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Aaron Mullan

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Musician / Audio Engineer / Software Engineer Portland, Oregon https://www.discogs.com/artist/265506-Aaron-Mullan https://tapeop.com/articles/by/aaron-mullan https://github.com/AaronMullan

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The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

08.08.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9162    πŸ” 2165    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 87

The comic sans is πŸ§‘β€πŸ³πŸ’‹

06.08.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actively looking forward to being disparaged as an β€œOld-timer”

04.08.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

sorry for all the stuff I said during my rampage

04.08.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

*guy who won't dream because of plot holes*

03.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

30.07.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 42933    πŸ” 9607    πŸ’¬ 823    πŸ“Œ 612

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

22.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 16547    πŸ” 3251    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 97

AAA triptic! Amazing. When I personally bought a Garmin standalone GPS certain people thought it was cheating and preferred to navigate around on their memory from previous tours instead. I had to hide it out of their view and casually suggest "Maybe left here?"

14.07.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We would listen to the FM radio (WHFS) for the Concert Calendar, where a DJ would read a list of upcoming concerts. Then we'd go to the back of the Montgomery Wards department store where the customer service counter had a Ticketmaster machine and we'd hand them cash for paper tickets.

14.07.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha yeah I started in the 'Big Binder of Mapquest Printouts' era.

14.07.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!

12.07.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5065    πŸ” 1066    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 65

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08.07.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I literally do not know a single artist (myself included) for whom $1500 a month would not be life changing.

03.07.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 327    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Also the frets mean guitarists can play them. Lot more guitar players than cellists in the 50’s/60’s.

01.07.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A rope lock backstage at the Royal Oak theatre labeled β€œ17 Twinkle”

A rope lock backstage at the Royal Oak theatre labeled β€œ17 Twinkle”

Theatre floor in Royal Oak offering no direction, turning to the rope lock labels for a path forward.

28.06.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grande Ballroom still standing.

28.06.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like they are trying to steal it from the Smithsonian.

27.06.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical β€œsuperintelligence.”

In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical β€œsuperintelligence.”

Just going to consult this reference book, β€œThe Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature

27.06.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2147    πŸ” 485    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 106
DJ Screw - June 27
YouTube video by datboiwes333 DJ Screw - June 27

Happy DJ Screw Day, everybody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZeu...

27.06.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So joyful

27.06.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indecipherable runes in Louisville, KY.

27.06.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chris Corsano "Famously Short Arms"
YouTube video by hotcarswarp Chris Corsano "Famously Short Arms"

youtu.be/CfPTBGLkbzM?...

27.06.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bold move with the recursive anagram

26.06.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two gaff tape arrows on the floor of a theater backstage. One says β€œstage” and the other says β€œeverything”.

Two gaff tape arrows on the floor of a theater backstage. One says β€œstage” and the other says β€œeverything”.

Gaff tape decision tree on the floor of this Chattanooga theater reading "stage" or "everything" offering passive aggressive commentary on my life choices.

24.06.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

[re: your wedding] sorry about the tamborine

16.05.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chatbots β€” LLMs β€” do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re β€œright” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29333    πŸ” 8581    πŸ’¬ 576    πŸ“Œ 700

Elon Musk attempting to make a grilled cheese sandwich at home and it explodes into a roaring tower of green flame that causes six neighbors to be hospitalized. No one can tell how it happened. "You kniew I hid to hiv my nom noms," he tells cable news later that day, kind of swaying and winking.

19.06.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 837    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what I’m talking about when I try and tell people Portlandia was a documentary (complimentary).

Now thinking of clowns I’ve seen around town, including the questionably named BJ the Clown and the crust punk clown couple Olive and Dingo.

Solid clown town.

17.06.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my go-to ideas is to hit Du’s grill on Sandy. Get one noodles and two protein sides, roast some veggies and you’re good for a few days.

15.06.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
No Mas Presents: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden
YouTube video by Victory Journal No Mas Presents: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUh...

15.06.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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