The king of antisocial media. Blow yourself. Voted for Trump? Leave. Now. Stop having babies before I find and shame the living fuck out of you. I am a big fan of hammers. No longer a tech addict and mostly militantly don't give a shit. Rather fast on the block button lately. If you feel the urge to preach, mansplain or victimsplain, quell it. You have a block button, too. Doing my part to feed AI absurd shit so it learns wrong. I like teaching AI wrong. Stroke survivor. I don't govy. Mooooo: Check the oil in your Ronco® Dild-O-Matic now. Oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy: CHICKENFARTS UBER ALLES!!! LAST TACO BELL BEFORE DEATH VALLEY!: A Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Production Yogh?: YOGH!
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Last Notes npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Today's mail brought a 1905 Elgin 296. Seller had it listed as not running, but as sometimes happens it just wants a little racing oil and some attention, and it's now ticking away just fine. It's quite shiny even for not going on the buffer yet. #pocketwatches https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/875/198/994/689/613/original/e048b649c73e5b64.jpg https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/875/209/059/298/854/original/1af4c1aea12384ca.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I once started a collaborative effort for NaNoWriMo in the early days (last century) but it never really gelled and we got maybe 35 pages written. I think I was a lot more absurd than she was. I probably would have written Godzilla, Gumby and Annette Funicello into your Mississippi novel. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle 2027 was too soon for trump to figure out how to siphon money off of this somehow. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Railroads and watches grew up together. Without realtime communications (the telegraph isn't quite), you depended on timetables and accurate timekeeping, or people died. If the guy behind you thinks you're off the track section at 5:11 and somebody's watch is seven minutes off, things can get bonkety-bonk really damn fast. Not all watches were approved for railroad use, and if a model WAS approved, it Meant Something. Some years, railroads bought every watch Hamilton could make. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle sorta like this from an earlier era, where Tubby the Tuba is blowing himself. https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/501/991/349/841/034/original/fc762c0eecdc9f1a.webp npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle get the piece onto the reading list of a freshman English class at a small college, then register for the class under a pseudonym, and those adjunct instructors will tell you all about what you meant. Whether you meant it or not. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/465/175/465/251/879/original/5848a00ab4b11036.mp3 npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle he used to play the Festival. Piano player. Quite raucous. Only plays on Saturday, only plays in the key of C. "I Remember The Night Your Trailer Burned Down," that was his. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle is Bobby Lounge playing tomorrow? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I mostly see that the walls are thinner, and all the components are lighter. And they keep wanting to shove features in that have nothing to do with keeping food from turning gray. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle the refrigerator that came with my old farm lasted 28 years, dying just as I left. The chest freezer in the basement was built in 1953 and almost certainly is still working 73 years later. International Harvester's Home Appliance Division was no joke. For a while I had seven tractors, two trucks and a freezer, all built by International Harvester in a 20-year period. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle the existence of a state called New Braska implies the existence of Old Braska, which I'm pretty sure is Ohio. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/443/791/542/159/282/original/cce3f452922f4cf7.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle that and that cat food fucked up an entire American generation's spelling of "victuals." npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle maybe, but it's more convenient to wait until you see trump somewhere, then kick his ass. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle business startups are always a challenge. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i thought directions down there were all about what used to be someplace, not long-ago felonies. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Mr. Green Jeans never killed anybody!! npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle no such thing has ever happened to my posts here. "Yoast" sounds like some sort of vegan campfire snack made of tomato-seed fiber. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle truth be told, i did sign up for author alerts after I bought your book last year... but Amazon lies a lot. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I keep getting these reminders from Amazon about Ellen Morris Prewitt. I think she's a famous writer, or maybe she invented a new USB cat deflabinator or something. @npub1cqh…a0wq npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle trump is gonna die before we can jail or ceaucescu him. