The tech bros just say words and hope people are convinced it means something, not unlike their beloved AI.

If it was real Evan Solomon would not be in charge.

"They claim that Bondi used to be a partner at American lobbying firm Ballard Partners, which lists UHG as a client. The defense team...further added that Bondi continues to receive personal & financial benefits 'in the form of a profit-sharing plan from Ballard's professional association w/ UHG.'"

The other day someone in meatspace said that my dislike of AI made me sound like a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist. I feel like I'm in a Black Mirror episode or something. I just can't believe how impossible it is for people to think critically of this objectively harmful technology.

I thought this was a McSweeney's piece.

If I were to buy a "Strat," I think I would get this one. It's a Rick Graham Signature. I literally have no idea who that is, but this thing just looks so cool and stripped down. It's a Super Strat but it's not like a Jem or something.

"The [New Apostolic Reformation] is an anti-democratic Christian supremacist movement that seeks to control all areas of national life ... compelling all Americans to align their lives with NAR's worldview. According to NAR leaders, those who oppose them are [demons or] under [demonic] control."

OOH, it is a relief that Bari Weiss has revealed a limit of what people are willing to tolerate. Unfortunately, OTOH, I think she will be seen as an exception, and in one way or another, corporate "journalism" as a violence upon journalism will continue to be normalized.

I am officially on holidays, which means that I can work on my dissertation without having to stop to do paid work for the next two weeks. Ho hum. I really would love to just play music for a few weeks.

I continue to be oddly interested in Charvels and Super Strats. I say "odd" because I don't particularly like the 80s shredder music they're associated with.

Fighting climate change means removing climate regulations is some seriously Orwellian shit.

This headline is some real bullshit

This is the greatest Rig Rundown ever. What Lanois gets out of what is ultimately a simple rig, the same rig for his les paul as for his pedal steel, is astounding.

The used guitar gear market right now is awful. I can't offload a thing. Good time if you want to buy stuff, I suppose. Bad if you want to sell.

Fucking Nazi bitch

DHS "attorneys inside New York's immigration courts are moving to close asylum claims en masse." Arguing "no right to seek asylum in the United States because they're eligible [..] in [..] Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda." #USA #Uganda #Honduras #Ecuador #Asylum #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

“The Free Press” www.wsj.com/business/med...

Underrated album

Avatar 4: Wind & Flatulence

The “Mark Carney is playing 12D chess” people trying to justify the nonsense Carney says.

This is that luthier channel I've been watching again. He's making a "cello guitar." His videos are like Bob Ross with obscure guitar construction information.

But what else would you expect? This is a “War is peace” prime minister hellbent on militarization.

I do think that before offering a ‘splainy reply to a post, a would-be commenter should consider that the OP‘s knowledge is not limited to what’s conveyed in their 300-character original post.

Fighting climate change means removing climate regulations is some seriously Orwellian shit.

Especially not Morrissey

"Turn"?

Local woman goes into hiding after co-worker finds her tumblr

My grandpa was a carpenter. Maybe that's where I get this longing to build instruments.

When you have a draft paragraph that ends in quotation and you know some reader will comment that you shouldn't end it that way, yet the paragraph seems to end so well as is and you have no idea what to add, except merely a sentence designed to not end the paragraph with a quotation.

Derrida's kitty was named Logos, which is very funny.

I don't cook a lot, so whenever I do, Helo paces back and forth meowing at the air that suddenly smells like deliciousness for some reason.

America, famously a place where people historically apologized for whiteness.

Chappelle is a monster, but this "so why don't you leave?" and "you belong over there with those people" thinking is the logic of nationalism.

Chappelle and Maher are fighting. Chappelle: It’s easier to talk in Saudi Arabia for me than it is in America... Two years ago, I almost got canceled right here in the United States for transgender jokes. But I gotta tell you something. Transgender jokes went over very well in Saudi Arabia.

The "in the right hands" logic for all technology that destroys or has the capacity to destroy, the logic used by those who do the destroying.

All cat songs are really about departure and return, about difference and hospitality. They are about the welcome of the other. The kitty who challenges identity and belonging.

Oh, and how can I forget that amazing section in The Animal That Therefore I Am where Derrida talks about standing before his cat naked?

All cat songs are really about departure and return, about difference and hospitality. They are about the welcome of the other. The kitty who challenges identity and belonging.

Of course it must be said that the best version of "The Cat Came Back" is by Fred Penner, a Winnipegger. Winnipeg's connection to cat songs is indelible and surpasses that of any other city. This is a fact.

Back in summer I wrote a sentence for my dissertation without really thinking about it, not by accident, per se, but without knowing fully what I meant. I think I've been tracing that sentence for six months now to figure out what it means, and it has altered my dissertation in all kinds of ways.

This is exactly it. There are tons of discoveries in the process, the process of seeking sources, of reading them, of taking notes, of putting fingings together. Of often discarding work.The relevations I get in a text that push and bolster my thinking are not the things found in a summary.

Here is my face to let you know my car transmission problems are worsening and now the the cascade of issues I was worried about is starting to pick up speed. I really need any support people might offer get get out of this hole. V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel PayPal via DM

I'm not someone whose first inclination is "We need a new party!" It's naive to think a new party simply escapes the problems of the old, problems are often to do with how our "democracy" is organized, & democracy has inevitable contradictions. Nevertheless I've never been so dismayed with the NDP.

My grandpa was a carpenter. Maybe that's where I get this longing to build instruments.

Look at this super cool 1948 Gibson lap steel. What an amazing design. I wish my job today was to get this up and running.

I'm sure the money sucks, but I think the most rewarding job would be being a luthier, both building new instruments and repairing very old ones.

Turns out that I'm so old that I'm forgetting about bands that new generations are discovering for the first time.