Chris Barrus

RIP. OVER THE EDGE obviously a big deal around here.

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Daily unheard album: MOISTURIZER (GOBLIN EDITION) by Wet Leg
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It always going to be wild to me that Iron Chef has better lighting than most 200+ million dollar Hollywood movies now.

High-skill side hustles in the wake of recent tech layoffs Meta recently reduced its workforce by a whopping 10,000 employees.

*What are the odds that you're a techie and you got fired from the Facebook cult, and you're all alone, hungry and uninsured, and you come to realize that ChatGPT is your best friend, guru and spiritual salvation

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I was at that gig! (and I think @chownoir.bsky.social was too?) Can confirm that description.

Chris Barrus' collection | Bandcamp Sierra Madre, California • Alternative • 1307 collection items • 60 followers

No daily unheard album today, you've got a couple hours left to take advantage of Bandcamp Friday. May I suggest something from here: bandcamp.com/quartzcity

anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify

@highway62.bsky.social @quartzcity.bsky.social

Look what's available!

Daily unheard album: PE'AHI II by The Raveonettes
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Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil | David Bridie I am removing my music from Spotify because I don’t want my songs – some written with survivors of conflict – to enrich people who fund weapons

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Dale Carnegie gets another acting gig so he never gets around to writing How To Win Friends And Influence People. Charles Manson, Trump, and hundreds of psychopaths since have to manifest something else

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

*In the capital of Finland, an entire year passed and cars & trucks didn't kill anybody

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Day 245 of #GeorgiaProtests

It got very hot and people drenched each other with water.

📷 MOSE

i try to talk to strangers on the internet like we are chatting in line at the grocery store together. some of u talk to strangers on the internet like you are having active road rage at all times

I think about this tweet constantly

Mayo Pete is a McKinsey hack whose every move is focus-grouped and who has consistently failed upward. He’s the liberal JD Vance. Nothing about him is genuine, everything is calculated, and right now he’s calculated that throwing trans people under the bus is the right move to advance his career.

See the universe like never before!
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Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Existential Time 2. Viking Aubergines 3. Enchanted Arsenal

SIGINT #7787 from GPS III-SV05 (ACCM)

1. Existential Time
2. Viking Aubergines
3. Enchanted Arsenal

Daily unheard album: BLUE VEIL by Lucy Railton
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Bill Elwell, Legendary Owner of Los Angeles Roadside Stand Bill’s Burgers, Dies at 98 Even into his 90s, Elwell could be seen at the grill at his San Fernando Valley burger stand

“Whichever way I make the burger, that’s the best way,”
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RIP William Clement Elwell, a.k.a. “Bill" of Bill’s Burgers in Van Nuys www.vcstar.com/obituaries/p...
attn: @kalebhorton.bsky.social

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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Daily unheard album: BELLS by Thayer Sarrano
thayersarrano.bandcamp.com/album/bells

When you offend the space doctor, he just picks up his monkey and leaves

i posted the audio of him telling this story earlier:

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

"The loss of listings is, in this sense, the loss of a whole world." I came of age during Time Out's golden era, when its listings helped me discover an alternative film canon that is nowadays accepted as vital. Now, just seeing what's showing in London's cinemas requires 100+ separate clicks.