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@harrisong Nothing comes close to the delight that Readwise brings me. I have some small complaints about Reader, but they are minor.
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@toddgrotenhuis Yooooooo, that sounds sick.
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@patrickrhone Subscribed since probably day one. I love that blog of yours.
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@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!
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@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.
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[Insert hyperbolic statement about how much I love what they are doing over at] Dynamicland.
h/t @chadkoh
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@chadkoh What a salve. I have been so jaded by innovation lately, but this is so different and cool. I love it!
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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.
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Not everyone has the same opinion about AI as you do.
Take that as you will.
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@hawaiiboy He is brilliant. High on the list of the most challenging and inspirational people I have ever met.
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@hawaiiboy Beautiful! I saw her today in Haleʻiwa.
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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.
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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.
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@johnnydecimal Right? It's the best!
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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.
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I love variegated plants so much.
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@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.
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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.
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@KimberlyHirsh And East 17!
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@bradbarrish I love The Brutalist Report. It has been my go-to for quite a while and don't see changing any time soon.
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Who decided that teacher training books and books about pedagogy and progressive education must be cursed with the most godawful design choices and typography?
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@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.
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@jsonbecker Worried about this too. I hated the right wing turn in her speech at the DNC.
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@barrysampson Well, I can enjoy this. Thank you for the recommendation!
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99.97% of poetry makes me cringe. Do I have no soul?
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@csilverman jaw is on the floor.
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@hawaiiboy Hell yes. "The Space Between" is one of my favorite songs ever. Killer bassline.
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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.
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@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?
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Why haven’t I heard anyone mention the Macintosh screensaver on Sequoia? Its so cute!
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@tracydurnell Never stop posting these! They are so great!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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