BINI fans (called Blooms) commenting that the girl group's new all-English EP is not getting as much attention as their Tagalog language songs like "Pantropiko" and "Salamin, Salamin." They believe the decision of BINI's management to produce English songs to cater to an international audience was the wrong move.

#DOGE can't explain why it wants sensitive government data : NPR

Fewer than 50 people have access to #SocialSecurity Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information.

But only one also has access to the government's human resources and student loan files.
#ssa #ss #opm #privacy #security #ssn #hr #Musk #Trump

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339842/doge-data-access-privacy-act-social-security-treasury-opm-lawsuit

Let's have a teaser look at the one-year anniversary edition of Other People's Music! As always, this thread is a quick look at just the top line of each review in this week's music discovery post. Don't want to wait? Jump right in to the whole thing!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/04/04/opm-first-anniversary-edition/

Filipino girl group BINI is going on tour in North America in the next 2 months, notably Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Before that, they will be in Dubai (May 18) and London (May 25).

My favorites BINI and Cup of Joe are twinning on the Spotify PH charts.

Girl group BINI is reshaping the sound and soul of the Filipino music industry. Their message is clear: success tastes even sweeter when it's shared, earned, and true to who you are.

And what this says is, "The future of OPM (Original Pilipino Music) is fierce and female."

#Philippines #Asian #OPM #Music #BINI #Women #Ppop #TootSEA

https://billboardphilippines.com/events/the-executive-edition/from-rising-stars-to-role-models-bini-on-finding-empowerment-and-shaping-what-it-means-to-be-a-modern-filipina/

WTF

#Musk's #DOGE team can access government #data for now, appeals court rules

A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by #Trump & led by #ElonMusk from seizing sensitive data from the #Treasury Department, #Education Department & Office of Personnel Management [#OPM].

#law #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Privacy #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musks-doge-team-can-access-government-data-now-appeals-court-rules-2025-04-07/

The Filipino band Cup of Joe has 8 songs in the Spotify PH chart including "Multo" at #2.

"NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 11 on behalf of two labor unions and individual current and former government workers across the country. This decision is a victory: The court agreed that the claims that OPM illegally disclosed highly personal records of millions of people to DOGE agents can move forward with the goal of stopping that ongoing disclosure and requiring that any shared information be returned.

Cote ruled current and former federal employees "may pursue their request for injunctive relief under the APA [Administrative Procedure Act]. ... The defendants’ Kafkaesque argument to the contrary would deprive the plaintiffs of any recourse under the law."

"The complaint plausibly alleges that actions by OPM were not representative of its ordinary day-to-day operations but were, in sharp contrast to its normal procedures, illegal, rushed, and dangerous,” the judge wrote."

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk

A federal Judge Denise Cote in NY rejected the #Trump admin’s effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging #DOGE directed a massive breach of #OPM data affecting millions of people.

#law #InfoSec #NationalSecurity
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf

Der #Gefährder und #Terrorist #Trump zündet die #Weltwirtschaftskrise: "Die #Börsenkurse brechen ein". Auch 'ne Methode, #Erbschaften zu verbrennen.
Nur daß der verantwortungslose Narr zum Schluß wieder die Schwächsten trifft, während seine Kumpels billig Firmen kaufen.

No April Foolishness from me, just some new music to be discovered. This installment of Other People's Music brings you selections of jazz, experimental electronics, Berlin School and more! Read and listen here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/03/28/opm-from-jazz-to-plunderphonics/

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@jazzmusic

#music #MusicDiscovery #OPM #OtherPeople'sMusic #jazz #ExperimentalMusic #BerlinSchool

#OPM, the agency leading #Musk's firing spree, froze Federal hiring, but to hired a driver to ferry around its leaders.

The federal HR agency leading efforts by billionaire WH *adviser* #ElonMusk to slash the federal workforce has decided to hire its first new career employee since #Trump took office, acc/to emails seen by Reuters.

#ForTheeButNotForMe #USpol #corruption #hypocrisy #kleptocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agency-leading-musks-firing-spree-hire-new-driver-emails-show-2025-03-31/

Listening to this song again made me cry. IDK why.

3 of the BINI girls Aiah, Maloi and Sheena sang a cover of Cindy Lauper's "True Colors."

#Philippines #Asian #BINI #Music #OPM #CindyLauper #SongCover #Maloi #PlayListSEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQXR7Wpduws

March's final Other People's Music is here! This week offers jazz noir, updated kosmische, experimental electronic weirdness, a chip metal tune about a mole, and a Plunderphonic wonderland. Read and listen here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/03/28/opm-from-jazz-to-plunderphonics/

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@jazzmusic