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keengrasp

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40something dad. he/him/his. rural deep-red US.
late-diagnosed AuDHD.
into music, guitars, synthesis, singing & writing.
not here to promote anything, with the possible exception of lovingkindness/metta/maitri.
"Orphan of Netscape" who's been having fun online since 1989. here to learn.

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jacob, to random
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I wanna hear about the best concerts you’ve been to! Some of mine:

  • Ozomatli at The Catalyst - played until curfew, spilled out onto the street and jammed for another hour until the cops came
  • Flaming Lips at Liberty Hall - second set, played the entirety of Dark Side
  • Dar Williams at Liberty - power went out, she sat on the edge of the stage and played three songs by flashlight
  • Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlisle, et al at the Gorge - simply magical
keengrasp,
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@jacob
looks fun, can I play?

  • REM with Grant Lee Buffalo, Riverfront Coliseum 1995
    -Andrew Bird with Grizzly Bear, MusicNOW fest 2008
    -The Walkmen with Cass McCombs & Pomegranates, The Mad Hatter 2009
    -SO MANY shows at the old Southgate House: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks with John Vanderslice, Quasi, Animal Collective, Stereolab, the Shivers, Wye Oak...
    Plus very fond memories of opening for Antlers just before Hospice came out, also opened for Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard which ruled.
pluralistic, to random
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All digital businesses have the technical capacity to enshittify: the ability to change the underlying functions of the business from moment to moment and user to user, allowing for the rapid transfer of value between business customers, end users and shareholders:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

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keengrasp,
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@pluralistic Oof, Reddy Kilowatt didn't deserve this. I hope this article provokes enough people into action so his sacrifice won't be in vain.

shekinahcancook, to music
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Music is making a comeback...

From the ChartR newsletter:
"The days of checking overplayed CDs for scratches, using a pencil to fix an unspooled tape cassette, or saving up for that state-of-the-art Walkman might seem as alien to contemporary music listeners as gathering around the gramophone, but it’s hard to overstate how much change the music industry has endured in recent decades.

Vinyl’s dominance in the 1970s...was an era of music-listening that is now heavily romanticized... even by Gen Z. But, if necessity is the mother of invention, convenience is surely a close relative, with music lovers keen to take their favorite tracks with them, and 12-inch records offering little in the way of portability. Smaller cassettes became the on-the-go option, only for CDs, offering the same flexibility with better sound quality, to displace the cassette in the 1980s — ushering in the industry’s golden age & eventually accounting for 89% of revenue at its peak in 1999."

keengrasp,
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@shekinahcancook If "people giving money to Daniel Ek and not to musicians" is a passable semblance of a "music industry" to you, this chart might seem encouraging. One must chart the money the actual musicians are making - not that I begrudge the engineers and art directors and promoters and roadies etc. their income, but it should be a function of musicians' income and not totally unmoored from it - if one wants some actually meaningful or useful stats on the financial health of music.

randahl, to random
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30,000 Palestinians killed.

— World leaders: “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

7 international aid workers killed.

— World leaders: “ISRAEL HAS GONE TOO FAR!”

If your moral values change depending on the nationality of the victims, you do not have any moral values.

All you have is racism.

keengrasp,
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@paninid @darnell @seachanger @Dinger @randahl Hamas is less Likud's foil than its pawn.
"Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than
two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is 'Israel’s creation.' "
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/blowback-how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
Why create a Hamas? Maybe in hope of Oct. 7 type attacks giving Israel a blank check to wipe out the inconvenient Palestinian population once and for all? Bibi's actions seem in accord with such a plan.

glyph, to random
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As everyone under 40 in infosec tires of the “Hackers” aesthetic plastered on everything by us tedious elder millennials, one thing that I think gets lost, particularly for younger folks, is that the movie isn’t just goofy camp. I mean, obviously, it’s heavily fictionalized, but there really was a hacking subculture kind of like the one depicted in it in New York in the 1990s. I barely grazed the outer periphery of it myself, and I sometimes wonder if anyone did a serious ethnography of it.

keengrasp,
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@glyph can somebody please make this movie so I can watch it? it can even be a short. a machinima. i'd still watch it.

dosnostalgic, to random
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One of the best DOS games of all time - Star Control 2, now renamed to "Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters", has been open source & free for a long time. So now it's also free on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/

keengrasp,
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@dosnostalgic also, that soundtrack ❤️

realhackhistory, to random
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If you spend five minutes trying to research anything from even 5 years ago you know how much of the web is transient and short lived.

"was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

keengrasp,
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@realhackhistory "These days, things have greatly improved," said someone who is definitely not a pathological liar

HelenG, to random

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    keengrasp,
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    @HelenG and Twitch. More than a third of its workforce gone

    PixelBandits, to VideoGames
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    We're all like this, right?

    #VideoGames #Gaming #RetroGaming #RetroGames

    keengrasp,
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    @PixelBandits current status: my anbernic 35xx is in sleep mode waiting for the next break i can sneak at work so I can finish retrieving hi-jump boots from norfair

    etherdiver, to random
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    Imagine saying something as dumbfuck ignorant as, "The 90s were nearly bereft of good [music]" and meaning it...

    Yeah, this is in reference to another post but I don't want to get in trouble for calling someone "dumbfuck ignorant" so I'm posting it standalone.

