Gripped a lil stack of used CDs as a treat. I'm not sure anyone should ever buy me CDs again, the thrill of the hunt is just too good. Grateful Dead - Cornell 77 Genesis - ABACAB ($1.99 because the booklet has a crease) The New Year - s/t Allman Brothers Band - s/t

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Understand, man, I'm swingin' with the killers Fuck honour, guilt and magazine fillers Guerilla warfare, you can ask Mr. Skinner

hey sooooooooo my new record, LAVENDER NETWORKS, will be out on WARP RECORDS this may. there's a single out now called Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head. i love you!!! warp.net/fire-toolz

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Sora shutting down, Microsoft rolling back Copilot on Windows... nature is healing (theres actually no money in AI the way that shareholders demand to meet quarterly earnings reports)

Every design job post i see on LinkedIn says they expect hires to use AI for all initial designs. Short sighted, inane, ridiculous, and insulting. Every one of those companies will be crawling back when they realize that's a stupid business model.

when companies come crawling back from the ai bubble burst and need Premium Grade Artist Labor again

NOTHING. OpenAI bought NO RAM. EVER. This was an entirely "letter of intent" based story that nobody bothered to actually read up on. An embarrassment to journalism that it spread this far

Shadowbahn's plot mechanics are similar to Arc d'X, Zeroville, and Tours of the Black Clock (a fracture in history causes an alternate timeline)

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new Balam Acab thebalamacab.bandcamp.com/album/stabil...

how long til one of those ICE agents at airports gets caught groping a woman? My money is on within the next 24 hours.

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I am not trying to shame the differently-abled, but maybe the news report should explain how a guy with no arms or legs managed to pull the trigger on a gun wtop.com/charles-coun...

There's nothing inherently wrong with LLMs, specifically in a scientific context where an enormous amount of data needs to be sorted, BUT: The data must be formatted properly before plugging it into an LLM, which requires human labor.

a song I hate is "Butterfly Kisses" because the McD's I worked at in high school played it every 30 minutes. Fuck that song, it's for asshole fathers who demand their daughters pledge their virginity to them

Like Sam the Butcher bringing Alice the meat

it happened: I bought a Grateful Dead live box set (used, and its Cornell 77, pretty basic stuff, but the weather is starting to warm up and that's the best time to listen to live Dead in my humble opinion)

I really can't muster any anger about a guy scamming streaming services, who are themselves scamming artists. Scam the scammers, who cares.

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oh sweet, airport security is now led by your shithead high school classmate with a Deadpool tattoo and 3 kids he's not allowed to see

there was a time in the late 90s when a certain subset of weird music folks based their entire personality on issues of Ptolemaic Terrascope. Simpler times!

the Giant across the street from our old apartments had a shooting inside it the other night. Back then it was nice to be able to walk to the grocery store when the snow was too deep.

ICE agents will steal 100% of the cash and valuables you have with you at airports. I recommend STRONGLY that you travel with faux silver wedding bands vs your gold+ diamond rings, no cash, wear cheap watches, leave jewelry at home, etc. They are rapist Nazi thieves. Expect the worst.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

My left index finger now makes a crinkling sound when bent at the first knuckle, if you are curious what middle age is like

I made another loaf of bread, completely freestyling the measurements and rise time. Turned out better than when I followed a recipe to the letter.

having ICE work the TSA line is gonna result in a guy coming home from Acapulco with a tan and get summarily executed by a 20 year old chode

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One of the biggest enemies of creativity is the belief that everything should be done perfectly the first time

"Ana Ng" and "Purple Toupee" are puzzles, where an unreliable narrator conflates historical events with his own shortcomings

I know its not the end of the world but I do kind of feel like a failure as a human being when ants invade my house every spring

My Dad scoffing when "A Horse With No Name" came on the radio, I think he said something like "they're just ripping off Neil Young"

Arrangement 33. Inspired by Francis Bacon's triptychs. Specifically I was thinking of Triptych–August 1972, where the space is both connected and isolated, implying a viewer scanning panning across a room and seeing not only the physical but the temporal changes that take place.

I should try pineapple on pizza sometime. You'd think Sauerkraut on pizza would be gross, but I had it and its great!

When Jon Gries dies, he better get his own segment in the Oscar In Memoriam

Jonathan Nolan has now done 2 shows about a giant corporation that would rather destroy the world than not be able to control it

you know I'm in my 40s because Genesis' We Can't Dance is hitting hard

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I feel like people in the US government need a pamphlet called So You Want To Start a Holy War in the Levant and its just the quick bullet points of history over the last 3,000 years or so

"Come Out Ye Black & Tans" truly sums up the possibly universal experience of your Dad coming home drunk from the pub to yell at the neighbors

Ethically sourced cacao (the people who die harvesting it are all over 18)

Can't say shit online because everyone acts like they're on the fucking debate team

new Dead Can Dance? New Neurosis? It's basically samhain for a certain type of goth

There's a lot of microtonal guitar based rock music out there, unfortunately they dont all have the built in marketing angle of wearing silly outfits

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New season of Scrubs, everyone is always on their phone. Can we get some phone-free escapism??

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