yo young medvedev was STYLIN

let's learn qazaq week 2: found a duolingo-alike for vocab quizzes if nothing else... but it only uses cyrillic if you have it set to russian, and the english uses the accursed 2018 alphabet also, dub quest is a failure: turns out netflix has _nothing_ and idk who else would

is it wrong that i cant help but read this and hear: ~authoritarianism rules~ ~client-patron relationships are a property of personalist regimes~ <sick guitar riff>

this seems... rather at odds with that whole "attachment is suffering" aspect of buddhism

following from my last post, this skeleton gif syncs up pretty good to some bits of SMZB's "gamecock" and that made me happy

google would like me to know that: > As a large language model, this is google search cannot have personal opinions or "like" music. but it did still find the song, so vov

once again using archivetoday to read shit i pay for, because it's like five fewer steps than clicking past the "subscribe to newsletter" popovers, clicking the tiny hidden login link, clicking through to get an actual password field, and resetting it because my password manager is ostensibly wrong

And the link to our 12 hours long Sinophone music Spotify playlist we played during the party: open.spotify.com/playlist/0XJ...

Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773

highlights from intervision: the chinese juror doling out its top votes to kazakhstan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan, and tajikistan (and belarus, as a treat) in the fine tradition of songcontestvision votes being _entirely_ divorced from geopolitical ambitions

wasn't really expecting sergei lavrov as an intervision contestant

"the kids these days arent fuckin no more" OH REALLY JUST LOOK AT THIS SICK FILTH

...who wore it better?

heck posting with real names, thats some zuck bullshit he wanted to enforce to sell ads, that it caught on as the norm is nonsense we need to take back the fine internet tradition of handles only. no more Bob Stevens, only xXx_WeedlordBonerGokuSSJ9_xXx from here on out

qazaq textbook tossing out "бұйымтайыңыз бар ма" in chapter 1 to, i assume, one-up russian textbooks using "здравствуйте" as a "lol you think you can say a simple phrase try again nerd" too many vowels aaaaaa

see also its cousin, the automatic subtitle feature that decides to go with "Russian (auto-generated)" for a qazaq podcast and then makes 80% of the automated subtitles "[ музыка ]" no youtube. no.

infosec professionals, why do your email code to login flows not default to passwords for someone who's only ever logged in with a password. why must i click through

MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.

several x-wing pilots in rogue squadron are canonically gay for each other

Hahahahaha Apple really showing off the heteronormative assumptions of its AI summary when my wife texts me that she wants to hang out and eat dinner

mulling over how it's somehow harder to find contemporary qazaq music than it was to find 2010s russian indie youtube's spread across channels and they link to inexplicably private instagrams and entirely disused vks how are you making me yearn for the era of sketchy "скачать <artist>" sites

Reporters from Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists, traveled to Vologda to investigate how locals are coping with a new dry law that imposes some of Russia's strictest limits on liquor sales. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

zoop, print ad (1995) archive.org/details/Comp...

my mom would play this shit for hours, and she hates all things computer. it can happen to anyone

Morning

golden opportunity here to start selling kymyz and take the intersection of the wine mom and raw milk markets by storm

This week, we greet Slavicist Daniil Leiderman with a conversation on gaming and Eastern Europe. How do games give players agency in crafting alternative histories in Soviet and post-Soviet landscapes? How do games shape our lives outside the magic circle? patreon.com/posts/video-games-of-137950125

BRUNSWICK WORLD: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS TIERTEX DESIGN STUDIOS 1997 SNEA

i've had this on my hard drive for literal years at this point, my time has come

wake me when we're back to kadyrov dead memes

I had to share this vacancy in Perm region:

TIL the CPSC has its own equivalent of the CDC smallpox stocks

The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.

missed opportunity to get in on the hot central asia specialist ad audience, it park uzbekistan get in there

realistic Star Trek

with my current user title im obligated to post this under "they said the name of the game!" rules arguably less fun that the nier automata route C intro credits

“This magazine uses Cookies.” “In Formation values your privacy… we can’t tell you anything about it, because we value our privacy more than yours.” “By turning this page, I agree to assign all of my assets and medical power of attorney to In Formation, Inc.” 😂

tv soundtrack wtf moments: gorecki's symphony of sorrowful songs for a sex scene or rather not so much that they used symphony of sorrowful songs for a sex scene, but that they used _the third movement_ who uses the third movement _for anything_

where's @willoremus.com when you need em, even if this is sorta orthogonal to the policy beat lol at choosing the particular example that fell over so hard it spurred the creation of specialist service dev teams and adoption of industry standard software dev practices, then leaving off that bit

popular response to AI chatbots is the purest demonstration that frieren is nonsense fantasy magic and elves are whatever, the bit that truly beggars belief is that humans would win a war against something that goes waaaaaah im suffering waaaaaah and then stabs you

goddamn do i hate forced email or SMS MFA, why have you done this USPS i have a TOTP app i know how to use it and the system in question lets you recover via email anyway, so concerns about account lockouts should be minimal

Last week, Justice Kavanaugh said he thought this law was likely unconstitutional but he just wasn't convinced the balance of harms and equities favored putting the law on hold while the case proceeded. Such a speech-protective court! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

man animal books for kids never touched on the good stuff oh sure, "cheetahs run real fast", "blue whales are really big", "spider silk is really strong", but wheres the COWS SHIT WITH THE FURY OF AN ANGRY SHIT GOD AND THEY DO IT CONSTANTLY

hello former child here i definitely went looking for harmful and dangerous pornographic content and it was awesome

FOX SPORTS COLLEGE HOOPS '99 Z-AXIS 1998 N64

we demand pics of cowboy shevardnadze

i like the google sheets counterpart asking "wouldn't you just love to use gemini to generate some data? wouldn't you? (our product manager's promo packet sure would)" ah, yes, i love spreadsheets so much, all i have ever wanted in life is a way to fill them with boundless lorem ipsum data

come for the unironic "Chief Female Officer", stay for the absolutely horrifying rap about using Salesforce

Thanks for coming, folks! Have a wonderful week! My work is done here. www.zillow.com/homedetails/... "But you didn't do anything--"

the biggest bombshell in this leaked schedule doc is that apparently the state department has decided that final devoicing only happens if you're lavrov. my autism cannot forgive this