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Oh, I dropped someone I’d started supporting on Patreon when it turned out he was insulting his broader audience behind their backs.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Rockwell, but otherwise yes! I always thought that sounded like Michael Jackson but never confirmed it.

I love this, finally.

This is how all Democrats should respond to questions from the billionaire-controlled media.

This! Is! Hallow10! HALLOW10! HALLOW10! Last week's answers are posted, and it was a complete stumper. Not a single lyric was identified! Some of these were big hits, as well, including singles from three different women who at different ti...

Last week, 10 lyrics went completely identified. What will happen with this week's Friday 10‽ Take a guess in the blog comments and win yourself a coveted No-Prize! #blog #music

Friday 10: Ce que j’ai fait, ce soir-là Say something once, why say it again?

Well, it took me a little longer than usual -- I'm off today, so my schedule is out of whack. But nevertheless, it's Friday. And it's *that* Friday. Here's ten more lyrics, let me know the artist and the song title:

www.thudfactor.com/friday-10-8/

#blog #music

one of the most quixotic of my many years-long quests is to rehabilitate the standing of 90s hip hop group P.M. Dawn. I am succeeding, one person at a time.

If AI is so smart it ought to be able to tell that 1) I don’t need a fifteen line spreadsheet summarized and 2) I don’t need our fifteen-minute standup summarized for the attendees who can’t make it.

When I need it I’ll ask, please shut up

Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense

Language changes really fast, much faster than over a human lifespan, and I think what older people resent about that is it reminds us we’re old.

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Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

Truly is amazing how much easier it is to follow a proper diet and reduce poor habits when you are happy with your boss and job

I hate it when people post screenshots of news articles, *then don’t link the article.*

It’s not that I don’t trust you. I want to read the article.

8 lessons of what I think is some of the most important content on Complete CSS: free to everyone!

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

@filmoptimist.blog and I had a nice morning looking through sheet music for auditions, when we found a perectly preserved piece of VT Theatre ephemera. ☺️

What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...

What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment by Kelly Weill talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

Special thank-you to @jdseiler.bsky.social , whose observations on how what we're asking AI to do now makes us more stupid.

jordanseiler.xyz/posts/2025-1...

AI wants to do your work. Ask it to teach you instead. What happens when you ask AI to slow you down instead of speed you up.

Everyone keeps telling me AI will make me faster. I don't want faster, I want to actually understand what I'm doing. Turns out there's a way to use these tools that doesn't feel like cheating myself.

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Congratulations!

Everybody sees the fuckin problem, it's time for some solutions.

NEW RAMBLINGS: jordanseiler.xyz/posts/2025-1...

I recently returned to weightlifting, and got a bee in my bonnet a week ago about AI "research" and people saying "here's what ChatGPT said when I asked it...". This latest post is the result.

My son has been sharing his playlists with me and it runs all the way back to Carl Perkins. There’s just so. Much. Music. Now.

All 10 And We’ll Watch Them Fall Can you believe it's been another week in our long, national "It Only Tuesday?" What do you mean this has all been the same year‽ We could use a break, so it's Friday and it's time to try your hand at...

Reposting my link to my new Friday 10 not just because I want you guys to go see if you know any of the artists and songs that match these lyrics, but because *I finally figured out how to make my blog's featured images accompany the social media posts linking to it!*

John's down to only 4 lyrics left to guess, but don't fret! I have a fresh Friday 10 for you to take a crack at, too! #music #blog

I've tried to make the Mac->Windows switch several times over the last few years, but whatever problems Mac has, Windows is far worse. I'm dipping my toe into linux-land, though.

Right on both of those!

Friday 10: The 🛎️ing words are awfully strong Some of these they play over and over and over on the radio…

It's Friday, so it's time to guess another 10 lyrics. This edition was almost late, but at the last minute I decided *not* to demolish the East Wing of my blog.

www.thudfactor.com/friday-10-th...

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People with irrigation systems for their lawn who complain online about how expensive their water bills are from all that watering sure are an odd bunch