For anyone who’s unfamiliar, it’s worth noting that the next Bandcamp Friday (where Bandcamp waives its revenue share) is in two days, so now’s the perfect time to cancel your Spotify subscription and put that money toward buying actual music from actual artists!

in order: purchasing on bandcamp, streaming or purchasing from qobuz, streaming from most other platforms (apple music, tidal, deezer, etc.), or pirating (if financially unable to afford other options) are all valid alternatives to supporting the spotify corporation.

for example, the classic one: extra time on tests.

this is an accomodation because tests are a bad proxy for evaluating skill: they also, unfortunately, evaluate your ability to perform under time pressure.

this matters for some people more than others, hence, the accomodation

I guess I came real close to getting verified and therefore frozen in time as "Ryan North? But he died 30 years ago... this very night!" and it's hard to look at that alternate timeline and not think it's... better

One of those bathrooms is also Bedroom 4.

Science is full of wizards! Read Babbage about his encounter with Merlin the automaton-maker as a boy, Einstein riding a light beam, Lovelace imagining machines that might one day sing, Leibniz hoping for a symbolic language of all ideas, Turing on kindness toward future mechanical minds.