Hi there @Chase Bank, do you realize that when you cut off the business of some company due to their political affiliation, you are alienating everyone that shares that affiliation? Surely you know this hurts your business. You know? Mkay then.
How I escaped Twitter
In principle, I like the idea of crypto/blockchain content projects. But most, if not all, simply trade on the idea of “decentralization”—even as they (probably deliberately) remain functionally centralized. Sorry—I wish the news were better.
Tucker Carlson & Mark Stein brilliantly debunk the very idea of a “reality czar.” It’s incredible that we must debate this.
Educated liberals, if there are any remaining—are you still comfy with such insanity from the Establishment left? Really? Watch >
I have finally fixed the http > https problem. Ugh, taking too long solving problems like that is what I get for self-hosting the site.
Well, at least now we know how desperate Democrats are to get and hold on to power.
It turns out there already are RSS feeds for Mastodon.social pages. See, for example, my feed here: mastodon.social/@lsanger.rss. Pretty cool.
Feedly already lets me view a feed of microblogs from multiple sources. Look at the screencap >
There are certain things I just don’t try, don’t care about, and am totally ignorant about. Like, for years, Kanye West—no idea.
Well, another of those things is TikTok. I checked it out for 30 mins just now. WHAT a waste of time. Good Lord.
Somebody is trying to port his tweets to the Fediverse. An important step toward making social media 100% interoperable. Can anyone help?
Justice Samuel Alito explained and defended his remarks in a pro-liberty, anti-lockdown speech last year, saying he’s not surprised at the reaction he’s received:
11/ Here’s an MP3 of a couple of tunes played on the piano I got earlier today, a George Steck baby grand, before a tuning. It’s close to in tune already.
10/ Particularly if you want a spinet style piano, there are gazillions of good ones for $1K or much less, that at most just need cleaning and tuning and other work that wouldn’t run you more than $500. Do avoid the scams!
9/ The music store owner I got my piano from said movers often must dump pianos people just want to get rid of. Many end in landfills. Some belong there, but some just need expert TLC, like the upright I tried.
8/ The economics of pianos is interesting. The most gorgeous new, high-quality instruments cost 10s of 1000s of $. But there are many more pianos out there than there are active players. You’d be shocked at what you can get free and cheap.
7/ So I looked in Facebook Marketplace and here were a bunch more candidates. My wife told me to spend a little money. I learned that for under $2000 you can get a beautiful baby grand without significant issues.
6/ So I went back to the upright. This time I had studied how to inspect pianos and had a checklist. I took notes and videos. It had some problems. Could be fine just after being cleaned and tuned, piano tuners said. Or not. So…we passed.