justinmwhitaker

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Whitechapel sort of day. Fantastic album.

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You sure about that?

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Listen/purchase: Euphoria by JosDO

Digging into LMMS. Did you know they release compilations of the best tracks produced in the software? Now you do.

It’s full of bangers like this from JosDO.

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Is it Fall yet?

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https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

What is the Small Web?

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I’m free?

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I am Goncharov?

We can all be comforted by the thought that he’s not really gone, that there’s a little Goncharov left in all of us. In fact, you might say that all of us together made up Goncharov.

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we need to go back to the era of 20 million different forum websites for each hyper-niche community, animated post signatures and everything. that was more fun i think

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I’m not an “elder queer”, but I am an elder.

Let me add something here: there’s this tendency to think of what Sigrid Ellis is talking about is the distant past.

Stonewall was 1969, two years before I was born.

The first legal gay marriage was in 2004, when I was 32.

The change from being turned away, to grudging acceptance, to “hey, you’re a source of profit too!” has occurred within one lifetime.

It’s not the ancient past.

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I don't know if this is funny because it's true, or sad because it's true.

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In heavy rotation the past couple of days. Might be in heavy rotation all Summer.

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Spreadsheets as SciFi? That....tracks.

“That’s the seductive power of the spreadsheet: it’s a tool for asking what if? With just a little training, anyone can use a spreadsheet to build a model of some real-world phenomenon, from an ecosystem to a convenience store, from a lemonade stand to a retirement savings plan. Then, by tapping new numbers into those neat little boxes, you can change the model: what if I pay a little less here? What if I save a little more there? What if this number goes up? What if it goes down? Change a box and all the numbers dance in their gridwork of faint gray lines, and the future is revealed, with a terrible and false precision. Terrible and false because the model is a model, it’s not the world, and each of those sharp figures and formulae obscures a fuzzy, squishy set of assumptions, guesses and elisions. The model can suggest, it can guide – but it cannot predict. This is what made spreadsheets so science fictional. As we lose ourselves in a futuristic parable, it’s easy to forget the “parable” part and start to think we’re experiencing the future. To forget that sf writers have no more insight into what the future holds than any of us, and thank goodness, because if the future could be predicted, there’d be no reason to do anything or try anything. The future is up for grabs. That’s the point of science fiction: not to predict the future, but to inspire it, or ward it off. To work out our present-day anxieties and aspirations on the page, to provide a virtual fly-through of the emotional experience of this technological arrangement or that.”

— The seductive, science fictional power of the spreadsheet

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So smart, me. Enjoy books so much.

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Dean of MBA Students at NYU Stern Y'all. Can't make this stuff up.

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Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

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Ramen.

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Tumblr Live

What is the point of Tumblr Live?

"Check me out. I'm hot"?

Like, go to Tinder or Tik Tok with that mess.