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RIP, Sinéad

but I will rise
and I will return
the phoenix from the flame
I have learned
I will rise
and you’ll see me return
being what I am
there is no other Troy
for me to burn

- Troy, a favorite song from The Lion and the Cobra, a favorite album, start to finish 🎵

bookmarked: Guardian Experts’ Network Women’s World Cup 2023: “A unique collaboration between some of the world’s best media outlets, bringing a local flavour and expertise to our coverage of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand” ⚽️ good previews of NZL 🇳🇿 & NOR 🇳🇴 so far

pretty clever: asimov – “Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups”. claims to have saved me ~20GB in skipped node_modules directories

happy Juneteenth! it’s a great day to buy some music from Bandcamp:

June 19 (midnight to midnight, Pacific Time US) is our annual Juneteenth fundraiser, where we donate 100% of our share of sales* to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to support their ongoing efforts to promote racial justice through litigation, advocacy, and public education.

(full details) 🎵

I love this Onion article maybe a little too much: New World Order Holds Annual Meeting At Indianapolis Marriott

“…it’s both affordable and in a nice central location,” said Illuminati organizer [name redacted], noting that the Marriott’s business center had high-speed Wi-Fi, printing services, and a fax machine

I just backed the Kickstarter for Jenn Champion’s next record, The Last Night of Sadness. if you don’t know her, check out Carissa’s Wierd, or her solo music, and see what you think 🎵

I hereby call for a halt to development of all AI-related technologies until the following are resolved:

1. MS-DOS linefeeds (aka carriage returns, aka \rs) are banished from computers forever
2. markdown is available everywhere
3. progress bars show even vaguely accurate progress (looking at you, MacOS)

RIP, Andy Rourke, “the other melodic genius in the Smiths” 🎵

on Barbarism Begins at Home, regularly held up as the greatest example of Rourke’s playing in the Smiths’ oeuvre, he plays writhingly funky slap bass

looking forward to this summer’s “Camp ToB” reading event. not planning to read all six this year, but it’s a fun, light structure that’s brought me to books I would never have read 📚

if a thing is worth using ChatGPT for, it’s not worth doing at all

been listening to a new, very short (5-10 min.) podcast: It’s Going to be OK, by Nora McInerny.

she’s the one from the TED talk, We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it & the podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking. this new one is lighter (mostly) & good

morel Talking Heads? if not now, then when? Road to Nowhere 🎵

Friday’s beer: Avery Brewing’s Tweak (Bourbon Barrel Aged, 2018)
⭐️⭐️⭐️
didn’t even realize this was 5+ years old when I bought it. mighty fine 🍺

to anyone who’s ever been “restructured”, as some of my colleagues were today. you’ll be ok & pitying those of us still stuck here before you know it

(is this too much live Talking Heads here lately? no, imaginary reader, not by a damn sight)

Talking Heads, Life During Wartime (live, 1983) 🎵

such energy! (is this what cocaine does?)

Saturday’s beer: (512) Brewing Company’s (512) Cab Tripel
⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’m not sure the wine barrels make much difference but it’s tasty 🍺

for an inside view of the Writers Guild of America strike, the Scriptnotes podcast has been putting out short “sidecast” episodes with interesting details, since before the strike authorization vote (August is on the negotiating committee; he knows what he’s talking about)

great voices, masterful building in intensity: First Aid Kit, A Feeling That Never Came (Live in Stockholm) 🎵

Tucker Carlson is not an anti-war populist rebel. He is a fascist

one of the central targets of the first mass Nazi book burning on 10 May 1933 was Magnus Hirschfeld’s collection of LGBTQ+ literature, the largest in the world and the largest documentation of gender fluidity

@manton catching up on Micro.blog’s latest changes in Twitter crossposting after having one include a cdn.uploads.micro.blog URL instead of the image. do I correctly understand what you’ve posted before – & my own skimming of their v2 API docs – that there’s really no support for media upload?!

The Guardian: Why shouldn’t two opponents kiss each other after a game? ⚽️

Women’s football… has the power to shape a new vision. It is a prism through which you can see a safer, more inclusive sport that can combine competitiveness and professionalism with inclusivity, empathy and a feeling that football really can be a place for all

(it’s also just really good soccer. check it out, if you haven’t lately: NWSL in US, WSL in England, this summer’s World Cup, etc.)