Jonathan Addleman

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I do historical keyboard instruments: performing on, tuning and repairing harpsichords, fortepianos, chamber organs and clavichords. Based in Montreal.

From @sjamieit.bsky.social:

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened.

This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

The data: https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/52f34797978c44c1820b8b2d7a4ae3ed

#OttPoli #TOPoli #ONPoli

If you were curious about how much websites can gleam about you, check this out:

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Edit: glean, not gleam 

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived

Everyone I've talked to has said some variation of "oh yeah, it took years before I could get a tuning to hold stably", or "you just have to tune a few hundred pianos, and you'll figure it out eventually".

I think I'm getting there, bit by bit, but a lot more work to do! Harpsichords are a breeze in comparison!

#pianoTuning #piano

For the past few months, I've been working on #tuning modern #pianos. It's quite a stretch from my usual historical fare! I have decades of experience with harpsichords, but this really is a new thing entirely, with a lot of very new skills to learn.

It's fascinating, and frustrating, how difficult it is just to turn the pin and get it to stay where you want it to, and even more fascinating how every tuner seems to use different, and completely incompatible strategies for doing this.

@researchfairy shout out to the funniest data poising attack I've seen, a dude with a red wagon full of phones and tablets creating fake traffic jams on google maps: https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-man-created-traffic-jams-on-google-maps-using-a-red-wagon-full-of-phones/
This Man Created Traffic Jams on Google Maps Using a Red Wagon Full of Phones

By pulling 99 phones down empty streets, artist Simon Weckert made it look like they were gridlocked on Google Maps.

VICE

📖 “Why Japan has such good railways”

Interesting analysis into why privatising railways has worked so well in Japan, whereas almost everywhere else it’s resulted in higher fares and poorer services.

#Japan #transit

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/

Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine

Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

Questionnaire rapide

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@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.
Given what it's gonna do to the world economy when the bubble will burst I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing