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What are your pronouns? What is your test -f return value? If true, use -R to run recursively through your subdirectories.

Big Moe is like comfort music for me. I should get a flac album copy of City of Syrup sometime and listen in higher quality. I think I used to have it, but lost it because I had to convert flacs to save disk space.

I went to the dentist and I haven't been able to eat this leftover pizza slice from 3 days ago and I am going bonkers thinking about it. I wanna eat it so bad, but anything too hard (like crust) hurts my teeth.

Tsarist anti-communist Wolfenstein clone showed up in my steam discovery queue 🤮

Hey kids, did you know that in 2011 there was this dude who went by the name “Shingy”, who was VP of Marketing at AOL, who somehow morphed his persona to become the company’s “Digital Prophet”. His job was apparently to be weird and outrageous? Spout gibberish and look like he’s high on stimulants? Or something?

Anyway, AOL was bought out by Verizon and merged with other dying companies to become Oath and they paid Shingy money til 2019.

A conversation sparked this weird memory in my brain and now you too will remember a piece of Weird Tech history.

#shingy #aol #wat

I will say that it is way more stable with 10-11 minute length projects than it was a few years ago. However I am once again pushing up against the limits of what features are actually stable in large projects by getting better.

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The fact that Kanye west is still famous despite having multiple Hitler crash outs throughout the years is proof cancel culture isn't real

I am becoming a smarter user of the Kdenlive video editor which means I am becoming far better at crashing it, and using workarounds outside the editor.

If LLM/AI companies could maybe stop DDoS-ing git forges from open-source communities for five minutes, that would be just amazing.

yeah I won't even bother promoting my new shit until this is fixed or I can get my PeerTube upload approved.

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oh boy. NewPipe *and* FreeTube are both broken. yay YouTube.

Effective altruism is bullshit, just in case yall forgot

Listening to @thefinalstrawradio where a surprising twist is Australia's exported shame, Rio Tinto, was brought up in the context of the Serbian anti-corruption protests as "comically evil" - as their mining of Serbian lithium in the Jadar valley has resulted in poisoning the drinking water - is garning support from China, Russia the US and the EU to suppress the protests.

"the spice must flow..."

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org

#ausPol #capitalism #antiCapitalism #climateWars #climateChange

Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Cures 21-year-old of His Sickle Cell Anemia: ‘I’m not in pain anymore’

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-cures-21-year-old-of-his-sickle-cell-anemia-im-not-in-pain-anymore

A New York hospital has declared a patient cured of sickle-cell anemia, a debilitating genetic disorder that mostly affects individuals of African heritage. Considered to be cured, other genetic treatments have proven successful in reducing or ending the…

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