But that music is housed on a very large drive (that I really should back up) and you need a computer to access the data. It won't fit on a device. Until now, that is.
Say hello to the world's first 1TB microSD card!
Also from TechDirt, Glyn Moody on the importance of pirating research papers.
Copyright laws exist so that noncreators can profit from the works of others while obstructing the flow of necessary information.
One of the great ironies of neoliberalism's embrace of copyright is that they have all but destroyed popular culture. They fucked up radio to where everyone bought taping devices so they could share music. That was the beginning of piracy. No digital required, but yes, digital is something else when it comes to distribution! But it's crazy mad distribution resulting in all the usual channels being broken or balkanized. I try to follow what younger people are up to, but the buy-in on new social media platforms is too "all your data are belong to us" for me. And streaming is for suckers (still enjoying those DRMed books you bought from Microsoft?). [Also, stream-ripping still a thing.]
I'm finding great freedom in not worrying about what's current. I may be missing out on some pop tunes, but I'm also not immersed in fake news about fake news, rarely tempted to eat new bad foods invented just for profit, and am totally unware of countless new conditions and ailments requiring experimental medication that left only a couple of people permanently incontinent.
[So weird not to run out of space after 288 characters (which for a while felt like twice as much as really necessary).]
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Picture I took of the sky while driving home. This was just north of the Dells, early afternoon on Saturday.
This is the wettest year I've ever experienced. Climate's not a zero sum game, but it's hard not to think that the Upper Midwest has a lot of the monsoon water India and Thailand count on each year. Which is not to say that all of South Asia is monsoon-free.
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If I was still on Twitter, I'd be RTing these:
https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1152981206188875776?s=20
https://twitter.com/Arpwel/status/1152965925295009792?s=20
I did try to embed these, but Blogger (still can't believe this platform's still around, must have been a failure or surely Google would have killed it) wouldn't let me paste those links (that or they were invisible which increasingly most things are too my aging eyes).
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I have been assured that these links are fresher and hipper than mine. More widely read, anyhow.
And carried over from Twitter, here is Tony Wikrent's weekly round-up of links.
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What I would sound like if I was actually a mean person.
Whenever you see references to The Squad, think about the reputation hit those other three women will take when Ilhan Omar crashes and burns. Nothing wrong with Omar's message, just the messenger. And yes, I just called out the Mpls DFL for being absofuckinglutely lazy and unwilling to do due diligence after finding a candidate they could rub other people's noses in. Virtue signaling of the worst kind.
Getting even is not winning. Not even close. Fun if it's a CD you never expected to win, but it sucks when a safe seat gets trashed for the sake of making news instead of laws. [If you think Omar has a legislative history, ask her to explain any of the 200+ bills she cosponsored in just two years in the MN legislature.]
A less honest person could write one helluva an essay on how Omar and Trump are pretty much the same person with entirely different agendas because everything that comes after themselves is secondary. Which is understandable in a refugee, less so in a privileged piece of shit born with a long newspaper spoon up his ass. [metaphors from Burroughs extend really well, just let your mind run with that for a while and then wonder why you pay any attention to anything he says]
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Lockheed-Martin is working on a portable fusion reactor.
These are the people who took over Boeing.
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End notes:
Kind of amazed at how easy it is to find stuff to talk about that no one in their right mind would ever want to link to (it's a gift). The trick is to offend everyone, and right now everyone is really fucking easy to offend. If my opinions of Trump or Omar don't offend you, hopefully my piracy or pot smoking will. And if that doesn't do it, the guest room is currently unoccupied. I may even let visitors do guest posts, but only after they've sampled at least three strains.
Switched from Darlin' Net to Sunset Sherbet half way through this post. The DN and SS comments are mingled, but I suspecting some stylistic yo-yoing resulted but It was well into the pm and I hadn't eaten today so yes, Darlin' Net is my new diet herb. UPDATE: Except that I stopped reading and blogging completely after the Sunset Sherbet kicked in, but three fish tacos later I think this post looks ready to go. (Editing is for losesr)
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