not have heard.