A mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic.
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Black Butterflies
Kupajo warns us to beware of black butterflies. Male grayling butterflies prefer to mate with darker female graylings. When caged with a female grayling and a cardboard cutout of a grayling painted black, the male will choose the cardboard cutout over the female. Beyond being an example of bro falling for an unrealistic standard of…
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I attempted to attend Divine Liturgy at another Orthodox parish today, but couldn’t even get into the nave because there were so many people.
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Star Wars The Product
What Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.
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Quick Hit
Phil Collins invents gated reverb.
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Don’t Panic
Saturday’s song is a cover of an early Coldplay track by Hoops.
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It’s certainly not bug-free, but the ATmosphere integration in WordPress is a lot more straightforward right out of the gate than the ActivityPub implementation.
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Pocket Computers
John Burn-Murdoch writes for Financial Times about the single unifying theory around the decline in fertility. The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile connectivity earliest. The authors argue that smartphones have transformed how young people spend time with one another, sharply reducing in-person socialising and leading to…
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Heart Still Beats
I’ve been on a post-punk x new wave kind of kick the last several days, after I learned Black Marble (who I blogged about last year) are going to be playing nearby in September. The algorithm overlords recommended Castlebeat to me after the end of a listening sesh of Black Marble’s Bigger Than Life. I…
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New Cans
Trying out some headphones I’ve been keeping an eye on.