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gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity

#Art #MastoArt

Get ready for shinier chord names! ✨️ Fretboard now utilizes the ♯ and ♭ characters throughout the entire app. The chord name entry has gained a deep understanding of how chord names are built up, and turns your sloppily typed abominations of chord names into properly formatted strings instantly 😎️

Thanks to @wjt for suggesting this!

#Fretboard #GNOME #Guitar

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

Amazon spent $14.2 million on anti-union consultants last year alone. If that's not a clear sign that corporations are terrified of worker power, I don't know what is.

Apparently Nokia has released a repair friendly phone (G22) in tie-up with iFixit for original replacement parts!

Hugh Jeffreys does a tear down and verifies the claims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGM-SgfyU4

This means we can finally get a repairable smartphone in India, Since #fairphone & #pine64 devices are never coming here.

With un-lockable bootloader, It seems viable for #LineageOS & #postmarketOS hacking; Unisoc T606 chipset is bit concerning though. Any thoughts @joelselvaraj ?

#repair #mastindia

@wonderofscience Being used to seeing the moon as a flat disc, seeing it so clearly as a sphere messed with my brain a little.

For more of that, I put together this in cross-eyed 3D! :)

Update: Added the Tom Lehrer albums that he released for free. I got way too many people letting me know about this one, but I get it.

Note that these are mp3 albums and not FLAC, so there's better versions out there. But hey, free, right.

The albums are the first 4 items and the rest are the sheet music he released years ago.

https://archive.org/details/tomlehrersongs?sort=-publicdate

Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.

Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:

https://archive.org/details/standardebooks

They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks

Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.

FIFA has apparently issued ‘guidance’ to the Qatari authorities that they should not prosecute women in these circumstances. The Qataris point out that FIFA cannot tell them what to do.

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Those relaxing story apps seem like a great idea until you realise they're all read by people with British accents, which means that instead of drifting off to a restful sleep you just unconsciously start panic-hiding potatoes

I've come on mastodon to share a piece about mastodon, which sounds like the kind of cannibalistic self-referentialism that started mad cow disease https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/16/could-this-be-twitter-without-the-toxic-slurry-my-week-on-mastodon

I went on the Bird Site and begged Smithsonian to come on over here. And I could not love their response to me MOAR. :) #Paleontology American #mastodon