OH: "Male-order bride"
(those damn SJWs have gone too far this time 😤)
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Some great music for a Saturday morning.
#Ukraine
reddit.com/r/ukraine/comm…
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Are you taking a much needed rest during eternal Caturday?
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Oh gosh, hey music friends! Only 11 days until #novembeat! Try to make some music every day in November.
But please remember it's just for fun and inspiration. Don't burn yourselves out, please.
novembeat.com
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Friday night concert at home: Justice’s, IRIS: A Space Opera. Amazing light show so far and a good pick-me-up after a blah week. Warning: lots of strobing lights.
Watch: https://youtu.be/6MucREx-e4Q
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Biden needs to appoint someone who understands and will say “Wear a respirator indoors” in response to RESPIRATORY viruses. This is just ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1583563153547603969
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One thing I learned from Michael Lewis's Premonition is that the CDC director has been a political appointee since the Reagan administration which seems to explain a lot of the nonsense,
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Friday night concert at home: Justice’s, IRIS: A Space Opera. Amazing light show so far and a good pick-me-up after a blah week. Warning: lots of strobing lights.
Watch: youtu.be/6MucREx-e4Q
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Just finished episode 9. WTH I NEED A SECOND SEASON #VampireAcademy
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Irony: A bunch of people engaging and finding each other in a very active thread of shadow banning.
Are we all in shadow ban ?? and those who is promoting 🇺🇦 Are skyrocket views???? Am i the only one who notice this?
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New post: fluffy rambles: Focusrite 18i20: A quick review beesbuzz.biz/blog/12007-Foc…
#Music #Hardware #Audio
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Biden needs to appoint someone who understands and will say “Wear a respirator indoors” in response to RESPIRATORY viruses. This is just ridiculous.
Respiratory viruses are on the rise across the United States. Take preventive actions to stop the spread of viruses like flu, RSV, and #COVID19:
🩹Get an updated COVID-...
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The fireworks-as-drum-loop in Hagop Tchaparian’s ‘Ldz’ (hagop.bandcamp.com/track/ldz) immediately reminded me of a similar trick (executed beautifully) on the first Astrobotnia record: aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/track/lightwor…
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It's sobering how long it takes until one comes up with good answers to novel questions. And once you arrive, you cannot possibly understand what took yourself that long, wasn't it obvious all the time??!?
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"text": "\u201cOur city\u201d is a truly vile phrase. portlandmercury.com/Housing/2022/1\u2026 by @alex_zee",
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A common refrain: “demands for interactivity that users have nowadays” (require an SPA/JS/tooling monster)
Funny. I've been in this business 25 years. The number of times *an actual user* has complained to me a website wasn't interactive enough?
🦗🦗🦗
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"text": "Over at the Verge, Adi Robertson has an article calling out some of Zuckerberg\u2019s recent comments about an \u201copen\u201d ecosystem for VR being wrong and misguided on multiple levels. The comments in question include such bangers as:\n\n\n\n\nIn PCs, I think you\u2019d say that Windows during the \u201990s and 2000s especially was really the primary ecosystem in computing. The open ecosystem was winning.\nMark Zuckerberg\n\n\n\n\nWhich, uh, no. Windows was not an open ecosystem. Microsoft in general wasn\u2019t an open ecosystem. Anyone who ever had to try and open a Word document in some other tool at the time can tell you that. They\u2019re doing a lot better these days, but that\u2019s after both legal and economic pressure to do so. \n\n\n\n\nMicrosoft was so far from meaningfully open that it was almost broken up by regulators. It was so notoriously domineering that\u00a0we got a whole movie about a Bill Gates stand-in who murders programmers. If anything, it\u2019s the kind of reference point that I personally might avoid if I were fighting antitrust suits across multiple continents! To the extent Microsoft is open, it\u2019s partly thanks to\u00a0years\u00a0of intense legal pressure that Meta is only beginning to face.\nAdi Robertson\n\n\n\n\n(I did think it was weird they called Netscape a \u201cstartup\u201d, and that particular line I think could have been phrased better \u2013 Internet Explorer may be a joke now, but it a) wasn\u2019t then, and b) wasn\u2019t decades old.)