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RT @amasad
The 4 types of Twitter posters, according to the just open-sourced algorithm 😯
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.sca…
twitter.com/amasad/status/1641…

The Games for Blind Gamers 2 Game Jam is now on going! It goes until April 30th and is all about making blind accessible video games! So please spread the word and join to make this the best jam ever!

itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…

#GameDev #A11y #Accessibility

Because we were looking for more things to do when these clowns decided to write "the letter," and cite our #StochasticParrots paper while saying the opposite of what we write, we @emilymbender Angelina McMillan-Major and @mmitchell_ai wrote a statement in response.
dair-institute.org/blog/letter…

Les arrestations abusives se multiplient. L'immense majorité des gardes à vue débouchent sur des classements sans suite, ce qui conduit des avocats à y voir une volonté de dissuader d'aller manifester. lemonde.fr/societe/article/202… La #LDH exige la fin de ces pratiques : chng.it/qPtDBZGSMf
#ldh

Would you miss Twitter if it were gone? What would you say at Twitter’s funeral?

We are researchers at University of Colorado Boulder conducting a survey about how people think about the role of Twitter in their lives, given recent changes to the platform. If you are at least 18 years old and a current or former user of Twitter, we’d love to hear from you! (And feel free to share!) internetruleslab.com/twitter-e…

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Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

really loving the super heavy drone interpretation in this recording of sibelius 5 from bostom syphony orchestra 1975. the brass at ~9:20 or so made my skin crawl and my eyes roll into the back of my skull
watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=yw…

compare that to the way i usually hear it which is more like this at 8:18 where they hit it as a sforzando and then really back each of the brass instruments off of each other. the whole interpretation is a lot lighter and sparser
watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=RR…

that especially whips when you get to the big bad 3rd movement where it starts giving Ravel in its staggering dissonance, which really makes the famous final 6 chords hit. like can you imagine being in the audience for this just after WWI and you start getting music like this that just bathes you in discomfort vs. the more traditional romanticism that precedes it, the orchestra is like an unfathomably loud and powerful experience, consumer radio is just starting to exist, and you're in this WALL OF SOUND that is just BARELY hanging together and then get the rug pulled out from under you like 6 times.
eg. at 6:55 to the end -
watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=VI…

vs this where it feels like they're doing a much more traditional build to the final crescendo and rather than sort of marinating in the tension they sort of muddle through and the final chords just feel sort of like they messed something up
eg. at 29m 32s here -
watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=RR…

The new stuff in the Twitter algorithm is wild.

"author_is_elon", "author_is_republican", "author_is_democrat", etc., are explicit terms that are special cased.

github.com/twitter/the-algorit…

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@archos to se ke me dostalo az pozdeji, tehdy jsme znali jen to co hrala radia (a byl svatek kdyz tam zahrali neco mimo Backstreet Boys.. treba mam jeste nekde pasek s Voodoo people nebo prave Last train to trancentral - a zahrali to na Radiozurnalu v odpolednich hodinach - za to tehdy musel redaktor dostat vyhazov :-D).. no hodne se to zmenilo, kdyz nad tim tak premyslim, jak je dneska cokoli k dispozici na jedno kliknuti..

Spatial audio is an epic thing, but it can be hard to track down the music in your library that has been upgraded to it. I came across an accessible app called Music Tracker that will regularly scan your library and produce a playlist of all the music in it that is in Spatial Audio. Just the thing if you, like me, wanna crank up your spatial audio-capable Sonos gear on the Apple Music. There is a charge for this app. apps.apple.com/app/id106258371…

Got a comrade who has a library for those aiming to radicalize themselves. liberatinglibrary.com/african-… (jacky.wtf/2023/3/Ur5A)

It’s Friday…time for #HKCRadio fun! All times EDT…

✔︎ 2 PM: The Digital Domain with @nick and Bob has had one hell of a week, including a silly story about trouble shooting one remote access platform with another.

✔︎ 4 PM, That Party Show with @hannah_renee_11 plays all your favorite party music. Bring the drinks!

✔︎ 7 PM EDT, The Friday Night Food Fight with @chris and friends…it’s ludicrous talk and Comedy!

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Today Mozilla is officially 25 years old 🎉 Along the way, we’ve built a global community around one shared belief: the internet should be for everyone — open, empowering, and safe.

Our mission is more important today than ever before, and as we celebrate this milestone, we also look to the future in shaping the next 25 years of the internet. blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mi…

"Disabling a link". This phrase makes me ill, but here's a great article to help if you must do this. Another option is to just remove the link. scottohara.me/blog/2021/05/28/… by @scottohara #links #webdesign #webdev

Competition in Canada Takes Another Hit: Government Gives Go Ahead for Rogers – Shaw Merger
michaelgeist.ca/2023/03/compet…

Purism launches new coreboot/SeaBIOS and PureBoot firmware configurations for the Librem Mini that includes automatic power-on firmware. Go to the following link for details: puri.sm/posts/new-automatic-po…