@Axtremus said in Calibri v. Times New Roman: the previous change to Calibri was a wasteful sop to DEI wokeness. And changing back won't be wasteful? The cognitive dissonance continues.... Also the cruelty. On a separate note, I hate Microsoft's new default font, Aptos. Hate hate hate it! And now, the default font for Japanese also looks horrible, and for many characters, doesn't actually look like Japanese but looks more like Chinese. Which is fine if you're typing in Chinese, but not good for Japanese, and I worry about the impact on my students' writing as well. It's not super hard to change the default settings in desktop applications, but in browser versions, I can't get it to set my desired font for Japanese, so I have to go in and change it manually every time.

Thanks everyone! I wasn’t necessarily looking for more news sources, although this thread and the earlier one that @realplayer reminded us of are helpful. I was more just curious about how many news sources people actually pay for.(actually, I included Pianist Magazine and that’s not news! I imagine that in the past, most people (?) had a newspaper subscription and they had the paper delivered to their house. These days, very few people do that, and we have access to all this stuff online, but some of it of course is paywalled. …

Will there be a day when governments fight the likes of Facebook/Instagram/TokTok/X/Twitter like they fought the likes of Philip Morris or R. J. Reynolds?

Good news.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/09/raul-malo-the-mavericks-dies-aged-60

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I think the concept much like the concept of hyper-surveillance is very unpleasant.

Capitalism is the worst form of economic organization. Except for all the rest that have ever been tried. This is probably a good messaging bill for the Dems though.

@bernard It's Neo-Gothic. I love Neo-Gothic.

@jon-nyc I am so sorry to hear that! Air travel is so awful these days. Hopefully your new itinerary with UA wasn't too expensive, and suits your travel plans etc.

@wtg said in My "final exam" for piano class this semester: oh wait, you must mean links embedded in the posts in the thread... Yep! I was curious about the other arrangement I had linked, I might have it somewhere but I don't recall. But I'm pretty sure the Kaneyasu one I mentioned is (was) a piano recording of the exact arrangement that I have (and play in the video at the top of this thread). I got it from a Japanese music magazine and they had links to performances of the scores. But that link appears to be broken as well.

I'm voting with wtg.

Doug would do well with the chics if he had that.