    Look, just because you stopped listening to new music in 1983 doesn't mean good music stopped being made then.

    keengrasp,
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    @etherdiver Spot on. Also it's just objectively absurd to believe that there isn't vastly more music being made - of every style, in accordance with every imaginable taste - than there was in the 90s when the logistical / financial barriers to making and distributing recordings were so much higher than now. Olds like me might say "I don't know how to find what I want" or "I can't keep up," but "it isn't being made" is just nonsense. It's out there.

    keengrasp, to random
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    Mastodon problems: how do you tell someone you’ve been enjoying their toots without making it sound like you have a flatulence fetish that you’ve been involving them in without their consent

    JoeRess, to random
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    I know we all love Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide etc but are we ever going to acknowledge how lazy it was to call Marvin "paranoid" just because it rhymes with "android" when he was clearly suffering from depression and maybe a touch of anxiety, and definitely had no signs of paranoia or delusions?

    (I may or may not be listening to Radiohead, and you may or may not be wise to completely ignore me)

    keengrasp,
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    @JoeRess what kind of person do you suppose Zaphod Beeblebrox was? The nickname came from him IIRC.

    i0null, to random
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    @davidrevoy @i0null
    Habsburg AI!

    w7voa, to random
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    The third time was not a charm for Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, hoping to become House speaker. Twenty-five Republicans voted today against the arch-conservative congressman, while all Democrats cast voice votes for their party’s leader in the chamber, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, meaning no candidate hit the threshold of 217 votes to be elected speaker. More in my VOA radio report here.

    keengrasp,
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    @w7voa perhaps he was counting on somebody gerrymandering the House to guarantee his victory

    eniko, to random
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    remembering my father back in the 90s and how he would play pinball games on the computer, and reflexively shove the keyboard all the time because that's what he was used to from real pinball machines

    keengrasp,
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    @eniko
    I used to dabble in Visual Pinball X a little bit.
    https://www.vpforums.org/

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    Shall I plug my game? Not Improbable Island, my other game. Sure, it's been on my mind today.

    "Rook Trader is a nasty little game seemingly aimed towards undesirable individuals with bizarre and unpatriotic views on things like capitalism. It's confusing, alarming, and about the best thing I can say about it is that it's free to play, not that any right-minded contributing member of society would want to."

    https://www.rooktrader.com

    keengrasp,
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    @ifixcoinops Hello Nasty! Where you been?

    petersuber, (edited ) to Law

    Open letter in the @nytimes from #FaniWillis to #JimJordan
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23941234-jim-jordan-letter

    You have to be glad that Jordan made false claims about the Willis case against #Trump and threatened to interfere with it. He elicited this beautiful reply and smackdown.

    If time is short, jump to p. 5.

    #Law #USPolitics

    keengrasp,
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    @petersuber @nytimes I see you've somehow conflated Representative Gym Jordan and Reverend Jim Jones, and I honestly love that.

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    In case y'all were tired of hearing about popular Fediverse people making bad decisions, just thought I'd let y'all know I bought a 1980's hybrid pinball/videogame tonight

    keengrasp,
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    @ifixcoinops this was absolutely my jam at showbiz pizza.

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield
    >Miramar Beach, Florida
    nicholas-cage-you-dont-say.jpeg

    yakkoj, to random
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    4am cracks of Lode Runner and Spare Change have served as an inspiration for me to finally learn how all this funny disk access really works, rather than having a tenuous grasp on it (at best) buttressed by Beneath Apple DOS.

    For many years, my cracked copy of Lode Runner started with a text screen that read "CRACKED BY THE SURGEON".

    keengrasp,
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    @yakkoj Mine too. Always wondered about those mysterious figures like "Black Fire" and "Mr. Krac-Man."
    Also those games were both just absolute bangers.

    SrRochardBunson, to art

    And now for something completely different...

    Ministry isn't a band that's in my normal rotation, but I know they are talented and huge.

    They just put out the clearest anti-#ProudBoys #AntiFascist music video that I can think of.

    This is THE time to make explicitly #Antifa #Art

    This is also what I'm trying to do with #ArtFED & #TVAC, but with more of an #Appalachian influence.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs
    #Ministry #Metal #Rock #Activist #Music

    keengrasp,
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    @Gustodon @SrRochardBunson outside is fine too

    nbcnews, to random

    One of Louisiana’s few doctors specializing in pediatric heart conditions is leaving the state after the Legislature passed a variety of bills aimed at restricting rights for LGBTQ people. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/gay-louisiana-doctor-says-s-leaving-state-discriminatory-legislation-rcna97867

    keengrasp,
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    @nbcnews just the millionth easily-available example, if you needed any more, that bigotry is bad for kids' hearts

    mcc, to random
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    "With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

    [Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

    keengrasp,
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    @mcc my daily driver is an end-of-lifed Chromebook running Debian and I love it

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Musk resorting to straight up bribing bug accounts to remain on the platform

    keengrasp,
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    @dalias @rbos @taylorlorenz Cory Doctorow makes a great analogy between media platforms doing this and carnival games making sure a couple of “lucky” people win large prizes to carry around and lure in more suckers on the false supposition that the games aren’t rigged.

    keengrasp, to random
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    Fingers crossed for our outdoor open mic night tonight. As in "I hope the weather is good," but also as in "I hope that nobody shows up who believes in exterminationism and/or QAnon."

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