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going to start intentionally referring to Roy as Eliwood and Eliwood as Roy from now on and if anybody corrects me I'll go "sorry I always get my Shining Force guys mixed up"

Re. the 'South African' COVID variant

why would they name a version of pokemon brilliant diamond shining milk

"I feel like this holiday season, it's important to remember the true meaning of christmas: ghosts terrorizing rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more"

protip: you don't need to be a ghost to haunt someone

oh, yeah, forgot – today is Wolfenoot!

Happy Wolfenoot!

"They say disk space is cheap. This is not true, not for the root devices of modern computers. Built-in storage has in fact been shrinking." ♥

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

Lots of people talking about the pandemic like it's over.

It's not.

If you have a kid under the age of 5? Still unprotected. Kids between 5 and 12 are just getting within a week of the second dose.

This. Is. Not. Over.

Look at the numbers in Europe. Watch the numbers in the states in the coming 2-3 weeks.

It will be a long winter.

This is NOT a bummer post. This is a reminder that we are NOT DONE.

STAY ALERT.

Happy Wolfenoot! 🐶​🐺​✨​
No hate, only snoot boops!
https://www.wolfenoot.com/about

What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering?

One time, a film maker called me up because she wanted to use a hubub of voices as a music statement but it wasn't coming off. I listened to the audio and knew just the thing! A resonant 70s style low pass filter would keep the timbres but jettison the words. I ran her vocal recording through my synthesiser and proudly returned with the improved audio.

She listened. "This does sound a lot better," she said, "but you've completely prioritised the men's voices and removed the women."

Cis normativity aside, she was right. My process had made altos much softer and pretty much nuked sopranos. I had to go back and organise each audio sample by vocal range and run the filter multiple times. It was time consuming, but the result was much nicer.

She noticed this because she knew what it was to be silenced according to vocal range - something that has gradually faded from my mind as its no longer a regular occurrence for me. If I'd been working with a fellow tenor or a bass, we might never have noticed. The audio would have been worse and the while project subtly effected by unconscious bias.

Instead, when the film was released, a reviewer praised the sound in that section.

Unconscious bias isn't just unfair, it makes *your* work worse.