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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com This really hurts my soul because I've been a Wikimedia donor forever, but I cannot abide union busting.
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MSM throwing shade at e-bikes while covering for cars. Name a more iconic duo. #fuckcars #biketooter
This seems like an onion article about building everything but rail. #transit
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@adhd_coffee@mastodon.social Pro tip, cancel immediately, you usually keep the benefits the whole time
I went to early vote today in #atlanta and it was the most packed I've seen early voting ever. Over 2000 people voted at my location just today. Hopefully a good sign.
Google Fiber announced that they would be splitting from Google and merging with another broadband company to become 'gfiber'. I'm mad at Google for not continuing to invest in google fiber over the last 10 years, but I'm slightly optimistic that a company with broadband as its focus can deliver on this more effectively than what was effectively a hobby for a company of Google's size.
https://fiber.google.com/blog/2026/03/gfiber-and-stonepeaks-astound-to.html
Related to my previous #music post... secret songs just don't exist on streaming platforms which is crazy to me. We have this lost media because so many streaming services crop the songs when they hit the dead air between the last track and the secret song. :mindblown:
When I was a kid, in early 2000s. I would listen to the radio when studying. I would listen to the public broadcasting channel at night, and they would play classical music. I'm not a huge classical fan, but one night there was a piano performance that absolutely hooked me, so I recorded it on a cassette. I never knew who the artist was, but I listened to the cassette dozens of times.
By the time cassettes were obsolete, I wanted to preserve this, so I did a very scratchy recording of this to my phone at the time. The quality of this was never very good, so I forgot about it and it sorta lived in my music library alone with no metadata under the name classicalbeat.wav.
This week I'm going through my music library on my PC with Picard trying to categorize so many of these no-metadata tracks and I managed to get google's nowplaying app to recognize this song despite the abysmal quality. Anyway, prepare to be whelmed by my 25-year white whale of music.
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, In A Minor, Op. 35 (Books I & II)
She's still got it