tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14882249191169570612024-03-12T20:13:47.236-07:00The Invisible InsurrectionIntelligence must become self-conscious, realise its own power, and, on a global scale, transcending functions that are no longer appropriate, dare to exercise it. History will not overthrow national governments; it will outflank them. The cultural revolt is the necessary underpinning, the passionate substructure of a new order of things. — Alexander TrocchiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-8035686264031370022016-08-06T00:07:00.002-07:002016-08-06T00:07:23.507-07:00I Know<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSzdXjwHACo" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-8456871210974636432016-08-05T17:39:00.001-07:002016-08-05T17:39:14.090-07:00The Man<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HGy9i8vvCxk" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-75210908864056977012016-08-05T10:38:00.001-07:002016-08-05T10:38:17.312-07:00Our World<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tGIS_BNL1hQ" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-5092213860687409682016-08-04T11:11:00.001-07:002016-08-04T11:11:42.286-07:00Teardrop<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u7K72X4eo_s" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-67589524157738920422016-08-03T12:40:00.000-07:002016-08-03T12:41:28.719-07:00Full DisclosureI am an absolute failure at everything except music. And in music, there is no longer any money. At least not at my minuscule level of success.<br />
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I had a long, stable corporate career, that I threw away for magic beans, and a succession of broken relationships, broken windshields and broken bank accounts.<br />
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I have nothing left. I am at the end of the world.<br />
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I don't know what the hell can be done from here.<br />
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It seems like it's all over now.<br />
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I may or may not rally. I suppose now I don't even care.<br />
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This labyrinth of motherfucking bullshit doesn't really seem worth the effort.<br />
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Those of you sitting pretty, with money, with people that care about you: congratulations, but beware.<br />
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You could lose it all in an instant. Through no fault of your own.<br />
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The universe is abundant, but capricious.<br />
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I am just tired and broken.<br />
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There may be no more posts.<br />
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Bye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-8780846187552090982016-08-02T20:36:00.000-07:002016-08-02T20:42:05.262-07:00Motion GraphicsI am tired of every fucking tech thing, from phones to web to desktop being a non-stop menagerie of motion. Popping up, popping down, appearing, disappearing, et al infinity.<br />
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Some people are easily hypnotized by sparkly baubles and they are playing on that inherent capacity.<br />
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BUT IT DOES NOTHING!<br />
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There are times to have an interface that has certain dynamics like that, BUT 95% OF THE TIME IT IS JUST WASTED CYCLES.<br />
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Thanks for fucking up the computer age and turning it into an animated video game of no worth to the struggle for human dignity.<br />
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You all should go sit in the corner for like 20 years and think about what you've done.<br />
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It will take us AT LEAST that long to recover.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-38138920273606094772016-08-02T20:30:00.001-07:002016-08-02T20:32:47.912-07:00Criticism of Tech Criticism in the Baffler<a href="http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism">http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism</a><br />
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The Baffler makes some very insightful comments here about the tech industry and the lack of a coherent progressive critique.<br />
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Tech is just one aspect of contemporary capitalism that needs some SERIOUS analysis!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-44799842120082807152016-08-02T14:08:00.000-07:002016-08-02T14:10:05.670-07:00Web Pages and VideosDoes every single fucking on-line news site need to stream you a video of what you're already reading? Not to mention the text jumping all around the page as different ads load and collapse endlessly?<br />
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People wonder why no-one can fucking concentrate anymore.<br />
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When I want to read something, I want to be able to trace a line of text that is not jumping around and to not be interrupt from my reading by blaring ads and chattering news anchors.<br />
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I mean, I often turn off the sound to avoid the noise, but there's not much to be done about the data overages, and I think corporate America wants it this way.<br />
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Ad Blocker is not the answer, it's proper regulation of the industry, but that's not going to happen until people really start to feel the pain. I think it's coming, though. I hear more and more complaints every day about the weird fucking shit the tech companies are doing.<br />
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Human dignity. That's all we have above the machines, so let's start respecting it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-65192109606510079302016-08-02T11:28:00.001-07:002016-08-02T11:32:00.544-07:00Walter Sobchak(NSFW Warning!)<br />
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Walter Sobchak is my spirit animal.<br />
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I have caused these kinds of scenes a few too many times in the last 2 years.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-70105847958106782862016-08-02T08:10:00.001-07:002016-08-02T08:10:12.367-07:00High Tech Greed<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f799cfd080b04b93a34df61fc007b096/snapping-cheap-spy-tools-nations-monitoring-everyone">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f799cfd080b04b93a34df61fc007b096/snapping-cheap-spy-tools-nations-monitoring-everyone</a><br />
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We are living in a time of heavy disinformation and manipulation. And the worst part is, the average person doesn't even realize that these things are happening, let alone have the opportunity to adapt.<br />
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I mean, seriously, fuck these people. These are human rights violations in a box.<br />
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$$$ rules some people, but the more that are shut out of the ivory white offices, the more there will be growing unrest on the street and a rage that can no longer be pacified.<br />
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Drink champagne while ye may, you fuckers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-20702394621204945632016-08-02T08:01:00.001-07:002016-08-02T08:01:55.659-07:00Meet Trump's Right Hand ManAnyone who doesn't think that the Trump campaign is dangerous and deluded, meet Trump's main campaign advisor:<div>
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"Manafort was a principal at the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly (along with another top Trump ally, Nixon alum Roger Stone), a K Street powerhouse with close ties to the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, as well as top Republicans on Capitol Hill.</div>
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But over the years, they made millions by representing a rogue’s gallery of clients far away from D.C.’s genteel corridors of power: dictators, guerilla groups, and despots with no regard for human rights—including one man responsible for mass amputations, and another who oversaw state-sanctioned rape."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-83117937679364268952016-07-31T23:06:00.001-07:002016-07-31T23:06:07.400-07:00WOMAD FestivalThe cancellation of the United States WOMAD festivals in 2001 I consider one of the low points of my experience in this country.<br />
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The musicians are not the terrorists. Anyone who can't see how ART relates to LIFE is either fucking stupid or a naive agent.<br />
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Don't fuck up your chance, assholes! LOL!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-28504801481563987582016-07-31T22:20:00.000-07:002016-07-31T22:20:14.656-07:00The Holy MountainWhat do Sam Cooke, Mickie Most, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Alejandro Jodorowski have in common?<br />
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Look it up, yo! I can't do all the work for you... LOL!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-82697574651304106242016-07-31T11:44:00.000-07:002016-07-31T11:44:08.743-07:00EscalationPeople seem to often get offended when people escalate the rhetorical intensity of a conversation, not recognizing that sometimes passive acquiescence is a similar escalation, especially in the context of very serious and real provable bahavior and/or situations.<br />
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Opinions are of little help with the deeper problems. They should naturally derive from the philosophical context as best able to be done with the most stringent cognitive tools.<br />
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That is why we all need to work together on this. Not just in the realm of opinions, but in the depths of philosophical argument. We need targets of outcome that we can shoot for, and with all of our diverse opinions, there are reasonable means to come to humanitarian and sane outcomes.<br />
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No more superstition. No more ridiculous unsubstantiated opinions.<br />
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We argue from the secular sphere, with a sense of communality, and acceptance that there needs to be fundamental guarantees that we take this all on a case by case basis, and the case may take longer than anyone can have in a short, opinionated conversation.<br />
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And we need to have at least some sort of peer review, from a broad section of the community.<br />
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Which is why, I guess, the rule of law is the best approximation we have of holding the greed, prejudice and discrimination of people at bay.<br />
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Peace through philosophical strength.<br />
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It's not quite algebra, but there are best principles to follow that can approximate a best case.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-64856614989642636372016-07-31T10:45:00.002-07:002016-07-31T10:45:07.112-07:00Carlos Fuentes<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it." —Carlos Fuentes</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-23168962932269319752016-07-30T23:27:00.002-07:002016-07-30T23:34:28.967-07:00Computer "Security"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security</a><br />
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There is basically enough information here to DAMN every single aspect of the current computer infrastructure.<br />
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This shit is BEYOND out-of-control, and it will be the assholes that screw all of us.<br />
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Pray that there ain't no rootkit for the nukes.<br />
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I'm going back to an Apple ][+ connected to a 300 baud dial-up account at my friend's house.<br />
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Our conversations were more interesting than any of this bullshit you hear on Twitter.<br />
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When I bought my Apple ][+ computer, I got the source code listing of the entire ROM. I could see EVERY SINGLE THING THAT IT DID, and do memory dumps to look at it and to formulate tests to make sure it was doing what it said. There's not zero risk of a chance that something was not quite what you thought, but hackers weren't targeting our personal bank accounts with the shit either.<br />
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Good luck to you all. May you never have your lives turned against you by a bunch of pathological bullshit programmers. But you will.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-47264715158355997302016-07-30T22:59:00.001-07:002016-07-30T22:59:40.876-07:00Fansmitter<a href="http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-showed-you-can-hack-an-offline-pc-by-listening-to-its-fans">http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-showed-you-can-hack-an-offline-pc-by-listening-to-its-fans</a><br />
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You're not even safe when not connected to a network.<br />
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Shit is getting crazy out there.<br />
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Too much human attention in stupid fucking idiotic technology. We can't even get along with each other. It's a goddamn shame. People being stupid being stupid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-88893194974636133672016-07-29T13:14:00.000-07:002016-07-29T13:14:02.155-07:00Fuck This Asshole<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn</a><br />
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Fuck this asshole.<br />
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Capitalist jerk.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-81361274530309348942016-07-29T12:09:00.000-07:002016-07-29T12:09:16.904-07:00Life Be CrayLike how did I meet someone who worked with DJ Screw in Houston and then have my phone fuck up the contact info and I get 86-ed from the club where we met. I done seen his truck in the parking lot, but I can't go in!<br />
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But hey, we all need to rely on our own initiative to succeed, and I'm producing like a mother fucker!<br />
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I will eventually get my helicopter deal and be able to survive and pay my rent.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-47247486900869269322016-07-29T11:56:00.001-07:002016-07-29T11:56:34.854-07:00Ira Crass<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass</a><br />
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I fucking hate this asshole.<br />
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He's a whiney douche privileged piece of shit.<br />
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He will never have a hit record.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-56551283367347124602016-07-29T08:58:00.002-07:002016-07-29T08:58:37.376-07:00Phylloxera<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera</a><br />
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I learned a lot about rootstocks this year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-64823168633395427732016-07-29T08:44:00.001-07:002016-07-29T08:44:10.488-07:00Oh Death<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mB6_BPT6VFk" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-84648239212022503092016-07-29T08:41:00.002-07:002016-07-29T08:41:43.252-07:00Three Mile Island<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident</a><br />
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This ain't even the worst we're up against right now. Ever had your iPhone crash? Well, just wait until the programmers fuck up the centrifuges. Oh wait, that already happened.<br />
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We are on the edge out here, y'all.<br />
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I ain't going to shut up about it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-7597030797441530352016-07-29T08:27:00.002-07:002016-07-29T08:42:30.977-07:00The Port Huron Statement<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Huron_Statement">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Huron_Statement</a><br />
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Oh wait, I guess Facebook and Google have made all of these things irrelevant now, because the panopticon is the best of all possible worlds! All hail Kang and Kodos!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488224919116957061.post-78245454289062867492016-07-29T07:26:00.000-07:002016-07-29T07:26:05.693-07:00Oregon: Fuck Yeah!I spent a significant amount of time in the grape fields doing canopy management with this trellis system. Fascinating to learn about horticulture and the Oregon wine industry.<br />
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<a href="https://www.1859oregonmagazine.com/home-garden/2013-march-april-1859-magazine-oregon-creatives-scott-henry-trellis-system-designer">https://www.1859oregonmagazine.com/home-garden/2013-march-april-1859-magazine-oregon-creatives-scott-henry-trellis-system-designer</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0