zeruch

zeruch, 1 month ago to usenet

"#USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

zeruch, 8 months ago to UX

In today's rage-inducing #ux #darkpattern , we have regular culprit #google / #android , asking me to back up my photos to the cloud. And they can go piss right off. I take my photos weekly or monthly at the most and archive them myself, and keep nothing of value in a cloud locker. The fact that there is no permanent way to stop this notification is what absolutely incenses me.

zeruch, 4 months ago to random

Before she became a late 80s/early 90s dance/pop crossover hit machine, #LisaStansfield got her first major success guesting on an acid-house chart banger with #Coldcut (founders of the Ninja Tune label) on "People Hold On" which has aged remarkably well. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoWjow6xDs

zeruch, 9 months ago to jazz

A one off concert in tribute to the late, very great #jazz player and composer #WayneShorter, overseen by his friend and colleague #HerbieHancock. The show revolved around reconfigured lineups to cover the different eras and genres of Wayne, which included people like Cindy Blackman, Carlos Santana, Jack DeJohnette, Marcus Miller, Joni Mitchell, Esperanza Spalding, Kamasi Washington, Chris Potter, and more. A wild, varied cross-section of Shorter's influence at the #Hollywood Bowl #zeruchontour

zeruch, 4 months ago to random

A clear indicator of just how far the US #political circus has fallen is evidenced right here; when Bill Kristol is saying this out loud, you know even traditional conservatives are terrified of #Trump madness and late stage #capitalism as a combination.

zeruch, 4 months ago to random

"“In other words, while #SupremeCourt justices are jetting all over the world on fancy private family vacations paid for by #right-wing #billionaires or collecting hefty cash gifts from those billionaires for their personal museums and family members private school tuition payments, the #GOP says the real problem in our legal system is that too many victims of corporate wrongdoing are fighting access to the courts in the first place,”"

Sounds about right.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4205325-raskin-calls-out-gop-for-ignoring-supreme-court-sugar-daddies/

zeruch, 10 months ago to random

I blame @deirdresm for now having me on an hour+ long kick of "favorite Wal bassists" (started with Justin Chancellor of Tool, threw a little XTC and Rush in there, now we're into the quirkier range of players with Percy Jones of Brand X and now Mick Karn of...a bunch of stuff): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ER2AADsWg

zeruch, 5 months ago to random

Before they became club-hit darlings, Everything But the Girl carved out a slice of post-punk-pop experimentation that was far more interesting than they often got credit for (e.g. their slickest cuts made it to "quiet storm" radio, but there was so much more to it), including live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NljK-sXaMtk

zeruch, 7 months ago to random

The #PeterGabriel show in Cleveland last week was a big time win.

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

"Annie Lennox, Wendy and Lisa Working Together on Trio Project."

I find this a genuinely exciting prospect, given the Art Pop tendencies of all participants, and their eclectic tastes, the worst thing this could be is just 'pretty good', but definitely could be something far more ambitious and resonant given the talent pool.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/wendy-lisa-annie-lennox-band-project-1235936375/

#prince #eurythmics

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

"I first noticed Welshman Karl Wallinger as part of the mid-80s lineup of Mike Scott’s The Waterboys...Soon after, he left to form his own band, World Party...I always come back to the title track from their debut LP as a perennial favorite. The album, cut, and video, also was the first appearance of one Sinead O’Connor.

#KarlWallinger passed away this week, at the age of 66"

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-106-world-party-private-revolution/

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

"#HP CEO Says They Brick #Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical."

Experts aren't the only ones. HP is trash. #PlannedObsolescence is trash. #SurveillanceCapitalism is trash.

https://www.wired.com/story/hp-ceo-ink-cartridge-hackers-dynamic-security/

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

"I admit I had no idea who #MalcolmX was when I first heard it. I was 10 or 11, and it played a few times on college radio, which I was only just starting to tune into, but for which so much of the messaging in the music was alien."

