@harrisong Nothing comes close to the delight that Readwise brings me. I have some small complaints about Reader, but they are minor.

@toddgrotenhuis Yooooooo, that sounds sick.

I cannot stop thinking about Dynamicland xxxx.micro.blog

@patrickrhone Subscribed since probably day one. I love that blog of yours.

@cory Damn "Circles" is my favorite Dag Nasty song! This is sick.

@hawaiiboy So cool! Thank you for sharing. I love these kinds of recordings. He sounds like he is really in the thick of it. His humility is unreal. I have a friend going to the NW Hawaiian islands this month, I'll be sharing with her. Mahalo!

@amerpie It happened to me and I grew up in a right wing household being dragged to anti-choice protests and end times Bible studies.

[Insert hyperbolic statement about how much I love what they are doing over at] Dynamicland.

h/t @chadkoh

@chadkoh What a salve. I have been so jaded by innovation lately, but this is so different and cool. I love it!

Hawaii hotel workers spend Labor Day walking picket lines as strike enters 2nd day:

Roughly 5,000 workers at Hawaii hotels spent Labor Day walking picket lines in the heart of the city’s tourism center as the strike for better working conditions entered its second day.

Meanwhile, more than 10,000 workers at 25 hotels across the U.S. were also on strike Monday.

Solidarity forever! Here are tips for how to support unions and striking workers.

Not everyone has the same opinion about AI as you do.

Take that as you will.

@hawaiiboy He is brilliant. High on the list of the most challenging and inspirational people I have ever met.

@hawaiiboy Beautiful! I saw her today in Haleʻiwa.

Gall's Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

Currently dealing with a complex teaching schedule that makes absolutely no sense and is what I have termed as “anti-human.” This year we are operating on cycle days rather than weekdays and it is truly awful. No particular day means anything.

Being at the Okinawan Festival yesterday and hearing the sanshin, reminded me of one of my favorite movie scenes from Sonatine. I can listen to “Play on the Sands” by Joe Hisaishi on loop 24/7 and not get bored.

42nd Annual Okinawan Festival xxxx.micro.blog

Pōhakuloa: A Land Besieged: Hawaiʻi is one of the most militarized states in the United States. Overall, the U.S. military controls almost 223,000 acres (about 5%) of land in the pae ʻāina – and fully 21% of the land on the island of Oʻahu. [...] “So much money to the military,” grieved Kahaulelio. “We got hungry kids and schools falling apart, but the military gets millions? To what? Make more bombs to kill and keep killing? “The military is even using our Hawaiian home lands – Mākua, Bellows, Pōhakuloa – while our people wait 40 years on the waiting list. How much more are they going to take f... xxxx.micro.blog

@johnnydecimal Right? It's the best!

Thanks to @nileane@nileane.fr’s suggestion I am trying out Lucky for Safari. I absolutely LOVE the way the results look, but after using DuckDuckGo for several years, I have gotten so used to bangs that !g, !gi, !yt, and !w are all well-established muscle memory. Change is difficult.

I love variegated plants so much.

@bradbarrish I haven't because AI summaries and the word cloud are not something I really need. I would like to tip and support the site though.

My Wishy cassettes arrived today. They are a perfect blend of melodic shoegaze and dream pop. Their excellent full-length album is out now, but check out “Spinning” from their EP. It feels so much like my favorite parts of Chapterhouse and Slowdive.

@KimberlyHirsh And East 17!

@matt “A poem celebrates people who think differently” is just 🧑🏽‍🍳🤌🏽💋

@bradbarrish I love The Brutalist Report. It has been my go-to for quite a while and don't see changing any time soon.

What Kamala Harris Meant by “Most Lethal Fighting Force” in Her DNC Speech: As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., highlighted in a criticism of Harris’s speech, the nebulous goal of lethality can also justify seemingly endless military spending. “In all due respect, the United States is now spending more than the next 10 nations combined on defense,” said Sanders on ABC’s “This Week.” “We want the strongest defense in the world, but I do think enough is enough. You’re seeing military contractors profits soaring, and I think we can have the strongest defense in the world without spending a trillion dollars... xxxx.micro.blog

@Burk Do they do this just to differentiate iterative updates? It is so annoying.

