@justafrog@mekkaokereke they also rarely get mentioned for having any role in the revolutionary war too. it is hard to get specific numbers, but 8-10% is reasonable by 1781, and they served 8x as long as white men.
Sean Lennon, one of the first people to own a Mac in 1984 (given directly to him by Steve Jobs), whose dad wrote fucking “Imagine” and “Revolution,” is complaining about “wokism,” clearly not aware of the messages in his father’s own songs.
@ernie i appreciate the sentiment here, but lennon didnt invent wokeism. claiming he did may cause you some issues, depending on who reads that, so I say this to be helpful ✌️
I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation
Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)
June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)
May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants
@sqrt2 tech has more than enough money to keep everyone employed. it's the numbers of people who usually spend that suddenly wont, and whether or not the rest of the public will care about tech layoffs, which we know now that they do not
@sqrt2 you think that's all they do? history tells a different story over and over and
over. you'll find important recent lessons both in the 2008 crisis and the management of SVB's collapse.
worth digging into, but without that there is no need for me respond further. ✌️
@dabeaz you're not wrong! i think the phrasing is tripping people up.
i interpret what you're saying like a messy paint palette, or someone's first band, or whatever mess exists because it is a stepping stone towards skill that represents an experiment of some kind
Tried out “Demeo” tonight: a multiplayer adventure board game that you can play in #VR or #AR. It was well done, and fun to see the pieces animate and move! Also easier to learn the rules than for a regular board game as you weren’t able to make an invalid move, and aspects such as the cards were dealt automatically!
As someone who still has a strong streak of Dream-of-the-90s Web in their bones it's a bit demoralizing to find the AI Search-Summarize-Slop Loop seriously confronting me with the question of why I, or anyone, should ever again write anything of substance that's just freely available online to people who might be interested.
@kjhealy the best answer might be so we can know it was you who wrote it. AI totally obscures who said what, but we need experts and we need to know what the experts said
Trying to convince the kid to do summer community band with me. Aside from the big hurdle of "playing with a bunch of olds", I contend that community band is the way to get good.
We'll probably play 20+ songs. Real arrangements. Stuff they'd play in the top HS band. You'd probably only get 1-2 rehearsals per song--tons of sight reading. People are there to play and have fun. So, it's totally chill, not competitive. Get to be out in the community. And it's free. Unlike band camp.
@dabeaz i grew up in punk scenes that operated much the same way, and i couldnt agree more! if you actually wanna play music, you gotta hang with the folks who do it for the love, not cuz they have rich parents