macroplastic

not Daniel Dennett too, FFS

This is Reno 911 slander

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(video_game)

Has a bangin soundtrack

Elder rules

The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions (pdf link, open-access) is a wonderful take down of the epistemic abuses widespread in much of ML/AI.

The Birate Pay

Signal? Isn't that the app for drugs? /s

I'd be happy to write a bunch of sql for this type of thing and throw it on github if you have any more specific requests / if instance admins would find it helpful

50 years of C and still no sane standardized way of packaging dependencies 😫

Very cool!

Is this really a surprise? Do we expect the FBI to not use phones or computers?

When we use at&t's phone lines or Microsoft's operating system, we are implicitly relying on them to be secure. Same would go for using linux or a secure communication app running on top of it. I think most people would rather the FBI be spending time investigating crimes than developing software.

Every time I see that URL, I wince

This, but then after you can do this solidly start halving the click tempo while still playing at the same speed so you get 1 click per 2 beats, bar, 2 bars, 4 bars etc.

Benny Greb (well regarded German drummer with a lot of instructional content) has a free metronome app for this purpose called Gap click that may be helpful, he argues for this as an essential exercise in developing your internal sense of time.