The new episode of Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night has a can of offbrand/WcDonalds Dr. Pepper with the logo saying "Dr. Sugar" and I was distracted from the very serious things happening by how cute this can of fake soda was
@futurebird one way to look at it, i do a lot of computational art and in the genart community we LOVE our bugs. like we domesticate our bugs and keep them around as new features
(…on an unrelated note there is also a very interesting cellular automata adjacent algorithm named Langton's Ant. So I personally refer to all single-cell agent algorithms as "ants" but I can't seem to get this to catch on.)
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
What I'm listening to today: "4 (part 1)", MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky)
This is a FastTracker2 (DOS) song from 1996, one of a few dozen untitled tracks this artist composed around that time. Starts with bitcrushed ambiance and then rises into epic dance beats. I feel like this track crystalizes the moment in which it was created in an amazing way. Makes me think of dark screens with glowing text and spaceships rising in low earth orbit and other things that existed in 1996.
My memory's not so good so I deal with this by making lots of lists. My to-do- list for this week has a line that simply says "f". I have no idea what this was. It's most likely that it was such a short-time task I was certain by the time I looked at the list next the lone letter "f" would jog my memory into whatever it was I was trying to remember but, I guess it's also possible I just literally accidentally typed an "f" when I thought some other window had focus and it means nothing at all
@ratsnakegames as far as I'm aware modern Java improved a TON of stuff and that's very academically interesting but if you actually USE Java now Oracle will just sue you so what's it help?
Adobe did the thing companies that host and sync data keep doing: they updated their terms in what is a reasonable way without a) giving advance warning and a thorough explanation and b) realizing that the legal niceties sound horrifying to an average person. Adobe can’t legally safely host your content without a license. This updates mostly adds compliance issues that are govt focused—and should be examined. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use
@glennf A bad power granted for a reasonable reason can be used for a bad reason later. I don't see anything convincing in this post that they're even granting for reasonable reasons. I do not feel convinced reading this that if I used Photoshop I would have control over when Adobe uploads my data off the computer. And none of this helps with the widespread alarm that Adobe may unilaterally push new tos terms on users overnight and they cannot decline, not even to uninstall the program.