@anildash@me.dmIt was clear fairly immediately that the political goal of the attacks on September 11th was to undermine the American empire. It would seem that we could put up a banner saying “Mission Accomplished”. https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/11/24-is-after-the-fall/
@axbom@axbom.meThe people behind #ChatControl claim that they are not breaking end-to-end encryption. At the same time, private messages on services with end-to-end encryption will be intercepted to uncover crimes.
This means that we have to seriously start talking about the thought experiment Schrödinger's chat. We can safely continue to use chat services that offer secure communication as long as…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukGlad to see this. I’ve never played Super Mario Galaxy 2. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/09/super-mario-galaxy-1-and-2-bundle-confirmed-for-switch-launching-october
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Freedom of speech is skeptical power: it is always a challenge. And it affirms truth: it is always a search. Without skepticism of power and affirmation of truth, we will not have freedom of speech. The me speakers push us to embrace their power and treat everything they say as truth. They will call this “free speech.”
https://
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialYes, please.
https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know/
@exil_inselette@norden.socialMeine Freundin, die wegen #MECFS bettlägrig ist, hat mir zwei Hinweise geschickt.
Für Medizinmenschen ein Fachbuch: https://www.hogrefe.com/de/shop/das-handbuch-me-cfs-99570.html
@hynek@mastodon.socialTo make the solution to my Git problem searchable, I’ve dusted off the TIL section of my homepage:
TIL: How to Push and Pull from GitHub Pull Request Branches
https://hynek.me/til/github-pull-request-git-push-pull/
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caRelative timestamps are dumb. This is a particularly dumb example, but there's literally no way to improve it while keeping it a relative timestamp.
@compfu@mograph.socialThis post made me think about another post in my timeline. It mentioned the "liberation of Germany from the Nazi regime" 80 years ago. This is how it's usually worded in 🇩🇪 up to this day but that phrasing sucks. It makes it sound like Germans were poor oppressed people and who just needed a bit of outside help to topple their government. Words matter though. Germans weren't being liberated. Germany was getting defeated (fortunately).
@vform@openbiblio.socialAbpflastern – von Grau zu Grün: Gemeinsam entsiegeln wir unsere Stadt! (Hamburg)
https://abpflastern.beteilige.me
"Zusätzlich könnt ihr öffentliche Flächen vorschlagen. Dann wird geprüft, ob dort entsiegelt werden kann (Verkehrssicherheit, Untergrund, vorhandene Ressourcen etc.). &…
@servelan@newsie.socialFree Speech and Me Speech - by Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/free-speech-and-me-speech
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSteelers' Mike Tomlin takes shot at Browns for Joe Flacco trade: 'Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialMe, 1.5 hours ago: “Ok, it’s gonna be hot but screw it, let’s fix the privacy screen/window & door lock in the OTHER car door this afternoon”
Me, 1.4 hours ago: “where the fuck is the part for the screen motor??”
Me, now: “godsdammit”
(still haven’t found it)
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgNot that this is getting this proposal written. If you see me on here the rest of the day, tell me to go and write....
@grumpybozo@toad.socialHad a major customer infra migration today, went perfectly fine until it didn't, right when boss/network guy was boarding a plane.
He spent most of his DC-Miami trip texting w/me getting me to look at everything except his firewalls. He even made me go digging into a Win22 IIS and on-host firewall config, which is an absolute fucking nightmare.
Guess where the problem was...
#Sysadminnery
@light@noc.social
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMe: Hey, we could ride those bikes!
Partner: They’re locked up.
Me: Are they, though?
(That was last night. There were two bikes there. Note that we are on an island, there’s only so far a thief would get. There are tons of unlocked bikes around. I’m sure the owner just went for a ride. Still a funny photo though!)
#bikeTooter
@davej@dice.campAs we return to bed from our 0330 bathroom breaks:
WIFE: I don’t care who he was, he didn’t deserve to be shot.
ME: I refuse to mourn anyone whose life’s work was to incite people to murder me or my loved ones.
WIFE: What about innocent bystanders? If the shooter had used a bomb? Imagine you were working an event, and—
ME: Are we seriously having the Death Star conversation from “Clerks”?
WIFE: Go back to sleep, dear.
@Nael@pachyder.me@… mais un truc Š peu prêt sûr : sans clients ni patrons.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStudies suggest AI chatbots' sycophantic design may increase narcissism among young and vulnerable users, potentially altering personality traits at scale (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/ai-will-create-a-social-crisis-long
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis is probably a ridiculous question, but do any people follow me here who know anything about nuclear weapons cybersecurity?
If so, please contact me at Cynthia.507 via Signal.
@cdarwin@c.imRIP Tony Fitzpatrick.
Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it.
