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tito_swineflu

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slum dweller, bridge troll and punk rock viking

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tito_swineflu, to random
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Getting rid of my old guitar.

guitar hanging from tree

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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An unmistakably terrible place, the infamous CBGB bathroom full of memories

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Can we call it a tie for last with Gilman?

tito_swineflu, to random
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I like this paragraph:

"Given these constraints, it seems just as likely to me that generative A.I. could end up like the Roomba, the mediocre vacuum robot that does a passable job when you are home alone but not if you are expecting guests.

Companies that can get by with Roomba-quality work will, of course, still try to replace workers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html

tito_swineflu, to random
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In 1994, right out of college, I made $119k in 2024 dollars. When I work a reasonable amount, I make $150K. Most years recently, thought, I make ~80k-90k. Where are all these high-paying computer jobs I was told about?

Lana, to random
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Anyone arguing in favor of arming school teachers needs to first explain to me where in the budget you're going to find the money to buy 27 Glocks when you cheapskates won't even buy us printer toner.

tito_swineflu,
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@Lana Seems to me that once you get those glocks, a gang of teachers can roam around town holding up office depots for school supplies. The guns will pay for themselves!

Alice, to random
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Countdown until we learn that Waymo is similar to those Amazon stores where the self-driving cars are actually controlled by offices full of people who are playing a variation of Mario Kart in order to get us to our destinations.

tito_swineflu,
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@Alice There was a waymo confused by the left turn lane on Folsom and Cesar Chavez last week. It's the first time I've seen one of them have a public freakout, unlike cruise.

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold, @cstross and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.

https://flip.it/DmHzd2

@bookstodon

tito_swineflu,
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@CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross It's weird how these billionaires haven't figured out that they're the bad guys in these novels.

johnefrancis, to Ottawa
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81yo Dad has COVID. Doing OK so far.

65yo brother-in-law has COVID too.

I tested negative this morning, but have symptoms.

We've been out and about, and haven't been masking. Vaccinations up to date and no health issues, aside from Dad's age.

Sister's place, PWHL game, Dad visits his gf at the LTC home regularly, it's had a COVID outbreak, but I think it was a couple months ago...local restaurant, etc etc.

It's still going around

tito_swineflu,
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@johnefrancis Assisted living and other senior centers are the absolute worst for covid. My father was in one for a year and a half and got Covid 3 times. Everyone got covid several times.

jwz, to random
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Someone was shot in front of Yolo last night and I haven't seen anything in the press about it. That seems weird.

tito_swineflu,
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@jwz Isn't that SF though? I've seen 50 cop cars pull up to an address only to find NOTHING about it the next day. Last year, someone killed someone in ssf and dropped part of the body off over on 13th and Harrison, but no coverage of it beyond a paragraph or two that raised more questions than it answered. I feel like it's pretty common to see crazy shit go down and then hear ... crickets.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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47 years ago today
The unforgotten Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon, April 16, 1977.

Photos by Gus Stewart

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tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Whatever happened to wreckless eric?

tito_swineflu, to random
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Ixpaymain.exe

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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48 years ago
The Runaways' pose for a portrait on the beach in April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.

Photo rights by Michael Ochs

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Ha, I'm just picturing Joan Jett being all, "fuck no, I'm not wearing a bikini!"

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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42 years ago
The Misfits "Walk Among Us" Tour, Freezer Theatre Detroit, Michigan, April 3, 1982 supported by Necros, Negative Approach and The Meatmen

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tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Oh man, what a lineup! I could have seen that show and bailed before the Misfits played and still be happy.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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29 years ago today
Low ticket prices, that was typical for punk rock/hardcore concerts

Fugazi at Irving Plaza, New York City, April 4, 1995. Tickets are a super cheap $6 👍

📸 Kenichi Hoshine

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock One thing about ticket prices is the collapse of physical media sales. In the 80's and 90's, record labels were basically printing money. Someone like Fugazi, with limited marketing costs, could make as much as 4 dollars per CD. Given that Ian told me that they'd sold 2 million records by the time they released Red Medicine, that's a lot of money.
Nowadays, bands can only make money playing live. It doesn't excuse the high ticket prices, but there is a lot of pressure to fill the income hole left by the collapse of physical sales.