This track by #KeithLeBlanc was probably the first solo track of his I ever heard, and it still is as listenable as it was in the mid 80s:

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-112-keith-leblanc-malcolm-x-no-sell-out/

#SugarHillRecords #OnUSound

zeruch, 3 months ago to 80s

#EgyptianLover, the paragon of hi-nrg/electro #80s dance tracks from SoCal, continues mining that same sound (which is in a resurgence of sorts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjCG27TqX0

zeruch, 7 months ago to art

So, I'll likely do a longer write up on this, but after a few years of largely not trying to sell #art due to not completing a lot of works or otherwise not tending to things, I had intended to start up the old lines, and I fine them either broken (#RedBubble), shut down (#DeviantArt Prints) or doing just squirt-of-piss dumb cash grabs (all of the above, plus #Society6).

Everyone wants art, very few want to make actual artists lives remotely worth the effort.

Maybe #etsy?

zeruch, 13 days ago to random

1. All Noisey From the Wankers Front.
2. Nap-hoeleon.
3. Acrapopants Now.
4. Full Hefty Diaper.
5. Tropic Blunder.
6. Operation Lunchmeat.
7. Dumbkirk.
8. Run Loudly, Run Shallow.
9. Prattleship Potrumpkin.
10. Wanker, Traitor, Bloviator, Spy.
11. From Here to Pomposity.
12. Poltroon.
13. The Turd Locker.
14. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (didn't even have to change that one)
    #TrumpWarMovie

zeruch, 3 months ago to conservative

"Jack #Posobiec joyfully hailed the “end of democracy” at the #Conservative Political Action Conference, ...

Posobiec, who helped popularize the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory...

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said as the event began."

Whoever takes Jack Bozobiec seriously needs their head trepanned with a Greyhound bus.

https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024

#CPAC #GOP #fascism #TrumpClowns

zeruch, 3 months ago to 80s

Well, I had forgotten this happened in the #80s: #Synthesizer Medley with #HerbieHancock, #StevieWonder, #ThomasDolby and #HowardJones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NgnympxAE

zeruch, 4 months ago to random

the 80s retro cycle seems to be endless, now with songs that sounds and look indiscernible from the source genres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_Vb6jA9zs

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

#TrevorHorn has an autobiography of sorts. It's actually a pretty decent read so far, and it confirms two things I've long thought about horn. One, he's a musically talented producer with a seemingly endless ability to make a hit song who understands how to make something sound good. And two, he's a narcissistic self-absorbed bell end and not always artist friendly. It's a reputation he seems happy to have earned.

zeruch, 25 days ago to art

Playing with flame #fractals is a perennial joy (and also confusing as hell, as all the tools I've tried over the years are great for exploring ideas in an open ended fashion but I've never found a really linear/'predictable' approach to using them, regardless of how much fun it is, it still feels a lot like video game "button-mashing".) #art

zeruch, 1 month ago to art

#workinprogress #abstractart which started from the working title project of "thermonuclear cassette" has been something I've been obsessing over off and on for the last two plus weeks and I've rebuilt and re-obliterated it several times. I actually released a version of this as part of the #disquiet series (number 46) last week, but I'm still not happy with it. #art #mixedmedia

zeruch, 6 months ago to random

"I found a used copy of Michael Gordon‘s "Weather" in a bargain bin some time near the end of the 90s, and it stuck with me.

Gordon is co-founder of the #BangOnACan musical collective and attendant festival, and his work is often pretty interesting for it’s weird mix of accessible orchestral motifs, drenched in minimalism (think #SteveReich) and adventurous stretching (think #KronosQuartet) but it’s really his own thing."

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-89-manchester-collective-performs-weather-from-michael-gordon/

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

I never get tired of promoting the music of #ChrisWhitley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9pgYCw2YvU

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

RIP Keith LeBlanc, one of the greatest drummers , beat mechanics and production gods the world has barely known by name, but absolutely known by sound.