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Larry Fitzmaurice: 37 Thoughts on Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Music Writing, Animal Collective, Indie, Grizzly Bear, the XX, and How Things Change
Larry Fitzmaurice: 37 Thoughts on Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Music Writing, Animal Collective, Indie, Grizzly Bear, the XX, and How Things Change
A great summary of the shift in music writing and coverage around 2013 as music publications shifted to covering more pop music (and did it in a more take-based fashion) and pop music itself made a comeback critically.
·last-donut-of-the-night.letterdrop.com·
Larry Fitzmaurice: 37 Thoughts on Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Music Writing, Animal Collective, Indie, Grizzly Bear, the XX, and How Things Change
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline ☼ --- Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol of our society.
·solar.lowtechmagazine.com·
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world'
UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world'
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said. In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.” Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agricultu […] It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere. Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place. The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution. […] “We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. “It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts. Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.” “But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
·apnews.com·
UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world'
Stephen Diehl: The Simple English Argument Against Crypto
Stephen Diehl: The Simple English Argument Against Crypto
A common criticism of my arguments against crypto is that they assume too much knowledge or that my prose is too dense. So a friend challenged me to rewrite ‘The Case Against Crypto’ using mostly the 1500 Simple English words and short sentences version that perhaps a well-read twelve year old could read in a 6th grade history book from the future. About the financial disaster of the 2020s. --- The economics of bitcoin were also bad. When people use money they want to buy things with it quickly and they want to know that the price of the thing they want to buy won’t change drastically. Bitcoin is bad at both of these things. Bitcoin was bad at being stable money because the technology was not designed to do that, because it didn’t want to have a central bank. This was unfixable because the entire project was based on a bad idea. […] Crypto was a story about giving people new money, but instead it just stole people’s old money and destroyed their lives. Unfortunately the world figured out crypto was a bad idea far too late.
·stephendiehl.com·
Stephen Diehl: The Simple English Argument Against Crypto
Hannah Borenstein: The Nickelodeon Cartoon That Taught a Generation to Hate Capitalism (Slate)
Hannah Borenstein: The Nickelodeon Cartoon That Taught a Generation to Hate Capitalism (Slate)
Arnold wasn’t just a football-headed fourth grader. He was an urban planning pioneer. --- The stories of a group of fourth graders coming of age in the big city at times mimicked the neoliberal objectives of Clinton-era policy: The bullies that Arnold and his friends faced might as well have been the state and private capital, which linked arms in the name of urban renewal while actually threatening the sanctity of working-class life. And although Hey Arnold! did not present itself as a manifesto for a generation that would grow up to cast doubt on the normalcy of capitalist logic, the cartoon did provide a cultural experience that remains salient, 25-plus years on—and one that fans tell me, surprisingly for a cartoon, broached these subjects more blatantly than many are willing to do today. […] Geographers have since explored the long-term deleterious effects of these 1990s schemes. In 2019, for instance, Samuel Stein published Capital City, where he explored how the $217 billion industry that is global real estate follows the movements of a “creative class,” whose members move to poorer neighborhoods after being priced out of more expensive places already overrun by high rent costs. Only then do urban planners see these neighborhoods as “livable”—as Stein puts it, “a euphemism for White people with disposable income”—before tearing down old buildings and erecting new ones that ultimately price out the creative class that made neighborhoods attractive to capital in the first place. […] It’s not so much that Hey Arnold! radicalized millennials in their youth, it seems, but that it infused their inchoate political and social consciousnesses with ways to respond to their material realities later on. A lot of the rhetoric of liberal capitalism—that it is driven by natural turns in the market—was flipped on its head in Hey Arnold. In the show, capitalism was nothing more than the destroyer of fun. It threatened not only the displacement of the city’s working class, but also the places in which young viewers played. And as millennials are now feeling many of the neoliberal structural changes of the 1990s, including being unable to buy homes or even rent in cities, it’s no surprise that the majority of young Americans now look unfavorably upon capitalism—just as their favorite cartoon characters did two decades ago.
