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SidFudd

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52-year-old bear. I do the things men can't resist, like being archivist for old comedy groups Firesign Theatre and Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre, and the band Negativland.

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SidFudd,
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@textfiles Then your file "Generated AI art made by spammers" and my file "Every junk fax received by the Walt Disney Company Enterprise IT Risk Management fax machine, Glendale, CA, 7/17/2007-12/5/2008" can get married

SidFudd,
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@textfiles I fully intent to turn it into a gallery show😅

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@pluralistic I have a fun mystery for the Cory-nauts.

Don Joyce of Negativland liked to tape Art Bell. I found a show where Art is talking to Whitley Streiber (“Communion”) and taking calls when something strange happens: every 45 seconds, they start hearing a phone auto-dialer.

Art is flummoxed: “Somebody's breaking in on our line…this last half hour is the most puzzling I've ever done on radio.”

I checked the phone tones and the number is: 1-800-468-3445

When Googled, there are no results.

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@garygouldsberry @pluralistic It's actually an open reel, from a giant collection of open reels that as their archivist I am now digitizing. These reels mostly contain raw material Don taped off radio & TV which later appeard on "Over the Edge" or the albums. There's about 250 reels & after four months I'm almost half done

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@garygouldsberry @pluralistic These are primarily for Negativland to spelunk for use in upcoming live shows & albums, but they may be released publicly at some point. And I must give a shout-out to Tim Maloney, Negativland's OTHER archivist, who digitized the complete Over the Edge archive and is the reason it's on Internet Archive today!

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This @pluralistic paragraph is good for a laugh more bitter than radish-flavored coffee with dandelion greens.

Sometimes it's hard to tell who the enemy of the whole world is, and then sometimes, as a Navy officer told the newsreels in 1946 as he attempted to justify nuking the Bikini Islands, "The way is clear, the challenge strong, the duty inescapable." Please join me in gathering up every human being involved in and shooting them into the sun. 🚀 🌞

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

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FCC's Rum Cured Crooks. Tagging @pluralistic because I just know he's going to need this for a collage someday

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Gilbert Shelton/Hub City Movers "Set Your Chickens Free"

long shot - anyone have a better recording/transfer of THIS version (the original) of this song - not any of the other fine versions out there, lovely as they are. If so, please share in whatever format you can, thx

(lyricist Gilbert Shelton is the creator/artist of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but they have nothing to do with this song really)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoYJh6ZRj8o

SidFudd,
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@mrcompletely Why yes! https://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2022/08/hub-city-movers-chicken-song-bw-i-cant.html

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WonderCon, March 30: Beetlejuice with the cast of Haunted Mansion. Attn @pluralistic

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Do Canadians have a game where they cold-call the serial number on a dollar bill? Because this one's in Kalamazoo.

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@ct_bergstrom Hi Carl! Greetings from Burbank, home of many crows, mourning doves, sparrows, mockingbirds, and feral parrots. I love crows & say hi to them every chance I get. Can you give me a thumbnail description of the difference between ravens, crows, and rooks?

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@pluralistic I hope this scam is real…and driven by ChatGPT.

"[sobbing hysterically] MOM I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED, THEY'RE GONNA KILL ME UNLESS I WIRE $10,000 TO THIS NUMBER IN MEXICO"

"Oh honey, that's awful! Before I send the money can you do me a favor and list every variety of quark and their corresponding antiparticles?"

"[still sobbing hysterically] I'D BE GLAD TO, THERE ARE SIX QUARKS, UP DOWN CHARM STRANGE TOP AND BOTTOM. ANTIQUARKS HAVE EQUAL PROPERTIES BUT OPPOSITE SIGNS—"

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My phone rang the other day and a voice said: "I've got good news and bad news. Whaddya want first?"

I said "Gimme the bad news."

"The bad news is that humanity is basically paranoid and hostile and addicted to expediency, and one day it will use up all available resources and wipe itself out, and leave the Earth to the squirrels."

"What's the good news?"

"My name's Daisy, and I'm a squirrel."

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Garbage day at the old Duchamp house.

SidFudd,
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@pluralistic HA, I went for a walk ten minutes ago & saw the same toilet & at least that very visible winding curve on the outside got me thinking about fluid dynamics, and prompted me to Google the S-bend.

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It's and so you may wish to enjoy these very timely very surreal very psychedelic very WTF ads for International House of Pancakes, real non-fake ads, written and produced by the in 1969. Hit tracks 27, 28, 29, and 30.

https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you

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America only needed one song, and gave us that song. I had a show on a streaming internet station, so I could play it. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rLHYsQHgc

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Here's a fun thing to do: repost this, or comment on it, and then think about it every time you ever repost anything or comment on anything for as long as you live.

h/t @pluralistic

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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@pluralistic Two news links I saw today confirmed rent is unaffordable for most Americans (spoiler: me too). Neither article explains why. Would love it if you could help us name the perp!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/25/rent-housing-costs/
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds

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Negativland were guests this morning on our Uncle Ken's show on WFMU! A truly classic conversation about the Right using culture jamming for evil, AI companies putting Fair Use in an acid bath, getting the dead members of the band back into their live shows thanks to old tapes, and the Weatherman's fave organ records. Here's the show archive:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136214

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"...student loan forgiveness...we could just as easily call that market correction, but there’s something about the word forgiveness that implies judgment."

I never considered how rancid that phrase is. It's not cancellation, or deletion; it's "forgiveness". You erred. We're forgiving you. But it's perfect from the bank's point of view, because everyone coming to them for a loan has committed the moral error of not already having the money 😂

https://electricliterature.com/molly-mcghee-jonathan-abernathy-you-are-kind-interview-debut-novel-book-debt/

h/t @pluralistic

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- on my way back to coherence, hopefully, indicated by the thought that i would like to acquire the "happy together" single (in mono) & play it over & over & over & over & over & over. @vinylrecords

SidFudd,
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@bourgwick @vinylrecords clearly you have achieved total rationality

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It's time for action

SidFudd,
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@tdriley @pluralistic Someday the timing will be exactly right for me to stand at the corner of some urban intersection with a pair of pliers and very carefully remove EVERY STAPLE from a telephone pole. It won't just be OCD. It'll be useful work! 😅

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My dear queerdos: this note, handwritten on a wood plank and leaned against a lamppost somewhere in New Orleans (photo by @pluralistic) has me puzzled. The STRAIGHT explanation is: Chad has a son Brad, and Brad fucked his grandmother, e.g. Chad's mother. But is there a BEAR/DAD explanation with perhaps a different calculus?? I cannot figure out the math 😭

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    SidFudd,
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    @sidereal @pluralistic @mttaggart @neurovagrant I think I just figured out the use case for AI - it's strictly for entertainment purposes. Accuracy: nil. Reliability: nil. But wow, what results! AI is a psychic hotline.

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    @pluralistic Every year around this time a miracle cometh unto us, and it is Greig Johnson's Food Farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18h39WqLvPQ

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