Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

The Medium news is cool but it's already being misrepresented as though they brought Medium into Fediverse compliance. They have not. They set up an instance of Mastodon -- same has thousands of other users have. That's important because if they *did* decide to make Medium ActivityPub compliant, like PixelFed, FunkWhale etc. that would be HUGE news.

Elon right now: "There's a Singapore office? Why didn't anyone tell me!"

"Sir, you fired the local Asia rep."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-orders-workers-asia-hq-050942215.html?guccounter=1

Me at the office: "Hi, have you got a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, Semantic Web?"

If someone purchased a self-help book called "Overcoming Perfectionism" -- isn't that an indicator of a sort of narcism?

Say it with me:

"No agenda. No attenda."

A scientist behind an actual science-based research program into Happiness weighs in on what they've determined so far about what makes us happy. SPOILER: There are no surprises.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/10/1148210611/whats-the-1-thing-to-change-to-be-happier-a-top-happiness-researcher-weighs-in

The Banshees of Inisherin: Great movie -- very entertaining, moving and with great performances. But what are the writer and director trying to say? If there's a message, I am not sure I received it.

This is good for your soul on a Tuesday. #music #acoustic #guitar

https://youtu.be/1JYjcwW9MmM

Our IPA Will Jam Your Face with Hops - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

"...perhaps you don’t have the guts to drink an octuple-IPA that’s caustic grains are mashed over actual lava sourced from Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano while loudspeakers crank out Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a loop inside an abandoned underground nuclear testing site."

#reading #comedy

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-ipa-will-jam-your-face-with-hops

I've asked this before but never got an answer I liked. How do you read RSS feeds in 2023? #rss #readers #Productivity

Oddisee's rap + Bon Iver's "Stacks" and Aretha Franklin's "Say a Little Prayer". Apparently he couldn't clear the samples and it never got officially released but, through the magic of the internet, we can still appreciate what might have been. #NowPlaying #Music #HipHop

Oddisee - Paralyzed
https://on.soundcloud.com/mRUS7

M3gan was great. It says a lot about where we are that the state of AI is terrifying enough without even needing any supernatural nonsense. Stellar writing, timely theme and laugh-out-loud humour. #movies

Weekend Rush begins! Perfect timing for the end of my workday. #dnb #music #weekendrushfm

https://www.mixcloud.com/live/weekendrushfm

Is there anything more unnerving and incomprehensible as when you buy someone an electronic device for Christmas and they leave it sitting there, boxed, unactivated, and unused for weeks afterward.

This was mentioned on #BangerTV as one of their top #metal albums of 2022. I completely missed it last year but it's awesome. #NowPlaying

Anyone on my instance know where the funkwhale instance is and how I would sign in?