And then Cat Power.
Kind: Notes
So there’s a lot of bad in the ol’ YouTube comments, no doubt, but sometimes you know you stumble across a video where someone has revealed something deeply personal and tender in the comments that the music means to them, and lots of people leave incredibly supportive responses. That’s lovely to see. I feel like you don’t see a lot of genuine warmth on the Internet and it’s nice to know the medium doesn’t strip it out altogether.
Some days, you just got to put Mazzy Star on repeat.
I changed my `dotspacemacs-frame-title-format` value to:
“`
dotspacemacs-frame-title-format "%t | %b"
“`
`%t` is projectile-project-name, and `%b` is buffer name. So I will see something like "org | Tasks.org" as the frame title.
The default is `"%I@%S", which is invocation-name@system-name, e.g. emacs@neil-ThinkPad-T450s, which I don’t find that useful.
Testing Mastodon POSSE via brid.gy
Testing syndication via brid.gy…
If someone could give this a like that’d be great!
Reimagination of the party structure through digital platforms. Populism through digitality.
’emerging organisations such as Momentum, the Five Star Movement, Podemos, France Insoumise and many others as “digital parties”, or “platform parties,” […] following the logic of the digital platforms of contemporary capitalism and mimicking operations like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.’
— https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/momentum-labour-online-digital-activism-social-media-party/
Saw a couple of meteors from the Orionids shower, boom! Get out there if you’ve got a clear sky, they peak tonight.
Good lord, ‘quantum supremacy’ is a terrible phrase.
The man who coined it ‘failed to foresee’ the association with white supremacy.
‘In any case, the term caught on, and it has been embraced with particular zeal by the Google AI Quantum team.’
Riiiighht…
https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/
Learned a little bit about FPGAs from Alan of myStorm today. I’m a long way from clocking it all, but I think a couple of concepts sunk in… I’d like to know more about chip design and hardware, the fundamentals.
The BlackIce Mx looks super fun, an open hardware FPGA dev board. Someone was demoing the NES chips built on one, and Alan showed me an implementation of RISC-V. https://mystorm.uk/mystorm-opensource-fpga-hardware-blackice-mxusing-blackedge/