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Nice. there's a selection bias as the people who play music loud enough to be heard from their cars and several genres there just don't overlap at all. if we're acknowledging that the music played from cars is neighbourhood vibe, it raises the question of whether they are interfering with the neighbourhood as well.
Google added this optional feature to pixel lock screens a few years back. You can 'heart' songs and it adds them you your playlist. It looks like my phone ID's about 300 songs a month! https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en
Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
Where exactly does music play in public this often? Maybe it's outside some kind of store?
I spent too much time on TikTok, because I got confused how a "bop" spotter even worked.
Yes, I'm quite upset about the repurposing of "bop" to be offensive, it was a good word and I liked its old meaning. For anyone who doesn't know, 'bop' to gen Z is a derogatory term for a sexually active woman, it basically means 'slut'. Redefining existing words is something that really irritates me, particularly when it's used to attack women.
> The disco ball in my mouth insinuates I'm ballin' > I'm leaning on the switch, sitting crooked in my slab > But I could still catch boppers if I drove a cab
Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?
I don't know what a "surprisingly high" number is - but the mission is about 1/3 Spanish speaking as far as I can tell[1]. [1] It's hard actually, but this language diversity data( https://www.sf.gov/data/san-francisco-language-diversity-dat... ) says there are ~20k speakers and this district population breakdown ( https://www.sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/current-san-francisco-supervis... ) says there are ~67k residents
I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…
The Game Boy dot-matrix display is the icing on the cake!