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14 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In a year that’s been absolute shit, I am grateful to have an extraordinarily great re-release of my favorite album ever. I don’t think I’d imagined a double album like Sign O’ The Times could be augmented with another *three albums* worth of equally wonderful material, but!
Earlier, a thread on the release of the set:
This was me excitedly tweeting the moment we found out the set was coming.
And here’s an entire thread about just *one* of the songs in the set, showing a decades-long evolution of a track Prince wrote while barely out of his teens.
One of the best side-effects of these kinds of remarkable archival releases has been a boom in the serious, thoughtful scholarship going on around Prince’s work. Just *one* example, Arthur’s thread about a single fan-favorite song from the album:

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17 Sep
Hello tech support Twitter! On a Mac running Catalina, I’m saving a recording in QuickTime Player and neither the Save… nor Export As > menu items produce the save file dialog box. The windows are not small/offscreen, they don’t appear at all. No other apps affected. Any ideas?
LOL, after getting multiple suggestions to try the scary move of just clicking the close icon, I did, and I got.... a beachball and nothing else. (I *can* copy the entire track — but can't paste it into GarageBand or other audio apps. Hmm?)
Ah hah! Thanks to @gl33p & @Diana_E_Prince, I've been alerted to the location where QuickTime Player (my nemesis; a piece of shit) stores its temporary files and now we have the elusive recording. Path is at the bottom or in alt text if you need it. ~/Library/Containers/com.Ap...
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14 Sep
This is a sweet and charming gallery of online games made by @biomecollective. It's fun to explore and reminds us how creativity on the web can be so expressive and fun biome-gallery.glitch.me But it also shows something more...
The Biome team worked by remixing what @molleindustria had created for @likelikearcade recently, the online Museum of Multiplayer Art likelike.glitch.me They didn't have to start from scratch to get their idea up and runnning.
Just by looking at these sites, it's clear that the web doesn't have to be all misery and surveillance and the products of big companies. And we're also seeing creators from around the world building off of each other's work, lowering the barriers to expressing our own ideas.
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10 Sep
Today might be the day I give up on trying to explain that you shouldn’t quote tweet someone unless you want to encourage twitter to amplify their message to millions for free. People just won’t change this behavior, to the detriment of us all.
If you retweet somebody but don’t want more people to hear their lies or hate, it’s like buying a copy of their book just so you can burn it. You’re still helping them overall.
Agreed, it is a foolish design choice by the platform. But if we know better, we can do better.
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7 Sep
Nature is healing.
Apparently this is a common sign!
At this point the sign makers should probably just make an official one people can buy.
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27 Aug
One of Prince's most soulful and heart-felt songs ever, "Forever In My Life" is revealed in its earliest form, showing its bluesy roots while giving us a glimpse into both his creative process and his personal life at the height of his stardom. open.spotify.com/track/4572OrIx…
And this memory about the song's creation described by @susannahtwin will break your heart.
One of the most striking things about this alternate version of “Forever In My Life” is that, in contrast to the spartan arrangement of the released version, the accompanying acoustic guitar reveals a richer chord progression that evokes the earliest songs Prince wrote as a teen.
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24 Aug
25 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95. Lots of other people can talk about why it was technologically interesting, but I want to share a bit about why it was so *culturally* interesting.
For context, in 1995, only about 30% of American homes had a computer at all. Less than 10% had *any* internet access — and virtually none had broadband. There were no smartphones.
More broadly, computers and software were basically not yet something talked about in polite company. You might have had a friend who “worked in computers” (we didn’t say “work in tech” yet) or call IT for support for your printer at work. But “apps” were not part of culture.
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