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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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zeruch, to random
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"I admit I had no idea who 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 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/

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@mxtthxw I literally have had an idea for a "Taxcider" illo for years (think Geof Darrow on funky LSD) and I've been fascinated by Keiths whole process for as long as I can remember. I really love his solo LPs.

When I finally saw Tackhead live (circa 2011), I just about fell over sideways. Watching him was just perplexing, because he was clearly playing these wild-ass parts effortlessly.

He was such a singular, un-reproducible sound machine.

zeruch, to random
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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.

zeruch, to random
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" CEO Says They Brick 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. is trash. is trash.

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

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@airwhale pretty much. HP has got through the most staggering decline in reputation I have ever seen in this industry. There are plenty of companies that have maintained some level of respectability even though they are generally garbage (MSFT, Google, and most of Wall St. comes to mind) by periodically trying to not be imbeciles. HP of the other hand, came from laudable bona fides, that has done everything in its power, to projectile defecate furiously all over them.

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    zeruch,
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    @mxtthxw @Unabart your uncle writes for the FT? Outstanding. The continues to be the only newspaper I read with any regularity, in print.

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    zeruch,
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    @kevbob You live in Oregon dude, that's part of the cost of the ride.

    zeruch, to random
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    A love letter to : "They are a poster child for how to become a Kafka-grade punchline of incompetence, venality, and naked mendacity.

    In this case I actually took the printer related to this, and dropped it from a decent height into a dumpster. The noise of shattering poor-build quality and poorer CX felt almost post-coital."

    https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/a-love-letter-to-hp/

    heidilifeldman, to random
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    Trump uses language like a paintbrush, to create a tone and a mood - a very dangerous tone and mood. Parsing the grammar of his remarks to see whether he’s speaking about one industry or more generally is a mug’s game. This is the same old dog whistling he always engages in - his base knows he’s threatening violence, we in the resistance know he’s threatening violence. Meanwhile the MSM plays his game.

    zeruch,
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    @heidilifeldman s it's closer to Trump using language like a toilet wipe, and the MSM seem to have an acute scatological paraphilia.

    zeruch, to SteelyDan
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    "This is a 90s live gig with (Living Colour, Zig Zag Trio), (#P-Funk, Santana, ), and JP Bourelly (, Cassandra Wilson) and is an hour of both accessible and experimental jams of original material, as well as some very eccentric covers of The Meters‘ “Cissy Strut” and Sonny Sharrock’s “Dick Dogs”.

    RIP TM Stevens.

    https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-107-vernon-reid-t-m-stevens-dennis-chambers-jp-bourelly-live-1995/

    zeruch, to random
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    "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.

    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,
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    @kevbob Wallinger was one of those guys who I didn't listen to that often, but when I was in that mood would be exactly the trick.

    While I liked things from all his output, that first WP album (and the Peter Gabriel all-star jam album 'Big Blue Ball') always always always sounded good.

    zeruch,
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    @kevbob look what I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIzml99HR0 (at the Warfield no less)

    zeruch, to random
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    I never get tired of promoting the music of : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9pgYCw2YvU

    zeruch, to random
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    "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,
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    @airwhale I am sincerely curious as to what these folks might do, given that essentially between the three of them they can do everything from right, perform, record and produce.

    glynmoody, to random
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    New report reveals UK economy is almost £140billion smaller because of - https://www.london.gov.uk/new-report-reveals-uk-economy-almost-ps140billion-smaller-because-brexit "Mayor of London identifies Brexit as ‘key contributor’ to the current cost-of-living crisis – highlighting evidence that it is fuelling food price increases"

    zeruch,
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    @glynmoody I'm surprised it's not double that.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Producing more but understanding less: The risks of AI for scientific research

    A psychologist and an anthropologist ponder the epistemic risks AI could pose for science.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/producing-more-but-understanding-less-the-risks-of-ai-for-scientific-research/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    zeruch,
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    @arstechnica "producing more but understanding less" is a fundamentally big problem that I don't think is really being perceived and wrestled with by the broader public.

    design_law, (edited ) to random
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    affirmed per curiam (not precedential): https://cafc.uscourts.gov/03-06-2024-22-1121-in-re-samuels-opinion-22-1121-opinion-3-6-2024_2281227/

    I'm glad the panel rejected the "every single patent view must be present in the prior art" argument." There's hardly ever going to be non-patent prior art that satisfies that standard.

    zeruch,
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    @design_law that whole sentence was profoundly baffling

    arstechnica, to random
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    Max confirms 2024 password crackdown, explores adding transactional ads

    WBD looking for ways to grow newfound streaming business profitability.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/max-confirms-2024-password-crackdown-explores-adding-transactional-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    zeruch,
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    @arstechnica ...a.k.a. the Prequel to Piracy. These studios have learned sod-all from the original Pirate Wars era, and are looking for a sequel. I hope they get it, good and goddamn hard.

    Idiots.

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    Calling fandom a "psyop" isn't just a foolish way of politicizing everything. It's also an effort to systematically deprive us of pleasure in entertainment, leaving us ravenous for joy and meaning. I talk about the implications in my New Scientist column. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134793-500-the-taylor-swift-psy-op-conspiracy-theory-offers-a-troubling-lesson/ (sign up for a free account to read it)

    zeruch,
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    @annaleen this has so much bearing today. Excellent stuff.

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    @kevbob /me celebrates this

    zeruch, to random
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    Yet another reason to regulate and keep the hyperwealthy under scrutiny; they do creepy arse-seepage like 's journo-stalking: "Before their second interview, Kerr wrote, Benioff let on that he’d been somehow keeping an eye on Kerr and her family..."During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.”"

    Subject the rich to their own medicine; keep every receipt, follow every transaction.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-UC_Q9F4Y&list=OLAK5uy_n4aQ4sIQ2WHeGwCMRXHqLxhPw0Mk0ZCDc&index=2"

    zeruch, to conservative
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    "Jack joyfully hailed the “end of democracy” at the 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

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Here's what Meta defines as political: anything potentially related to anything that "identifies a problem that impacts people and is caused by the action or inaction of others" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/21/meta-is-downplaying-political-content-heres-what-that-really-means/ @willoremus

    zeruch,
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    @taylorlorenz @willoremus that is some of the most abstruse, oblique, confounding equine patty I've read in a while.

    is daft AF.

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