I feel like writing a Dictionary of Three Letter Acronyms
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(To those wondering why the playlist has more than 2960 songs – it's the one where I used to collect all the songs featured in my Discover Weekly playlist. I started in January 2021, and the weekly automation I used stopped three years later at 4000+ songs.)
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If you ask Spotify to sort a playlist alphabetically by name of the artist, it will do it by the artist's first name… unless you are Belgian singer An Pierlé. In that case Spotify thinks that your name “An” is an article :blobfacepalm:
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I'm in awe of architecture, especially as far as big public buildings are concerned, such as airports and skyscrapers. Like, how do you make sure that you have accounted for all the rooms and features the building needs? How do you know that the corridors are wide enough? That it does not feel claustrophobic once the building is up? I feel like I would certainly forget about something, if I had to do that job
/NotAQuestion
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People will keep saying “Gulf of Mexico” in the same way people keep calling it “Twitter” and keep calling them “French fries”
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Ah yes, back to my usual hobby: finding out about exciting tabletop puzzle games after they’ve been discontinued.
(Okay, the one I’ve found today may not be discontinued… just out of stock on its official website)
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Fechner’s law: A person’s sensation of the intensity of a stimulus increases as the logarithm of the increase in energy of the stimulus.
Fechner’s wireless law: A person’s sensation of the speed of a wifi connection increases as the logarithm of the increase in actual data transfer rate.
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It's tough when my policy of being transparent about what I am doing and what I need others to do is not reciprocated by them
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The latest video from the Alt-Right Playbook series is cowritten and narrated by Abigail Thorn, and it's a nice touch that she picked up the mannerisms and speaking rhythm that are typical of Ian Danskin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqeFeqInoXc (CW: Trans healthcare discourse as the main example)
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I have some app notifications turned off, and I've also silenced all unknown phone calls, but I wish my smartphone allowed me to enable them temporarily (like, for just 30 minutes) for those times when I order food to be delivered
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How does one even know that such a word exists
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Reading all the American commenters clutching their pearls at the idea of people migrating to another Chinese platform, and suggesting that they must find an American buyer for TikTok… well, we in Europe, and in many other parts of the world, have been relying on websites and platforms created in the USA for decades now. Our online lives have been shaped by the US Congress more than our own governments. Cry me a river.
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R.I.P. David Lynch :blobpensiveleft:
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Random, not-fully-thought idea: A font that uses ligatures to censor slurs. As soon as you finish typing the bad word, it gets replaced with asterisks.
(This is a joke, I know about all the pitfalls of such an idea.)
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A marginal note about the concept of “everything app”: I have to use Outlook at work for both email and calendar, and the fact that I cannot see both functions at the same time bothers me. Having to do “everything” within the borders of one app sounds sub-optimal to me
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if I were to make art, I would title my works with something ending in "(2020s)", so people would wonder why they have been dated so vaguely, and future art historians would have to repeat that the date is actually precise, it's just the title that sounds vague
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I have just finished reading the Vulture article about Neil Gaiman – I started with no big expectations, and as I read it, the story kept getting worse and worse.
If the backlash hadn’t already eroded the public’s interest in the MeToo movement, I’d say that Gaiman’s career would be over
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My fingers are itchy because I am sooooo close to buying a desk and a bookshelf for my room: I’ve never found myself comfortable with my landlord’s furniture choice, but I’d really love to have some proper writing surface in my bedroom.
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At some point someone told people that putting up a content warning is the way to be inclusive, so clueless people have been slapping a message on their non-inclusive things and call it a day.
Like, say that an art gallery has an installation with stroboscopic lights at some point. They put up a content warning. Okay, but do they arrange a walkable path that allows epileptic people to see the rest of the gallery? If the answer is no (as it often happens), then the warning is not enough.
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Oh cool, it's done via a "ruby" element in HTML, which is intended for pronunciation guides especially in East Asian texts. I did not know that there's a specific HTML element for that: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-ruby-element
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