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openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:
An Animated Introduction to the Avant-Garde Music of John Cage
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘... former employee, who testified before the committee under the pseudonym J. Johnson, said “Twitter was terrified of the backlash they would get if they followed their own rules and applied them to Donald Trump.”’
From: @metacurity
https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/110594301328468048
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@blithe Saw a TikTok last night that said if the 1900s had The Great Depression, we should call whatever is about to happen The Great Anxiety.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The thing about this is that it's not actually a method for generating islands, specifically. Just blocks of 19 hex tiles. It's simple enough that bodies of water are actually out of scope!
It's a good reminder that you can still possibly get interesting results even if you drop seemingly essential elements.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How desperate would you have to be…?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/23/would-you-take-this-job/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This song is dedicated to the little fluffy clouds that hung out with me on my walk this morning:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Alas, Philadelphia…don't let your lovely city be poisoned by these villains.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The Style Savvy blogs on tumblr are suddenly active again because a bunch of new Fashion Dreamer trailers got posted. we are so back 🥹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KuAaziVbFE
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
think about it
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's a law of nature that everything tends to garbage, I think.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/23/90-of-everything-is-junk/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I've been looking at a book called "Sandbox Generator" and its terrain generation method cooks down to:
1. Pick a starting terrain (grass, hills most likely)
2. Circle outwards. Half the time, repeat terrain type of the previous hex, otherwise pick a type at uniform random.This is the first one I got. (Map made in Hex Kit with an external tileset called "Tiles of Xark!"; bg color added in Krita)
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Materials intended for making tabletop rpg maps are cool to look at with an eye for videogames.
There's always the temptation to go complex/simulationist when generating a map on a computer, but something designed for people to perform manually has to stay grounded and find maybe 1 or 2 little tricks to get an interesting mix of features
Mastodon FeedSometimes you just have to harness the anxiety and put it to work for you.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It feels like an extremely nerd thing...and...but also...um...why can't I share a past jetpens order/listing/shopping-cart worth of stuff? Like, a "click here to start the same order" with all identifiable stuff obscured?
Don't even want referral nonsense. Just to share the joy of *extremely good* pens.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
PennyOaken ("Ms. Penny 🐝 Oaken") wrote:
@dredmorbius Someone with some pull should bring up why /r/TomScott was taken private — https://tomscott.com/reddit
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
emilygorcenski@indieweb.social wrote:
When you learn about engineering failures in school you quickly understand that it’s not that people were unintelligent, it’s because they were careless. And good engineering practice builds layers to make sure that carelessness doesn’t propagate.
The rigor of engineering is not the technical complexity of the problem space, it’s everything else around it.
In other words, literally everything the silicon valley grindset devalues.
Mastodon FeedNiceness. Thanks to the "Translate" button in Mastodon, I can pretend my 9 years of mandatory French (🇨🇦) (+ 1 extra year due to course-picking snafu in high school..) was not a complete waste of time.
Whatever it is they're using, it certainly works well...somehow even sounds like something this person I know (in real life) would say...
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Summertime by Miles Davis
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️⚧️") wrote:
important info:
the libjpeg codebase (originally released in 1991) uses the word "bogus" 45 times
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Googling "job alternatives to being a software engineer" and being disappointed.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
It's probably just my stream, but it feels like cross-posting-faving-boosting between various flavors of #fediverse software really came into light this week. The most prominent example being #lemmy based https://rblind.com/ which had people from #mastodon seamlessly interacting with its posts.
Nice :-)
Mastodon Feed37th floor #photography https://glass.photo/blithe/4rxpw6Li7F7c9pvGYTCmSU
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
And if you're still using #lastpass, this is your opportunity to do yourself a big favor and switch to #bitwarden.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Fear of cat people is grossly overblown.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/22/fear-of-the-cat-people/
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“We strongly reject the headline’s assertion that ‘ProPublica Misleads Its Readers,’ which the piece declared without anyone having read the article and without asking for our comment.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
What I'm listening to today: "Stay Crunchy", Ronald Jenkees
In this video a man in a little hat yells "Hello YouTubes" and slams directly into performing an absolutely mindblowing four-minute solo, on a MIDI electric piano VST over FruityLoops beats. (FLStudio/FruityLoops, is IMO, underrated as a serious production music tool.) Ronald, the musician, was an early vlogger who had a whole thing going on and this was the track of his that went most widely viral. It slaps
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
rescue 5 rich guys: around the clock media coverage and no expense is too much, because life is utmost concern
rescue countless poor people: rot in jail for 20y you terrorist!!1!
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/71822
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:
Exactly this.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Grateful for another venue to tell the tale of modern JS (woe):
https://thenewstack.io/too-much-javascript-why-the-frontend-needs-to-build-better/