It'd be kinda neato to separate the leaders from the pretenders if it didn't involve your entire existence getting systematically exterminated, huh? JFC.

Some people apparently can't pull themselves outside of their gold-plated sneakers to even begin to imagine what that might feel like. How sad! But those are not leaders, despite any social authority lent by wearing said shoes. Just a wholeeeeee lotta pretenders, in leadership positions.

I know the feeling of disillusionment you speak of. What it really means? We're the leaders now. Is it terrifying? Oho yeah.

You still have my cell, I think, please call me or text me any time. Breadmom for life.

Publicly, I think this guy fuckin' sucks

Also: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-confirms-cancellation-vaccine-advisers-meeting-2025-02-27/

So fucking bullish.

whispering Siri: short the future. All accounts.

I misspelled a word in a graphic as "magnetospause" instead of "magnetopause" and I doubled down, told everyone at work I have an electric wife. Now I'm a loser though

Harrison Buggerroff? Too highbrow for my non-brit sharks, prolly.

Sorry, that's not how I see things taking off. My vision is a smartnecklace that weighs 10 kilos for training your lower back and a little bit for the child-sized battery. It fetches bad news, exclusively, but pronounces headlines that it pulls at least a little bit wrong, which is totally on purpose, and helps to lighten the mood. It monitors the tightness of your asshole, and if you're not clinching hard enough the thing will squirt you in the eyes with some isopropyl and play either "Don't cry for me, Javier Milei" or this.

Sharks, I am here today looking for 500 billion dollars. I believe in my spirit and entreperneutership.

damn I was sure this thing was gonna change the world (bahahahh) but "the world just wasn't ready", I guess, you might tell investors. 💁‍♂️

Hello world I am seeking $2 billion for a wrapper script

I did Govee. So far, I'm happy with it. It's got like a centralized control center for everything at once, audio/mics sensitivity, you saw. But eventually, something like this as a basis, and then it's off to the races.

I dream big, what can I say? Combining this with the visual programming language of Ableton's Max Visualizer module would be.. would be something.

Agree!

It will be hard to keep things peaceful. There will be false flags, in fact Chris Rufo may have done one today, but I digress. They will lie about the peacefulness of peaceful protests anyway, and stoke fears.

Personally I think we're a little too clever to get Weimar'd, these days. Sorry Hitler 2 & 3, you're gonna need more hitlers. Though the courts are in the process of failing, the people will fucking speak. With action and assembly and art, for starters.

There are about brb 10,000 LED bulbs in this room.

Eventually I will cease using the out-of-the-box phone app, and custom harness and program these badboys. I will document.

You know what? It's you that I feel the most sympathy for, not the olds. They blue it. Ya like Darwinism? Do ya? (not you, them)

I'm up to all kinds of stuff. Can't talk about it, except for going to protests, radicalizing my mom by proxy, my wife beginning to scheme with me, talking with my ride-or-die local homeboys about It All, farming a resistance bsky account, and I should say that absolutely nobody at work is upset. Nobody. But the rest of what I'm up to, can't talk about.

this is one of the best places on the internet.

and that's other peoples' bad.

Hubski has "the best, greatest people, frankly", people are saying (me). sorry, I treat posts like a marble volume that I'll chisel at for a few minutes, mostly to not check the news. Blob probably inspired the sculpting analogy.

I am very sorry to hear that, Blob. But it sounds like you have handled it as well as anyone could...

Man, we all just have so much to work on. I take stock every day and react but the bag doesn't get smaller.

p2p meatspace buff.

What do we call it? It should be a meaningless amalgamation. (decent word)

So the best wordthing I came up with (maybe) was about a decade ago and it was hyper-meta-pan-omni-ism but that was before Facebook did "meta". And I named a bunch of wrapper scripts "meta_" as a prefix before Facebook did "meta". I don't know how the people who got the scripts perceive that nowadays, I've never asked.

We are doing the latin thread here now.!

My sister gets cagey after a few days with me, you'll never make it, I'll get you out of here, after making you want to desperately get out of here.

If you get to Toronto this autumn, I'm going to visit my aunt and uncle there, that'd do it to cement the trip. That's a promise.

Stay well. edi(c)t: and don't say that, dude, jesus

How about another one? And another personal one.