A truly singular Chicago artist.
https://bsky.app/profile/dansinker.com/post/3m2x3m2vl6v2o
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI know no one really wants to know or do this, but it’s been bugging me a lot…. Could someone give me a proper pronunciation for Ghislaine? (As in the convicted child trafficker). I have heard it a million different ways and nothing sticks.
I simultaneously don’t want to give her the respect of knowing how to pronounce her name, but I can only mispronounce it out of disrespect if I know how it is supposed to sound in the first place. 🤦♂️ 😤 😬
So ya, if someone is willing….
@shriramk@mastodon.socialTurkish Airlines: please install the "Companion Entertainment" app.
Me: searches for it.
Me: quietly closes the lid and backs away. My lord, Turkish, did you even think about what that term might mean?
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- Statistical inference of random graphs with a surrogate likelihood function
Dingbo Wu, Fangzheng Xie
…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Perila:
🎵 Over Me
#Perila
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/over-me
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaYa me he podido ver el vídeo de @… sobre el parque temštico "Puturrú de Fuš". Ya me habían contado algunas de las terjiversaciones que hacen de la historia y la propaganda ultracatólica que hay de fondo. Vamos, que no pensaba ir ni aunque me pagaran... y ahora ha subido varios órdenes de magnitud lo que…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI'm really looking forward to seeing this: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/anchor-me-don-mcglashan-story-2025
@Migurski@mastodon.socialAerial view of London, by Red Via https://mastodon.me.uk/@WaterWatchman/114319526233487694
https://mi…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThis weekend is the 7 year anniversary of The Beths - "Future Me Hates Me" (official music video)
#music
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs anybody else very sensitive to acidic flavors?
Like, most hot sauces just taste like slightly vinegar with a side of burn to me (and thus aren't particularly pleasant to eat), i can't taste the pepper at all.
Every store bought Asian sauce in a jar (and some frozen ones) tastes predominantly of vinegar to me. I've found exactly one frozen orange shrimp sauce that actually tastes sweet and orangey like restaurant sauce does, rather than just like acid. I assume this…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.iothis kind of conversation plays out way too often:
Them: “I’m feeling hopeless and like the world is just getting worse”
Me: “You know, there might be a way to help things get better, have you tried A or B?”
Them: “WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT EVERYTHING SUCKS THERE IS NO PATH TO FIXING THIS”
Me: 👁️👄👁️ okay then…..
(Admittedly sometimes I’m playing the role of “them” in this dynamic)
@anildash@me.dm@… okay, what about *second* worst U2 album? :)
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNot quite an exact match but hey at least it's local to me.
//pine.inch.nails is less than an hour down the M6 from me, in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
#W3WBands
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt very much bothers me that #smartd didn't email me about this. The only reason I noticed it is because 'snapraid smart' output says that the chance of the drive failing in the next year is 99%. #SelfHosting
![Sep 02 08:39:53 e7240 smartd[1651]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct changed from 100 to 99](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/198/885/588/190/034/original/f511bfc4289a2f27.png)
@muz4now@mastodon.world“If I were to strum a full barre-chord voicing for each chord, it would feel too ‘chunky.’ Instead, I do what Nile advised me to do”: Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers
https://www.
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThis guy made a Synthetic Aperture Radar (i.e. a radar that gives you camera-like pictures) mounted on a drone. Scroll to the bottom for actual sample pictures and a movie. Lots of tech detail and open-source designs and software.
https://hforsten.com/synthetic-apertur
@frankel@mastodon.topI Asked #AI to Build an App. It Made a Database Roasting Bot. We're All Doomed.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-asked-ai-build-app-m…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bill Withers:
🎵 Use me
#NowPlaying #BillWithers
https://whoissubculture.bandcamp.com/track/bill-withers-use-me-subculture-tribute-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gRA0i5sxx3jAhHaVjPnUN
@axbom@axbom.meThe audacity of expecting others to spend their valuable time with content you put out there but never spent any real time thinking on.
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeI kinda hate marketing . . . but I enjoy supporting talented artists. I worked with two artists to get some promotional art for .Liar, Cheater, Sinner, Saint.' Here's the art from @gargoyle.pastures that inspired me to throw away the cover I had already bought and use one of these panels instead. Links to the full panels are up at https://www.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSome kid on the pier is telling his parents how one time he saw an adder that big.
Me: wondering if it indeed was an adder or a grass snake (two snakes common in PL).
Me a minute ago: almost stomping a grass snake that big.
@sean@scoat.esMe on Wednesday (pasted verbatim):
“low maintenance on the 4xe Jeep, too, but I do expect their servers to require me to do some stupid update and brick it at some point because they're terrible.”
Stellantis on Friday: pushed update that bricked probably thousands of Wranglers.
Fortunately, mine seems fine so maybe I was safe from the update in Canada. Or mine was late so didn’t get it before they cancelled.