·slate.com·
Hannah Borenstein: The Nickelodeon Cartoon That Taught a Generation to Hate Capitalism (Slate)
Finicky
Finicky
Finicky is a macOS application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link or url. With Finicky as your default browser, you can tell it to open Facebook or Reddit in one browser, and Trello or LinkedIn in another.
·github.com·
Finicky
wordle-list
wordle-list
A handy compilation of games based on Josh Wardle's Wordle. Including Dordle, Quordle, Worldle, Heardle, and more.
·github.com·
wordle-list
Robin Rendle: BEM 101 (CSS-Tricks)
Robin Rendle: BEM 101 (CSS-Tricks)
The Block, Element, Modifier methodology (commonly referred to as BEM) is a popular naming convention for classes in HTML and CSS. Developed by the team at Yandex, its goal is to help developers better understand the relationship between the HTML and CSS in a given project.
·css-tricks.com·
Robin Rendle: BEM 101 (CSS-Tricks)
Format Change Archive
Format Change Archive
A site dedicated to format changes? Why not; what’s more historic than when something begins or ends? The Format Change Archive is your home for airchecks of the beginnings and endings of some of the most historic radio stations (and some you may never have heard).
·formatchangearchive.com·
Format Change Archive
Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2021
Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2021
As life in the Anthropocene tips into a gradual decline brought on by the irreversible effects of climate crisis, the past becomes a highly valuable commodity in criticism because the future gets more volatile by the second. Those of us with a lot of time in the bank account sit comfortably on hundreds of thousands of pre-pandemic hours, while younger, more time-poor people wonder every day what kind of past they will actually inherit—what will their past be worth?
·jeremydlarson.com·
Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2021
Vertex 3D Icons
Vertex 3D Icons
Handcrafted 3D icons. Customize it online - change color, material and choose right angle. 100% free for commercial and personal use.
·vertex.im·
Vertex 3D Icons
British & Exotic Mineralogy
British & Exotic Mineralogy
All 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.
·c82.net·
British & Exotic Mineralogy
Lily Moayeri: Trailers Use Slower and Moodier New Versions of Classic Songs to Lure Viewers (Variety)
Lily Moayeri: Trailers Use Slower and Moodier New Versions of Classic Songs to Lure Viewers (Variety)
“It’s what I call the old-comfortable-shoe phenomenon,” says Jonathan McHugh, a music supervisor, director and founding member of the Guild of Music Supervisors. “You give people something familiar, like Destiny Child’s ‘Say My Name’ in the new ‘Candyman,’ and all of a sudden they’re more engaged in the content and predisposed to enjoy what they’re watching because they love the song.” Says Brian Monaco, president and global chief marketing officer at Sony Music Publishing: “It’s called ‘trailerizing’ a song. That means changing every aspect of the song but leaving the lyrics. People know the lyrics. The goal is to catch people’s attention. Maybe they’re not paying as much attention to the trailer, and they start to hear the chorus of the song, and they go, ‘Wait, I know this song.’ They start paying attention, and now they’re watching the trailer.” At Sony and in his four-times-a-year writing camps, Monaco has teams of writers working on reimagined versions of legendary artists’ catalogs. He has entirely reworked ELO’s discography, has redone a large portion of the Beatles’ songs and now is tackling Paul Simon’s newly acquired hefty songbook.
·variety.com·
Lily Moayeri: Trailers Use Slower and Moodier New Versions of Classic Songs to Lure Viewers (Variety)
Typatone
Typatone
The act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type corresponds to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition. Make music while you write.
·typatone.com·
Typatone
Build A Frog
Build A Frog
I like this cute choose-your-own-adventure build-an-encouraging-frog website made with linked Tumblr posts.