Who decided that teacher training books and books about pedagogy and progressive education must be cursed with the most godawful design choices and typography?

Super Saturday at Capitol Modern xxxx.micro.blog

@jsonbecker Agree to disagree, but there was a time when the Democratic party was at least positioning itself as the party of peace and hearing "I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world" is truly awful to this voter.

@jsonbecker Worried about this too. I hated the right wing turn in her speech at the DNC.

@barrysampson Well, I can enjoy this. Thank you for the recommendation!

99.97% of poetry makes me cringe. Do I have no soul?

@matt whatda

@csilverman jaw is on the floor.

@hawaiiboy Hell yes. "The Space Between" is one of my favorite songs ever. Killer bassline.

@jean Is there a nod to the carpet anywhere?

Naka Nathaniel: We Need To Foster A Culture Of Belonging In A Land Of Inequality: I was reminded of a previous conversation with a very wise uncle. He said that decades ago, Hawaii had become too welcoming. He said that most cultures prioritize protection first and hospitality second. Somehow, in Hawaii we had it flipped. Unlike the Maori, we put our dancers out in front and not the warriors. He said he couldn’t understand it: When a stranger arrives on your shores you should determine if they’re there to invade you and take what you have. Instead, in Hawaii we sidelined our warriors and, to him, ... xxxx.micro.blog

Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/SixtyCriticsCollab:

Black Lunch Table (BLT) Wikipedia initiative mobilizes the creation and improvement of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists.

I am so inspired by the work of Black Lunch Table on expanding the scope of Wikipedia and publishing so much excellent work.

@chartier I think about this when I am on the top floor of a parking garage or a very tall building, and I see a spider. How many generations of spiders did it take for you to get up here? Did the wind blow you up here? Did you ride up on a car?

Why haven’t I heard anyone mention the Macintosh screensaver on Sequoia? Its so cute!

@tracydurnell Never stop posting these! They are so great!

The new Little Joel video, Why do conservatives love AI art, asks an excellent question. There are no real answers, but it speaks to how derivative fascist art is and how it is always ends up several steps behind.

Maui’s Identity Crisis Is On Display At Kahului Airport:

Maybe that hotly debated wall display in Maui’s Kahului Airport is actually perfect.

No, really. It shows visitors arriving on Maui exactly what the island has become: a place where wealthy entertainers from the 1980s who bought property on the island are seen as better than regular local people.

Exactly. Why the hell would you do this?

@keenan Me when my parents and siblings inevitably start fighting.

Community pushes back on military land lease renewals on Oʻahu:

The Conversation's intern Alyssa Salcedo spoke with Healani Sonoda-Pale, a Native Hawaiian activist who argues that the state leases should not be renewed.

"Hundreds of people have come out over the past three nights, and the overwhelming message they were sending every single night, with the exception of one or two, was literally telling the Army to clean up and get out," Sonoda-Pale told HPR at the community meeting.

I love to hear this. Check out John Oliver’s segment this week to learn more.

Why I Finally Quit Spotify:

Issues with the listening technology create issues with the music itself; bombarded by generic suggestions and repeats of recent listening, listeners are being conditioned to rely on what Spotify feeds them rather than on what they seek out for themselves.

[...]

Listeners become alienated from their own tastes; when you never encounter things you don’t like, it’s harder to know what you really do.

I have no idea how folks can remain on music streaming services.

Folders full of MP3s and a halfway decent collection of music on a physical format is a beautiful way to live.

Shoegaze recommendations xxxx.micro.blog

Rock band Metallica’s foundation supports scholarships at Honolulu CC:

Honolulu Community College is the first in Hawaiʻi selected to the Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI), which was launched by the rock band Metallica through its All Within My Hands Foundation. The initiative is designed to support and elevate career and technical education across the nation.

Well that is super cool.

I just learned about Plok! and its mind-bending soundtrack. This version of “Akrillic” is gorgeously rendered. Here is the original for reference. I know that Yes and Genesis are claimed as influences, but I definitely hear the highly-underrated Canadian prog-rock band Alpha Ralpha as an influence, parti... xxxx.micro.blog