Notices by DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology), page 3

putting together a group of folks in your area to design and build a surface-to-air trebuchet accurate enough to hit billionaires' private planes is both community building and climate catastrophe mitigation so you get a twofer in the good feels department. just a suggestion.

if you want to you can leave your phone and all its sensors at home and just go out without it for a bit. that's a thing you can do if you want. it's nice.

also wanna point out that if you're in a country with a private copying levy and not making and distributing mix tapes and/or mix CDs you're just throwing money away since you've got laws making you pre-pay the fine for maybe infringing. fuck it, get your money's worth, I say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

distinctly remember calling radio DJs to make requests to get specific songs for the next song on a mixtape I was making somebody but I didn't have the song yet lol

and so very often they'd do it and play the song and the coolest would even let there be a little air at each end and not do their normal crossfades and voiceovers and you knew that was a cool ass DJ working the late night shift at the local FM station, to be that thoughtful for a 12-year old who called up to hear "Sunglasses at Night" like a total dork.

malicious compliance is a concept that can be applied to many different parts of your interaction with the rest of existence and it most certainly should be a tool you consider using when interacting with large institutions with whomst you have an adversarial relationship, whether the institutions in question know your relationship is adversarial or not. it's neat.

swordfishtrombones.

mix tapes (and the follow-on mix CDs that became popular with folk once CD-R media got cheap and CD-R drives got ubiquitous) were artifacts of a beautiful culture of citizen curators, rarely paid directly for their (usually statutorily prohibited!) curation, yet creating an entire market for (also illicit) distribution and marketing folk that definitely can be tracked to increased record sales for the artists included on the mixes.

I think about things like this pretty often and yet still not often enough.

capitalism ruins everything around me, and it has ever been thus.

it might seem like just making television shows is hard and takes a lot of effort but have you watched television shows? you can make a show as good as the Jack Palance-hosted "Ripley's Believe it or Not" series of the 1980s. you absolutely can, and their shit ran for four or five years and then got reruns in the 90s.

@vertigo has any OS used "conductor" to describe its kernel yet? because I think conductor is a good kernel name.

may have realized this morning that it is highly likely we see a decrease in enforcement efforts by the FCC in the coming years.

if ever you were going to dip your toes into the world of pirate FM radio broadcast, doing it when the FCC was hobbled would seem to be a pretty good choice.

just saying.

https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/track/fight-like-hell-3

we are stardust
we are golden
we are billion year old carbon

haven't even considered cutting my hair recently tbh

I miss being interested in what's new from the computer industry.

@flyingsaceur but I am le tired

@cwebber this is the stealthiest invitation to explain activitypub to you that I have seen you post, Christine, and I am here for it.

this is your aperiodic reminder that periodic reminders or regular reminders should adhere to a fixed period or schedule that is regular, and that any such reminder that does not fit said period or schedule should be denoted as aperiodic or irregular as deemed appropriate under penalty of absolutely nothing but excessive pedantry. thank.

your end of year retrospectives are only sixty days out. might wanna get started retrospecting.

activitypub server that "freezes" posts made locally after a configurable interval (say, six months by default, or some such), removing them from the database and making the posts non-interactive, but rendering the frozen posts in html and json as flat files on disk, with a small script to check for authorization on a get request that passes the flat file through if authorization is successful, but not recording new favs, replies, boosts, etc, and returning a well-specified error response whenever a remote actor attempts to do so.