Apparently these Amazon guys have forgotten that there was ever an "Information Superhighway" and are simply declaring themselves to be the nationally necesssary new one.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-data-centers-built-together
“squeeveillance,” the idea that people will let cute things surveil them
*Pretty much any day is a good day that doesn't involve four minutes of Richter 7.4 tremors #Colombia
*Man, you could smoke a cigarette in that length of time. You could propose marriage, get declined and change her mind about it
Claude's new slop science, like the old science, but shinier
@bruces "Life is often tedious. Claude brings your fragmented life hack tools into a single environment where you can easily life-max without tedium."
*So, what do the fried ancient scrolls from the ruins actually say
*Some stuffy fried Greek metaphysics, so far
*Asian neon has become so old that it's a vanishing handicraft.
@bruces Vanishing in Germany too. It is a traditional craft now, less experts than for reed roofs.
@bruces when I moved to Vancouver in the early part of the century, it had lots of amazing neon signs. Five years later they were gone and the city much poorer for it
Out: Neon Lights.
In: Xenon Lights.
@bruces
Always fascinating watching masters of any craft at work.
Sorry to see neon going away. More spirited than LED.
@bruces
If you haven't been, the Neon Museum in Warsaw is amazing. The displays, but also the history and their ongoing conservation efforts.
Here in the US, everyone has the right to withhold their information, although in a very few cases they might need a lawyer. Many people chose to use the phrase 'I have nothing to hide' that have since learned better ... sometimes at great expense.
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/116599505483181112
*What is the oldest existent work of music that you would consider as weird as this Prodigy video
*Which I would cordially agree is pretty old and strange, but not all that strange by The Prodigy's generous standards
@bruces Herbie Hancock "Rock It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
@bruces René Clair, Entr'acte (1924) maybe? Musically not terribly weird.
Begone dull care is much later, and has jazz which was more experimental.
Oskar Fischinger did An Optical Poem before WW2, but it's experimental visuals with classical music.
@bruces I don’t think that video’s strange, pretty standard early 90s rave music.
For early weird music, I was going to say John Cage, but he studied with Schoenberg, so I’ll go with the atonal composers. Depends on what you consider weird?
@bruces Len Lye
Weird? How far back do you wanna go? 27-year-old Hector Berlioz (pre-video, pre-record) got pretty dam weird (for his day) with his 1830 "ymphonie fantastique".
"The music whips into a frenzy as it bears the soul of the Artist to his damnation. His beloved gloats over the scene. Such an ending had never been heard before."
The band Coil in that era was weirdly odd and delightfully occult. Songs like "Love's Secret Domain" and "Things Happen" immediately jump to mind.
But for a video, you can't beat EBN's Electronic Behavior Control System. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZsKWV4mDo
*I've seen math-rock before, but I've never seen commentary like that for a YouTube track
@bruces even the YouTube comments are all good!
@bruces I won’t say the comments are half the fun, but they sure add to already interesting music! ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️
@bruces They’ve just released a new record with some of those songs, btw:
Ok, le sexe c'est pas mal, mais avez-vous essayé l'angine de poitrine ?
Je tiens ma nouvelle signature.
@bruces
Reminds me of TIPP & jaTÄPP, the proto Angine team from last millennium’s Estonia
#kreisiraadio
