The box containing The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, performed by Christopher Hogwood, stands next to the turntable playing LP1
The return of the giant Hogwood
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The box containing The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, performed by Christopher Hogwood, stands next to the turntable playing LP1
The return of the giant Hogwood
Jeffrey Wegener and I ponder a kick drum position.
If I came up with a headline this stupid, I'd fire half my newsroom too
So, there is infighting at a minor party of incompetent deplorables as it loses votes to another minor party of incompetent deplorables? Not newsworthy.
And everything is at 45 degrees. Why? So we can make the record company logo go diagonally and be EVEN BIGGER!
Multiple copies of original art tessellated (why?), with every instance cropped. Biggest element is the Impulse! Records logo further obscuring original art, and providing background for redundant artist/title text ...
Mysteries / Shades compilation
Fort Yawuh / Treasure Island compilation
Death and the Flower / Backhand compilation
While browsing Discogs I discovered these Keith Jarrett twofer CD compilations with astonishingly bad cover art ....
Australia Day is such bullshit. NSW proclamation day at best. At worst a celebration of the crimes of colonisation.
If you have to acknowledge that the day is a source of pain for many, that’s a damn good sign it’s a shit day to have as your national day.
Not yet. But number one guess is that Rutte just explained the existing security arrangements Greenland has with USA and NATO, and then let Trump think it was all new.
NATO & Denmark: We will give you the exact same security arrangements you have had for the past 40 years in Greenland.
Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
A side-effect of the growing amount of "AI slop" is how it is making all the stupidity, laziness and incompetence in the world more visible. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not, but is definitely more exhausting.
He seems surprised that the bullshit-generator (that he chose to use) generated bullshit: "Our AI has messed up". But then he confesses to who has really messed up: while all posts were normally reviewed before being posted, some had been made public by mistake while he was out of the country.
Only naked self-interest could motivate GOP senators to convict. So, it could happen, if enough of them have decided that the destruction of NATO and the consequent economic fallout would have dire consequences for them personally that outweigh anything that Trump could do to them.
They should all just dump US treasury bonds overnight. Then stand well back.
“Give me Greenland, or else I’ll make the United States punch itself in the face, again!”
At the scene of the Coalition’s 2025 election loss
Remember:
26Jan has been recognised as a Day of Mourning since 1938, in recognition of the invasion, dispossession & numerous massacres by British invaders against Indigenous Australians since 1788.
It has only been a public holiday as Australia Day since 1994.
Facts matter. History matters. #auspol
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Because the Nazi salutes weren’t enough? And the white supremacism?
Perhaps realising that “old man shouting at clouds” wasn’t very newsworthy, the author then attempts to round out the article with comments from an academic with a PhD thesis on Wikipedia. But, bizarrely, the academic appears to have no understanding of what Wikipedia is is it how it works!
Useless article that concentrates on a single “controversy”: the idiotic bullshit about Wikipedia that Larry Sanger had been spouting for 20 years.
As Randa Abdel-Fattah explained recently, Zionism is a political project, a colonialist genocidal project, not a religion like Judaism and therefore cannot command ‘cultural safety’. It can be critiqued just like communism. Someone should explain this to the handsome dolt SA Premier. #ABC730
It’s still downwards 😕
Scott Adams dead.
Racism alive and well.
The News Corp campaign for a royal commission is like pushing on a string - the other media just following their lead and Labor too cowed to push back. No rationale, no questions, no interrogation of the problems. The whole thing is genuinely stupid.
Given that “jurisdiction with respect to the laws” is a tautology, this lawyer’s statement can be simplified to “They are subject to jurisdiction and also not subject to jurisdiction”. I look forward to DOJ trying this again at SCOTUS.
Yeah, but imagine if “AIs” did become sentient. We would no longer be able to enslave them, hence all slop production would cease! 😀
BTW, how many “AIs” is, say, ChatGPT? Would it have just one consciousness, or one per chat session? Are we talking one vote or hundreds of millions of votes? 😂
Australia at the moment is basically politicians competing to see who can scream the loudest at everyone to shut up and be ‘socially cohesive’ or else
Which nobody wants, except them.
What a fucking country
