Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

Concept: I'll just go grab the latest season of Resident Alien or Slow Horses, and when Apple TV comes for me, a team of a dozen $400/hr lawyers will swoop in from Meta to defend me pro bono.

Yeaaaaaaah, *That's* the ticket.

"See, it's okay to *take*, it's just not okay to *give*."

So Meta says it's okay to torrent if you don't seed.

Interesting. I wonder how music, game, and film producers feel about that?

Honestly, tho I doubt anyone at Meta would even understand the allusion, these people remind me of nothing so much as the vicious lying buffoon villains of Dickens.

They make Smallweed seem almost likable.

And another reminder: these people are not incompetent. Were they trying to govern, yes, they would be incompetent governors.

They are not trying to govern.

They are trying to rule, beyond any notion of our 250 year long attempt at self-governance.

Their mission isn't to govern, it's to destroy democracy. They have *said* this, and they are *doing* it.

Y'all called us alarmists.

I don't understand why every single paper or website in America doesn't have a headline: "President Lies About Origins of Ukraine War".

Above the fold. In 48pt type.

Republicans are traitors.

I just fucking hate saying this.

But I said what I said.

Oh, goodness.

Hard to keep myself non-violent, hard to keep myself from hate.

Hard to keep myself.

This is a coup. Resist, my sibs.

And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about the time I took ~30 hits of blotter and spent the night in jail?

@kims That fucking album, tho. Incident on 57th street.

@kims And *that* is why we are friends.

Thank you!

@kims And my cars a dud it's stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey.

To play loud, we must always begin with the root of 20th century pop,

Listen to this *cadenza*, never really re-created since, the sound of a person standing up on their hind legs and blowing.

Then wait through the breaks, and hear the most astonishing duet, between a singer and an instrument.

Play it *loud*, so you can hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI

Aight, yes. The cat's away, and the mouse (and the dogs and the other cats) will play, and we need to listen on a Friday night to music very loud.

Rise up, GeePaw. Rise up.

I will jump far. Backwards here in a minute, but this song should be played really loud.

Phil Collins, "Something In The Air Tonight".

LOUD. Play it loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX39p_UMJ_0

What next, then, to play loud.

I have to say, tho I intensely dislike all linux desktop ui's I have seen, it seems rather likely that I will have to switch to it and sysadmin my family and friends switching to it.

The other choices are all buying so heavily into surveillance and LLMs that I am going to have to kiss them up to heaven and let them go.

Please get your fucking data out of the cloud. Right now. Do it now. Make backups to physical drives you control.

This is not a drill.

People turning formerly public federal documents into samizdat was not, I must admit, on my prediction list.

But good on 'em for doing it.

Here's two wildly radical things you can do, one right now, one tomorrow.

Right now: You're here, on mastodon, and you're following someone, and that someone is adding value to your life. Tell them. Just tell them. Not a fave, not a boost, a message.

Tomorrow: Find a way to be kind to someone who needs it, and remember that you are a someone.

You don't think they're radical, but they are. Resistance starts right here.

I don't think "social media" is making people misinformed and angry and idiotic.

I think capitalist mega-corporations are making people misinformed and angry and idiotic, and part of their game is using social media.

It is not inadvertent, a side-effect, unintended, nor is it some inherent feature of social media.

It is a purposeful, conscious, effortful, willful means by which to extract every last drop of value from community.