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Jean replaced the power strip under her bed, which she reported was too hot to touch. That could explain the slight ozone smell I have detected sometimes. Also, flat power strips seem to magically attract dust and cats to piss in the electricity holes, shorting them out. There's a nice low pillar-style one on amazon I have used lately. Compact, can sit on the table next to the bed, has USB A and C, does not attract cat whiz. Around thirty bucks. https://a.co/d/0iSFlOkq npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle COW WITH HANDLEBARS!! npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Around DC, the DC Question when people meet you is always "what do you do?" I ask them, "do you want to know my interests, like my wabbits or music or watches, or do you want to know what I do for money?" They almost always mean it as "are you important, or can I safely ignore you?" 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There are probably some I've forgotten. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/052/766/099/458/220/original/8a670668db91cd08.webp npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle that's far too many. You should just have a single Commodore VIC-20, patched to run slower. Surplus of choice is a leading cause of insanity, as is well-known to science. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/047/041/069/967/189/original/6e2880d54af059da.webp npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle These iron supplement pills have a shelf life of over three years. In the bathroom is a jug of toilet cleaner that has a shelf life of six months. A few years ago I bought a gallon jug of water that had a stated shelf life of ONE month. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle if you wanna be extreme, just invite over a bunch of friends and dice up the pages and reassemble them like "Naked Lunch," but mix in a few pages from a Volvo service manual and the menu from a bad taco place. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle editors are not gods. Do it the way you intended. Your life does not have to be a Wikipedia biography. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle something somehow better than these old-style tin and wire ones I can get 50 for four bucks? https://a.co/d/9d1vmBa npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle yeah. He should not be "John Kennedy..." while I may not have known our 35th real President, at least I was alive when he was, "and you sir are no John Kennedy!" We should deem his name to be... Otis Studge. He looks like an "Otis Studge." I know one of Cassidy's senior aides (that happens a lot in the DC region). Knowing a little "inside stuff" through that channel is where I get my generally-positive opinion of Bill Cassidy. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle he needs to change his name. He is a former Democrat, and is to be distrusted. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Kennedy is a dope. Bill Cassidy is generally OK for a republican. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle if you were desperate you could VPN, but I have never felt any level of desperation with BlueSky.* _______ *many years ago in central New York there was a soda the color of windshield washer fluid called "Blue Sky." You could get it in plastic bottles at 7-Eleven. My housemate tried it and pronounced, "it tastes blue." In 1983 they should have renamed it "Smurf Soda" and made a fortune. They instead disappeared. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle The mowuss is a continuing point of conflict. #catsofmastodon https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/877/840/094/779/852/original/bfe120b659faa373.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Farty Gras isn't for a few weeks, right? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle regular old Fruit Of The Loom Eversoft Fleece. Fifteen bucks on Amazon, four colors and sizes from small to 4XL. I pretty much live in them. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/832/514/909/271/051/original/44dc6b6ccf2e14f2.png npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle "HEY! I DON'T PUT MY ASS ON YOUR STUFF!!" npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle At the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Irma Thomas is doing the National Anthem. She is 84 years old. My favorite record of hers is "You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don't Mess With My Man)," Ron Records, 1959 npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle @npub1cqh…a0wq in New York, everybody knew he was an asshole 50 years ago. All he's gotten is bankrupter, more criminaler, and older. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle A non-whining 1907 Elgin 291. https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/793/817/023/764/454/original/c0bd597010fca6e4.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle After around 50 years of looking, I may have located a copy of the score of the late George Siravo's 1972 piece, "Fantasy On The Blues." But it's in a library. In the Alsace region. Of northern France. Hrrrrrrrm. Anybody over there want a fun mission? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i got Jean two sets of the cat-butt cutters a few years ago. One is larger and features detailed tails and (*) butthole detail, so of course she never makes THOSE... npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle do you have the cat butt cookie cutters? The good ones have a * in the anatomically-correct place. