Richard Brynjólfsson @sillygwailo@mastodon.social

I needed an uplift after listening to a Toronto band cover Radiohead songs in a church, and trap music where Quavo’s guest spots outshine the rapper who has top billing (except Young Thug tracks) was just what the doctor ordered.

The song she did with Kool Keith, where she outshines him? Amazing.

Yugen Blakrok reminds me a lot of Shabazz Palaces.

Oh! Peach is still around. https://twitter.com/peachdotcool/status/1097965702055710720

This screenshot from the video made me laugh, because it's two process listings (one of which his for a web server), output from the ping command, random The Matrix-style output, a binary file, and JSON. Basically, everything you might see in a terminal window except code.

Resident Advisor’s feature on algorithmic music reminded me of the podcast episode by @darius and @deerful did on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EZqikCIfY

Only 8 faves at this writing, but 34 comments is a solid number. A conversation happened. That makes me happy.

My first post to MetaFilter in 16 years was a hit. https://www.metafilter.com/179408/A-Novel-A-MetaFilter-Post

Twitter for iOS now shows which app people posted with. Remember how we blew up because they stopped doing that? Also, likes are florps again.

Looking good there, book of indeterminate title.

How is it not a Young Thug song featuring Rae Sremmurd?

If I was worried that we were exiting a golden age in rap, Young Thug’s long verse on Rae Sremmurd’s “Offshore” put me at ease that we’re still in that golden age.

I should add that to my list of social media failures at http://notes.justagwailo.com/notes/wrong and replace the Robert Scoble one because it turns out, well…

My greatest failure as someone who posts to social media was having too unique a combination of interests, and thinking I needed to break off into separate accounts for each interest when really my interests haven’t been interesting to other people individually either.

I’m thinking of breaking off my synth videos to a synths-only Instagram and my synth tweets to a synths-only Twitter and my synth toots to a synths-only Mastodon account and this joke structure where you end a post mid-word was a lot funnier when we only had 140 characters to work with but I guess I’m actually serious about wanting synths-only accounts that nobody will follow despite what will be frequent exhortations to follow those accounts.

We decided against teaching ASIMO how to Dougie because that would have involved stop-motion animation, which we don't have the budget for.

We taught ASIMO how to dab at work today.

Freedomstaki is not a real place and .fs is not a real TLD, both of which I just learned after a few minutes of believing otherwise.

“Lyrics To Go” is my favourite A Tribe Called Quest beat, and it sounds even better chopped up. RIP Phife Dawg. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqX8d5GATm4/

I just saw someone look at Twitter on the streetcar. In my 3 years of definitely not spying on people’s phones in Toronto, I never saw anybody look at Twitter until today.