J.M. Hart (rowjimmy)

Interesting call.
We watched Red Dragon.

Basically the same.

a woman wearing a hat and vest says la-de-dah on the screen ALT: a woman wearing a hat and vest says la-de-dah on the screen

Say what you want about Woody Allen, I agree, but Diane knocked it out of the park and gave one of the all time great performances in Annie Hall.

When you “well actually” a rallying cry with pedantic bullshit like “Patton wasn’t woke”, you miss the fucking point.

As I read a fascinating book on D-Day, I pause to look at the interwebs and see this discourse about how the “greatest generation were not actually antifa” and that’s fucking wrong.

Did many find themselves in the wrong side of history (ie. segregation) back home some time later?

Both can be true.

Columbus was lost. Celebrating him seems a bit DEI, innit?

Yup. There’s a Stealie in the wheelhouse behind him so it’s on camera a lot.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This record is basically perfect

You won’t know the next pandemic is happening until your neighbors or family start getting sick.
the governments goal now is to make the world more Darwinian and dangerous so those seen as weak(read poor and minorities) will die and those they see as strong (read wealthy and white) survive

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

Oh yeah. The international stuff is crazy.

Got my copy today tho! Psyched to spin it this weekend!

made my first analog 4 track recording with my Teac 2340.
Very dark, damaged stuff. Fairly reflective of my headspace.
I dropped the audio over top of Phillipe Garrell's 1968 short "Actua"

Polling well but people have to turn out, still.

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I did not need this debate to happen to make my decision in this election but, if you want an easy illustration of why my choice is so clear... see below.

In order for AI to avoid a bubble and collapse the tech companies need people, not enterprises, to use it. To use it daily. To use it for everything. To use it knowing they’re doing harm to themselves and others - job losses, mental health issues, climate impact, data privacy.

For no upside.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Trump will sincerely never understand why he didn't get it, why he will never get it, because the Peace Prize is about a lifetime's work, be it one person's lifetime or an idea's lifetime, and Trump's object permanence only extends as far as things he wants to fuck, kill, or eat.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Amazing!

Hell yes

This is Bob Dylan to me.

Letter from antifa General Eisenhower to his antifa troops on the eve of D-Day.

“The fact that human beings have the capacity to recognize themselves as a manifestation of the entire cosmos opens up a possibility that, if embraced, may help us through the crises that now confront us.” — David Loy

Dwight Eisenhower was a General for antifa

General Patton was antifa.

He would beat the shit out of Donald Trump.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Antifa goes back almost a hundred years to when our grandfathers fought the fucking Nazis.

And we’ll keep fighting them even as they occupy the US federal government.