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Of course, many bands (mine included) can't even make money by playing live, because we're punk and weird.

pseudonym, to random
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After all the news about Amazon grab and go being essentially Mechanical Turk, a friend on discord said:

"oh god now I'm thinking of a building full of teenagers with game controllers remotely steering 'driverless' cars through heavy traffic"

And I'm just afraid Tesla is going to totally "Ender's Game" this.

Shudder

tito_swineflu,
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@pseudonym https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/cruise_confirms_driverless_taxis_need/

tito_swineflu,
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@pseudonym They needed constant cell phone connections too, and would all fail together in some dead zones around the city.

Ooh! Look, that picture in the article is my old neighborhood. Always a good place for a picture of dystopia!

historyofpunkrock, to random
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The Damned - Love Song - 1979

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tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock Man, the crowd is just NOT having it for this amazing lip synch of the greatest Damned song. Hilarious.

jwz, to random
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Is it true that all you need to draw a penis on a cybertruck is a squirt gun full of salt water? Asking for a friend.

tito_swineflu,
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@jwz I find that hydrogen peroxide mixed with salt water is amazingly effective.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Over 30....😄🧓🏻

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock I just got home from playing a show at the kilowatt, and the average age of my band is 51.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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This has to be the most intense race I’ve ever seen.

babies race each other to their parents in the middle of a baseball diamond

tito_swineflu,
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@Mrfunkedude I'm guessing from the yellow that this is the Savannah Bananas?

sarajw, to random
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What options are there to properly fight spam in a static website? Are there any?

Or if I get access to a database endpoint, maybe via an ORM rather than PHP - I can put my entries in there, but how can I run spam checks?

I currently use Netlify Forms, they run Akismet and it's awesome. But I'd like to make my email contact form and guestbook form independent from Netlify if I can.

Every site I'm finding in my search for spam filters and contact forms seems to be all about wordpress plugins 🫠

tito_swineflu,
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@sarajw Since all of these attacks are automated, I usually put up some sort of completely dumb captcha, like a picture of a bunny with a radio button group asking "what is this a picture of, a bunny, a moose, a crosswalk or a platypus?" After that, I get zero spam, because it's not a well-known captcha.

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤷🏿‍♂️When I told y'all that the most frequently shoplifted items were women's razors and makeup, y'all thought I was playing.

I told y'all, you're following Black folk like me around the store, while non-Black people like Winona Ryder rob you blind. 🤷🏿‍♂️

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bonsall-woman-retail-theft-ring-ulta-sephora-arrest/3459998/

Too much focus on who's not stealing from you, takes resources and attention away from who is stealing from you. 🙂🙃

False positives, create the space for false negatives.

Racism makes you bad at solving crimes.

tito_swineflu,
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@mekkaokereke I bet the rent on that Detroit Whole Foods was at least 1/10th of their rent in the Market Street location.
The Target near my house on 13th and Folsom just closed. Of course, they whined about crime, but the real deal was they didn't like paying high rent for less square footage than they could get elsewhere, and they need larger square footage for their pivot into more online shopping/delivery model.
It's amazing how easy it is for these companies to make things up in their press releases and have no-one fact check them.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Which punk rock album is the perfect top-notch record from start to finish?

I'm starting:

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – Dead Kennedys

A must have in every the record collection

tito_swineflu,
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@historyofpunkrock These are all great, but this one introduced me to women in punk and is pretty flawless.

nix, to music
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What's the best way to actually own music nowadays? Like, DRM-free digital files. There's bandcamp, but that only covers certain (excellent) musicians. Is it really down to buying and ripping CDs?

tito_swineflu,
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@donutage @nix @Defiance
I made all the music I released on my circa-1999 mp3 store free to download, if you like 90's bay area punk and some weird stuff:

https://www.newdisorder.com/mp3store/bandbrowse.php

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