Sooo… more Jimi Hendrix, less Sousa Marching Band, eh? What about stuff like Kraftwerk? Their stuff is intentionally ‘robotic’ so I’m wondering if you find it either boring or disagreeable – or if instead it becomes pleasing for achieving its goal. I am in the last camp for that, but I have to be in the mood.
Regardless, I think most musicians intuitively know audiences prefer variation (or just have that preference themselves). I mean, for decades now drum machines/software has had a “human drummer” option to make beats come in slightly off-beat (but don’t tell that to the characters in “Whiplash”).
Excerpts below. Article states that it is. “Adapted from Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau” Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/5bsWU...
If you are looking for more info, I see that 404 media has a podcast with the book author, Byron Tau (I’ve not yet listened): www.404media.co/interview/
Dang, that’s not one of the races I follow. Well honestly, I hardly follow dog races these days and now pay more attention to political races, but here’s some of the ones I used to care about:
For those who expect RTO == “Recovery time objective” (for data backups)… and who then wondered if this was going to be about Required Time Off – because it couldn’t make people unhappy if it was Requested Time Off, no, it is none of those. It’s yet more junk jargon:
First the crazy: Alabama has been calling embryos and fetuses ‘people’ for a long time. The latest ruling says that even frozen embryos are ‘people’. This ruling says:...
Ooooh. I didn’t consider if frozen kids are considered ‘alive’. If they are frozen for 4 years, and you pay to keep them frozen for that time, does that mean you’d only have to worry about 14 more years of child support?
Wait: didn’t the price of labor drop when the majority of women stopped staying home and started full time employment? As I understand it, decreasing the workforce raises wages, which should keep factories from moving in.
Further, if you’re going to put restrictions on me when I am or MIGHT be pregnant, I’ve got a massive incentive to get sterilized before I have to worry about that.
When trying to bring this sort of thing up with a mixed group of people, I use the term “Republican low-wage policies” to describe a whole set of policies, and now I’m going to have to add forced-births to the list. Decades ago, it was just an insistence on denying citizenship to migrant farm workers to suppress wages, then add to that ‘no child left behind’ making it harder to teach more to students that could achieve more, then the whole home-school/charter-school movement where funds that used to go to public schools getting split and diluted, and so on.
And yes, I can see how it’d be hard to get sterilized without the health care and career to provide and pay for it.
I’m thinking the ruling HAS to lead to conversations and demands to change the law. Yes, there’s a religious right that wants women barefoot and pregnant, but this ruling is going to prevent rich white religious women from getting pregnant. They’re going to complain.
Tonight’s “Alex Wagner” show on MSNBC had guest Michelle Goldberg hypothesizing that even ultra-conservative Alabama politicians are probably going to back off this ruling. She supposed they might decide embryos don’t count as a people unless they are attached to a uterus in a particular way … but the rich white religious wives might still have a problem with that limit when such embryos spontaneously fail later on in the pregnancy and everyone is back to being a murderer. Of course, those women are unlikely to realize how likely that is until it happens to each one of them individually (if it happens to someone else, that other person is obviously a ‘bad’ person or it would not have happened – so the only one who can be ‘good’ and still miscarry is oneself).
I prefer more casual games, but I do like Slay the Spire. I don’t think I’ve tried to get past A4. I got bored with it a while back and downloaded expansions. I LOVE Downfall and kinda like PackMaster, too. If I am feeling lazy, I will do a custom run and pick my starting cards, and choose ‘slow’ and ‘big game hunter’ options as well. It makes me overpowered, but – again – is enjoyably casual for a change.
A relative wants to buy a wheelchair and I can tell there a lot to consider, but I’m having a hard time finding useful reviews of any model’s actual usability, so I thought it’d be nice to get a discussion going on which chairs people loved, hated, or would otherwise like to rate. Is there something that is really great or...
For English writing, this is wrong. I don’t know enough about Japanese tenses to know how it worked in the original (before translation). Per the comment by apis, it may offer immediacy, but it made me cringe while reading. Caveat: my mother was an English teacher and would never let me submit anything in this state. She would tell you to rewrite and if a sentence isn’t working, it is better to find another way to say it than keep struggling. Here, though, I would think it easier and less jarring to simply keep the past tense, like so :
It looked as though he meant to ride up. He didn’t seem to be fooling around. He was quite a bit older than the other child-demons. Maybe a junior high student.
For the next line, you could go one of several ways:
If he couldn’t tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must have been something seriously wrong with him.
Or (less authentic?):
I thought, “If he can’t tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must be something seriously wrong with him.”
Or (possibly clunky):
I thought that if he couldn’t tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must be something seriously wrong with him.
President Joe Biden came out with a fiery defense against Special Counsel Robert Hur's report that questioned his mental acuity and suggested his memory could be "hazy."
