Tuesday is a weird day for a holiday (especially if, like me, you had to work yesterday). No mental continuity. Went on a 36 mile group bike ride, been rehydrating ever since. About to swim and cook out. I'd like to work on personal projects at some point but preparing to hit a wall after the swim/lunch.
'The [2015!] op-ed said Reddit "made critical changes" to the site "without any apparent care for how those changes might affect their biggest resource: the community and the moderators that help tend the subreddits that constitute the site."'
I miss Reddit. Hoping to figure out the Feddit soon. I tried subbing to one from here but that did not work as expected.
Today's Tour de France stage win by Victor Lafay marks the French professional cycling team Cofidis' first stage win in 15 years. It was the first French rider to win a stage for a French team since 2020. The French commentary is great:
Yesterday I heard someone say: "I was out of airspeed, I was out of altitude, and I was out of ideas."
I thought it was great, and couldn't find it on Google. So I asked ChatGPT. It fabricated a false answer. #chatgptfails
Noticed that System of a Down has 18 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which seems pretty good for a band that made a total of 5 records with the latest released 18 years ago. That made me think back to how I originally aspired to work in the music business, but found then (1998)--and still now--the whole model pretty mysterious.
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