“I love to be unhappy
I live to be a pain
When days are full of sunshine
I’m lookin’ for the rain” - Gilda Radner

Is there a link to the actual video? Don’t see it in that story or the one it references.

Yeah, no kidding. I just bought tickets for a $15 show that has multiple bands and included a overseas band. I mentioned to them that they should’ve upped the prices to $20.

Also: Sturgeon‘s law still applies: “90% of everything is crap“. Music is so amazingly easy to make these days you can do it on your phone (and I believe a Grammy nominated/winning album did so). Which means that there are literally thousands of albums every year, And so there will be a lot of crap. But between Bandcamp and Spotify and SoundCloud (and so on, even self-hosting), this is the freaking plutonium age if you like new music. There is literally so much that you can’t possibly keep up with it, even in sub genres. And there are some amazing gems coming out daily

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*for values of Dan Levy

Anytime, always happy to talk prog++

Night Verses, Cloudkicker, The Algorithm -Brute Force, Sgaile, Wintersun, and then to mix it up a bit: Standards, and Lantlös

Which prog bands?

FtfA: “who signed up for the energy-saving program in exchange for a discount on her monthly power bill.”

But there are other reasons - willingness to have temporary higher temps in exchange for fewer/no brownouts/blackouts.

Qigiq goes harder on lemmings than I did on my PC in the 90s.

“nearly identical on foreign policy”

Um, not even close. Unfortunately they range from “fine with it” to “actively support genocide” with Israel, but they’re not even in the same realm. See Ukraine and NATO for 2 counterexamples, and authoritarians have entered the chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM her interview on The Daily Show

Yeah, that sounds weird alright, but the trailer looks cool. Thanks!

Science Fiction & Fantasy

And the entirety of Brute Force. “Engage Brute Force Attack”. Shellcode, userspace, deadlock… such a fantastic album.

“Obviously she’s not a white person…but I love Usha, she’s such a good mom.”

That article reads like the AI wrote it

Don’t know as I’d call “find out who has better prices” AI, but it doesn’t seem like they’re letting OpenAI hallucinate deals.

“begins”

Disappointing that they gave that charger- my current Shokz have micro-usb, so I always have a cable (or can easily get one).

I do like the situational awareness that the Shokz provide while cycling, the only catch is that wind flowing past them will cause noise (there are 3rd-party straps that attach to your helmet that helps somewhat with this, though still imperfect).

I think turning these up can still cause tinnitus if it’s too loud for too long, and wanting to turn them up happens is the environmental noise is too loud. But they’re still outstanding. I almost always have them in, even in social settings - playing music super-low.