I'm surprised that Reddit's board hasn't removed Steve Huffman yet. how many unforced errors does one person get?

TBD whether Reddit will hijack thousand of subs from their existing mods - and escalate the conflict.

(background: https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/14c5kyw/update_bizarre_popup_admin_account_demands/ , https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/14dnxaf/post_blackout_reddit_and_the_future_of/ , https://old.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/14d3wsw/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rwoodworking/)

#redditblackout

acquisition I'd like to see: Epic Systems buys InsideTracker and displays InnerAge in MyChart.

the 100+ million MyChart users would see how test results represent likely healthspan and lifespan.

(InnerAge: https://blog.insidetracker.com/innerage-sophisticated-model-biological-age-healthspan, https://support.insidetracker.com/supportcenter/blood-testing/how-do-i-upload-past-lab-results-to-insidetracker) #healthcare

any ex-Facebook employees know why Instagram allows endemic comment spam? a spammer can make a new account, then post the same "Promote it on <other account>" comment/ad on hundreds of posts by other people.

this would be trivial to prevent or act on, but Instagram allows it and doesn't act on reports. what's the incentive for $FB? laziness?

a JBLM Black Hawk flew over Cal Anderson Park at 675' altitude earlier today. haven't seen one that low before.

(https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae577e & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk)

#seattle #capitolhillseattle

I've been a customer of TIDAL and Roon for many years. I first moved to TIDAL because they offered lossless audio and, in a single-blind test, the difference was easy to hear.

Now, the biggest difference from Spotify might be that TIDAL isn't polluted with SEO'ed album, song, and playlist garbage. If you want a search query or genre to show actual music, not a hundred similarly-named attempts to redirect your attention, TIDAL and Roon is a good combo.

#streaming

Koosh lacrosse: https://www.target.com/p/koosh-flix-stix/-/A-85403381

if you get good enough, join the Professional Koosh Lacrosse Association. heck, maybe you'll win the PKLA Championship

RIP, 90+ day SpanishDict and Piano Marvel streaks.

I had a relatively minor bike crash last week. I was only injured, but both of my streaks died 🙃

#languagelearning #piano

tiny Seattle mysteries: the lone China Daily newsstand at 14th & Mercer, in the middle of a residential block.

Started using macOS dictation almost constantly due to a minor wrist injury (brace for ~three weeks). It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn good and much faster than typing one-handed.

(dictated. I added less-common punctuation, then discovered that I can speak "tilde" and get ~)

Seattle folks, Swanson's Nursery in Blue Ridge has a jawdropping Ukigumo Japanese maple in its spring (white leaf) state.

it's spectacular, at least for the next few weeks. if you find yourself near 95th and 15th NW, stop by.

(if only I had a place to plant it…)

(background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66twvsI7pSU)

#seattle #pnwgardener

cooked freekeh[1] for the first time.

best part? the bottomless well of puns. I even let ChatGPT join in.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freekeh

I've never seen a 4-blade tenon cutter in the US, but once or twice a year I'll spot one in a Japanese or Korean video: https://youtu.be/Kp4wg9qWtmk?t=302

"A large machine can cut a small tenon, but a small machine can't cut a large tenon."

(Table saw-style tenon cutters are also unique to Asia and a lot more common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPitkFuB7MY. I'd opt for one of these before the 4-blade contraption…)

#woodworking

do Spanish classes still watch "Destinos"? our class watched it 25+ years ago and it seems almost as popular now: https://www.learner.org/series/destinos-an-introduction-to-spanish/

if decades of Spanish students watched Destinos, the impact per dollar is incredible. apparently The Annenberg Foundation spent $4.8 million in 1992 dollars: https://web.archive.org/web/20220324105616/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-04-ca-6548-story.html

(the closest successor I know of is "Extra": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_(franchise) )

Between content generation and audio deepfakes, we're not far from prompts like this:

"Generate a 10-episode podcast series about relationships. Each episode should have a host and a unique guest who is sharing their own personal experiences. Guests should share things that they would only tell close friends. Make each episode about 15 minutes long. Here are the titles and summaries of the first 5 episodes:"

… and the output is 10 MP3s.

#LLM

Somewhere in the intelligence community, a new project just received unlimited funding: join as many Discord servers (and Slack instances, and…) as possible, idle, and log everything.

Whether that requires 1,000 quietly idling accounts or 100,000 of them, there’s now enough motivation to pull it off.

more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581579#35582116

/cc #SOCMINT

anyone know of companies working on this problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35410162

I don't know of any software ("MDM for seniors"), consulting ("MSP for seniors"), or membership/mailing list (a quarterly "AARP Tech Recommendations" with the changes in these comments - "Hand this flyer to your kids or grandkids").

arguably #AARP would be the ideal distributor, and maybe the only way to get the CAC and price low enough.

#startups #aginginplace