Mike Lynch @mikelynch@aus.social
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covid-19 adjacent, mental health
Four Simple Rules for Social Media Distancing
(I shouldn't be here and will leave immediately, hope you're all doing ok)
As promised: pretentious and amateurish music https://soundcloud.com/fsvo
meta, social media
Gonna take another break from the socials for a week or so. Stay safe, folks.
official 30 day song challenge - day 7 - a song you have adapted to sing to a pet
Pet Shop Boys, “Paninaro”
When this came out I used to sing the chorus as “bunny narrow” to my pet rabbit, who liked to lie stretched out against the garden wall
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a neural net defines CRAB SAUCE
CRAB SAUCE: a stronk with spices and cut off and soaps and meat or steamers
The psychoanalysts of Empire https://aeon.co/essays/britains-imperial-dream-catchers-and-the-truths-of-empire
LB combines two of my favourite things about the USA: hip hop and robust institutional support for public domain content
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The Library of Congress has announced Citizen DJ, a huge online repository of 100 years' worth of public domain and open access music clips intended to be remixed in new hiphop music.
http://citizendj.labs.loc.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?l11_uid=66143
You can search the repository by sound/metadata, mix new tracks over hiphop beats, and pull curated "sample packs" to use for more ambitious projects.
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/04/ibrary-of-congress-open-source-hip-hop-dj-citizen/
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training a quick neural network to predict where to add poetic line breaks in text, based on a large corpus of public domain poetry and taking into account phonetics and semantics. the goal is to be able to enjamb prose passages in a somewhat principled way—after just a handful of epochs, here's what it does to a passage on hyacinths from wikipedia:
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Broad as argo and sorrow, and so do now broop, and was no soon prosprabll carnal can blass, and a grac or sporn was a concord, and so do now and as so boor and plagps, and so arga's son as a sold assarsa was so possagabllasl.
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a neural net defines PERIODICALS
PERIODICALS: a consequence of being unpleasant
alcohol, home brewing, slightly gross
Ok this batch looks healthier
official 30 day song challenge - day 6 - another song with a sick riff
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Workers must assert
their rights to obtain any
kind of protection
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Illuminated Initials of the Chansons d'Amour Thott 291 8º manuscript (late 15th century): appreciation thread
