Due to global warming, Vivaldi's Four Seasons have been reworked so that the Summer movement is 30% longer and played fortissimo, winter is 10% shorter and played pianissimo, with some random bars played sforzando, to account for the slowing of the North Atlantic Current, and both Spring and Autumn are now played very quickly and with abrupt changes in key, indicating their chaotic nature.
a blockchain organization and an oil company collaborate to fix the climate
Corey Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
Happy people can't be monetized, this is why billionaires and tech companies need to keep you unhappy, angry, or scared. Resist. Be happy.
//hat tip to @Archie8
I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?
To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
A damaging #tornado has impacted densely populated portions of the #Milan metro, specifically Cernusco sul Naviglio, #Lombardy, NW Italy about 2 hours ago.
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1682341727808413698?t=dC4jP3bddko7BwHXg0ZSuw&s=09
He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.