i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.

For my friends in Beijing, this evening we're putting on an especially good show in our weekly series, with performance by Yan Yulong, Yan Jun and Zhang Shouwang, three of the best-known experimental musicians in China.

In the future, no one will have any fucken clue what really happened in the past thanks to ai.

"A [28-minute] mashup of the free improv sections from 'Up On the Sun,' as performed live on tour, May 2022" meatpuppets.bandcamp.com/track/up-on-...

The instrument that one would use to measure this level of failure is called a Bariometer

Anyone out there familiar with the Little Orphan Annie strip have any info about why Gray disappeared Willie the Bear? He's a regular character in the strip for a year and is dumped w/o a word, possibly dying in a house fire. No one mentions him. It's driving me nuts. Justice for Willie the Bear.

Spotted this at the end of SWAN SONG (the 2021 one with Udo Kier) and had a wait, what?! moment before fully realizing that Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s covered Broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElPb...

Great. Always nice to see my street on one of these maps. Even if it is off to the side with one additional zone between us and an evac warning zone. Meanwhile storm preparations are in progress. All hatches battened and a 10lb Cuban pork roast in the oven.

A lot of people need to confront why they love the myths of a dying empire more than actual human beings.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Have the censored 60 Minutes CECOT story. Adjusted image for better viewing. Rendering now, will upload soon. h/t @jasonparis.bsky.social

New Substack, A CHRISTMAS STORY open.substack.com/pub/jerrysta...

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Monday afternoon idle speculation: have any Academy Award winners committed murder? answer: yes, there is one* but he wasn’t convicted because of suicide: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig_Young *I don’t know if I’m surprised because there is one, or that there aren’t more.

Syd Mead's concept art for an Arctic Mobile Operation Base, issued by U.S. Steel, 1965.

In honor of the death of the great D. Boon here’s the Minutemen documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IW...

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

D. Boon died this date in 1985... I saw Minutemen play a few shows in college and met him. I was so NOT a punk kid but was a budding lefty. He quizzed ME: What do you think of...? Have you read...? When I learned he'd died, I surprised myself and sobbed. Boy could we use him now... Rest in Power

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

Absolutely amazing tool to fix out of sync subtitles that I discovered recently, can't tell you how much of a game changer, maybe life changer even this has been for me lately, it's really like magic, what used to take hours if not days to fix now gets fixed in seconds or minutes at worst.

Christmas video dropped! youtube.com/shorts/yWoaz...

Stealworkers

These days one needed a full-scale emergency kit built into one's brain, plus a crash course in disaster survival, real and imagined.

Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster. Nothing has gotten easier since then.

Long discussion on the orange website about the NIST's Boulder NTP site being down. Not a lot of people with practical experience in the topic. NTP is designed to function as a tree model, rooted in "stratum 0" NTP servers with direct time references. Actual clients are expected to interact […]

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

nelson-haha.gif x 1000

I wrote about Trump’s ballroom and the right’s quest to remake the symbolic order for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

important thread/development! 1925 marks the dawn of electric recording, so the next crop of public domain recordings offers access to a dramatically new audio era -- which, to boot, was ruled by blues queens and hot jazz combos.

Great to see Doktor Avalanche had a career after The Sisters Of Mercy and joined Starfleet.

PKD x National Lampoon

today's listening: Wiseman Podcast looks at IN JACKSON HEIGHTS with Manohla Dargis wiseman-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/in-j... (aka: my fave film podcast looks at one of the most important films by my fave director)

...that she (Shelly) and the strip club drug dealer were participating in with an older, married stockbroker who was obsessed with her. I mean, this was like a whole season of DAMAGES wrapped up in an hour.

Repeating myself again. Beware of “colleges" which are actually professional sports behemoths or property management conglomerates that happen to run education as a side hustle.

A little addendum on Max Eider's passing -- while you can find a number of his later albums in streaming spots, best place to hear his brilliant 1987 solo debut _The Best Kisser In the World_ is Bandcamp. No payment needed for a listen, but you can also pick up six albums for £22, very cool!

Somewhat spectral, always tasteful. RIP Max

Hey, I recognize those photos and short vids of Stars Of The Lid at the Echoplex in 2008. Happy that SotL Forever could use them. starsofthelidforever.com/shows/echopl...

I liked it better when it was called THEY LIVE and it was about capitalism

Max Eider of The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, RIP www.brooklynvegan.com/max-eider-of...

Built by the world’s finest surgeons… https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-volkswagen-deathrace-2000-monster/

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

When one girl finished her run in their flight simulator: “The smile on her face was huge. She stepped away and said she wanted to be the first Māori wahine in space." thespinoff.co.nz/atea/17-12-2...

Far more Americans say they’d like to live in the past than in the future: https://pewrsr.ch/4rNfxEF

In her Long Now Talk, @katecrawford.bsky.social argues that AI has created a metabolic rift: massive data collection that acts like poor nutrition at planetary scale. However, this is something we’ve seen before, dating back to the 1500s. Watch the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBn...