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also full disclosure, $20 of that actually came from me referring others to symphonic and not actual streaming revenue, so
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With the proliferation of “dumbphones” and smartphone platforms that are intentionally set up to provide a degraded experience by not allowing you to install things that are major attention and privacy traps, I keep wondering why people are buying more unsatisfying ewaste that doesn’t cover their needs instead of just choosing not to install the garbage apps in the first place.
The Internet is becoming centralized is because it’s gotten ridiculously difficult and expensive to run a website without using things like Cloudflare and AWS, because everything has become designed to need it combined with the constant onslaught of AI bot traffic. So I’m starting to wonder if the bot onslaught isn’t AI but is just a scorched-earth thing coming from the companies which want centralized control to begin with, like an information-based protection racket.
https://youtu.be/aLPrNSFLb2U
The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia
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@zvinj@tooot.im @mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza “On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
— Charles Babbage
I wonder if Ariel the mermaid had an older, better-looking sister named Helvatica
We lost the wrong 80-year-old Home Alone 2 background character actor.
Maybe soon we can have a reunion special though.
It's always a bit funny to me that this one brand of fruit popsicles advertises itself as being "plant-based." It is not a meat popsicle.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but reminder that µ is not a fancy u, but a fancy m
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@dio@kanoa.de Oh sure I totally get the desire for dumbphones from an aesthetic or nostalgia purpose; I'm super enamored with a bunch of them for that reason!
My issue is more with folks who are trying to use a dumbphone (or a "dumb" phone like the Commodore one) as a cure-all for all modern smartphone ills, but then getting frustrated that the things they need aren't available on the same phones.
@Xkeeper@icosahedron.website haha, guess what was at the top of my reddit FYP today https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgif8w/the_cutting_room_floor_served_claude_code_a/
good job!
hello #bandcampfriday I do not have any new releases but this is the best day to buy my stuff on bandcamp yadda yadda yadda https://sockpuppet.bandcamp.com/ hi ok i love you
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Most of the advice for "just release singles" comes from a purely streaming perspective (which I abhor) and also from a "keep the algorithm fed" standpoint (which I also abhor)
Tim Curry as Premier Cherdenko - Space!
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also towards the end my mom talked about how she and my dad just went to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and now she thinks Reagan wasn't so bad after all and I'm like, "he set the current state of things in motion, don't start glazing him"
"Oh, but he was so *compassionate*"
and I didn't feel like asking her to read up on his response to the AIDS crisis or to homelessness or FDA regulations or any of the other things that she's complaining about today
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@dio@kanoa.de like the Commodore phone in particular is pretty annoying to me because it is in every way that matters still a smartphone, but then they advertise themselves as having some sort of proprietary technology that allows most apps to install but bans social media and browser apps, but done in an incredibly paternalistic way.
Like, I get not wanting those apps on your phone. The solution to that is to *not install them*, not to engineer the entire phone around disallowing them.
The random plaintext summary on spam messages gets pretty weird sometimes.
(This was yet another “I hacked your computer, ooo scary, send me bitcoin” scam message.)
If you want some #bandcampFriday recommendations, check out https://bandcamp.com/fluffy
Okay it took a little learning but Focusrite Control 2 is a much better application than Focusrite Control 1. I just really wish it didn't reset the mixer settings entirely. I'm going to hold off on upgrading my VR computer because I alreayd have the mix how I like it for tomorrow's show, but come Friday I think I'll be updating it.
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Also an episode not too far back had a very subtle message about the anti-Semitism and racism that was rampant at posh country clubs of the era, but they weren't brave enough to make it have an actual point.
Thankfully, Mary Tyler Moore would actually do it proper three years later, in "Some of My Best Friends are Rhoda."
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“Gosh, I miss black bean burgers and falafel. Hamburgers and kofta just aren’t the same…”
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wild seeing people posting to a thread about theoretical meth cooking on the Breaking Bad subreddit in such a way that sounds like they *want* to be on a DEA watchlist
It is both hilarious and concerning when Tyler, an 18-pound Soft Round Boy, gets the zoomies.
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anyway my sister stepped in, set it up as a google meet, and it was half an hour of bad audio and only a handful of the supposedly-interested people even joined in, and most of them were coming from the same location anyway
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what could be just as easily explained by stupidity
Harlon's Razor: Never assume that the slightest similarity between two stories is anything other than massive overt plagiarism
For months I’ve had an incredibly persistent accounts receivable scammer trying to convince my “accounting department” that I owe thousands of dollars to some sort of corporate training seminar. I wonder how much money they get this way, because I’m sure that they occasionally hit a target that pays out.
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also my mom is constantly just like. sending me email with no fucking context at all and then later it turns out the context is something I "should" have known about from the whatsapp chat, which I didn't even know was a thing until today
hello a weed
Just spent 16 minutes of my finite life watching a woodturning video where they were "woodturning" wine bottles and making something without explaining what it was, and I expected the reveal at the end would be either very silly or very annoying, and to my surprise, it was both.
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I'm close to the end of season 5 of Bewitched, which is where there are far more episodes without Darrin than with.
Soon Dick York shall be replaced by Dick Sargent.
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Just finished the second-to-last episode with Dick York in it, where they were only able to film one scene with him before he collapsed on-set and they had to do a quick rewrite to avoid needing him at all anymore, using a little bit of editing trickery to reinsert him (badly) at the very end.
There is only one more episode with York at all, and after that he's replaced by Dick Sargent.
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@Aradia@weirder.earth aw dang, wish I'd heard about this before just now, two hours after it ended (although I'm not sure I could have made it anyway)
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social So far nobody's actually mentioned not knowing Samantha's family name, but it's this interesting thing that's always just kinda hanging there
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I wonder if Darrin's parents ever found it weird that they never learned Samantha's maiden name or Endorra's surname.
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@aredridel@kolektiva.social In other spaces people are saying it's a generational thing and I'm letting my inner boomer show
busybee: Notes: Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/11609-Re-I-joined-the-IndieWeb-here-s-what-I-learned #IndieAuth #IndieWeb #Notes #Blog
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Of course the big error is in equating income with worthiness but it’s at least an indirect indicator of how much people are listening to my stuff and also I regret to inform you that I exist in a capitalist society much to my chagrin
having one of those evenings where I wish I were better at getting the sound I am trying to make in my music
in particular, really hating my voice right now
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well anyway I guess for the rest of this #bandcampfriday / #fairtrademusicfriday you can get up to a 95% discount on any digital download at https://sockpuppet.bandcamp.com/ with discount code WHYNOT
Which is to say you can basically pay what you want for my entire catalog
because why not
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Basically I make way more on Bandcamp and Mirlo than streaming and even then I don’t make that much there either
I wonder if a different approach is necessary. Like I’ve toyed with the idea of making my albums “rolling releases” that people can fund as I release more songs on them, or going purely pay-what-you-want just to get more folks collecting it, but each of those lead to other big problems.
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social Yeah Darrin's parents show up a few times early on and then much more often in the later seasons