Well, this is something completely different. Is your phone haunted?

Check to see if the playlist is ‘enhanced’. A while ago, Spotify introduced this capability. When activated, it inserts suggested songs intothe playlist.

Oh, no, I just don’t understand what you mean by it.

I don’t track that last bit

In the most mainstream, I think that both Ari Aster and Jordan Peele are challenging the ruts the genre has gotten itself in to. Midsommar effected me for days.

A while back, I ran across Hagazussa. Its a difficult watch (content warning for extreme sexual violence and infanticide), but it also has that quality of reality unbound. Its slow, atmospheric, and terrible.

The entire exeption, and the broader exclusionary rule, is based around the self-evidently incorrect assumption that what happens in court will effect behaviour of investigators.

I get it. When he did it, it seemed to me like some kind of egotistical, avant garde stunt. Later I learned that it was a protest against capital explotation, and I changed my view.

Prince didn’t wantto change his name. The name his mother named him was Prince, but his label trademarked the musical act “Prince” and forbid him from performing or recording under that name. When he changed labels in 2000, he was able to use his name again.

the Isreali government has a long and increasing history of systematic oppression of palestinian people, both inside and outside of the occupied palestinian territories. https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/

The ruling cliques of “the west” have a vested interest in the preservation of the current Isreali state. It is a friendly and permanently embattled nation that serves to destabilize the entier region, making foriegn influence easier and keeping arms trade high.

As such, while Palestinian liberation may be supported by people, it will never be meaningfully acknowledged by governments. Palestinian opression is ignored until it results in violence. Then the response, framed by the media, is to “both sides” the problem, finally culminating in a brokered peace in which Palestinians but not the goverment of Isreal disarm in exchange for nebulous promises.

As for solidarity with Palestine, beyond words and some small material support, we in “the west” run in to the same problem as with most other issues: institutions are set up to funnel power away from the people to a small group of influential individuals, and what few parallal power structures we have built are not strong enough to challenge them yet.

I see this meh-meh come up occasionally, and I’m always amused because designers are constantly looking at the competition and adjusting to suit. Why do you think all sebtites look the same?

gosh, I hope they got ‘not all men’ until their mentions broke

Honestly, its pretty hard for an individual to move the needle on systemic issues regardless of skillset. Conversely, almost any skillset can contribute to building alternate power and challenging those systems. Study what you have a passion for, then get involved in the work.

Fuck, if I was doing ecommerce on salesforce commerce cloud, I would hate programing too. The plus side is that you have something on the resume now. That makes a huge difference in your job prospects now. Its not the hottest market, but you do have a way to pay the bills so you can take some time. Just start applying again, is my advice

15 years ago, a global banking goldrush ended. Satoshi created bitcoin so the next goldrush would benifit him.

This is going to end well

Automation and process improvenent are key skills. The less time spent staying alive, the more time living

As a software engineer, skills I think I could contribute are systems design, debuging, writing software, and also trash pickup on the back af the truck. I’d be happy to help build software tools that help people actually enjoy life, and also I eon’t mind pitching in to my community.

Its always strange to me that australia, an entire country that started as a forever camp for criminals, would unironically do the same thing to people looking for a better life

Oh thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for.