Friday of a long weekend. They don’t have a rollback pla…
@cheryanne@aus.socialTalk Money To Me
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@mela@zusammenkunft.netScenes from the wannabe-VA-HQ:
Me: "Hey, I only now realized you've added a custom emoji to our server."
Husband: "I did?"
Me: "Yeah, look here "
*A moment later*
Husband: *mumbles* "But I can't find it."
Me: "Show me."
*Is shown a list of emojis sans the custom emoji*
Me: "You are on Mastodon, I'm on Discord."
@jae@mastodon.me.ukMy bank account at work last night told me to retry my trans. What's the proper way to restart a #trans person?
@bici@mastodon.social"What’s saucy, spicy and Calabrese in origin? No, it’s not me but rather one of my favorite pasta dishes, Spaghetti alla Corte d’Assise. A simple yet satisfying primo that to me epitomizes southern Italian cuisine. It is a recognized staple of the Ionio region, where it is said to have originated."
buono buono
@gpummer@t.testitfor.meDarf man zum Mediamarkt nun Asialaden sagen?
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caI've now — finally — watched the Naked Gun trilogy for the first time. (I know, I know, I'm going to have to turn in my "Close Personal Friend of [Weird] Al" card.) Fits the well-established 2,1,3 pattern, and I'm into it enough that I've started on Police Squad.
@anildash@me.dmIn honor of today's news that AOL will soon be ending dial-up service, here's the 1996 collaboration between Prince and Kate Bush, which begins & ends with a tribute to the AOL sign-on experience, based on Prince's mid-90s habit of dropping in on fans in our weekly AOL chats: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@axbom@axbom.me @Nael@pachyder.me@…
Pas vraiment un métier, j’alternerais probablement entre glandouille, créations de trucs divers et variés plus ou moins inutiles , découvertes/apprentissages de nouvelles choses, bref des loisirs plus ou moins creatifs, je pense.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI set up a chair right next to mine, and it even has a padded seat, but this goofball wants to sit right behind me.
#caturday #catsOfMastodon #FediCats
@cdarwin@c.imEARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less.
The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime.
The radicals on the left are the problem.
https://
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- A Bayesian Nonparametric Stochastic Block Model for Directed Acyclic Graphs
Clement Lee, Marco Battiston
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Fcukers:
🎵 Play Me
#Fcukers
https://fcukers.bandcamp.com/track/play-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/20UnbY4JAUTbSCf38TKDdz
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgTemporary exception to this: Rail replacement bus service #Aaaarggh
So I'm hoping to clear some tabs on my phone instead. Watch out for some cool links...
1/n
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115366463584341325
Ruth_Mottram - Not that this is getting this proposal written. If you see me on here the rest of the day, tell me to go and write....
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social @anildash@me.dmThere could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI have a new best friend. Mr A. C. Unit.
The electricity bills may bankrupt me, but at least when they drag me off to debtors' jail I won't be a sweaty betty.
#UKweather #TooBloodyHot
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIt's #NationalComingOutDay and I know how scary and life-changing it can be to come out. So many don't have the freedom to come out. I am a general manager of a store and I strive for my employees to be able to be themselves.
…
@axbom@axbom.me @radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lesley Gore:
🎵 You don't own me
#NowPlaying #LesleyGore
https://polarmaxbit.bandcamp.com/track/lesley-gore-you-dont-own-me-polarmaxbit-armani
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lJ82USsgwL4e137fqmj2P
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI first read "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson around 15 years ago. It included a visit to the Telegraph Museum (now PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications) at Porthcurno in Cornwall, and I finally got to go there. One of the things that Stephenson describes is a collection of faulty cables. And its still on display.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaOh… Windows 10 goes EOL on October 14? Right, right. I’d almost forgotten, mainly because my daily driver doesn’t nag me about end-of-life dates. Debian tends to outlive hardware, not demand a funeral every few years.
Forgive me, I wasn’t paying attention. I was distracted… you know, actually getting things done while you were stuck watching the 'Restarting… Do not turn off your computer' screen. It’s hard to keep track of digital expiration dates when your OS was engineered to…
@servelan@newsie.social"Peter Theil is happy to support a political movement whose dominant factions would like to put him – and every other gay man – in a concentration camp, because he's pretty sure that only applies to the poor gays, not the billionaire gays."
Pluralistic: Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics
@sean@scoat.esI enjoy the exploration, story, and platforming quite a lot. I do not enjoy boss fights nearly as much as other people seem to (never have, really).
It’s a pretty big bummer to me that there’s so much more Silksong that I may never have the “this is supposed to be fun, but dying to the same boss over and over again for far too long is not actually fun” energy to see the rest of the game.
