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• Post #4173921

  Tom Morello’s got a new solo album coming out at the end of September, “Everyone Gets Everything They Want”. Rather than it following the sound of his previous solo albums, which were very earthy acoustic songs to bash fash by, this is a full-on rock album with electric guitars and shit to bash fash by. The first single is “Date Night” which is about three Dutch teens that got out there and took out Nazis. Talking about the song, Tom said: I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists. I make ant...

• Post #4122207

  So the situation (described here: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/) is a bunch of bullshit on a number of levels, but the part that makes me want to scream is the obvious incongruity of “we could take and search his phone because he wasn’t technically admitted to the United States yet” paired with “we’re charging him under US law for having done this thing” - did the just go ahead and admit him to th...

• Post #4116911

  I had a whole bit going in my head about how means testing sucks because there are a million different variants so I propose we unify on a single means of means testing, namely whether or not you have the means to get three other people to show up with you and vow that you are regularly kind to others, which would be way more efficient and also prevent the shitheads at the current top of the heap from sucking all the resources out of the system, but I decided against it because fuck means testin...

• Post #4066035

  Tariffs to combat the use of forced labor? Like our massive USian prison labor system that does everything it can to trap people into lifelong incarceration to keep the free labor running? Huh.

• Post #3985510

  how many internet archive torrents are you seeding?

• Post #3959737

  and the a and the m and the n and the a and the t and the i o n

• Post #3887725

  we could really use more bold marquees with stupid band names imnsho

• Post #3873216

  gonna be fucked up when we finally get to zero fossil fuel consumption only because all the production facilities are on fire due to the climate being fucked by massive overconsumption of fossil fuels for a hundred years.

• Post #3873175

  firefox, “overconsumption” is absolutely a word you bootlicking fuck.

• Post #3837754

  woke up angry this morning because I don’t have any light bulbs I can depend on lasting for a decade and people act like this is an unreasonable desire. yet the centennial bulb still functions. https://www.centennialbulb.org/

• Post #3774932

  Capitalists Ruin Everything Around Me

• Post #3739596

  I could use a little fuel myself and we could all use a little change

• Post #3730288

  if you played Jim Croce’s “Operator” for a zoomer would there be a single reference in the narrative that they could relate to? have they ever spoken to an operator? one that could look up a phone number for them? have they seen a matchbook? would they understand why people wrote phone numbers on them? would the operator keeping the dime make any sense at all? media preservation by itself can only go so far. (please support @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org in their efforts. and singer/song...

• Post #3724888

  Headline: PlayStation ending physical games is “like Apple removing the CD Drive from its laptops,” says analyst: “Not a single person is complaining about it today” Motherfucker come say that to my face

• Post #3653139

  Google Drive can't scan this file for viruses. Piskel-0.14.0-64bits.zip (59M) is too large for Google to scan for viruses. if only Google had enough compute resources to be able to handle virus scanning of massive files in upwards of fifty megabytes they’d be a contender in big tech.

• Post #3605074

  it’s kinda fucked how the last 25 years have all been in this millennium. have we checked to make sure this millennium isn’t fundamentally flawed? can we return it to the factory and get a new replacement for a restocking fee?

• Post #3588833

  hot take: small towns could allocate a tiny amount of their annual budgets to purchasing and maintaining lawn maintenance tools in a large enough quantity for residents to be able to borrow and use them at no additional cost without any real impact to their bottom line, but that’d be socialist or something.

• Post #3587320

  lots of ideas work at the small town level that don’t scale up to, say, metropolis or larger groupings of folks. but sometimes a small town is all the people in an apartment building, or even all the people on one floor of an apartment building. scale is a trap.

• Post #3571636

  Protest music can have #revolutionaryJoy too, for the record (heh that’s a pun)! Here’s a film recording from June of 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, audio of which is available as “Swiss Movement” (1969) by Les McCann (piano/vocals) & Eddie Harris (tenor sax), with Leroy Vinnegar on bass, Donald Dean on drums, and Benny Bailey on trumpet. Written in 1966, fifty sixty! years ago, this is a song of protest against the direction a nation is moving in and an unpopular war s...

• Post #3545371

  No spill blood

• Post #3544019

  can we cross the bubble streams and get them both to pop at once if we suggest they build a quantum computing LLM that just “knows” all the bullshit all at once or

• Post #3535576

  headline: “Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin” okay, but, stay with me here, what if we turn it around and make removing physical media from their platform a nail in Sony’s PlayStation instead? I mean, there are millions of us and only one Sony, and that one Sony cannot survive without millions of customers. take the power back.

• Post #3438701

  A sci-fi setting you can have for free that I haven’t come across before: protagonist society comes in contact with Others who are just as technologically advanced or more so but developed the wheel last in the world of simple machines and it never really caught on in usage because they had developed different methods for moving things. Bonus points if they also think trying to work with so many circles is absurd because if circles were easy then there’d be more of them in the universe to begi...

• Post #3435567

  next year will be thirty years of getting knocked down but getting up again and that’s wild to me

• Post #3428755

  old enough to remember when components in a living room entertainment center were best when they stayed out of the way of the entertaining as much as they could. you knew you had a great user interface for a component when the interface itself disappeared from the user’s standpoint; the user is interacting directly with the media, not the device(s). now, of course, no interface is ever done, nothing cannot have a few more bells and whistles and toggles and fields to fill and suggestions to dist...