social.noyu.me

hanging around interesting people feels uncomfortable insofar as i don't think i'm as interesting as them and so i don't always feel i belong (i.e. i feel like an impostor)… but if i hang around uninteresting people i have no envy motivating me to better myself, i become content

if a really high follower-count influencer follows you, and you don't follow back, this reflects the fact you are actually far more powerful

gonna upset everyone by writing percussion staves where the notes are positioned according to the general midi drum map, complete with accidentals

haskell is really the universe brain language because it doesn't really have mutable data types or assignment, so it ought to be useless, but the type system is so powerful that you can just reimplement them from first principles as a library and it's almost convenient to use!

ok i'm sold

(https://gleam.run)

sweden is great, the bureaucracy openly talks about the use of ”påtryckningsmedel”, which is literally “means of [exerting] pressure”, to encourage compliance. for example, fines. a delightfully clinical word; ”medel” is also used for “bleach” (”blekmedel” ~= “bleaching agent”)

varför kallas det för ”eftertanke” om man väntas göra det före

don't learn about scales!! they are a gateway drug to improvised enharmonic modulation 😱

this just in: the C major scale is finally getting updated!! changes in v2.0:

• removed 6th degree. affected users recommended to modulate to another key
• changed 7th degree to conform to EU definition of B (old version available as H)
• sharpened 2nd, 3rd and 4th degrees

trying to make music is making me relate a bit to generative ai models, the ones that “hallucinate”. if i pick some kind of genre, i can imagine and hear in my head a whole song, which i've probably never heard before, and i cannot tell you what memories it was synthesised from