The same thing happened to me in Hollow Knight, but it was very much later (that DLC circus b…
@axbom@axbom.me @rasterweb@mastodon.socialI saw a guy with an Aventon PAC this morning, chatted for a bit, he offered to let me test ride but I said “Thanks, but I’m good!” then ran into a guy with an Aventon Aventure later in they day. Both said they loved their bikes. Both looked a few years older than me.
I really think I’m just gonna go for the Level 3. Spent a bunch of time reading and watching reviews, looks like it would be a great commuter bike for work & weekend fun rides.
@cdarwin@c.imCVS was so worried about shoplifting that it stole its own soul
I’m no marketing whiz, but it seems to me that CVS,
like a lot of brick-and-mortar businesses these days,
is confused about which business it’s actually in.
CVS might think it’s still in the business of helping you restock your toothpaste and bodywash, like a giant vending machine,
but plenty of online sites are doing that more cheaply and just as reliably.
What your neighborhood chain can …
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- Statistical modeling to adjust for time trends in adaptive platform trials utilizing non-concurre...
Pavla Krotka, Martin Posch, Mohamed Gewily, G\"unter H\"oglinger, Marta Bofill Roig
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Kelela:
🎵 Cut 4 Me
#Kelela
https://kelela.bandcamp.com/album/cut-4-me-deluxe
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialIn the Air - Inside of the Window ✈️ 👩✈️
在空中 - 窗内 ✈️ 👩✈️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography
@axbom@axbom.me @radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Withers, Bill:
🎵 Lean on me (live at Carnegie Hall)
#NowPlaying #Withers #Bill
https://musicalmusaf.bandcamp.com/track/avot-bill-withers-lean-on-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zCJvrT3C7cIfHsR5iG95l
@Nael@pachyder.me @jae@mastodon.me.ukIt's so much fun putting up a sale sign designed by @… and within seconds having customers see it and they bought from it.
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk#mosstodon
Trebah Gardens, Cornwall.
@anildash@me.dm@… hey, I've been reading up on your older posts about using Sonos speakers as Mac audio outputs, and they've been super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to write everything up so thoroughly. I'm thinking of getting an old Ray and an optical-out adapter and giving it a go. Anything new to know since your write-ups? (I know Sonos has …
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- Documents Are People and Words Are Items: A Psychometric Approach to Textual Data with Contextual...
Jinsong Chen
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Dead Bars:
🎵 Be Me
#DeadBars
https://deadbars.bandcamp.com/track/be-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PLSZPTIlBaZjkS1SLwQ13
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Florence & The Machine:
🎵 What The Water Gave Me
#NowPlaying #Florence #TheMachine
https://gnawledge.bandcamp.com/track/florence-and-the-machine-what-the-water-gave-me-gnotes-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/10H6mvk1cPPTzs3IHsHSHi
@anildash@me.dmIs it still correct that you can easily use HomePods as speakers with an Apple TV and they work great with no latency, but you can't do that with a Mac?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Wolf Like Me
#TVontheRadio
https://tvontheradio.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-like-me-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zgd7SomLTZkL1WPh4CUnV
@jae@mastodon.me.ukCenter-stage selfies definitely was a surprise for me.
#apple #appleevent #iPhone
@anildash@me.dmI guess I actually was pretty mad about that stupid golden paperweight https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Take Me to the Pilot
#SaintEtienne
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/take-me-to-the-pilot
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FsJ6jZiqgbORPeIW06i1j
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI honestly think it is in Apple’s best interest to make this free. The montage video of people saved by this feature during the keynote definitely made me cry. https://www.theverge.com/news/775309/apple-iphone-14-15-satellite-connectivity-free
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Helado Negro:
🎵 That Shit Makes Me Sad
#HeladoNegro
https://heladonegro.bandcamp.com/track/that-shit-makes-me-sad
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VakRzfWIDkh2BDGXLFn8y
@axbom@axbom.me"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for yo…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Culture Club:
🎵 Miss Me Blind
#CultureClub
https://flamingomix.bandcamp.com/track/culture-club-miss-me-blind-flamingo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56SnVQVuJuqnYA6rLdcg32
@jae@mastodon.me.uk @axbom@axbom.meSåg en man på tunnelbanan som såg ut som Tage Danielsson(!) Fick tårar i ögonen, han var ett sån't jävla geni.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Material Issue:
🎵 Valerie Loves Me
#MaterialIssue
https://tudoparadjs.bandcamp.com/track/material-issue-valerie-loves-me-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4m8XQcbzTQIhOQ8QpLQDTX
@axbom@axbom.meGoing from: "I wanted the computer to do this well-defined task, and it did it, and saved me some time because I can verify that what it did is aligned with my intent, and correct."
Going to: "I asked the computer random stuff and I'm 'obeying' without knowing why or how the output came about. I don't care much about understanding my own will anymore as long as the software says 'AI' on the label."
