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zeruch

@zeruch@mastodon.social

Silicon Valley native, tech, artist, wonk, raconteur. I'll veer from topic to topic, and change stylistically on a whim. Curious about stuff and things.

UCD alum (PoliSci/IR & Tech Policy). Strong interests in the arts, actual political science, cliodynamics, systems theory, and seeking a bit of adventure at even the smallest scale.

I own more albums than you have had changes of underpants since birth.

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For art commissions and/or licensing, joseph.arruda@gmail.com

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emilygorcenski, to random

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    @emilygorcenski all of them? (Emolument, maybe?)

    pixelfed, to random
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    ✨ Donate, Buy Prints and Shop buttons are coming soon!

    We won't take any commissions, these buttons will open a browser with the donation or store url that you set.

    Don't worry, we're not adding a Shopping tab or otherwise entering the e-commerce space, all transactions will happen in the browser.

    We ❤️ our community, and hope this helps make your account and content more sustainable financially!

    Pixelfed app with Buy Prints button
    Pixelfed app with Shop button

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    @pixelfed probably one of the easiest ways (along with content moderation clarity) that will help jumpstart a real exodus from IG to Pixelfed.

    cloudguy, to random

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    @cloudguy i always liked that album. The bass parts on that record are actually quite well constructed, and the drums from tunes like "is it love" are actually fairly badass. They're fourth album "pull" which got released two decades after it was actually recorded, also has some really choice nuggets in it, and has guitar work from Buzz Feiten and Trevor Rabin.

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    @cloudguy the sound was definitely thin in spots, but that definitely was the production preference mid-80s (the producer also engineered Yes' "big generator"), when you had too much drum gating and click tracks. That said, the band could still perform the stuff legitimately well live https://youtu.be/jtTKSKDIXtg , and I am not surprised that Mastellotto and Ferris became big session guys (and it mased a lot of his case eventually in the King Crimson constellation).

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    @cloudguy jakko is resoundingly underappreciated by old guard krim fanboys, who seem to have a problem with his more melodic approach...but they're wrong.

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    @cloudguy his solo records (if you havent checked them out) are really worth investigating, especially IMHO "The Bruised Romantic Glee Club" and his EP with 3/4ths of Japan. He always struck me as the UKs version of Kevin Gilbert.

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    @cloudguy now I'm plodding about YT looking for nuggets and found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FggXwnRDa94

    zeruch, to internet
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    My take on the recent kerfuffle caused by @Cloudguy WRT and :
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarruda_deleted-tweets-are-reappearing-for-some-twitter-activity-7064768893587763200-eLFM

    evan, to random
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    Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

    It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. 🫤

    https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

    Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

    Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!

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    @evan I really enjoyed identi.ca way back when. I actually thought the ux was considerably better.

    Cloudguy, to random

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    @Cloudguy when Karsten Wade was let go I knew things were not good.

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    @Cloudguy he's not there anymore so I kind of assumed that he suffered the same fate...

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    @andrew @renchap do you think it can be avoided at any smaller size? At some point once the broad technology becomes generally accepted as a spam vector, (and we'll just think of Mastodon as one thing for the moment), every nook and cranny can be attacked the same way. Think of usenet in that regard... Once the endless September began no group was safe from turd blooms of noise. De federating wouldn't be the best solve in that case...

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    @emilygorcenski he's a petulant, colicky toddler on a good day.

    His eventual historic footnote will be "choad"

    RobertMaguire, to random

    RT @Joshgerstein
    JUST IN: Rudy Giuliani sez he can't do additional doc searches in libel suit brought by Georgia pollworkers Ruby Freeman/Wandrea Moss because he owes doc mgmt firm TrustpointOne undisclosed 'arrearage' & that & new fees would be $320K & he can't afford it https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23794384-giulianifreemanfiling050123

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    @RobertMaguire @Joshgerstein sorry, put of sympathy. Hold him in the slammer till he finds a way.

    juddlegum, to random
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    Absolutely despicable to refer to the victims of a gun massacre, including an 8-year-old, as “illegal immigrants”

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    @juddlegum yes, but very on-brand for the albino dung-raccoon that is Abbott.

    emilygorcenski, to random

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    @emilygorcenski that's a showstop absence of feature.

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    Some of the in , is top tier.

    timbray, (edited ) to random
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    Strong, well-researched, scary piece on Long Covid, which is no freaking joke; one of my loved ones is struggling with what I suppose is a relatively mild case and this creates quality-of-life problems you don’t want to have.

    https://www.salon.com/2023/04/24/long-parkinsons/

    Take care of yourselves, please.

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    @timbray this is honestly one of the things that terrifies me the most about it.

    The sheer unpredictability only compounds this.

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    @Cloudguy I've formally decided that Edinburgh is notably superior to London. As a yank saying this, you all need to review yourselves...

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    @Cloudguy had it already (I've also tried a few others, and I'm not shocked that all are quite serviceable) It's not bad, but my favorite beer of all time is a different Scot product, Ola Dubh, from Harviestoun, which graciously is about half to a third of the cost I would pay in the States.

    I've managed to keep myself from bankruptcy at the whiskey shops, but it's daunting.

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    @GossiTheDog the techbro problem isn't solely American. Positioning it that way let's the rest off as either not existing or existing and not active participants. I work in SV, and its definitely a case of "global bellendry"

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