jonathankoren

jonathankoren, 16 days ago to random

Listening to a Terrance McKenna tape that talks about climate change during a presidential election year.

1996? 1992? Nay, it was 1988.

jonathankoren, 29 days ago to random

I’m glad someone leaked the chat, but I’m not surprised the wealthy hate us

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

jonathankoren, 29 days ago to random

wut?

"Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, is a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh. Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. However, fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanency and finish. By 1915, demand had significantly declined. Suppliers ceased to offer it by the middle of the twentieth century. "

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

jonathankoren, 30 days ago to Meme

New business #meme just dropped

jonathankoren, 30 days ago to random

One of the things I’ve been annoyed with about Star Wars is how the entire galaxy forgot about the Jedi in 20 years, or perhaps thought of them as a myth.

But I just realized something. There are kids today that insist that Helen Keller is wasn’t real. So I guess it’s not that weird

https://daily.jstor.org/what-does-it-mean-to-call-helen-keller-a-fraud/

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

I swear, people have these super computers in their pockets and home, and use them as dumb terminals to just rent other people’s computers and then are shocked when the person that owns the computer takes their stuff, or decides to shake them down for more money.

Fuck the cloud. Fuck streaming. Fuck subscriptions.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

Spotify is getting even more desperate to get me to justify their hobbies instead of just sticking with their core competency.

This is what greeted me when I started the app just now.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

Great. Now some dude is causing a disturbance, supposedly pulled a knife, yelled, wandered off the bus, and now the bus if off the off and parked on the side of the road, instead of just going, because now we have to wait for the police.

Fucking transit

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

Sunny Day Real Estate is good.
Saosin is good.
This is a good, if paint by numbers, cover.
#nowplaying

https://youtu.be/onS-9EQKxso?si=UgEsSYoVXHrFFsba

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

@j2bryson When I was a teenager, I asked my mom why adults we’re obsessed with the Kennedys. She told me about him being a sex symbol, idealistic and all that. But then she said something like, “You know. He didn’t really do all that much. Now Johnson, he did a lot.” And went on to talk about how Johnson used Kennedy’s assassination as leverage to get votes. “Do it for him”, kind of stuff.

Understandably, she has very conflicted views about LBJ. Domestically, he was great. But Vietnam. She’s calmed a lot now, but even into the aughts, she’d get SO angry talking about that war.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

A whole lot of fucking boosts to justify letting fascism win on TL now.

bUt mY fEeLiNgS!

A bunch of fair weather antifa that want all the glory, but none of the blame I say.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

🏆ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
Injured your neck while getting out of bed.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

I came across fan art or maybe a concept art of the aliens from Arrival, and my god it’s shit. Like “Fuck you. You’re fired” level of shit.

I really like that movie. I think its a quiet beautiful story. I love how the aliens are peaceful and alien.

And this fucker decides that the heptapods are just giant people. Fucking hell!

video/mp4

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

YES!! Voyager 1 is fixed!

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

I judge you for leaving the default icons in your dock.

I also judge you for having hundreds of unread messages in your email. Just delete them.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

Objective C. The weirdest fucking syntax.

jonathankoren, 1 month ago to random

I miss NYTimesPitchbot

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

Why doesn’t California have school busses?
🥁
Prop 13 and racism!

The proposition that just keeps giving!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?i=1000651760698

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

Ahh Quip. I product whose only feature is "We're not Google".

Such a piece of shit. Even worse than GSuite.

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

Never all 911 when someone is in crisis. Even if you tell the dispatcher not to, they will send the police, and there is a very good chance the police will kill the person.

DO NOT CALL 911

https://kolektiva.social/@susurros/112210666883647960

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

New GNU/Linux dropped

https://woem.men/notes/9qxrusljr7vs0008

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

12yo: “We’re not in Kansas anymore”! I know that! That’s a reference to Avatar!

Me: 💀

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

Santa Cruz if finally exerting its control over Sacramento

https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/112168460305072043

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

I am really dumbstruck that young people are still in 2024 reading URLs with “backslash”

jonathankoren, 2 months ago to random

Moby Dick going hard today

From: @mobydick
https://botsin.space/@mobydick@botsin.space/112108269592115578