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5 votes
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How to remember anything forever-ish
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Drawing pictures of cities
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Atari Teenage Riot - Revolution Action (1999)
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AlbumLove: a new social music discovery series on Tildes
Choose one album that you love that you think deserves more love Tell us what it is, and why. Additional Details What is this? It's a new post series I'm trying out! Each month people can use the...
Choose one album
that you love
that you think deserves more loveTell us what it is, and why.
Additional Details
What is this?
It's a new post series I'm trying out! Each month people can use the AlbumLove thread to post an album they love and explore those posted by others.
I'm planning to put up a new AlbumLove thread on the first of each month for a few months to see how these go as a trial run. If people like it we can keep it going — if they don’t it’ll fizzle out and I’ll stop.
Why AlbumLove?
In this day and age, algorithmic recommendations for music are easy to come by, and it's trivial to seek out new music that interests you by searching online. AlbumLove offers an opportunity to sift through music loved by others, including those who might have divergent tastes from you. Think of this as an opportunity to listen outside of your comfort zone, with music that you know someone else adores, from a small pool of thoughtful hand-selected options.
What do I post?
Any album that you love and that you feel deserves more appreciation. There are no restrictions on genre, year, or anything else, and nothing is “too popular” or “too niche”. If you think it needs more love — for whatever reason — then it’s welcome in AlbumLove.
Name the artist and the album, and then, most importantly, share what you love about the album. It could be the music itself, but it could also be your associations with it -- maybe the album reminds you of someone you love, or you saw the band live and got a new appreciation for the studio songs.
Also, commenting on others' recommendations is encouraged! If you love something that someone else shared, let them know!
Do I have to listen to what everyone else posts?
Nope. You don't have to listen to anything if you don't want to. This is about creating a menu of options that people can explore as they wish.
Can I post more than one album in a month?
Nope. Limit one! This helps us be more selective about what we choose, as well as preventing the threads from getting flooded with too many contributions to keep track of.
Why albums and not songs/artists?
I like albums. :)
Seriously though, I feel like it's a very different thing to like an album as a whole versus a few songs or just an artist's general vibe. I like the idea of quantizing music for appreciation in the same way we might do with books or movies.
What about EPs?
Fair game!
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Microsoft is moving ahead with an Xbox Game Pass Family Plan
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Vega Strike (an open source space trading and combat game) releases 0.8.0
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the world's interconnected environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers
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Allegations of sexism, bullying, and burnout: Inside the Microsoft studio behind State Of Decay 3
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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Does anyone else feel like Tildes gets less effective at surfacing new stuff the longer you're on it?
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when...
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when I watch a video here, the YouTube algorithm decides I'm interested in that kind of thing. So, functionally, by posting and interacting with content in Tildes we are tuning the various algorithmic recommendation feeds that we interact with to view us all similarly.
It's just an interesting side effect I noticed and some food for thought about the effectiveness of a link aggregator or discussion forum at surfacing novel, interesting content we might not find otherwise. In part, this could just be an effect of Tildes being kind of small and having lots of self-selection biases for its user population. Perhaps if it was more diverse we'd be exposed to more things that break the mold and recommendation algorithms won't be able to pin it all down as easily. In fact, we may be able to use this effect as a way to test the breadth and diversity of content and types of people a site is attracting.
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"...more than half of our members globally tuned into [anime] last year" - Netflix Anime Director
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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I don't think time helps
I've been rewatching Ozark. The third season features a bipolar character, and his storyline has been hitting me hard. There is an emphasis on "getting better". Staying somewhere and getting...
I've been rewatching Ozark. The third season features a bipolar character, and his storyline has been hitting me hard.
There is an emphasis on "getting better". Staying somewhere and getting better. Giving things time.
It's been making me wonder if time really makes things better.Time heals wounds, but it doesn't fix broken things. It helps with grief. It helps forget the things that make it worse.
Twelve years ago, things got bad enough in my life that I attempted suicide. I had no psychological safety nets at the time. No mental security. What saved me at the time was a mix of luck, a couple of smart decisions on my part, and the good will of some people I barely knew.
I have since spent a lot of time creating and nurturing safety nets to make sure this never happens again. A variety of social, technological and mental mechanisms to stop me at every step, should things ever get this bad again.
And now, I'm... alive. Things got bad this last month. Really bad. Worse than twelve years ago. Worse than they've ever been. But I'm alive. My safety nets worked. I wouldn't be writing this without them.
I'm getting the feeling that I'm going to carry this burden for the rest of my life. Time didn't fix shit. I just got better at defending myself since.
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New Music Nordics – Album and EP releases for March 2022
Denmark Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Andreas Odbjerg Hjem Fra Fabrikken Album 4/3/22 Indie pop Spotify Croatian Amor Remember Rainbow Bridge Album 25/3/22 Ambient Bandcamp Commentary:...
Denmark
Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Andreas Odbjerg Hjem Fra Fabrikken Album 4/3/22 Indie pop Spotify Croatian Amor Remember Rainbow Bridge Album 25/3/22 Ambient Bandcamp Commentary:
Only two Danish finds for the inaugral NMN post. Förlåt! Andreas's album title probably gives a clue, but it's a Danish language release. Don't be put off by the funny language though, and check out the track “i morgen er der også en dag”, with over 8 million Spotify streams.
