M. Verdone @sixohsix@icosahedron.website
I make music when I can. I own too many synthesizers. I program C++ for money, but it's usually reasonably fun.
One of my hobbies over the last five years has been to collect and show people the weirdest stuff on YouTube. But I find that in the last year YouTube weirdness is just... gone. Buried in algorithmically generated Top 10 videos.
That whole "kids YouTube" video fiasco was only discoverable if you mainlined videos for babies for a week until the algorithm freaked out and gave you terrifying trash.
If there's weird stuff on YouTube it no longer ever appears in the related videos list.
Kinda weird how one argument Sebastian gives Ariel against humans is that they literally kill and eat his and Ariel's friends but Ariel is like "yeah, but legs, tho." #2deep
I have drank a "monster"
🇺🇸 🌎 🚨 🚨 NEW SINGLE
RELEASE!! 🔴 🚨 💦
PLEASE ENJOY OUR HIT SUMMER SINGLE OFF OF OUR UPCOMIGN ALBUM!!
It's eerily quiet on the streets of Berlin. Is sports over for the next four years?
Is this modern fashion or Devo merchandise?
IN DANGER OF BEING PRODUCTIVE THIS MORNING. SLACK DOWN!
Ital Tek has a new album coming! I was informed this by:
- a bandcamp notification on my phone
- a bandcamp message from the artist on my phone
- an email with the bandcamp message from the artist
- an email from Planet Mu
Maybe don't spam all those channels so hard.
The new video is here. The music sounds alright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXaRvZdJvDY
Apparently I'm in a money spending mood. Is the Steam controller any good? Does it really replace a keyboard and mouse for most games?
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
If you're in Berlin and want music, my band The Providers is playing dramatic pop music starting at 9 on the dot at Arcanoa. Free entry.
I recently discovered this kids show Miraculous: Ladybug and Cat Noir and I'm totally amazed by how good it is. The writing is good and the design and animation is really high quality. It's not Disney or any big studio. Feels like it came out of nowhere.
Today's weird Bandcamp thing: albums with only one three-minute track priced at 10 USD. What's up with that?
I hear screaming monkey noises from outside. Is this sports?
I will play a show with my band, The Providers, on Saturday at Arcanoa in Berlin! You're very welcome to come if you're in the area. Doors open at 8PM, music starts at 9PM!
You can listen to some of our music (quite old recordings) here: https://soundcloud.com/the-providers
recording of me singing, politics, religion Show more
Dropped into Reddit to learn that the creator of Bitcoin was a time-traveling alien with a quantum computer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8spbae/what_is_so_special_about_block/
*slowly closes laptop*
I want to go build, like, a large socialist compound thing in the woods somewhere.
This is practical, totally. >_>
A Whale's Lantern is a music project that pairs up musicians at random to collaborate - we have released two albums so far and the third round is currently happening. You can listen to the previous songs here:
http://awhaleslantern.bandcamp.com/
If you buy one of the albums, you:
- directly support the involved musicians
- support Mastodon development (we donate a share of the sales)
- get a download code for another album by one of the artists
