SYSTEM COLORS Telegram Themes (For iOS, that is.) Make no mistakeâââI did virtually nothing to create the following themes, nor do I know anything about Telegram theme development, generally. Frankly, I shouldnât have even taken the time to whip *these* up, but I wanted to at least dip my toe in the experience for [a strangely sentimental essay Iâve been working on](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/issues/228) about the serviceâs service in my working life.
in This Present Time I can have regular interactions with my adolescent celebrity crush that I *actually* would not be able to convince my 14-year-old self are real. not because of their significance but the opposite.
calling her mom is like... the only even remotely reasonable outcome, btw. she *is* a mom several times over, now. and 46.
and by "crush," i mean... at least 30% of my total cumulative mental energy was spent repeating "
Writing the Definitive Guide For Using an iPhone With a Bluetooth Keyboard When I graduated high school in the Spring of 2012, my mom offered me a choice: I could go to Community College with a new laptop, or a new iPhone. I was still on the kick thatâd started with my first-generation iPhone, four years earlier, and decided to take the bet. Instead of a new laptop, I entered my first vaguely-collegiate experience armed with an iPhone 4S and an original Magic Keyboard, beginning an experiment thatâs more-or-less ongoing (there have been intermittent pauses, notably.
Periscope Twitter Public Policy ,
Just FYI, this hyperlink is broken. Weâre 8 days out and still havenât heard back about downloading broadcasts. Sorry to be pushy but⌠I feel like nobody is watching this account and there are a lot of Periscope users with questions.
Elegant, diverse, instant text transformations Iâm a fan of Shihab Meboobâs, you might say - Aviary and Mast are the most innovative social clients Iâve ever seen. Iâm also a bit of a collector of text manipulation applications like Texcraft, of which there are just a few that are truly comparable on iOS. On macOS, there really arenât any equivalents at all.
For someone like me - who uses Textcraftâs transformations both recreationally/socially and has used them in development-ish tasks - its $4.
Concerning Discovery in Streaming Music Reclaiming tastemaking for listeners in the Spotify era. Last week, Spotify users were treated to the serviceâs annual âSpotify Wrappedâ feature: a visual summary of an accountâs listening habits throughout the year, including their most listened-to artists. New for 2020 are âin-app quizzes,â a chronological âStory of Your 2020,â and detailed podcast listening statistics. For premium users, âbadgesâ will âcrown listeners with various titles based on the ways they listened.
AMERICANS:
FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH 'FREEDOM' YET?
I am so fucking sick of Freedom. Freedom sucks. Freedom doesn't work. I'm tired of trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. PRISON would be refreshing!!!
swap me out for a family of immigrants. it is long past my turn to serve some time.
you are all screaming about how you feel your "Freedom of Expression" is in danger so much that it has become the entirety of what you have to express.
Notably missing from both the film and this interview: not only have these issues been discussed and researched for decades, now, but a biome of alternatives to EVERY SINGLE CRITICIZED COMPANY/SERVICE EXISTS and HAS EXISTED for years. bit.ly/3fd3Xxn
there is a search engine that is basically just Bing except most of the profit generated by the adtech goes to PLANTING TREES. (Ecosia)
there are decentralized social networks (Mastodon, Diaspora) that often OUTPERFORM the proprietary big boys because they're still incentivized to craft the HIGHEST QUALITY experience rather than the most lucrative.
The Social Dilemmaâs Dilemma The pop culture discussion of techâs greater issues missed in (at least) two major ways For those of us whoâve written about technology, generally, for quite a long time, any injection of the broader metaphysical/âethicalâ conversation regarding the impact the industry has had/is having/is expected to have on our species into popular culture is inevitably an emotional event. The Social Network had an almost comical disregard for any potential function as a substantial critique of its subjects.
still working on my post about Facebook. it's over 7500 words now... sorry.
so far, I've used the word "Facebook" 135 times.
I'm pretty sure I'll have it up before the end of the week. and then I will never have to write about Facebook again...
10,000 words now... I think I need to take a break. definitely should be able to wrap up, polish, and publish tomorrow.
I COMPLETELY missed the Twitter hack.
With Anima Mundi, Vril departs from his Berghain roots and delivers an introspective exploration of his eternal soul. If I’m allowed to have favorites, I would claim Vril, the German DJ and Resident Advisor Lieutenant, as mine among his genre, which shouldn’t mean anything to the longtime techno connoisseur (who should probably find themselves skipping this review and moving on,) but does lend me to evangelize to those who’ve been deprived of positive exposure to the culture.
Itâs Transfiguration Time Extratone will be refocusing as a dedicated electronic music magazine with print issues on hand before 2018 is out. Itâs been far too long since I last came to you with compelling news truly worthy of anticipation, but Iâm relieved to do so today in a somewhat-epiphanous certainty that the past two and a half years of my very meticulously-documented struggle to give this project a clear direction will soon feel well worth the experience for all involved.
Update: I was much too hasty in this proclamation.
Having now pounded through a few thousand words with LibreOffice Writer running on Linux Mint 19, I must now follow up soon in one form or another. This isnât a ânight modeâ function by name, but it may as well be: it takes just 30 seconds to search out and change color settings across the whole application.
When did you first begin using Bandcamp as an artist?
How has Bandcamp performed for you as an artist differently from other online music distribution services like SoundCloud or Last.fm?
What do you like best about Bandcamp as a platform for music distribution?
How do you think Bandcamp could improve on its artist publishing tools?
How could Bandcamp improve editorially to best curate and distribute YOUR work?
Percy Hole, Editor at The Sun, Dies Pursuing Rock Springs Story Percy Hole, who in his seven years at The Sun contributed in no small part to its resolute commitment to the Superior community throughout a key period of change and transition, died nobly on Wednesday in Rock Springs while pursuing a story fraught with sensitive historical currents to which he had committed himself for the better part of the past year.
âMom and Dadââs Discrepant Defense Against Stale Industry and the Population Problem A âfunâ movie. The Earth will reach its maximum occupancy load (12 billion) when I am in my mid-fifities, meaning thereâll be more than twice as many gorging, shitting, shooting, complaining, and lying human beings than there were when I started, and perhaps Brian Taylorâs Mom and Dad is in fact a reasoned argument for a particular solution to our inevitable plight.
The world today is a wealth of topics and perspectives, but daily biological functions are universal.
Everybody gets hungry, and we are in the everybody business!
Carter Wilkerson has been hungry for some time now, according to someone familiar with the matter. Yesterday, in agony, he resolved within himself to cease the toleration of his famine, and bravely typed a message on Twitter to Wendyâsâââa national chain of restaurants where people often eatâââpleading for justice.