I just watched that with my spouse and really enjoyed it!

It's definitely on my list, but it looks like I'll have to move it up in priority!

4-panel comic of a guy going through his day and constantly thinking of the theme song to the Moon Child demo for the Commodore Amiga ( edit of a comic by sakoasko at https://www.instagram.com/p/BPWWn5Ng67Q/ )

Also I saw this in the comments:

The environment in the game does kind of look like copper

The keycaps are also extras from the set I'm using for my main keyboard, which had pink/green options for ESC and a few others.

A black plastic block with 4 mechanical keyboard switches/keycaps. The keycaps are XDA profile, with a green esc key and gray ctrl, alt, and func keys. One keycap is removed to show the black/gold switch. There are 4 translucent blue/white switches and a strap with a clip in the background.

I'd been thinking it would be nice to have a decent fidget, and I found this little mechanical keyboard strip that should be very nice.

It came with Kailh Arctic Fox clicky switches (which I wanted to try), but I'm also giving it a go with U4Ts — it's easy to switch them out.

Overall I think I've become less stuck-up and more open to polystylism/pop music, although I do still have a general preference for things that could be described as “weird”

At the end of undergrad, I thought of myself as a capital-M “modernist” and really liked Varese and Webern

For my doctoral dissertation, I wrote about 21st century composers using audio equipment as instruments, and wrote a composition that used shortwave radio samples, feedback, and Yamaha DX7

How Celebrity Smear Campaigns are Inspiring Attacks on Birth Control Conservative billionaires are weaponizing pop culture news to draw in a new generation of young women

“The goal is to flood the zone with so much anti-birth control content that young women believe we’re encountering this content organically… what we’re experiencing is a coordinated effort by right-wing actors… manufacturing our consent to ban birth control”

jessica.substack.com/p/how-celebr...

I don't have a single favorite species, although that's not for lack of interest — they're all cool, and it's hard to choose just one. I have always particularly liked dromaeosaurids though.

…brachiosaurus, diplodocus, pachycephalosaurus, micropachycephalosaurus, maiasaurua, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, ankylosaurus.

I double-checked to confirm I hadn't included any non-dinosaurs (e.g., pterodactylus, dimetrodon), but other than that this was from memory. A fun challenge!

As a former dinosaur kid, I take this as a challenge:

Tyrannosaurus, allosaurus, iguanodon, triceratops, protoceratops, pachyrhinosaurus, stegosaurus, spinosaurus, velociraptor, deinonychus, utahraptor, eoraptor, coelophysis, herrerasaurus, oviraptor, ornithomimus, apatosaurus…

Plogue | sforzando :: Free SFZ Player sforzando is a free, highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample player.

The samples are in the .sfz format, and you can play them with the sforzando player (www.plogue.com/products/sfo...) or the FOSS sfizz player (sfz.tools/sfizz/)

There's a list of .sfz instruments (free and paid) here: sfzinstruments.github.io

I've mostly been happy with Dorico, but the stock instrument sounds really feel like a downgrade from even the included Garritan sounds from Finale. So far I've just used the oboe/clarinet solo, but I'm liking this free library better than Dorico's stock sounds: versilian-studios.com/vsco-communi...

for sale: data center, never used

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules The DOJ settled, but more than 30 states kept litigating against Ticketmaster anyway.

Break them up! Break them up!

www.theverge.com/policy/91268...

I just noticed xkcd.com now has a mode selector below the comic

There's both “grayscale mode” and “greyscale mode,” and as far as I can tell, the only difference is that the latter changes “math” to “maths”

I once saw the display name “claps on the e and π”

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

The pizza place usually has on a 90s station, the station regularly plays “Plowed” by Sponge, and every time I swear I hear

“in a world of human regex”

I was watching a solo performance of David Lang's “Anvil Chorus” at a new music event, and the percussionist's mallets kept breaking.

He was very professional, grabbed another, and kept playing, but after the third broken mallet, he kind of shook his head, shrugged, and walked offstage.

The editors of Wired (@wired.com) appear determined to turn an article about GrapheneOS into a hit piece. Wired contacted James Donaldson, CEO of Copperhead, and appears to be treating his thoroughly debunked fabrications about the history of the project as their primary source. This is outrageous.

GrapheneOS is a privacy project which is intended to be usable by everyone. Usability and app compatibility are top priorities. Our userbase largely isn't highly technical. It's very easy to install and use. Devices can be purchased around the world with GrapheneOS preinstalled.

Update: someone on Mastodon mentioned that Option + space will type a non-breaking space, so it looks like my finger is just staying on Option a bit too long.

A narrow terminal window with the following text: “At least half of the time when I type an em-dash followed by a space — which macOS allows via Alt-Shift-- — I get a non-breaking space, indicated by the bracket character.” There is a horizontal square bracket character in the space following the em-dashes.

Weird macOS keyboard behavior: it *sometimes* inserts a non-breaking space instead of a standard one when I type a space after an em-dash.

I noticed because I have Neovim set to mark different kinds of whitespace characters (gray square brackets below)

Any ideas why/how to change this?

bsky.app/profile/meme...

I was just about to come in and say “I write sins not hagiographies” before I saw your post lol

Youth pastor cover of Charli XCX's “360,” but it's called “316” and it's about John 3:16

I saw that! So cool

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