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For those who missed Kickstarter: my book, Shift Happens, is now available for preorder in the new online store, to be delivered in October!

No future reprints are planned and the number of books is limited: shifthappens.site/store

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"Emerging evidence seems to show that a four-day work week is win-win for employers and employees alike:

Productivity goes up, and so does employee well-being. A 2022 pilot program mega-study tracked 33 companies with reduced working hours and found that overall, employees were more satisfied with their work-life balance, experienced less burnout, and company revenues actually increased." Men also greatly increased their contribution to parenting.

via thestar.com/life/2023/04/16/wh
#science #economy

@ronald This is a technical look at the method I used back then: midi.teragonaudio.com/tutr/ban . This doc even references the JV 90.

Ableton Live way: help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/arti

Logic way: support.apple.com/en-bn/guide/

The trick is to send these control changes at the beginning of the song like a “setup” step. But the sound generator needs to be multi-timbral and have enough polyphony for up to 16 separate patches playing back together. soundonsound.com/techniques/mu

So I asked Blue Willow to make me a :

Smurf versus Godzilla, city battle, hollywood monster movie

And what I got back was not disappointing. 😋 It's a 3-way hybrid of Kong, Smurf and Godzilla, all blue and furry but with tail and tallons along the spine, with the face and mouth of Kong.

@ronald Ah ok. When I was using the JV 880, it was with an Amiga 1200 and Bars n Pipes software. I remember configuring my own control changes (bank and program select I guess?) to set the right patches per MIDI channel.

I think. Lol. It's been 30 years 😅

I'm happy accepting what you say is true considering. You're experiencing it in the now.

My 5+ years evolution from Scawed No Pewpew , to (Enemy) Heroes Always Die aggressiveness represented as my history with gaming computers so far. 👼 😈

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#Research: How to Be a Better #Ally to the #LGBTQ+ Community

#Workplace #discrimination and #exclusion remain significant challenges for many workers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and for other gender/sexual orientation minorities (LGBTQ+).

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA hbr.org/2023/04/research-how-t

It's impossible to please folks as in competitive mode if a team loses:

-Mercy defeats back-dive-flankers attacking her because nobody looks behind? MERSY Y U NO HEAL?

-Mercy takes out a sniper that everybody is ignoring and getting killed by. MERCY Y NO HLZ

-Mercy asks for sniper help. MERCY PLAY ANA KILL HER UR SELF

-Team kill happens while Mercy is desperately trying to chase after everyone who is off 1v1ing far in the weeds. MERSY U SUK.

Sigh. But I love Mercy. :D ❤️ 👼

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@Susan_Larson_TN Looks like I need to learn role titles better! Thanks for helping to clarify. ❤️

PS: all your souls are belong to me. I play in . Your lives are mine to decide what to do with.

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A republican governor in Florida called people mutants and demons from another planet today.

While I would so love to own both these, and I will claim the demon part muwahaha, we can’t be mutants from another planet because a mutant is mutated life from the same planet.

For me to be mutant AND from another planet, the governor would have to believe that alien life exists. His religion won’t allow him to. But hey, welcome to and wondering about the equation. :D

@ronald Cool. I have a setup for audio capture into Auria Pro, so that’s figured out. But I wanted to try some midi/softsynth scene building in Korg Gadget 2 next. I prefer to play my own melodies instead of tap-inputing so...

Loving your JV sound module reference! I had a blast in the 90s with a friend’s JV-880 and D-50 synth.

My first proper owned synth was an XP-60 workstation. It was beyond fun! :D

@chhopsky Good to know. That was my first and last try with that then! :D

Tried to do MIDI-softsynth with my M1 Pro last night. Forgot that there isn’t a headphone jack on “modern” devices. So how to send a USB digital piano MIDI signal to the iPad, and hear the iOS app’s softsynth? Don’t bother using AirPods, the delay is so high from key press to when the tone is heard.

So I’ve had to join Dongle Club(TM) and ordered a USB-C hub that has a USB A port and a headphone jack. Sigh. This used to be so easy on older iPads. So much for techno “progress”.

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Lights' new chill-beats remixed version of her PEP album called "dEd" is very nice! Exactly the Sunday vibe I was looking for. <3

Bought my copy in high-res FLAC from: prostudiomasters.com/album/pag

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Taking children from their parents is one of the qualifying elements of a genocide.

IE: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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