\n\n\n\nWhat the article (and Zuck\u2019s comments) really drive home to me, though, is that they\u2019re basically running by the same playbook they did for Facebook. Which is to say, talk up how things will be interoperable, encourage folks to buy in, and then once they\u2019ve captured a good chunk of the market, close the doors. You offer enough partnerships and deals with other services that it looks like you\u2019re playing nice with others, but at the cost of an actually open ecosystem, and at the cost of actual interoperability. The little guys get screwed first, but again, once they have enough of the market, no one is safe. It doesn\u2019t take much \u2014 shutter an API or tweak an algorithm, and suddenly you\u2019ve ruined the ability for others to function. (This has happened repeatedly, such as shutting off third party access so content has to be created in-house; deprioritizing/burying non-FB links to content; dictating an algorithmic pivot to prioritizing video content, then back again; charging pages to \u201cpromote\u201d content if they want their content visible to subscribers\u2026 the list goes on and on.)\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve already commented on the fact that I don\u2019t think VR is ready for widespread mainstream adoption. I do think some of the work they\u2019ve done with the Oculus and Quest is interesting. But there\u2019s no way in hell I want FB/Meta anywhere near the levers of control for the development of a \u201cmetaverse platform\u201d.",
"html": "<p>Over at the Verge, Adi Robertson has an article calling out some of <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/12/23398565/mark-zuckerberg-meta-connect-vr-open-ecosystem-metaverse\">Zuckerberg\u2019s recent comments about an \u201copen\u201d ecosystem for VR being wrong and misguided on multiple levels</a>. The comments in question include such bangers as:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>In PCs, I think you\u2019d say that Windows during the \u201990s and 2000s especially was really the primary ecosystem in computing. The open ecosystem was winning.</p>\nMark Zuckerberg\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, uh, no. Windows was not an open ecosystem. Microsoft <em>in general</em> wasn\u2019t an open ecosystem. Anyone who ever had to try and open a Word document in some other tool at the time can tell you that. They\u2019re doing a lot better these days, but that\u2019s after both legal and economic pressure to do so. </p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft was so far from meaningfully open that it was almost broken up by regulators. It was so notoriously domineering that\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17827992/antitrust-tim-robbins-bill-gates-microsoft-retrospective\">we got a whole movie</a> about a Bill Gates stand-in who murders programmers. If anything, it\u2019s the kind of reference point that I personally might avoid if I were fighting antitrust suits across multiple continents! To the extent Microsoft is open, it\u2019s partly thanks to\u00a0<em>years\u00a0</em>of intense legal pressure that Meta is only beginning to face.</p>\nAdi Robertson\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>(I did think it was weird they called Netscape a \u201cstartup\u201d, and that particular line I think could have been phrased better \u2013 Internet Explorer may be a joke <em>now</em>, but it a) wasn\u2019t then, and b) wasn\u2019t decades old.)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the article (and Zuck\u2019s comments) really drive home to me, though, is that they\u2019re basically running by the same playbook they did for Facebook. Which is to say, talk up how things will be interoperable, encourage folks to buy in, and then once they\u2019ve captured a good chunk of the market, close the doors. You offer enough partnerships and deals with other services that it looks like you\u2019re playing nice with others, but at the cost of an actually open ecosystem, and at the cost of actual interoperability. The little guys get screwed first, but again, once they have enough of the market, no one is safe. It doesn\u2019t take much \u2014 shutter an API or tweak an algorithm, and suddenly you\u2019ve ruined the ability for others to function. (This has happened repeatedly, such as shutting off third party access so content has to be created in-house; deprioritizing/burying non-FB links to content; dictating an algorithmic pivot to prioritizing video content, then back again; charging pages to \u201cpromote\u201d content if they want their content visible to subscribers\u2026 the list goes on and on.)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve already commented on the fact that I don\u2019t think VR is ready for widespread mainstream adoption. I do think some of the work they\u2019ve done with the Oculus and Quest is interesting. But there\u2019s no way in hell I want FB/Meta <em>anywhere near</em> the levers of control for the development of a \u201cmetaverse platform\u201d.</p>"
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