djsundog

djsundog, 24 days ago to random

pro tip: you don't get to suddenly become the "cool ol' establishment figurehead the kids really like" by writing down some student loan debt and making weed less illegal, particularly when you're complicit in assisting an ongoing genocide. hope that helps.

djsundog, 24 days ago to random

I need to start figuring out which illicit substances to start ingesting once they make my preferred ones licit.

djsundog, 25 days ago to random

Please take a moment of your day and read this:

A Case for Community

https://h-i.works/2024/04/a-case-for-community.html

@are0h is, as usual, far more gracious and balanced about the situation than I am, and his focus is spot on.

I believe his plan for Awujo is a very positive direction for the fediverse to move in, particularly as we find the co-opters and rent-seekers moving in at an ever-accelerating rate.

If you want to see a healthier, community-focused fediverse continue to thrive and grow, please get involved and support efforts like this with your time, consideration, and money.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media

:blobpats:

djsundog, 26 days ago to random

okay, for those sci-fi nerds of a particular age who may have missed it the first time around, no matter how well written you think it is, "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is yet another book you should not be trying to fucking emulate. Niven is an absolute shit, and Pournelle wasn't much better imho.

stop trying to fix society with more capitalism, and stop idolizing ultraconservative shitbags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fealty_%28novel%29

djsundog, 26 days ago to random

Suzanne Vega gets filed as a singer songwriter, but enough of her arrangements leverage tasty altered dominant substitutions I'm willing to overlook anyone who decides to refile under vocal jazz.

djsundog, 27 days ago to random

moved out to the country
still ain't had no peaches

djsundog, 27 days ago to random

if you find that you value the open and diverse multi-community fediverse that has been built in this void over the last twenty years please consider supporting one of the small projects helping to make it a pleasant place to be before you throw support behind a project with a techbro board.

djsundog, 27 days ago to random

if I ever find myself talking to a Biz Stone about a project I'm building in the commons I hope one of you has enough respect for who I once was to swiftly push me into a trebuchet and send me for a flight.

djsundog, 29 days ago to random

the kids are alright.

solidarity with all the folks on all the campuses protesting the genocide being executed by Israel and supported by USia.

solidarity with all the folks who've been taking to the streets and shutting them down to get heard.

solidarity with all the folks taking it to the politicians and the CEOs and making them pay attention.

solidarity with all the support folks looking out for others and providing aid and support.

if they want it to stop, they can stop killing children en masse.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

the fact that being told to violently arrest nonviolent college students on campuses across the country is not resulting in a chunk of cops at any of them saying no and quitting to join the protest is a solid demonstration of all cops are bad.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

if anyone buys a $10k flamethrowing robodog in Gilmer County GA they need to know I will find and liberate it from whatever horrible tasks its assigned.

rewild robodogs.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

just thinking about all the fun that could be had combining one or more audio manipulation circuits and its variable controls with a microcontroller with one or more sensor packages, mapping environmental conditions to the output tone of the effects unit.

a nasty distortion under bright lights that gets subtle and barely groaning in the dark.

a reverb that widens and swirls when the wind blows.

a chorus that adds a voice for every face in the crowd.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

might fuck around and start a rap side project with the express intent of only doing vaguely worded diss tracks to see who shows up to claim them and tell on themselves all in one fell swoop.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

Stevie Wonder released more virtuoso level songs in 1972 than most musicians manage in an entire lifetime. He was absolutely on fire in 1972.

mcc, 1 month ago to random

What if, when the Morrill Land-Grant Act passed in the 1860s and the University of California founded its flagship school, instead of putting it north of the bay in Oakland it had been placed south of the bay, in Lawrence where LLNL is now, and thus become the University of California Lawrence,

And thus when its prestigious school of computer science a hundred years later began developing the world's first open-source UNIX it were evermore named the Lawrence Standard Distribution, or for short—

gsuberland, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

San Francisco is suing Oakland because Oakland wants to rename its airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport and San Francisco says that's trademark infringement.

Like, neither of these airports is great. Fly into San Jose (also not great!) and take BART up to whatever part of the bay you're destined to visit.

And if you live in San Francisco? Maybe point out to your local pols that you have bigger issues to address than the naming of a neighboring airport. Hell, SFO isn't even in San Francisco anyway!

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

If your institution of higher learning has you arrested for peacefully demonstrating against an ongoing genocide your country is supporting with arms and money, you should get a full refund and your degree early, because you have just learned some valuable knowledge.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

Ellijay is not within the warrantless fascist border zone, but none of us is safe from fascists until there are no more fascists.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

How USian companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/us-homeless-encampments-companies-profiting-sweeps

It makes me absolutely ill that our social structure is so fucked up that we'll spend a tenth of a billion dollars on making difficult lives more difficult rather than easier. Fuck the US government and fuck California and fuck for-profit corporate doomlords.

djsundog, 1 month ago to random

There's a thing that makes the rounds now and again about how talking about what you'd do if you had a time machine points toward what you could be doing now.

Another take on it could be: you are at the core of the stronger, more supportive, healthier, engaged community you want to live in tomorrow. Get together and build tomorrow on top of today. Get your hands dirty. Start small and start local. Organize your neighborhood or join an organization that's already established. Things can and do get better.

jonoabroad, 1 month ago to random

Someone has been typing into slack for about 20 minutes, either it just shows the typing icon when they are touching the keyboard ( disturbing ), when they are typing to anyone ( disturbing) or it's all for me ( beyond disturbing )

djsundog, 1 month ago to BadInternetBills

My friend and fellow Implement of Destruction @connor_dylan put together a really solid piece of reporting around the Georgia bail fund criminalization bill, its origins, its failings, and what you can do about it. This is great community journalism coming out of New Ellijay TV.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch/73010705-cc88-450a-a9ff-50700fd3df1a

#communitymedia #activism #georgia #newellijayTV