But even as President Biden tried to downplay concerns about his mental acuity, he had yet another misstep: Referring to the President of Egypt as the President of Mexico.
“I think that, as you know, initially, the President of Mexico, el-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in,” he said, referring to the border between Egypt and Gaza.
I cringed when I heard him say that, but it is exactly the sort of slip of the tongue I make all the time: I know exactly what I mean, but the wrong word comes out of my mouth. This week, I was talking about oxygen and alveoli but said areolae. No, no, stupid brain. Lungs, not breasts.
Anyway, from context, he obviously meant Egypt when he said Mexico because he was referencing the Hamas/Israeli war and was referring to the border with Israel and opening it up. It isn’t in the linked article, but Biden continued as follows:
I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate. I talked to Bibi to open the gate on the Israeli side. I’ve been pushing really hard, really hard, to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza. There are a lot of innocent people who are starving. There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying. And it’s got to stop.
So I don’t doubt that Biden meant Egypt, but it was unfortunate timing that he’d say the wrong country in a conference questioning his memory.
I don’t see how they can cry, “States’ Rights!” all this time and now try to say states DON’T have the right to set their ballots. They do. They keep various 3rd party candidates off ballots all the time for stuff like not having enough signatures to get them ON the ballot.
I heard Trump’s lawyer argue that requiring candidates not-be-insurrectionists was adding a requirement not in the Constitution – except it IS in the Constitution and even though 2/3 of Congress could give a pardon/waiver on that, the fact that they MIGHT do so in the future does not disqualify Trump in the now, which the Colorado lawyer brought up. Later, TV commentators brought up that after the Civil War, a bunch of guys DID preemptively ask Congress for waivers. If Trump got that through now, it sounds like Colorado would have to put him on the ballot.
The Supreme Court decided Bush V. Gore on just the state of Florida. It sounds like they are now deciding Trump V. [Constitution] and trying to blame it on Colorado. Sadly, they seem to want the Constitution to lose. My last hope is that they don’t make this about letting ‘one state decide the president’ because that already happens just based on who each state allows to vote. I’m hoping their decision stems from something actually in the Constitution.
A relative has late-ish stage pulmonary fibrosis, needs oxygen in bed, and can’t walk around even with oxygen. He’s getting kicked out of the hospital because they can’t improve him, but he might live another year or two and doesn’t want to pay for hospice. I can’t imagine his wife dealing with all his needs (they’re...
I’m sorry for your loss. That is quite a cautionary tale.
Please don’t blame yourself for the Nursing home issues. They are supposed to be care givers and they failed both you and your dad. Be angry at them – not at yourself. It sounds like you did the right thing in moving him. You DID look out for him. You DID care care work to make things better.
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Supreme Court stalls Trump’s federal election trial while weighing his immunity bid (www.politico.com)
politico archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/PS7WH...
Myrmecology (mander.xyz)
Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds (phys.org)
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin (www.wired.com)
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Lack of snow cancels longest sled dog race in eastern United States (apnews.com)
Organizers of the longest sled dog race in the eastern United States say they are canceling the event due to a lack of snow on the ground.
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)
here’s the pre-print
Is there any up-side to Alabama's crazy embryo ruling (which hit the logical conclusion to their arguments)
First the crazy: Alabama has been calling embryos and fetuses ‘people’ for a long time. The latest ruling says that even frozen embryos are ‘people’. This ruling says:...
‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court” (deadline.com)
Let's discuss: Slay the Spire
I wanted to try a new type of post: just taking a particular videogame and see if there are others who would like to talk about it....
Wheelchairs: Which have you tried? Which are the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
A relative wants to buy a wheelchair and I can tell there a lot to consider, but I’m having a hard time finding useful reviews of any model’s actual usability, so I thought it’d be nice to get a discussion going on which chairs people loved, hated, or would otherwise like to rate. Is there something that is really great or...
Question about mixing tenses (feddit.de)
So, I’m currentlich reading Kobo Abe’s “Kangaroo Notebook” and I’m a bit confused about his use of tense shifts....
President Biden reacts to special counsel's comments about his memory (abcnews.go.com)
President Joe Biden came out with a fiery defense against Special Counsel Robert Hur's report that questioned his mental acuity and suggested his memory could be "hazy."
Livestream audio of Supreme Court arguments over Trump's removal from Colorado ballot (www.msnbc.com)
Seeking advice: know anything about U.S. end-of-life care/financial programs?
A relative has late-ish stage pulmonary fibrosis, needs oxygen in bed, and can’t walk around even with oxygen. He’s getting kicked out of the hospital because they can’t improve him, but he might live another year or two and doesn’t want to pay for hospice. I can’t imagine his wife dealing with all his needs (they’re...
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