It is in mint condition and that upsets me even more.

You’d prefer it was… soiled?

So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?

Can’t wait til we see the Enterprise’s main view screen full of flying toasters.

The Undiscovered what??!? Oh, there’s a final “ry”. The Undiscovered Country.

A sort of 2D holoprogram where everyone’s an NPC. Ask Quark for the “Retro Package”.

Just wave your arms and shout. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them!

And TIL of the Beachy Amish, who absolutely do not go around on horsedrawn surfboards with Annette Funicello.

中西 圭三 - Woman
Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
(Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIA

Время и Стекло - Тролль
Vremya i Steklo - Troll
(Russian)
The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNY

Anders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
(Cantonese)
From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlk

Tabou Combo - Konpa Mania
(Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw

From “No racism” to “No “no racism””: America’s great again!!!

Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!

Maybe by an intellectual property stickler. You know, for infringing on New York State’s I ❤ NY registered trademark.

/jk

I’m in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I’m hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.

TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden’s #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

TIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.

Me, too.

KDE Connect

• https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

I’ve used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I’m sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone’s lockscreen to pause the music.)

I’m starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.

There’s more too I need to explore.

• https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a ‘device unreachable’ error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)

Upvoted for FreeTube.

What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I’m using LibRedirect https://libredirect.github.io/

I disagree.

Especially as the people who believe in “pizza place basements” are now running the show.

An obedient drone serving the monarchy? Cry me a river!