i'm making steak curry and kind of drunk, listening to D&B at brain-damaging volume levels, as one does when one has a night away from one's partner. recommend me a #movie, internet. take your best shot.
happy "Elvis is Still Dead Day" to all those who celebrate it.
remember when Elvis sightings were a thing, and fat, weirdly-pompadoured, be-jumpsuited Elvis became sort of a shorthand talisman for the kind of uneasy but vaguely optimistic, post-hippie, pre-millennium/pre-internet fascination with fortean events, UFO's and the supernatural? adjacent from actual cult lore, only mildly overlapping with Fake Real Cults like the Subgenii, often appearing in pop culture imagery before fully metastatizing in its most well-known host, The X Files.
Rotund, Spangled, Perpetually-Young-and-frequently-abducted-by-aliens Elvis was a symbol unto itself that meant a lot of things, and people just stopped using it after the turn of the century. last time i heard anyone mention Elvis in this capacity was in the first "Men In Black" movie ("Elvis is *not* dead, he just went home"). the culture has moved on from this now quaint period of low weirdness that lasted from the mid-80's to the mid-to-late 90's.
if you ever want to read a book that perfectly encapsulates this time period, seek out the book "Buddy Holly is Alive And Well On Ganymede" by Bradley Denton; which was going to be made into a movie starring Jon Heder but never came together.
#NickCave responds beautifully to a fan asking if it's OK to use #ChatGPT #AI to help them write song lyrics.
Full response: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/
@AnarchoNinaWrites It's totally a coincidence that literally everyone being busted for child porn is either a lifelong conservative or someone who pushes an authoritarian religious lifestyle. Just one big coincidence no one should think about any further.
sometimes you need a little inspiration to get out of bed.
attention: the remainder of today has been [[[CANCELLED]]] by the Secret Robot Council
the Secret Robot Council states that all automata; cyborgs and virtualati have been cleared to take the rest of today to take their brain medication, have a little lie down, listen to Tangerine Dream or Vangelis or whatever, and Not Think for however long they need to.
everyone else is on their own recognizance.
the Secret Robot Council is done talking now. Remember, Fix Your Hearts Or Die.
(a note for online etymology sticklers--triple brackets "[[[ ]]]" in this context indicates DJ horns)
decided to skip a phase in the new computer desk saga. rather than put the new build on the old desk for a while, decided to hold off on using the new build until the new desk is in place, and moved forward with dismantling the old desk (my parents' old kitchen table) that has been in that same spot for 20 years. time to rip off the bandaid.
this will mean running DiS on my laptop, but with the secondary monitor on my work desk, it's certainly doable.
with the desk out, once the area is properly cleaned and i figure out how to get my filing cabinets moved and where they're going to go, time to spackle some holes and make some painting plans. turns out you can get half-gallons of blacklite-reactive paint for $60. guess who has two clacking shiny titanium servo-talons and is going to have a computer desk located in the fucking Grid? [vrrt-KLIK] THIS bot.
This #ecocide, the destabilisation of our planet, is not a tragic mistake. It wasn't inevitable.
Fossil fuel companies knew what they were doing decades ago. They've spent billions to lie, cheat and mislead so they could keep making profits.
They chose this for us, for our children, and our children's children.
Remember that.
Never forget that this was a choice made in a board room; where they decided their balance sheet mattered more than all of our lives.
And they're still lying.
It’s not a glitch. It's a feature.
Conservatives do not want to raise kids that possess critical thinking skills.
A diverse array of books gave me a level of empathy and a wider world view than I would not have otherwise gotten. They aim to prevent that from happening in other kids.
There is an all-out attack on education occurring.
HISD's Mike Miles will convert some libraries into discipline areas-
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/hisd-libraries-discipline-areas-mike-miles-reforms-18209051.php
RIP Beatle Bob. #stl
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