Peter Erskine, famous jazz drummer from the likes of Weather Report and other, put out some drumless tracks that are available for purchase on iTunes. I purchased a handful of them and have been enjoying coming up with parts.
The political equivalents of this tragic headline are both of these a). GOP states wondering why the guy they voted in is creating instability in their neck of the woods and b). Dems wondering why people aren’t donating money to their txt campaigns.
Nothing new, the GOP are cruel, full stop.
Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students.: propublica.org
Currently listening:
Deleted: Realized I am falling into the trap of propagating unnecessary negativity.
This, so much, this.
Hello non-technical people. Just a heads up. Musk isn’t a programmer, a systems architect, or anyone with experience building or running large systems of any kind. However, he’s taken credit for others building large systems which makes him think he’s That Guy. He is not.
Some geese, on a frozen pond.
More of this please
New “WikiTok” web app allows infinite TikTok-style scroll of Wikipedia. arstechnica.com
As a music listener, I want to press play on a purchased track in Apple music that says “downloaded”, so that I can…successfully listen to the song I had purchased and downloaded.
Apple music management just keeps getting more and more terrible. I just want to play the tracks I own.
Think I will take the train next time.
Trump Vows ‘Great Computerized System’ for Air Traffic politicalwire.com
The amount of attempts being made to sign in to my Microsoft account is pretty wild.
Dan Sinker explains why we have to write it down.
Part of the design of of all this is to overwhelm you and the other part is to deny that you are seeing what you’re seeing.
Never heard of this service but seems like a clean and easy way to blog, directly from the notes app in iOS or macOS, blog.montaigne.io
I decided months ago to really shore up our emergency fund. I’ve been recommending the same to friends, family, and strangers. Saving is hard, it can feel impossible, but even $10 a month is better than zero. Cheeto Prez is lighting his matches.
RIP Marianne Faithful
Learning basic baião patterns on the kit.
Content or trigger warning: photosensitive folks should not watch. My lights started flickering during recording and flashes throughout the video. Apologies for that.
Marketplace has been my go to news show since 2006 and here’s host, Kai Ryssdal, answering why they didn’t pause their regular programming to respond to everything Trump has done, and I love his answer.
Had mine since April, 2010. It doesn’t turn on anymore, on my list of to-dos to try and revive it.
Yeah, a resolution condemning things Trump does, that’s going to make him pause and reflect. Keep on winning, Dems.
Democrats Move to Condemn Trump for January 6 Pardons politicalwire.com
A small hike yesterday to close off a highly bizarre week.