The polyrhythms in the first seven minutes of this or so are sort of on another level. About a year ago, I was able to do the main synth's ping-ponging two notes for the two main polyrhythm patterns (sidenote)* with my right hand, while carrying on the driving kick drum and snare with my right foot and left hand (this is usually simple, but the polyrhythm in the right hand between the two notes makes it SOOOOooo hard), and I was working on integrating my left foot on the hi-hat pedal, but I have since lost the ability, for now. Obviously deadmau5 isn't performing this, it's modulated on his ridiculous Eurorack analog synths, probably. Or Serum, or Massive software synths, within a DAW, whatever.

I chase the dream of doing all the main synthwork and drums on this at the same time but I'd have to integrate my remaining right-hand fingers to modulate the effects on the right-hand synth and at that point... well, I just don't have the time. Sucks. Like I can see the path but I can't achieve it too easily. Would rather practice more generally, and write.

If we ever meet or talk I will tell you about when deadmau5 hooked up with my roommate. I know, I know. But it was around the time complications 1 came out and he wasn't chasing fame so much as just making deep electro-house tech music and playing some clubs. Well, maybe he was chasing fame. I dunno.

*the second polyrhythm, chronologically, beginning exactly @8:00 is much easier, actually, because it syncs quicker with the driving 4/4 time signature)

Oh, I will! It's to my shame that I haven't made it there yet. I wish my main work project had a group somewhere on the continent, I'd have been there by now. edit: It's not that I value work over my sister, but since she comes back here every year or so to visit her entire past, the impetus for me getting there is lower. I do miss her. But me visiting Melbourne proper will probably be two or three years at the most from today, provided it's possible.

Would love to make hubski meetups international (again?).

She's got an apartment somewhere in a mid-town-like area, not urban center, but probably not far. Definitely far within any city limits. She recently got permission to have a dog, which is not easy while working on a visa, but she's been there about a decade now and is on the path to citizenship.

My wife and I are planning on getting divorced, my wife will marry my sister while claiming me as a dependent and we'll all be Australian! Should work perfectly. This paragraph is a joke, don't worry.

You make a great point regarding culture, but knowing the language is still a great tool to recognize your horizon of familiarity. It's also a way to expose yourself to it, should you want to.

There might be some truth to the possibility that american culture is dora the explorer'd a li'l bit, for me. More than ever. And the emerging elements are increasingly less fascinating. I found myself defending weeaboos the other day because I was like "well..? I mean I kinda get it, at this point. Kinda, though".

"Tic-a-tac-a" is an offensive move I know in futbol (it's the "give and go" in american basketball offense), but yeah I got an antenna to watch the worldcup via digital radio broadcast TV on Telemundo because when the american announcers react to a goal, it's literally "and there it is, peter, into the back of the net, for the argentinians, once again, Messi" vs. "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL", like yeah I went and got an antenna for that second option! Hell yeah. No regerts.

I'm in the minority here, actually. City and county wide. Oh no (/s).

Just like with veen, it is more fun to banter with you or other europeans than many of the people I'm supposed to be culturally identically to in God's yt America or whatever we're doing now.

veen; your ability to express yourself in English is better than at least about 94% of my countrymen, by my best estimates. And you're gonna love their/my dutch. "as;dlkhf;xacvklhasdf" etc.

I took Spanish for three years in high school. Latin for a half year, mostly to boost my SAT scores (Nate Silver's new fave metric[?]). Language doesn't stick with you much if there's no cultural immersion or social imperative. Or if I'm dumb. How unfortunate that all is.

I'm still half-fluent, Lo hablo mas que a poco, que huevos por un guero, no? Lo se. But what use is it, how can I prove I'm better than google on the internet without cultural knowledge? I have almost none. (edit2: well... actually that might not quite register in European dialects of Spanish.. so... I dunno. It is a Mexican-style Spanish that I know, or more acutely, Tex-Mex)

So while I was doing my best "perdon" in the Toulouse subways with all my luggage, in rush hour (thanks academic advisor)... you know what? We will finish this one in person some day. I might be in Paris in April but I doubt it. Sorry demure, things are... yeah.

I will be back over in the Schengen someday. I know your Eurorail, and I have already schnitzel'd at the Ratskeller (and I'm a little glad that's over with). Uh but I think these next few years? I'm busy, but I age at half the normal rate on account of the fed-common-pot (FCP) adrenochrome we share; as fed contract perks. See you in 4 or two years

Edit: I know they say it's hard when you're older (with no adrenochrome, I think?), but I know I can eventually reach some actual polyglot status. It's probably two decades out or so, but if the world would chill? Who knows.

It's not money well spent, but I agreed with everything else you said.

Sorry, I have edited the text since you might have started. I am so sorry. mods are asleep

edit: no, the mods are cool, the issue is /u/am_Unition