WTF-Beta

Yay!!!!

I love that Debussy piece.

There’s a fabulous Stephen Hough master class on that piece on YouTube. Totally worth watching.

My sister, a big royals fan, sent me this.

@Daniel said:

The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me.

How would you even define it?

I'm showing my age.

Remember ‘people who are famous for being famous’? It’s the social media version of that, but the fame is with a very specific sub-culture.

Christopher Hitchens used to say “to whom would you give the power to decide what you’re not allowed to read?”

As 89 said next door, I prefer upvote/downvote, community notes, or some way to crowd-source commentary rather than outright censorship.

#notallbillionairres

@Axtremus said:

Fitness gadget makers haven't figure out how to distinguish human gaits from the usual house pet gaits?

What makes you say that? The collar seems to be tracking the dogs steps. I’m sure the pattern in the movement data is pretty easy to spot

This is ridiculous. Friend of mine that I worked with years ago has some fitness tracking collar for his golden retriever. And it apparently connects to Strava.

Siena (spelled sienna in older English texts) is a town in Tuscany. That’s where they hold the famous Palio.

That’s the origin of the name of the color - a pigment found in the soil there. Odd they froze the spelling in time for the color, whereas for the city we’ve since dropped the extraneous ‘n’.

I’ve eaten two hard boiled eggs as part of my breakfast for most of my adult life.

@Daniel said:

I've been seeing video after video of USDA Organic labelled fruits and vegetables (bananas, for example) being gassed with industrial chemicals, etc. WTF.

Organic foods can be sprayed with natural pesticides.

Examples commonly applied as sprays include:

• Pyrethrin
  • Usually sprayed directly onto crops for insect control.
• Neem oil
  • Often sprayed as a foliar treatment on leaves.
• Copper sulfate
  • Typically sprayed to prevent fungal diseases.
• Sulfur
  • Often sprayed or dusted onto crops.
• Bacillus thuringiensis
  • Commonly sprayed onto plants so caterpillars ingest it while feeding.

Organic farming is not “no pesticides.” It’s more accurately:

• “restricted-input agriculture,”
• with emphasis on approved natural/biological substances,
• crop rotation,
• soil management,
• and integrated pest management before chemical intervention.

In practice, some organic crops — especially fruits vulnerable to insects or fungus like apples or grapes — may receive multiple spray applications during a season. Conventional farming may use fewer sprays in some cases because certain synthetic pesticides are longer-lasting or more targeted.

@wtg said:

Two California residents are suing Cento Fine Foods, alleging the company engaged in "tomato fraud" by claiming that the tomatoes in one of its canned products are the authentic "San Marzano Certified" version from Italy.

They have an enviable amount of free time.

100 years old today.

Here’s a record no one will ever match:

“He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution.”

Forgot about that place. I used to take the delta shuttle from that terminal to DCA or BOS quite often. It was great. Almost exclusively business travelers who knew what they were doing. Security lines were fast AF.

I kind of thought it had been demolished. But it also explains why I don’t recalll seeing spirit airlines at LGA. They were isolated in their own terminal a cab ride away.

https://x.com/thefigen_/status/2052461816496681279?s=46

Does this shirt make my thymus look too small?