·frogitivity2.tumblr.com·
Build A Frog
Quinn Moreland: Something Must Change After Astroworld (Pitchfork)
Quinn Moreland: Something Must Change After Astroworld (Pitchfork)
Scott has long asserted that his shows are a place where fans can let loose and rage through mosh pits, crowd-surfing, stage-diving, and general mayhem. He is far from the only rapper to borrow specific elements from the punk or hardcore underground, but the Astroworld tragedy underscores how important it is that chaos coexist with an ethos of community and accountability. A mosh pit is a collective, physical release of energy and there is the understanding—unspoken or otherwise—that if someone falls, you pick them back up. This is not to suggest that concertgoers at Astroworld did not try to help those who were fighting to stay upright: people crowd-surfed unconscious bodies to safety even while the crush made it extremely difficult for anyone to lift their arms, and at least one attendee testimonial describes pleading with event staff to stop the show. But footage from the festival also suggests a pervasive “every-man-for-himself” mentality, from the fans who pushed others to the ground to get inside, to those who danced atop an ambulance as it inched through the crowd to help people who were literally dying. It can never be said enough: one person’s good time should never come at the expense of another’s safety. These kinds of tragedies should lead to a re-evaluation of safety procedures—and in prominent examples, this has been the case. After the Who concert, Cincinnati banned general-admission concert seating for nearly 25 years. Following Roskilde, Pearl Jam took a six-year break from festivals and returned with strict, hands-on safety policies that included the right to “evaluate all operational and security policies in advance, such as design and configuration of barriers and security response procedures in relation to ensuring our fans’ safety,” as well as the ability to stop a show if needed. Roskilde itself implemented preventative crowd safety measures, including a barrier system that divides the audience into separate pens and more intensive training for security workers. This is the level of oversight we need *before* something horrific happens.
·pitchfork.com·
Quinn Moreland: Something Must Change After Astroworld (Pitchfork)
ct.css
ct.css
Let’s take a look inside your Your is the single biggest render-blocking part of your page—ensuring it is well-formed is critical. ct.css is a diagnostic CSS snippet that exposes potential performance issues in your page’s tags.
·csswizardry.com·
ct.css
How Nintendo Switch Charging Works
How Nintendo Switch Charging Works
Trying to figure out what I can charge my Switch with and this answered it. Any USB-C charger should allow any model Switch to charge and play at the same time. A USB-A charger will have mixed results. If forced to use one plug it into the Switch while the battery is still at 100% for best results. Given an ideal charger, all models of the Switch will charge from 0-100% in 3-3.5 hours. The larger models actually charge faster while playing than while sleeping. [...] There is no problem charging the Switch while you play. But when not in use, best to let it sleep while it recharges. The Switch dock has specific requirements. When not using the Switch AC adapter, you’ll need a 45W or 60W USB-C PD charger. Otherwise the dock won’t function, or even charge the Switch.
·switchchargers.com·
How Nintendo Switch Charging Works
Kait Sanchez: How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons (The Verge)
Kait Sanchez: How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons (The Verge)
When Bunny presses “Settle, Sound, Ouch,” she might be using a novel string of known words to tell someone to quiet down, or she might be pressing a random series of buttons while confirmation bias on our part does the rest of the work. Even Devine says that she thinks Bunny’s “speech” is primarily operant conditioning, where Bunny has made an association between pressing a button and something happening. A true understanding of language goes beyond simple associations, and involves pulling unique combinations of words together into narratives.
·theverge.com·
Kait Sanchez: How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons (The Verge)
Maura Judkis: Can these dogs really talk, or are they just pushing our buttons? (Washington Post)
Maura Judkis: Can these dogs really talk, or are they just pushing our buttons? (Washington Post)
Pet owners and cognitive scientists are exploring if we can teach dogs to speak with buttons, called AAC devices. --- “I do have to say, ‘Okay, how much am I reading into this?’ How much of this is anthropomorphized and how much is like, I’ve already interpreted these buttons in this way, so I’m going to continue to interpret and it becomes its own sort of dialect?” she says. “I try and remain open to all of the possibilities.”
