On Piefed, you can schedule posts, fwiw.

I’m only really familiar with their hits, but a twitch DJ played this last night and I was like wau… especially the last half of the song. I listened to the original and it’s not that different, but this remix brings something out.

c’mon, fam, you were SPRINKLING some nuance…

“Balls in the Vise” is a pretty good band name!

I never heard of this person before, I was just watching a Twitch stream that played it last night, and it was just before midnight so I was like: OK it sounds like it’s about luv and it’s still Valentines day so I better post it.

the recent mania for rawdogging, a term that’s come to mean enduring any mundane activity without aids

Still gonna think this is funny

State boredom is the in-the-moment feeling of “I am bored right now.” Functionally what is it doing? It is meant to signal to you that what you’re doing right now isn’t working. You need to do something else.

I felt State Boredom while reading this article. So I stopped and am gonna do something else. WIN!

TODAY! (sorry about the late notice!)

Seems like it could be a meme. Or a motivational image.

• If you can turn scripts off, that makes the story accessible.
• apparently Reader view works too
• https://archive.is/20260212074134/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-death-of-book-world

Rumsfeld’s statement brought attention to the concepts of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, but these were in common use in US defense procurement by the late 1960s. In a 1968 study sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, Hudson Drake from North American Rockwell argued that defence contractors had to solve both known unknowns and “unanticipated unknowns”.[5] Also in 1968, Lt. Gen. William B. Bunker noted that when developing complex weapons systems “there are two kinds of technical problems: there are the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns.”[6] The usage was common enough for an industry shorthand to have developed where unknown-unknowns were referred to as “unk-unks”.[7]

The term was commonly used inside NASA.[8] Rumsfeld cited NASA administrator William Graham in his memoir; he wrote that he had first heard “a variant of the phrase” from Graham when they served together on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States during the late 1990s.[9]

it’d be funny if the hiccups were just transferred from fist-ee to fist-er.

It’ll cure your hiccups… BUT AT WHAT COST!!!

The funny thing is, when I saw the wrong title (“Hey Poor”) I immediately knew what song it was and it started playing in my head.

https://pixelgripmusic.com/tourdates

I never notice who’s driving a “cybertruck” bc I’m too busy cringing.

Aw yeah I’ve got a couple songs of theirs in the mix I use when driving around:

• Bet you do
• Dancing on your grave
• Double Vision
• Insignificant
• Jealousy is Lethal
• Play Noble
• Demon Chaser

Listening to mixes and twitch streams has spoiled me, I can’t really listen to full albums any more but I’m always hyped when Pixel Grip comes on.

Looks like they’re hitting the US starting next month; the west coast, southwest, and south. https://pixelgripmusic.com/tourdates

Free version: https://hicfix.com/

Yeah, apparently something along those lines has been shown to work:

Drinking through a straw with the ears plugged is a folk remedy that can be successful.[34] In 2021, a scientific tool with a similar basis was tested on 249 hiccups subjects; the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).[35][34] This device is named FISST (Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool) and branded as “HiccAway”. This study supports the use of FISST as an option to stop transient hiccups, with more than 90% of participants reporting better results than home remedies. A non-commercial resource describing a similar suction-based technique using a regular straw and water bottle has also been published online.[36] HiccAway stops hiccups by forceful suction that is being generated by diaphragm contraction (phrenic nerve activity), followed by swallowing the water, which requires epiglottis closure.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies the “non-commercial resource” referenced: https://hicfix.com/

Another approach that worked for me once:

A breathing exercise called supra-supramaximal inspiration (SSMI) has been shown to stop persistent hiccups. It combines the three principles of hypercapnia, diaphragm immobilization, and positive airway pressure. First, the subject must exhale completely, then take a deep breath. Then, they must hold their breath for ten seconds. After ten seconds, they must take another small breath without exhaling, then hold their breath for five seconds. Again, without exhaling, they must take another small breath and hold their breath for five seconds. Upon exhaling, the hiccups should be gone.[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies

I think the TESCREAL people are pro-AI, but tbh I’m not 100% sure.

At least he lived long enough to be Pliny the Elder. Nobody woulda mourned Pliny the Middle-Aged.