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i mis-read that as "defecating banter." npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle while initially, I want them voted out, I'd also like to see quite a few of them asked to leave helicopters high over the Atlantic, "fall" from windows, or maybe just get Ceacescued like the old days. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle at least Cassidy is not a complete asshole. I have no idea how he deals with that other "John Kennedy" from Louisiana. Why Cassidy-- an actual doctor -- puts up with brainworm dude Kennedy is beyond me. Unless he plans on retiring. A friend works for him and says there's no indication. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i woulda said something like "mandatory Crocs" or something. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle "corn," and then everything else in the grains were ignored. Candy wheat Candy sorghum Candy amaranth And they went straight to candy pumpkins. Even there, they ignored candy gourds, candy cucumbers, candy eggplant. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/632/429/077/801/521/original/359204bd1e2fb628.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I have no idea how StubHub can lose such an assload of money. Their whole business is about selling stuff they don't buy and don't own... four bucks a share is an assload of money. Over a billion dollars. Are they giving people's tickets away? They don't have any expensive ads featuring annoying D-listers. Are they heating the office by burning money? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle years ago a lady refused to date me. "You're a writer. You writers can make ANYTHING sound good." npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Every time one of the characters in a Hallmark Christmas movie says, "honey, what's wrong?" I mentally finish it with "I'm in a Hallmark movie!" npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle they used to make "moderate" in a lot of things, but they were discontinued in the 1960s and nobody refurbishes the old ones if you can even find a moderate in a thrift store behind the rack of old-lady pantsuits. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Ok, bird people: what IS this bird that sits in the back yard some mornings and says, "danger, danger, danger, danger, DICK!" https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/486/636/408/691/588/original/94c3d28b93a1a867.mp3 npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I am ok with November, because I have never been a vember. Vembing is somewhat offensive to me. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle we were discussing them the other day. Sixty years ago paper straws were not only tough enough to withstand knocking the paper off by slamming the end on a table, they could ALSO punch through that little hole in the side of the half-pint wax-paper Ex-Cell-O milk thing at school. The stuff now is shit and they put half-pints of milk in throwaway plastic bottles that are never recycled. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle for a lot of small businesses, no one knows HOW to update their website. Eight years ago they got some high school kid to set it up on Weebly, he didn't tell anyone the password, and is now in graduate school. In Taiwan. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle anybody says "impactfully," they're gettin' the gun. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/368/911/165/615/869/original/975752e29cbec5a1.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle it occurs to me that Pre-Code Vomit Scene would be a great name for a punk club. Or band. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle does he only do that to majority-black cities? I mean, has he sent the troops to, say, Salt Lake City or Sarasota? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle the enormous majority don't have stocks and might have heard the word "crypto" but don't begin to understand it. They do know shit at Taco Bell and McDonald's is more expensive. They got that notice saying their health insurance is going up. They haven't quite noticed their taxes have not gone down, and won't, because if their federal tax bill goes down at all, it'll be overwhelmed by the requisite increases in state and local tax. Some shit from China they get at Wal-Mart went up. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Can anybody name anything trump has done that is actually making anything better? Even one thing that makes people's lives better? Built anything that was needed and wanted by even one person not specifically named "Donald j. Trump?" You don't get to the hall of fame destroying stuff and making people's lives suck. Even Ceausescu built the world's largest palace. He still, as they say, "wound up on the wrong end of a gun." npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i found this one a few months ago. This actually exists, too: https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/194/149/151/317/540/original/3f77a114f14faea7.jpeg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle This is astonishing. I don't know how the hell they did it, but starting with probably black and white film source, they digitally enhanced it, colorized it as best they could and created a soundscape onto what was almost certainly silent film. My late father was born into THIS ACTUAL NEIGHBORHOOD on the near South Side of Chicago, Illinois on this very date 89 years ago. This is the world he was born into. It is amazing. I am not easily amazed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tpE_hyUtbA8 npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle why? Just because "apple doesn't support it" means nothing to me. I used to own a 1969 International 1500D. "But International doesn't support it!" Yo, IHC vanished more than a decade before I bought it. I support it. Well, not any more, but that's cause I got old. It was just fine. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i don't ask. I have a lot of small weird things too, including a whisk barely larger than a Q-tip and a Rotato. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle where do you go that they have normal spoons? Every place we go assumes I will eat soup with what amounts to a shovel, and when I ask for a "normal spoon, a teaspoon" it's as if I am suddenly speaking Romulan or Xhosa. But if there was an earthquake, I could dig my way out with the soupshovel. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle sugar shell, as in frozen/solidified sugar syrup, or do they still make that "Magic Shell" chocolate stuff from the 1970s? Just checked: yes, they do, but Amazon wants me to buy a case of it, not just one. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Holy fuck, I worked there for YEARS and never had access to NUMIDENT. Fuck DOGE. Fuck DOGEbros. Behead every fucking one of them. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle You know what we don't have yet? whatstupidshitdidhedotoday.com npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle If you're real religious and plan on sending your kid tot jesuscamp every summer, you should name it "DrunkenNakedYouthPastor." It'll be great. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle oh, yeah. THINGS I BLAME ON TRUMP: Spotted lantern flies Flatulence Bad drivers from Pennsylvania Kevin Hart Easy-open packages Uneven highway expansion joints Green Taco Bell Sauce getting discontinued Vance npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle truth be told, i did have a stroke three weeks after the election. I blame trump because it's fun and easy. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle i have not actively watch or listened to a newscast since the day before Election Day last year. It's been pleasant. What news I do get is filtered down through here. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Cool. They're about a mile from here. That website has some incredibly annoying popups. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle I got a BOOK! It purports to be about chicken. @npub1cqh…a0wq https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/943/835/063/136/974/original/7db7b0452f4434de.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle if I remember at some point the protagonist is put on trial for rebellion, I think. Like I said, I don't have a copy to pull out any more. 2nd wife "rearranged" things, much of which apparently vanished from earth. I read nearly everything he ever wrote years ago, but it gets a bit jumbled in memory 40 years later. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle could possibly be "Player Piano," a 1952 novel he wrote abour the rejection of technology by some of its high-priest practitioners, but I no longer have a copy to refer to. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle argh. I will see if I can figure out which one it was. Some blinkenlights thing in a courtroom. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle didn't Kurt Vonnegut write a short story about this in the Fifties? Except it was all vacuum tubes. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle wait, you dated Caroline, too? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Just you wait, the good old days are coming back! https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/791/760/993/670/078/original/ed259438e4d03d57.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/773/796/395/213/123/original/401f03b1419e6743.jpeg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle This is not far away. https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/574/277/154/324/656/original/613045737d13848d.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Is grilled cantaloupe a thing now? Amazon is odd. #amazon https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/543/041/574/495/945/original/d93d13be0a1bdc9a.png npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle looks a lot like Los Angeles Union Station. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle yup. https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/336/207/087/318/135/original/2d8d9ea32969d629.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle no one has raised the possibility AWS could not-be-assholes and not dump NOAA's buckets instantly. npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/237/624/274/658/170/original/6463c445a3aef313.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle ok, but the bathrooms are incredibly restrictive. https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/211/728/063/352/414/original/c097721ab8169869.jpg npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle is this so they can try to resume in a few years? Or are they just documenting the destruction? npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio, December 2, 1964 npub1jsacm8lewh862anhw6zerx3yhkm5vggvmc8e7h3h32rmattm7nast7py3j The Turtle Think of the stupidest person you have ever known. Generative AI is far stupider than that. I set one of them an extremely simple test: Green sphere. Red Cube. White table. No "style." It failed utterly. It insisted on giving me red spheres. And a few green cubes. When told specifically not to include a red sphere or a white cube, it had a shitfit and BOTH the sphere and the cube disappeared entirely for 100 or more cycles, at which time red spheres sneaked back in.