Notices by ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com), page 30

found it on amazon.
http://amzn.to/2BEaWKH

found it on amazon.
http://amzn.to/2BEaWKH

Musical Cat Toy (音階貓) from Japan. Each costs about $20 USD. There are cheaper Chinese versions.
see video of it at
http://xaharts.org/arts/cosplay_culture.html

Japan (and Taiwan, heavily influenced by Japan) has tons of cute things. In contrast, USA's teen things, is extremely square in comparison.

keyboard of the day.
VE.A keyboard, super nice, but DIY, and very expensive
http://xahlee.info/kbd/VE.A_keyboard.html

你不想学扬琴了
你说了不算
为什么
因为是它指引你来到世上的
陪伴了你11年
这是你跟他前世今生的缘分
现在你不想要它了
但是他对你也有感情
你跟他商量一下吧
如果它同意你不用跟妈讲
妈没意见

English transltion:

you can say you want to quit learning yangqin,
but it's not up to you
why
it guided you to this world
you've been together for 11 years
you are destined to be together
you may not want it
but you are all its got
talk to your yangqin
if it agrees, then that's it
i won't object

闪光少女 (Our Shining Days), Cosplay Culture, and Chinese vs Western Music
http://xaharts.org/arts/cosplay_culture.html

survey of chinese musical instruments. Each video hand picked, so you can clearly hear their timber
http://xaharts.org/arts/cosplay_culture.html
in general, modern Western ones (as in orchestra) are better. More pleasing timber, sonorous, louder.
(page updated. refresh browser)

music of the day. fast cat claws
權御天下 (Sun Quan The Emperor)
http://xahmusic.org/piano/sun_quan_the_emperor.html

i've been a fan of @Timcast 's reporting for a few months now. If you have money, support him. If you don't know him, check out his daily videos. He's a independent reporter, and has won awards. He's verbose and repetitive, but generally, fair and informed.

looks like @Lauren_Southern is doing something important. She was just a innocent girl against sjw left. Then became more involved, became activist and independent reporter. Went thru a lot, but still mostly bland, academically or socially. But this is something different.

she went to Africa to do investigative reporting. Something about farming there, involving gov and powerful criminals.

when population becomes lazy and ignorant (most exemplified by the millennials, sjw, or, gamers) , society tend to become controlled by a very few, while the masses become happy pigs. (as depicted by The Time Machine by H G Wells http://wordyenglish.com/time_machine/tm.html )

capitalism, is the most practical way to prosperity, for all. What it need, is to get people to have high education and ethics. But as it turns out and historically true, the more tech, the less knowledgeable are the people. Human animals become more lazy and ignorant.

(most exemplified by the sjw millennials)

People do not want, say, type math, or learn history or be able to watch any arbitrary TV documentaries, or really care about online privacy, or other cultures. People are mostly concerned only about their immediate welfare, comfort, and pleasure.

also, for example, we are unable to do simple things such as showing 2d math formulas on the web. (Google Chrome killed its MathML support few years ago. Instead, we have extremely complex hack using idiotic TeX with #MathJax)

it turns out, in capitalistic economy, what becomes available, is what people want. People want porn, virtual reality, watch stupid TV shows (YouTube), voice command (siri, ok google, amazon echo etc), online shopping, etc. Shallow conveniences and entertainment.

Xah's Edu Corner, Extempore, № 20180129072751
As tech marches forward exponentially, 2 things i wished to see 10 years ago, one has come true, the other, not.

① be able to see pic of anywhere in the world. This we have now, splendidly, Google Map street view.

② be able to watch any TV/video ever recorded. This we don't have, at all. For example, i want to watch say 1984 Olympics fencing, it is nigh impossible, even if you pay.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/datadesk_smartboard_keyboard.html
This one is truly the best ergonomics keyboard, back in 2006. Had a chance to see it in real life at last Northern Cal keyboard meetup

Note: the all young girls, pretty, cute, teen idols, group, rose in stardom popularity in Korea and Japan. (not sure which is first) What characterize
such group is all young girls, usually 5, pretty, and singing low-skill teen songs,
do synchronized dances. Now, China is following up.

女孩子，发艳发骚。中西都是差不多。中东可能不一样。
Girls, emanating sexuality, radiating heat. Regardless Eastern or Western culture. Except Middle East.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/49d95ni5J9Y?rel=0

@chris 1k views makes about $1 to $2. Much worse for me, because i write programing stuff more aimed at the elite hacker types, who all swear by ad blocks.

@ExExEx patriatic nigas? what era is that, 2009?

Misc Scenes in Second Life
http://xahlee.org/sl/misc.html

US Eagle with Machine Gun
http://xahsl.org/sl/eagle_with_machine_gun.html