Feeling saucy

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for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

when I stated I was looking for work I should've anticipated the monkey's paw would curl and I'd have recruiters in my inbox hiring for, and this is not a joke, an AI startup helping to speed up compliance for the US sale of weapons to foreign countries

concept: velocity-sensitive computer keyboard that increases font size the harder you strike the keys

ky is _____________ having fun learning ableton

sad that the list of stargazers is no longer public on github repos :( that was a good way to find and follow people with shared interests

it's here! v1.0 of astro-lilypond is out! if you're a fellow freak who enjoys notating music as text, show me what you make 😄

Astro LilyPond

Render music notation from text with Astro.

lilypond.ky.fyi

astro-lilypond@0.17 now includes better logging and error handling: in dev mode, LilyPond syntax errors now appear inline instead of crashing the page when building for production, any LilyPond syntax errors will still fail the entire build, to stop you from accidentally deploying broken scores

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

working on LilyPond led me to this video from G. Henle, documenting the pre-computer practice of music engraving. fascinating

Music Engraving on Metal Plates

YouTube video by Henleverlag

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Announcing: Tools for Creativity at the School For Poetic Computation

I'm running a class for the School of Poetic Computation! It's about making creative tools. Nick Murray is going to be my assistant teacher. Applications are open til Monday 10th August! Let me expl...

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astro-lilypond@0.16.1 now exports proper TypeScript types for Astro content collections, which should make it easier to access and display metadata from your `.ly` files 🎶

the word "genuinely" now triggers my AI spidey sense

To all the lgbt folks out there who say age verification doesn’t matter. Surprise surprise they intended to use it against us. Like this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see. When they get to change the rules all of us are targets.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Hey friends. Still looking for work!

charli xkcd@ky.fyi · last mo.

Hey y'all, putting out the bat signal: I'm looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work in product design or frontend development. ("Design engineering" if you're trendy.) Over a decade of experience building design systems for startups, healthcare, civic tech + more. ky.fyi

had a delightful time biking from city hall to harlem today with a friend and thousands of strangers for nyc summer streets. take away cars from any space and that space immediately becomes 9000% more pleasant to exist in

clouds put on a show tonight

hell yeah, born the same year as • cosplay • gender-fluid • speedrun • website(!!!) • "blue screen of death"

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

realized last night that i'm now the age my mother was when she gave birth to me. no idea what the fuck i'm doing

this is nothing short of a catastrophic blunder on the part of the lawmakers of new york. rather than understanding that age verification is not a proper method for protecting kids online, they proceed to place in the first few cogs of the mass surveillance machine for the state. unacceptable.

The Nexus of Privacy@thenexusofprivacy.net · last wk.

New York State releases final rules for "SAFE for KIDS Act", requiring age verification for "addictive feeds" as of January 2027. Bluesky will very likely comply, since the Discover feed is probably "addictive" under this law. So start shopping for VPNs now! ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

the good thing about being unemployed is i have more time to work on my hobby projects that 3 other people use. astro-lilypond v0.14 will now automatically install the lilypond binary if it isn't available, which saves you from having to do that manually during builds. yay lilypond.ky.fyi

Astro LilyPond

Render LilyPond markup to music notation with Astro.

lilypond.ky.fyi

on the bright side i'm getting so much experience dealing with rejection

one of the defining aspects of the mid-2020s is witnessing a decade+ of well-intentioned "wellness" speak get eaten up and regurgitated by the most rotten institutions in order to mask their rottenness

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · last wk.

new: officials are building a $7 million “trauma-informed” visitation center at the cook county jail, part of at least $400 million in projects planned at the jail over the next decade. it’s supposed to make for a more “humane” experience—but it’ll do little to address the dismal conditions at ccj.

recruiter reaching out about a design systems role 👍 it's for an "AI-native" legal tech startup 🤡

This definitely comes off as the generative AI aspect being incidental and the actual intention being to destroy any literature that capital can't control or erase as required

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

I’ve been thinking about this reporting for days. It makes me physically ill to imagine the destruction of rare texts in order to feed the hallucination machine Everyone involved in this should be dropped into a pit and left to rot

Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."