·washingtonpost.com·
Maura Judkis: Can these dogs really talk, or are they just pushing our buttons? (Washington Post)
Upptime
Upptime
See also: https://upptime.js.org GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page --- • GitHub Actions is used as an uptime monitor • Every 5 minutes, a workflow visits your website to make sure it's up • Response time is recorded every 6 hours and committed to git • Graphs of response time are generated every day GitHub Issues are used for incident reports • An issue is opened if an endpoint is down • People from your team are assigned to the issue • Incidents reports are posted as issue comments • Issues are locked so non-members cannot comment on them • Issues are closed automatically when your site comes back • Slack notifications are sent on updates • GitHub Pages are used for the status website • A simple, beautiful, and accessible PWA is generated • Built with Svelte and Sapper • Fetches data from this repository using the GitHub API
·github.com·
Upptime
Kate Wagner: Don’t Let People Enjoy Things (The Baffler)
Kate Wagner: Don’t Let People Enjoy Things (The Baffler)
An issue common to all of our LPET posters is that they think criticism means forbidding people from enjoying media in general. First of all, people are just as allowed to *dislike* things as they are permitted to enjoy them—you can’t trick them into changing their minds with your authoritarian meme posting. Second, I introduce this radical idea: you can still enjoy things while being critical of them—it can even lead to a greater appreciation of societal and historical context, and it can make you usefully wary of the role the shit forces of the world play in the media we consume. It can also help us maintain our political and social integrity while watching or reading or listening to whatever is offered to us. For example, my peacenik, anticapitalist proclivities may make me critical of many mainstream blockbusters, but they also afford me a greater appreciation of movies like ‘Office Space’ and Dolly Parton’s classic ‘9 to 5.’ Finally, though our LPET posters think otherwise, it is indeed possible to *like some things about a piece of media and dislike things about that same piece of media all at once*.
·thebaffler.com·
Kate Wagner: Don’t Let People Enjoy Things (The Baffler)
Martha Cheng: Hawai‘i’s 7-Eleven Stores Offer Better Food Than Their Mainland U.S. Counterparts (Honolulu Magazine)
Martha Cheng: Hawai‘i’s 7-Eleven Stores Offer Better Food Than Their Mainland U.S. Counterparts (Honolulu Magazine)
But with aggressive expansion plans, 7-Elevens across the U.S. might soon look a little more like those here. --- Everyone has their favorite 7-Eleven food: For one friend, whose first job out of college was stocking cigars at 7-Eleven, it’s the shrimp pork hash that reminds her of her childhood manapua truck. For another, it’s the fried chicken musubi, his energy bar for a paddle run. A farmer’s guilty pleasure is the ingeniously cellophane-sheathed tuna sushi that you roll in the still-crisp nori. And of course, there’s the ever popular Spam musubi—7-Eleven Hawai‘i sells 14,000 every day, requiring a pallet’s worth (2,000 cans) of Spam. For me, it’s the lup cheong manapua, warm from the steam case, the Chinese salami wrapped up in the dough equivalent of a puffer jacket. 7-Eleven Hawai‘i feels like one of those brands in Hawai‘i, like McDonald’s and Longs Drugs, that gets us. You won’t find our level of affection for 7-Eleven on the Mainland, just as you won’t find lau lau and kālua pig, recently spotted at the Second Avenue location in Kaimukī (the first 7-Eleven in Hawai‘i when it opened in 1978) and others. […] Franchisees manage the majority of Mainland 7-Eleven stores. In Hawai‘i, all are owned by 7-Eleven Hawai‘i, which reports directly to Japan. But that doesn’t mean every store stocks the same items: Each outpost is responsible for its own daily ordering, to better adapt to its customers. Roadwork outside the Waipahu location meant the store manager there had to order larger bentos and more drinks to keep up with construction workers’ appetites. And when schools closed last March, 7-Elevens saw a drop in musubi sales as students stopped coming into the stores every morning.
·honolulumagazine.com·
Martha Cheng: Hawai‘i’s 7-Eleven Stores Offer Better Food Than Their Mainland U.S. Counterparts (Honolulu Magazine)