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BREAKING: ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL FORCE ALL NEW YORKERS TO LEARN SIDECHAIN COMPRESSION IN FL STUDIO

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

look how big our monitors were before the turn of the century! big ol' things that had a degauss button

tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all

ok this is super og but in elementary school a friend and I would pass a save game of Civ 1 back and forth on a floppy disk

I vote yes

Hi Vee! Me and some friends have been making drum machines for fun for the past few months and putting them on a giant website called 10,000 DRUM MACHINES. What you made is so great! Is it cool if I link to it on the list? :) 10kdrummachines.com

omg thank you!

"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year

Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you
Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system,

I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on

Related: this is one of my favorite (insane) episodes in the 9/11 era's total craziness. It's shutdown was actually a national story! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_...

the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful

kubb.mingus.space

10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor...

bmo-mpc.vercel.app

they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!!

I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x

LET'S DO IT I'M SO DOWN

The 7 Habits of People Who Read Books About Habits

lmk where you land

where's the HIIT class that blasts Mozart's Requiem

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that.

Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

2025 and still no Aphex Twin ballet

Katie Mackinnon | Library Innovation Lab InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton.

What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

Generational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab 14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?"

Their answers:
lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms!

In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:

salexanderreed.com/backbeats

omg thank you <3

Retrospectively I can see that *Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy* and *M*A*S*H* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Australophobia that was beginning to shape and color Dwarven life...

BRAHMS: I suppose technically—
CHOTINER: And you spent twenty years on the first one?
BRAHMS: I wanted it to be perfect.
CHOTINER: But it wasn't.
BRAHMS: What?
CHOTINER: You revised it.

CHOTINER: So you wrote how many symphonies?
BRAHMS: Four
CHOTINER: And Beethoven wrote nine
BRAHMS: Well, yes, but—
CHOTINER: Mozart wrote over forty
BRAHMS: Symphony numbering was different then, and also he died at thirty-five—
CHOTINER: So you had more time than Mozart

I am grateful to @maxy.bsky.social for including my vintage web based drum machine from 2012 in #10kdrummachines

10kdrummachines.com/machines/sdm...

Just saw an *Iron Maiden boyfriend / Oasis girlfriend* walking hand in hand with their respective band t-shirts and dispositions it was beautiful

the memory of watching the terminal light up with that first A New Session issue in 2021 is still such a dream. Before we really knew what The HTML Review might be or how it might fit in, we kept going back to it, knowing we wouldn't be completely alone <3

Across the Universe by Natan Last: 9780553387704 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An entertaining and eye-opening look at the history of the crossword, who constructs them, and why crosswords matter as both a reflection of and influence on our culture From Wordle to Spelling Bee, ...

everyone go order Natan's new book on crossword puzzles in November www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796... and if you need more drum machines go to 10kdrummachines.com