Andy Valencia ✅ @vandys@mst.vsta.org

A bar in Texas banning people who wear a mask. Sounds like my kind of place.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/499753-texas-bar-owner-bans-customers-with-masks

CDC Confirms Remarkably Low Death Rate - Media Chooses To Ignore COVID-19 Realities | Zero Hedge

"estimate would show that the infection fatality rate for non-nursing home residents would only be 0.1% or 1 in 1,000. And that includes people of all ages and all health statuses outside of nursing homes."

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/cdc-confirms-remarkably-low-death-rate-media-chooses-ignore-covid-19-realities

There's a new version of Ardour, the professional-grade digital audio workstation. Congratulations to everybody at Ardour for your fantastic version 6 from the KDE Community!

There’s a discussion on Hacker News (a top hangout online for Silicon Valley engineers) about where the top spot people will move to if the tech industry goes fully remote. This was the top ranked answer. Russia is a Christian nation. People are fed up with the atomized individualism and hyper consumerism of The West.

Been playing with Ardour lately (a full-blown commercial-grade #FOSS Digital Audio Workstation)... version 6 has just been released, and it's impressive. Wow. Audio-wonks and sound engineers, have a look! https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

This is a meme I created over a decade ago... I used a picture of myself at 5 years old.

Unfortunately for me, this is still the most viral meme I have ever produced.

@SmashCast I don’t open up YouTube links if I don’t know what it is first

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Dear No Agenda Social, - I love you all!

Is that an ESP32 on Your Wrist?

What could you do with a dual-core 240 MHz ESP32 that supports Arduino-style programming, with 16 MB of flash, 8 MB of PSRAM, and 520 k of RAM? Oh, let’s throw in a touchscreen, an accelerometer, Wifi, and Bluetooth. Besi… https://hackaday.com/2020/05/22/is-that-an-esp32-on-your-wrist/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1263747979757998081

"... governments’ bungled attempts to address it"

"... the coronavirus pandemic is that it has ... s demonstrated the errors in centralizing the power to make sweeping health and economic decisions..."

"... governments have so quickly abandoned numerous laws and regulations that [we were] told were so important to our well-being. But if they are not necessary during such a crisis, when public health is the primary concern, then they certainly cannot be justified..."

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/04/26/covid-19-the-great-deregulator/?utm_source=FFF+Daily&utm_campaign=5414ed2d07-FFF+Daily+05-20-2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1139d80dff-5414ed2d07-318097651&fbclid=IwAR2nlFEIdOJe-6FV1iihPvLSlh7rd8MWIyLNucsXaM6me-CtTh9Ndd1qAXU

I just discovered novelist Sarah Hoyt's blog.

HOLY COW.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2020/05/20/i-do-not-consent/