We have a free Slack workspace where a few of us keep in touch and share things. It's pretty active.

I am lucky not to have friendship struggles; I have a vibrant social circle with close male and female friends. I talk with my male friends more often, but the conversations are not very meaningful. For most of them, it is hard to break through and have talks that require vulnerability. I don't know why.

In contrast, my close female friends are great in this regard. They are open, empathetic, and kind. The conversations I have with them often leave me feeling a stronger connection. They are far more substantive.

And yes, some of my male friends are ignorant and hold (IMO) ugly opinions.

It’s clear you didn’t read your links because this one concludes with:

> "Scholars in China and at the UN have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has 'discovered' such a huge discrepancy." ... "China has had at least three censuses since the start of the millennium, and there has been no evidence that more than 100 million people are overreported in China," Wang said.

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/tasks.json
    [
      {
        "command": "git --paginate log --follow -p -m -1 ${ZED_FILE}",
        "label": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}",
        "shell": { "program": "sh" }
      }
    ]

    // ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zed/keymap.json
    [
      {
        "context": "Editor && mode == full",
        "bindings": {
          "ctrl-shift-g d": [
            "task::Spawn",
            { "task_name": "last-file-diff:${ZED_FILE}" }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]

This can’t be real. Surely no one does this. Do people do this?

    curl 'https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=jim-e%20stack&entity=song' | jq

I think the experience could be improved if you branched beyond YouTube for the media. I search "jim-e stack" and see multiple non-song videos (in fact 3/4 are not songs). One idea might be to use a service like https://odesli.co (formerly song.link) to filter to real music tracks people are familiar with on their streaming platforms. Their API returns links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc for a given music entity (e.g. song, album). Furthermore, integrating with Odesli would offer a path towards allowing users to drop Spotify / Apple Music URLs directly from their respective apps into the jukebox, which I think would be my ideal experience.

My $0.02. Thanks for sharing!

> every piece of song writing […] is micro-managed by an entire team of people

No doubt this is true for many many pop artists, where there are literally teams of people with song writing credits, but for Taylor Swift, it is almost always just her and Jack Antonoff credited with songwriting and composition, and not uncommonly just her alone. Say what you will about her, but she writes her own songs.