That’s a hell of an arrangement. I like the rock-like attack in the middle, and how she varies the tempo a lot. Helps it work better on piano which is obviously more limited than the typical passel of instruments that canon usually finds itself performed on.
In a lot of it she’s playing the piano like you would a harpsichord and the piece works all the better for it.
(And yes, she’s doing all of that deliberately.)
It's Microsoft's 50th anniversary today!
Do you remember your first computer?
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) April 4, 2025
I sure do, and it had nothing to do with Microsoft. It was a TRS-80 Model III sometime in 1980 and I dearly loved that thing. My family was poor, but my dad was absolutely obsessed with computers. Some doctor my dad knew had bought the machine and could not figure out how to use it. My dad got it from the doc as payment for fixing the doc’s car up1.
Back then, I’d play various games, write little stories and program a bit. My dad being captivated by computers set me up for my current career; I’ve been using them nearly every day since I was four years old.
Who is aware that Bruce Willis made music in the late 80s?
Alas I am aware. I was there when it happened. It still haunts me to this day.
Spare us your pity, xenos scum. You gush about your connection with nature, your primal wisdom, but what has it brought you?
Where are your marvels of engineering? Your voyages of discovery? Your great insight into the nature of the universe? Even at our basest, when we dressed as you do, dwelt as you do, hunted as you do, lived as you do, we did more than merely survive. We built wonders. We made great journeys. We forged epics. You have not.
You speak so proudly of the plugs dangling from your skulls, little realizing that they are but strings and you puppets. What little you have accomplished you attribute to the wisdom of your goddess, who is nothing but the voices of your dead echoing for all eternity. She moors you to the past, serving as a leash that keeps you as little better than apes, sad parodies of civilization that lack that special spark to become something more.
We have come to your world in search of resources. Whether your actions drive us back or we take what we want and move on, the outcome is the same. We will depart from your wretched planet, leaving you behind. And in a thousand years, you will not have changed from this contact with another world. You will remain in your trees, hunting your prey, communing with your goddess, until your sun burns out and your world dies.
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us….
From a now-deleted fanfiction called “The Pandora Incident” by an unknown author
Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss.
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death.
B-1B Bones Make Unprecedented Bomber Task Force Deployment To Japan.
The point of no return: Only days left to stop a totalitarian state in the US. For once I agree with John Quiggin.
Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure.
Trump revives a 1930s mistake that hurt more than it helped.
Prominent ultra-processed food researcher leaves NIH, alleges censorship.
Beyond Tariffs: What the U.S. Can Learn from China’s Industrial Playbook.
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say. More clownishness. I do believe our enemies are in control of the country.
Toothpaste Widely Contaminated With Lead and Other Metals, US Research Finds.
I wrote my own Firefox extension:
None of the existing ones did quite what I wanted or had a single right-click menu entry. My little extension does what it says on the tin: It converts text to title case, ignoring some words that aren’t typically capitalized. It’s signed and everything (though that is an evil scheme).
The extension is not available in the Mozilla Add-Ons site as it’s about as tested as a wombat in space, but it works for me.
NO I AM NOT A DEVELOPER LEAVE ME ALONE
If all y’all want to buy something, do it now. Soon it will be unavailable or vastly more expensive. And by “something,” I mean nearly everything. Economy is about to fly apart like a washing machine on spin cycle with a brick thrown in it.
Do it now or you might only be able to get it again in 5-10 years. Maybe. If you’re lucky.
Hear me now and believe me later. Or don’t. I ain’t care.
We have at least three major impending crises coming our way in the upcoming few years.
Dealing with just one of them would have required an extraordinary once-in-a-century leadership.
Dealing with all three of them at once would require historically unprecedented skill.
We…
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) April 18, 2025
There’s at least four, two related.
1) Climate change and its effects. Yes, MAGA clowns, it’s real, and yes it’s already causing and/or contributing to huge catastrophes.
2) Chinese invasion of Taiwan and other Asian nations.
3) Russian invasion of the Baltics, Poland and Germany.
4) Social media/smartphone combination reducing literacy, capability to engage with the world and cultural inheritance and becoming the greatest cognitohazard we’ve ever faced.
And that’s apart from Trump becoming a wankish and ineffective autocrat currently destroying the nation.
The world's premier weather agency is being eviscerated in front of our eyes.
The U.S. will pay for it in economic loss and lives. https://t.co/DrYm4fZsEo
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) April 17, 2025
This helps no one and harms everyone. Fucking idiots. We are ruled by fucking idiots1.
Flexport CEO: "Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change … When the brands fail, they will be purchased out of bankruptcy by their Chinese factories" https://t.co/EaiNcNlBsy
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 17, 2025
That is the most likely result, yes. Unsure if deliberate or idiocy. Either way, the result is the same: poverty and immiseration for the American people.
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions. It all gets more dystopian by the day.
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet. Very cool. When can I move in?
Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell.
Lilly’s First Pill for Diabetes, Weight Loss Shows Positive Study Results.
Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tariffs?
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers.
HOLY SHIT! This might be the coolest thing ever.
— Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou (@kanaratron.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Damn, that’s cool. That’s about $2 million worth of equipment she’s…wearing? What’s the proper term here? “Has installed?”
“Is using?”
None of that feels quite right. They’re her arms, but they’re not quite like my arms. I like that she doesn’t have them look more natural. There’s nothing wrong with being part robot.
Why do people give a content warning when food is not vegetarian?
I need a content warning when food is vegetarian. I ain’t want that shit.
OOOOOOOOPS https://t.co/0oM6F2SSyr
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) April 17, 2025
Oopsie doopsie the economy is about to take a poopsie.
And it will not be nearly as cutesy as what I wrote above. For most it’s gonna be absolute hell.
In fact, it is a moral insult. She earned her place in the cockpit just as any male pilot did. That she’s being scrubbed from history makes no sense. Well, it makes fascist sense.
Even though I will be suffering too, I look forward to the suffering of the MAGA clowns in the chaos ahead.