Finland
Artist Title Format Released Genre Link As I May Karu Album 4/3/22 Metal Spotify Babel Yoga Horror Album 4/3/22 Indie pop SoundCloud Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu Album 4/3/22 Death doom Bandcamp Lone Deer Laredo Lone Deer Laredo, Vol. 2 Album 18/3/22 Dream pop Spotify Louie Blue DIVISION 8 Album 18/3/22 Pop Linkfire Pehmoaino Kaukana Kotoa EP 11/3/22 Pop Spotify Von Hertzen Brothers Red Alert In The Blue Forest Album 18/3/22 Prog rock Spotify Commentary:
I can get behind Babel's album title and the music there on it. “Eden” is a dream-like opening track from a band compared in the media to the shoegazers Slowdive and also the Cocteau Twins. I hear a little Casey Dienel's “White Hinterland” in there.
Iceland
Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Axel Flóvent Coexist EP 11/3/22 Indie folk href+ Moddi Bråtebrann Album 18/3/22 Indie folk Bancamp Suð Save The Swimmers Album 15/3/22 Lofi Spotify Thorsteinn Einarsson Einarsson. Album 25/3/22 Pop rock Spotify ÞAU Taka Vestfirði Album 11/3/22 Folk SoundCloud Commentary:
It's not just album releases covered on NMN, but also beautiful EP's, like Axel Flóvent's. The instrumental title track “Coexist” might not have the obvious popularity of the other tracks, but it carries a melancholic piano very reminiscent of some of Aphex Twin's tracks on “Drukqs”.
Norway
Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Jenny Hval Classic Objects Album 11/3/22 Singer songwriter href+ Laughing Stock Zero, Acts 3&4 Album 4/3/22 Prog rock Bandcamp Sondre Justad En Anna Mæ Album 25/3/22 Pop SoundCloud Team Me Something In The Making Album 11/3/22 Indie pop href+ Commentary:
For those of you that missed it, Jenny Hval gave an interview to The Guardian that was posted to Tildes earlier in the month. In it they talk to Rachel Aroesti about their life and how changes in it guided the making of the avant garde musician's new album “Classic Objects”.
Sweden
Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Dark Funeral We Are The Apocalypse Album 18/3/22 Black metal href+ Ghost Impera Album 11/3/22 Hard rock href+ Hilding Hilding Är Död Album 25/3/22 Lofi Spotify Imenella Gemini Album 11/3/22 Hip hop Spotify Jonathan Johansson Om Vi Får Leva Album 11/3/22 Synth pop Spotify José González El Invento (Remix) EP 9/3/22 Indie folk href+ Laleh Vatten Album 25/3/22 Pop Spotify Léon Circles Album 4/3/22 Pop Spotify Loom Asymmetry EP 10/3/22 Shoegazing Spotify Lucky Lo Supercarry Album 25/3/22 Electropop Bandcamp Meshuggah Immutable Album 31/3/22 Extreme metal Spotify MFMB Sugar Album 25/3/22 Rock Bandcamp New Horizon Gate Of The Gods Album 4/3/22 Power metal href+ ORD Hemligheter På Vägen Album 21/3/22 Piano Bandcamp Pure Shores Nightfall Feelings EP 4/3/22 Dance pop href+ REIN & Djedjotronic Transmutation EP 11/3/22 Electronic Bandcamp Sabaton The War To End All Wars Album 4/3/22 Power metal href+ Tobias Bäckstrand Heal Album 18/3/22 Folk Spotify Commentary:
Being based in Sweden means that this list is inevitably the longer of them. There are some great pop releases in March, especially with Lucky Lo's catchy release “Supercarry” among them. But for international name recognition, they are all overshadowed this month by the first new Ghost LP since 2018.
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Silence - The deconstruction of faith
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Idol words
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Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova (2020)
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A proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility from President Biden
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Bruce Willis, diagnosed with aphasia, steps away from acting
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What do revolutionary new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe | Release date trailer (April 27)
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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The SerenityOS browser now passes the Acid3 test
@Andreas Kling: The SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test! 🥳🐞🌍AFAIK we're the first new open source browser to reach this milestone since the test originally came out.This has been a team effort over the last couple of weeks, and I'm so proud of everyone who contributed! 🤓❤️ pic.twitter.com/Vw8GkHWSaj
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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The case for 'Is It Cake?,' Netflix's new game show
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Nootropics and scams - Exposing fake reviews with Python
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - March 30-31
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Gladys Bentley: Gender-bending performer and musician of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-30s)
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Russian ‘Loop Hero’ devs tell players to pirate their game if they can’t find a way to buy it legitimately because of sanctions
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London pirate radio adverts 1984-1993, vol. 1
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Robert Lewandowski on target as Poland reach World Cup after ending 31-year wait to beat Sweden
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Top Gun: Maverick | New official trailer
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
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US FTC sues to stop “deceptive” TurboTax “free” ad campaign
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The Faroe Islands commissioned a tombstone for Daniel Craig's James Bond – designed to mark his final turn as Bond in ‘No Time to Die’
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How an Ivy League school turned against a student
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Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
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War with Russia? Finland has a plan for that.
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?5 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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All-new PlayStation Plus tiers launches in June
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New Beat Saber x Fall Out Boy music pack announced (8 tracks)
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Casino design and why there are no ninety degree turns in most casinos
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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I can restore Star Trek Voyager and Deep Space Nine to HD, so why can’t Paramount?
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MidJourney sharpens style of AI art
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