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Duolingo does a great job capturing the novel delight of learning a new language. You hop on, take a short quiz, and a little green owl waves at you and hops towards a trophy. You can add friends, join group challenges, and there’s a weekly ranking system to compete with users all over the world where you have a chance to move up a league, stay stagnant, or potentially get …

Text of the day: “No. This one I’m going to say myself. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.” (Me in Sergio Blanco’s When You Pass Over My Tomb) The post When You Pass Over My Tomb appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

BLEASS Megalit is a new 3-oscillator wavetable Synthesizer with a colorful, easy-to-use user interface, available for macOS, Windows, and iOS. UPDATE: Good news for all BLEASS Megalit users. The new free update 1.2 adds wavetable [...] The post BLEASS Megalit 1.2, synth plugin now supports wavetable import (mac, iOS, win) appeared first on SYNTH ANATOMY.

A few weeks after emerging from invite-only status, social network Bluesky has taken another major step toward doing the thing that makes it more than just a Twitter X clone: it’s opened the doors for federation. In a nutshell, that means the Bluesky network isn’t just going to be hosted on Bluesky’s servers anymore. Anyone […] The post Lilbits: Bluesky now supports federation, Windows 11 prepares for WiFi 7 appeared …

The Washington State Senate’s local government, land use, and tribal affairs committee Tuesday adopted an amendment that turns House Bill 2252, a neighborhood cafe bill that passed the House unanimously on February 9, completely on its head. The bill in its original form would have required all cities and towns in the state to allow neighborhood cafes in all of their residential zones, by right, with only a few exceptions. …

“Brothers dancing in sync” (above and below) is turning out to be my favorite video genre of 2024 so far. (Thanks, Instagram algorithms.) Both these duos — the Irish Gardiner Brothers and the Delaware-based Griffin Brothers — have been around for years, so they may be old news to many readers, but they only came to my attention recently. I played a bunch of Gardiner Brothers videos (and beyond; Riverdance …

. . photo by Bernard Gotfryd/via Wikimedia Commons Thelonious Monk at the Village Gate, New York City; 1968 . ___ . Devotion “He could make you see the music within the music” – Pannonica Rothschild . Marginalized, itinerant Brilliance barely compensated You want to save them all; you Particularly want to save him Thelonious Monk: The High Priest of Bebop, but don’t call it Bebop, because it doesn’t mean anything …

What is the point of political commentary? In my view it should try to explain what's going on in politics, explain the stakes, the tactics and strategies deployed, tear asunder its self-serving illusio, and make plain the interests that work in and through politics. A million miles away from the stenography of establishment-friendly "analysis", but one that might become increasingly redundant. For as the shenanigans in the House of Commons …

…who I’m lucky to say I’ve known a long time. We go way back on the web. Let me introduce you to Clive Murray - this guy can play! Love and Painkillers by Clive Murray

BRANT HOUSE – Servants of the Skull. Secret Agent X #2. Corinth CR126, paperback, 1966. Cover art by Robert Bonfil. First appeared in Secret Agent X, November 1934. [Brant House was a house name used by several writers; in this case the author was Emile C. Tepperman.] The Skull’s plan is to kidnap ten heavily insured businessmen, then force [their] life insurance companies to pay for their release, rather than …

The original blogfather himself, Barry Ritholtz, joined me again this week to answer questions about Peloton as a going concern, hedging huge gains in individual stocks, how inflation impacts the stock market and finance career advice for recent college grads. Further Reading: Don’t Try to Get Rich Twice The post Creating Generational Wealth appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

I couldn’t sleep last night. I’m not manic, I’m just going through this months-long bout of insomnia. At least I don’t think I’m manic. It doesn’t have any of the characteristics of my usual mania. And up until last night I wasn’t even getting out of bed when I couldn’t sleep. But last night I did, and I made you a website. Introducing Dimspire.me. It’s built on Jekyll and has …

Also Goldman committees, Ukraine reparations bonds and earnings release typos.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***If I were to declaim, to you, the words, "Come alive! Come alive!" you'd know exactly what I was saying to you.I'd be saying, "Come alive!"But where would I be saying it?Why, down at Devil Gate Drive, of course.For, verily, it was that very song which was topping the UK singles chart, …