Gonna buy dis https://www.powells.com/book/life-after-cars-freeing-ourselves-from-the-tyranny-of-the-automobile-9780593850725?condition=New

FRIGHTWIG is the root document for so much rock and punk! "A now-legendary moment occurred when Jennifer Finch (L7), Courtney Love (Hole), and Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland) attended a Frightwig show in San Francisco—and left vowing to start bands of their own the next day." This page is a […]

Devo, in a fine state.

Autocorrect is turning me into a crazy person. Both meanings.

Why am I not thinking of this now? What sources the library that autocorrect uses? I foolishly was thinking it was some default builtin, augmented by usage. But the word "BitCoin" with that capitalization appeared as a miscorrect. Now I don't trust it. Android. grapheneOS.

Group art show. No joke.

It is my new years resolution to never again own a piece of electronics where any component is in a socket.

Bought a new battery for my eBay Thinkpad X13 20T3. It was cheap, in excellent condition (now runs Debian) but batteries are always a gamble. This one has 3 hr life. With new batt total price 350. Still good. While I was on there I cleaned it (hardly dirty) […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

MAXIMUMROCKNROLL punkzine persists, online, though no scene reports and few columns in the last five years... But MRR radio is still strong! https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/radio_show/

I have a new hobby. You see, our local Lidl is where a lot of the refugees in "temporary asylum accommodation" shop. And they are trying to get food that feels like actual food, in a place where there have been some really nasty xenophobic protests. The other day it was two guys from South […]

@LoneLocust Lol increased pleasure wasn't mentioned oddly. But omfg you are right, it's all sexy talk for internal hard disk drives. Ewww! Lol

One of the design-philosophy things, for lack of a better description, is the now-upsoken desire for what I think of as excess automaticity; to have the code in this instance the debugger, SID, figure out your intent from context; for example, SID's symbol handling. In DDT or SID, to continue […]

Technology is hard. Should I buy a new disk drive that: * Intensifies my PC experience or has * Superior responsiveness ? Sigh.

@timoj The American Internet should have been handed to the postal service. They were the sole entity with a compatible mission. I think there's no point wasting any time, us peeps battling the gargantuan transnationals that own the Internet. Seriously they don't listen at all. I'm not […]

Time is a bodily sensation.

I wish there was a way to block all boosts. All of them, no exceptions. Yeah, I do boosts. I know the temptation.

The Internet is already dead.... I got to talk to a number of queer and/or punk young people (teens and 20s) who are fairly prodigious makers of media stuff, all print and music, are clever with phones and computers, but don't put their stuff on the net. Not only has it become difficult and […]

@roadriverrail I strongly recommend writing and sketching and drawing ideas, ideation and design stuff, not necessarily long form writing. There is an underappreciated synergy between hand, eye, and internal dialog. As you verbalize or whatever your idea, your hand draws; your eyes see what […]

Garbage people work here.

I used to live in San Francisco at 666 Illinois street, in what's now dog patch. It was an industrial wasteland, any of us could tell crazy stories from there... A couple blocks up, 20th st east of 3rd was still a working warf and iron works, with many […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Oh, San Francisco.

There is so much AI nonsense splattered all over San Francisco, how can you not want to burn it out all the ground? PS if you put those two letters in a post to me my content filters will block it! Lol.

Punks have been doing this shit for a long fucking time.

Josh and I are at the Gary Floyd birthday party and show and gallery, 428 3rd st san Francisco, still early evening. It's pretty great!

@brucelawson The one true government, always with our best interests in their efficient minds.

Paradise stands in the shadow of swords.

Hydrogen as fuel is petroleum propaganda.

@cryptadamist > nice thread but since i'm pretty sure you got a lot of the info from my article it would have been nice to see a shoutout credit Thanks for bringing it up. I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Mine was completely inspired by your post. Excellent thread inspired by your blog […]

Debugging code has never been so easy. Tools wise at least.

First off, this guy is crazy smart, his views on LLMs, which I posted here to a great silence (too many people seem to think that the problems with LLMs are technical? lol, yes I'm making fun of you). The book he's referring to below, about "Process knowledge", is directly about human skill […]

Every political punk band in all of punk was right.

As a thought experiment -- I am NOT doing this, but I played it out for an hour -- what if I had a modern smart phone -- for maps, music, note taking, etc -- but the smart phone does NOT have a phone carrier, has never been registered, just a pocket computer with wifi. ... And a separate dumb […]

I'm not an atheist; I just don't give a shit about the question, it''s too stupid to try to answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot My opening sentence is my response to this, but I'd come to this decision long before I read this: ...philosopher Paul Chamberlain contends that […]

Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow. https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns-public-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-sold/story?id=124780934

Holy shit, something actually intelligent to say about LLMs. Lol, my own post and any replies to this will be filtered out by my block list. I'll have to suspend it. "Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?" ... "In In Gods We Trust, Scott Atran provides a […]

... a bit tl;dr but from mycfri me Randy, this 1976 (!) paper by Brian Eno is fascinating, and new to me... https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_1976_2015_Generating_and_Organizing_Variety_in_the_Arts.pdf

Why?!!

OMFGWTFBBQ voice texting combines the WORST OF EVERYTHING STOP IT STOP IT NO

Look at how easily we have forgotten that the purpose of laws is not to punish guilty people. They're to protect innocent people. The goal was not ever to catch every criminal.

Oh for fucks sake is this true?

Me on the left at some Radical Faerie event, probably 1990 or so. At the Wolf Creek Oregon land, the old barn behind us. We shat in latrines, dropped lime (calcium compound) on the turds, washed our hands in bleach dip. You could easily tell who did not […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Me and Dave Dictor of MDC, some 80s San Francisco lez gay etc parade.

I posted this question a while ago and was surprised that I got zero responses (even "foolish question"!) Is there any qualitative difference in security, risk, tracking, whatever writ broadly, to an android phone, on mobile data only vs wifi only?

Sad but very clever appeal for fundraising for a dog with cancer.

Do people really enable app notifications on their phones? Why?!! Ok ring ring and sometimes texts but when I start getting them, I turn them off! So annoying! Oh I do lurv my calendar bleep.

For a couple weeks now we've had dozens and dozens of butterflies and moths all over the yard. I have video but Pachli can't upload video.

THE BAD BATCH is a pretty great movie. Amazing soundtrack.

Re watching the movie THE BAD BATCH. Damn. Great soundtrack. Brutal. Cynical.