You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

The examples keep showing up and will continue to show up as data center resources become increasingly constrained and bottlenecked. apple.news/AhDkxGANNQoG...

I have been working on something for a bit, something for a mass audience appeal. It's fine, coming along, needs editing, sitting at around 70K words. That inspired me to dig out my *other* thing I had been working on...for years. It stands at 86K words. This year might be the year. #Writers

Oh, look, yet another Christofascist White Nationalist has been outed among the Republican backers and promoters. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Be aware, the @AltNOAA account is pro-war when it comes to Iran.

I have a better idea: medium.com/@brian.ragle...

Not with that attitude... #Lego

First impressions of #MacBook #Neo after getting my hands on it: if I switched back to a Mac desktop of sufficient power and gave up my MacBook #Pro, I would get myself a Neo as my EDC and leave the iPad at home. No question.

By itself, this price isn't photo worthy. But that's a $0.30 jump since yesterday at the same time.

"Blud und Boden" (blood and soil) has entered the chat. Tucker "Fishsticks Heir" Carlson is now describing Pan-White Nationalism, same as Hitler described Pan-Germanism and the mythology of a "biological white race that has a claim to a homeland" (Aryanism).

I'm not *crazy* about this shot...yet. It's a composite and I'm not usually a fan of composites. The tree is on my street and was struck by lightning a few years ago. I removed the houses it was next to and just extended the sky. Meh. Shot with #Canon #R6MkII #photography

Far right wing propaganda accounts (like this dipshit, @behonest69.bsky.social) are trying desperately to salvage the latest debacle to hit the Trump Reich. Apart from net negative immigration (and they mean brown people), not a word of this is true.

"Tough love" from Godz Chosen, who has never had to pump a gallon of gas in his earthly life:

Something I am seriously contemplating but fully aware that it very likely will not/cannot ship for the price or at the time they are promising. $1299 for a mini PC with 80 GB of RAM and a TB of storage….by August of this year???!?!? Nice, but not likely. apple.news/AzAueQAKRQ-G...

I have a little iOS shortcut that runs whenever I get a story assignment from an editor. It even shows up on my Watch, and it results in me having to stop what I am doing and go check email. youtu.be/8lSNNyHzmc4

Part Two is up. This is the one where I argue that John #Wick was never an assassin. Stick with me here. 1/6

So, #Apple has #macOS running on A18 chips...the same chips that are in iPhones. So when can I install it on my iPhone 16 or my iPad M2? apple.news/AaLKppfLARbm...

Is this new? When did this become possible? Or was it always possible and I should be embarrassed for only just now finding out about it?

🧵 Everything is terrible and the news is a dumpster fire and I needed two days of high-octane nonsense, so I watched all four John #Wick movies back to back and then wrote about them at length, because that is the kind of person I am. 1/5

American fascism has been laid raw and bare for the world to see and now so has American imperialism. Things we always knew to be true about this country are indisputably proven once and for all under any level of scrutiny.

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Someone posted an academic paper arguing #fascism was left-wing. I read it. Then I read the sources it deliberately ignored. Then I wrote 4,000 words.The Nazis coined the word "privatization." That's in the first paragraph. 1/8 🧵 medium.com/p/fc5a107403...

So, I was going to post something fun today that I had been working on but a few things happened on the way to the publish button: 1. A right wing economics paper from 2022 fell into my lap and begged me to disassemble it in the manner I so love doing.

Everything is awful. So, I watched movies all weekend. Specifically, and in honor of the birthday of Mark Dacascos, I watched the John Wick franchise. All 4 of them. I had only seen the first one, not the other 3. Naturally, I have thoughts about that. Look for my post tomorrow.

Developing story but it appears that THREE US F-15 fighters have been shot down over Kuwait...by Kuwait. The F-15 has never been shot down before. Now *3* have been. Pilots are safe and recovered by locals. The planes are $90M apiece for a total of 150 million school lunches.

This hit me right in the "I remember that guy from movies I watched when I was 25 years old....25 years ago".

#Iran #Trump #Israel #FellForItAgain

Wow, this post aged like wine.

Look, I'm not judging anyone's last meal requests or anything, but maybe it was all those Extra Value Meals that got you into that vehicle in the first place, friend. #JustSaying

I made a choice last month and my #OpenAI sub expires in a few days while my #Anthropic sub is renewed. It was a good choice.

1 of 5 Something felt wrong about #Bridgerton from the first episode. Not "bad show" wrong. Wrong in the uncanny-valley way. The colors are too vivid. The skin too perfect. The streets too clean. And then there's the music. 🧵 #WritersofBluesky #Writing #Netflix

I have something a bit silly and fun on deck for tomorrow. #Bridgerton #WritersOfBluesky #Writing

Whining about the Democrats refusing to seig heil der Herr Apfelsine Führer is not the flex the Christofascist White Nationalists think it is. Performatively worshipping a convicted felon who stood there lying for 3 hours is something only cultists and mindless simps admire.

I'm not a chef but I do like some technology. NY Strip sirloin with garlic, ginger, soy, and fresh green beans on deck for adding in later.

If your instinct here is to type some "well akshully" comment about biological classifications of all humans...don't. Just....don't. Posting is a choice. Make a better one than that.

Welp, RAM and hard drive prices are about to go up still further.

Everyone who isn’t in the MAGA cult knows Trump has dementia and is sundowning. He has no impulse control to speak of any longer. But have we considered the potentially useful/hilarious upside to that? www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The man in the photo is Yoon Suk-yeol, the former President of #SouthKorea who is now serving a life sentence in prison. What I noticed, however, were those cool little wooden boxes with various wires and things in them.

First time for everything. I have owned and played #Factorio for *years*. Never launched the rocket. Ever. I wrote a review for the game a few days ago in a fit of boredom and I decided enough was enough. Finally did the thing. Read my review here: steamcommunity.com/id/ragle/rec...

A two-act emotional rollercoaster. #bots

Happiness is 500 megawatts and #Kovarex reactors that you bred by hand. #Factorio

Wow.

As a photographer, I have been so jealous-in-a-good-way of some of the shots some people have gotten throughout this ICEstapo ordeal.

I’m gonna tell my grandkids that this was a Sabrina Carpenter album I owned, back when she was still in The Carpenters duo.

Finally. The replacement keyboard arrived on the same day as the new mouse. A nice little matched pair. Keychron K5 Max keyboard and Keychron M3 mouse. The relief was just uploading my keyboard configs back to the new board without having to redo it all.

This woman is 49 years old and grew up in Michigan. Don’t tell me she doesn’t know any better. Look how easily that just comes out of her mouth, as if it has been said hundreds of times before when the cameras weren’t on her. youtu.be/rOUl7kSrxFQ

Easiest subscription cancellation decision ever.

All these #He-Man #trailers and still no reference to Orco. I even saw #Battlecat. No little wizard dude. I am disappoint.