Just in case you wanted to know how AI is getting sucked into the conspiracy world..
https://www.thechembow.com/covid-19-flu-bug-or-computer-virus
@cowchimp
I was curious too and did a visually similar image search and found that it's by @matiasenelmundo
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Matiasenelmundo
Flip Fone Follies..
Managed to teach an elderly aunt how to
- get text messages on her flip phone,
- so she could sign up for Skype
- so she could share her screen
- so I could help her diagnose her email problem
- using Windows Live Messenger
- by doing a Skype + Conference call with her ISP to change her password and settings.
So Skype requires a gmail/yahoo account (won't let you use a "business" account like kmtel) so sign up with phone was the only option.
Had to explain 'soft keys' plus there were 100 texts that had never been read.
Skype created account password wasn't confirmed, so had to change password
Windows Live Messenger is a hot mess. SO. MANY. BUTTONS.
pop3 + smtp with differing passwords (pop3 was fine, smtp not)
phew......
#til that xscreensaver is on Android and usable as live wallpapers.
"Hacking the Gibson" adds some nice cyberpunk aesthetic to my home screen...
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html
Oh wow, I haven't read the issue cover-to-cover but I didn't see @waynecoyne mentioned there.
I'll make sure that I do this justice and will see if I can find an ANSI C (or A2) sized scanner for the cover art.
@[email protected] yeah, good times. Bad reception though! And Radio K only had a daytime AM license at the time. That's why they were 'open to 9pm'!!!
You had to work harder to listen to good music back then. @radiok remembers. I'm sure @djkevincole of #rev105 remembers.
Just amazing work by @chankfonts including design, content (and fonts!) and photography by @midwestartbuyer and tons of other people...
Will upload to @internetarchive when I'm happy with the results..
The @dnalounge webcast player sprouted a bridged IRC chat during the #deathguild DJ set. Will be really interesting once it switches back to the music video jukebox on https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/
Stream it:
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html
Connecting the community is definitely an 🌟essential🌟 service.
Stay safe and healthy!
Traded Saturday morning cartoons for Saturday music. Teenage Kicks on The Current by Jim McGuinn followed by Dandelion radio.
https://www.thecurrent.org/programs/teenage-kicks
@thecurrent @jmcgnn @dandelionradio
Anyone Chicago Googlers here?
Apparently there's a fire-bowl on the roof of the Chicago office. I happen to know the artist that made it. He asked me if anyone had photos of it they could share.
If you do let me know and I'll get them to him!
[we was also a loyal G+ user back in the day!!!]
https://johntunger.com/
And here's the song of the same name by The Suburbs.
A huge shout out to Owen Murphy and John Richards for playing it this morning on KEXP and reminding us that we're not alone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAAkro0jKFY
@RadioCoachOwen @loserboy @TheSuburbsBand @kexp
It's my birthday and the world isn't fooling around, but we can do our best to help out the most vulnerable.
So help each other, be weird, have awe, sing, dance and be human!
It's live! loving your anecdotes and the narration by @yeahrightpos
I do think it's time for an at-home 'Summer Splash Party' where we put on our swim gear and dance to disco 🕺💃.
(check out the clip at 20:24!)
Thank you Dominik, I have been blessed with a treasure of digital memories to rediscover and share. So glad that you were able to enjoy my journey through the archives.
According to this interview with R.U. Sirius
"Howard Rheingold swears that he’s Michael Wilson, who was involved in the development of the TV show Burn Notice..."
https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/on-music-mondo-mayhem-an-interview-with-r-u-sir...
Also the same week I discovered there's a Jay's Longhorn documentary..
https://longhornfilm.com/
Oh wow.
Already have @djkevincole a few minutes in...
https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/first-avenue-closer-to-the-stars-preview-37031/
@FirstAvenue
CORS vs Gmail = no doggo pics
Any of the Chrome folks want to figure out why SameSIte cookies are making
it impossible to add inline images in gmail compose?
Bug appears to be here: https://b.corp.google.com/issues/144398439
Looks like it's more than just Googlers:
Something about these times that I feel your loss as my own. 💔
Thank you for connecting the community and being there for everyone, as Ralph was there for you.
Social Distancing
Hey kids, this is what live music was like back before the pandemic.
#workmusic #workfromhomemusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV0zs0kVGg
We'll all probably remember the first friend who contracted COVID-19. For me that's Andrea. She wrote about it on her Tinyletter.
Please read, if only to prepare yourself for what is to come.
https://tinyletter.com/slingshotannie/letters/an-abundance-of-caution
Not to be grim about it but everyone may want to consider doing your paperwork for medical power of attorney and/or a health directive. At the very least partners should consider adding each other as trusted "https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/life-care-plan/choose-agent" (which is what Kaiser calls it). You'd be able to access tests and communicate with Doctors on behalf of each other.
Having gone through this I feel very fortunate that I was able to make medical decisions for another and knew what the right thing was to do.
Thank you for letting me share Julie's memories, tacky postcards and all, with everyone.
If anyone reading this has suffered a similar loss, please feel free to reach out for a sympathetic ear or for help finding memories in the archives. DMs open.
Actually with some tweaks I got all the grunge list content I was looking for!
Still think it would be awesome if the backup tapes were found. @herf wrote a great article about the lyrics part of the site:
http://stereopsis.com/lyrics.html
Thank you for your sympathy and for all the work you've done to make @PerkeepOrg into a such a useful tool for personal digital preservation.
Honored that I was able to tell my story of restoration and healing on the @internetarchive blog today.
Thank you @whanamura and the IA team for your compassion and for preserving so many cherished memories of my life with @jflindner.
https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1240740409204072449
Internet Archive's tweet
Love. Loss. Memory. These are the reflections of @lindner who found himself turning from husband to historian after his wife Julie died last December. Paul's journey resonates for all of us who have lost someone we love. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/19/love-loss-and-archives/pic.twitter.com/cWxwOjussg
LinkAha. swore that I already checked. So yay!
But sadly... many/most of the leaf pages are empty or truncated. So sad :(
The quest continues!
A challenge to the data hoarders out there. Find the contents of the amazing music archive that one lived at archive.uwp.edu (FTP or Gopher) and was mirrored to mirrors.aol.com.
@textfiles - didn't see it in the boneyard. Ideas?
http://www.folklib.net/index/uwp_gone.shtml
We've now entered the Cyberspace future predicted 30 years ago. Expecting a resurgence in Industrial Music..
https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410
Donkey Break
We interrupt this stream of perf and covid for mandatory frolicking donkey antics.