Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...

A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...

This could be a transcript of a conversation I had with my mother this week. Could not agree more.

Trump Won by Turning Out Voters and Building a Diverse Coalition, Report Finds

The other article tells what I think is a more useful story

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

One thing I've been hearing for months that the article does validate: lots of the electorate loathes the establishment.

If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost

I feel like Cohn's article answers the wrong question. 100% turnout is not possible. If GOTV efforts went up, what do the next cohorts of voters looked like? What's the marginal value of spend? Or more charismatic candidates? We don't have the right data.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.

GitHub - dangermike/associative_entity_redux: A little test to show performance differences between indexing strategies in MySQL and PostgreSQL A little test to show performance differences between indexing strategies in MySQL and PostgreSQL - dangermike/associative_entity_redux

For those who don't want to read on Medium, I've also got a version of this up on Github with code.

github.com/dangermike/a...

Secondary indices on associative entities in PostgreSQL vs. MySQL TL;DR: When modeling many-to-many relationships in MySQL, the secondary index on the associative entity should only contain the second…

I went a little old-school for this article. OK, really old school. #mysql #postgresql #hidingfrompoliticswithcode #shamelessselfpromotion

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If you are concerned about the “who’s going to enforce?” question when it comes to the courts smacking Trump and Musk down, please read this.

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My deeply-beloved father-in-law died just a few months ago. My mother-in-law, his grieving widow, loves the pole-dancing skeleton her neighbors put up.