From “Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language”

Here is a wonderful write up of the sheer power of the list comprehension special form in #Elixir www.mitchellhanberg.com/the-comprehe...

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Hearing disturbing rumors that some of these protestors on the picket line are professional actors

Wait. Why is the favicon for Bluesky the American Broadcasting Company logo?

Boy, the web experience for BlueSky needs work on mobile. After scrolling a while, it gets super jittery. Please don’t tell me about the app.

Let’s see if I understand this correctly: both Stack Overflow and Reddit are blaming “LLMs are being trained on our precious content!!!” for their sudden insular postures regarding access to content that isn’t really theirs anyway. The Bullshit Machine is eating itself.

Macroeconomics: A rising tide floats all boats Microeconomics: A hole below the waterline tends to stay below the waterline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/americans-have-never-been-so-unwilling-to-relocate-for-a-new-job Huh. I guess Americans are reading all those Bloomberg articles about layoffs.

Go home, Bing. You're high.

When you're asked to ELI5 and you use words like "context" you're not quite there. 5-year-olds don't know a lot of words with 'x' in them.

Well, shit. I guess it’s time to put the AQI complication back on my watch.

“It is time to return to the office.” “Cool cool cool. Did you get the bidets like we talked about, or do we still have to use the sink?”

It’s 8am on a Monday, on a day that’s going to get into the 80s and I’m already wearing a wetsuit. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I dreamt that I was in college, taking a course on early history of the British Isles, but I only attended lectures, and didn’t do any reading. My final paper was regarding Linda’s Farm, for which I got a big, fat F.

Social media sure has a case of the McLuhan Flu right now. There’s far more handwringing about the nature and future of the platform than there is fat-chewing about everyday human business.