This falls into the category of “other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

News would be Local Jewish Community Totally Fine With Holocaust Denial.

That aside, please stop posting full articles on Beehaw. It opens the site to copyright liability. Excerpts are fine, falling under fair use, but the point of a functional news-aggregation site is to drive views on publishers’ sites so that they continue producing the content being shared.

Let’s be reasonable here … they aren’t running out of options; they’re running out of monetizable options by hosting a centralized repository. Patreon is still an option, as are many others geared toward individual creators.

I shot a fair amount of porn of my then-wife starting in 2010 – predating OnlyFans – and the monetization options were so terrible (she categorically refused to hand over a 40% commission on principle) that we just posted to FetLife for free. Payment processors hold far too much power, essentially being extragovernmental censors

It’s obviously technically possible by going double-sided, but the cooling again becomes an issue.

You’re missing the underlying issue that these people care about, once again, “celebrities” I’ll never meet. It makes fuck-all difference what their politics are. What am I going to do, get past layers of publicists and show them the light? I’m not L. Ron Hubbard, and times have changed.

I know some of the names on that list. But honestly … favourite celebrities? Like, I’ve got a favourite bartender, but people I’ll never meet? Seems a waste of time to rank them.

Not to mention, what people in the entertainment industry have to say about politics is moot. It’s bad enough that politicians want to curb creative output in a certain mould. Do you look to your local favourite meteorologist for dog-grooming tips? If not, perhaps celebrity political thoughts are equally useless.

All these damn website changes. Last week, the camera spex were in Ohms.

I would be apoplectic if if took five days for a number port with a constantly changing website and clueless customer service. Not to mention data simply being completely shut off after hitting the “high speed” limit.

Except for being assigned a completely new number instead of porting, with the old carrier having released it. The impacts here on 2FA and having to tell everyone you have a new number when most of your contacts don’t answer calls from unknown numbers. Except you can’t for days anyway, and who knows what calls and texts you’ve missed in that time.

I was fully expecting this to be a categorically terrible vanity project, but the grift exceeds expectations.

I saw the second in “5D” … which is to say the rollercoaster chairs watching a 2D movie while water occasionally spritzes (ironic, given the setting) and scent bursts pop out, not smelling like anything relevant, just a vaguely unpleasant but otherwise anodyne smell. I think I’d have better been able to actually watch the movie without all the distractions people pay more to get.

The first two were great cinematic works, so I have high hopes for the third. Shame it’s still a year and a half out.

I went to a conference for college newspaper editors at the University of Georgia in 2000. The goodie bag included a copy of a UGA professor’s book When MBAs Run the Newsroom. And prescient. Now they run everything and have no fucking clue what the business actually does.

Golden parachute time! They can take some time off while figuring out what to fuck up next.

So far, so meh. Talked with my mom yesterday and got an update about how my dad is doing in his nursing home. Apparently badly, as he’s been banned from the dining room for spitting up food on his way out and refusing to use a napkin.

Sorta feels like the endgame. In lighter news, mom realized she’d sent half the expected amount to start the month, so I live to eat another day. It’s so weird, being accustomed to having all manner of food in the pantry in a previous life, to realize that there really isn’t anything left.

I turn 46 on Friday, but I have nothing to celebrate.

Agreed. Luckily, they don’t seem to have the full list of Mullvad IPs, so if I really want to read something, I just try another tunnel.

Welcome! I suspect you’ll find what you’re looking for here. This is a great group of Beeple who will challenge you while respecting you.

But why not Firefox or a fork? Vivaldi is Chromium. I use Vivaldi, but only for my less-savoury links.

I’m not sure this is generative rather than really shitty Photoshopping (no reason it can’t be both). That it’s a square makes the former a distinct possibility, but the level of sharpening in the condiment cup tops alongside the blurry fries where the effect spills over to the cup bases is jarring.

For the dogs themselves, that looks like standard food staging for a shoot. If this is generated, the model certainly was trained on using Elmer’s glue with food dye for mustard. It’s absurd that we’ve hit the point of needing art with every story, but at least this isn’t a filer of crime scene tape in front of police cars with the lights going.

Great. So subsisting off nothing but bologna sandwiches isn’t the best of ideas. But at $1.50 per pound, it’s protein yielding eight two-slice meals.

Not the ruling itself, but corporations file all sorts of motions before and during the initial trial specifically so that if a motion is denied, voila! Now the jury verdict and compensation decision isn’t what they’re challenging, but rather technical aspects from rulings by the judge overseeing the trial court … admission or inadmission of evidence is always a popular one.

To suggest that anyone else has the sort of law firms on retainer to play this game all the way to the top is folly. It’s just another way in which the system is rigged.

Not at all … it’s just that corporations, unwilling to take no for an answer, have functionally unlimited funds to throw toward several rounds of escalating court cases while defendants … don’t. It creates an inherently lopsided situation the legal system wasn’t explicitly designed for, but now this is just standard.

Companies walk into these trials essentially seeing the first round as a rehearsal.

Before you built up your collection, how did you use to discover new music back in the day? I’m guessing probably from the radio, this is that for the current generation.

In high school, sure, but CDs were still $20 ($44 in 2025 dollars), and my dislike of the fake tone of advertising made me want to abandon it as quickly as possible. Younger than that, I’d do the whole “hope a track comes on and hit record on a cassette” thing.

When I started college in 1997, mp3s were an entirely new concept, and I wasn’t exactly rolling in cash. My first foray was IRC Fservs in the dorm, and after that, I don’t clearly recall the order of operations regarding Napster, LimeWire, BearShare, Kazaa, ratio FTP servers (one of which I operated via dyndns and led to being exposed to music I never otherwise would have been), and likely a couple of other sources I’ve since forgotten about.

So yeah, it was piracy to start, but finding trance at the turn of the century was nigh impossible without shelling out a Jackson in hopes that the tiny electronic section at Tower Records would hold some gems I’d only be able to discover after purchase. Once tracks became anywhere from 79 cents to $1.89 I slowly rebuilt my extant collection with purchased copies (320kbps sounds much better than 112 to start, and I do like supporting artists) complete with full metadata.

Back when Amazon didn’t completely suck, they often had promos on digital goods when one opted for slower shipping; I got a lot of free music that way, as you could get a $1 credit for each item, leading to the somewhat absurd situation of things being effectively cheaper when purchased and shipped separately, which isn’t where economies of scale come from (and wasteful as hell in terms of packaging).

I guess no one was available to poison his tea …