Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Fun Wikipedia list of the day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds

Today I had a weird realisation that, as a child, every time my mom told me that what I was inappropriate or whatever* it subconsciously taught me that I should just not share my thoughts.

* according to her interpretation, and not me intentionally being inappropriate

Let's make sonic tourism a thing. What's a place mentioned in a song that you have visited in part because of the song?

The most frustrating thing:

1. Someone asks for help

2. I help them but not right away

3. Turns out they found a solution and my time spent preparing to help them was wasted

I don't mind the fact I spent time on it because often I learn something or provided a better answer than the person found for themselves (not to mention if it's in my day job I still got paid), but I can't seem to find a polite way to teach people "I'll get to the question but please tell me if you solved the problem yourself"

I find an explanation of why someone is thankful to be much more effective than saying a literal "thanks" but I feel like when I don't say "thank you" people are offended that I'm not thankful

Great marketing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6olcrGYuTmY

"The history of technology, even exceptionally powerful general-purpose technology, tells us that as long as you are trying to fit capital into labor-shaped holes you will find yourself confronted by endless frictions: just as with electricity, the productivity inherent in any technology is unleashed only when you figure out how to organize work around it, rather than slotting it into what already exists." https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller

All music has already been done and is also new and that is why music is the best

I'm late to the party but look what the losers did https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall

It's kind of wild that we used to store important information on a magnetic strip that we just kept in a pocket

the peak of being a cool internet minor-celebrity is being able to do mailbag episodes or whatever with physical mail

Here's your reminder that the wiki existed 6 years before Wikipedia came into being

Got time to click some links? https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/211/

“Bah, these oranges aren’t orange enough!” Maybe we shouldn't've named the fruit after the colour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_Red_2

Or was it the other way around?

The fact North American English-speakers forget that "good morning" and the rest can be closing messages just as much as "good night" makes me sad.

90% of my "computer skills" are built on the need to click things and see what happens

Cut flowers are an interesting gift. Not cheap plus fleeting makes for a relatively high required perceived worth considering the value they provide. What other gifts are like this?

My love language is "responds when I share things I found"

This is the greatest thing on the internet today

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWKbeM4D5iB/