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Linkty Dumpty
I was supposed to be on vacation, and while I didn’t do any blogging for a month, that didn’t mean that I stopped looking at my distraction rectangle and making a list of things I wanted to write about. Consequentially, the link backlog is massive, so it’s time to declare bankruptcy with another linkdump:
https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
[Image ID: John Holbo’s ‘trolley problem’ art, a repeating pattern of trolleys, tracks, people on tracks, and people standing at track switches]++
Let’s kick things off with a little graphic whimsy. You’ve doubtless seen the endless Trolley Problem memes, working from the same crude line drawings? Well, philosopher John Holbo got tired of that artwork, and he whomped up a fantastic alternative, which you can get as a poster, duvet, sticker, tee, etc:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/145078097
The trolley problem has been with us since 1967, but it’s enjoying a renaissance thanks to the insistence of “AI��� weirdos that it is very relevant to our AI debate. A few years back, you could impress uninformed people by dropping the Trolley Problem into a discussion:
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/25/mercedes-weird-trolley-problem-announcement-continues-dumb-debate-about-self-driving-cars/
Amazingly, the “AI” debate has only gotten more tedious since the middle of the past decade. But every now and again, someone gets a stochastic parrot to do something genuinely delightful, like the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, who sell chatbots that will pretend to be tantalyzingly confused marks in order to tie up telemarketers and waste their time:
https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
Jolly Roger sells different personas: “Whitebeard” is a confused senior who keeps asking the caller’s name, drops nonsequiturs into the conversation, and can’t remember how many credit-cards he has. “Salty Sally” is a single mom with a houseful of screaming, demanding children who keep distracting her every time the con artist is on the verge of getting her to give up compromising data. “Whiskey Jack” is drunk:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457
The bots take a couple minutes to get the sense of the conversation going. During that initial lag, they have a bunch of stock responses like “there’s a bee on my arm, but keep going,” or grunts like “huh,” and “uh-huh.” The bots can keep telemarketers and scammers on the line for quite a long time. Scambaiting is an old and honorable vocation, and it’s good that it has received a massive productivity gain from automation. This is the AI Dividend I dream of.
The less-fun AI debate is the one over artists’ rights and tech. I am foresquare for the artists here, but I think that the preferred solutions (like creating a new copyright over the right to train a model with your work) will not lead to the hoped-for outcome. As with other copyright expansions — 40 years’ worth of them now — this right will be immediately transferred to the highly concentrated media sector, who will simply amend their standard, non-negotiable contracting terms to require that “training rights” be irrevocably assigned to them as a condition of working.
The real solution isn’t to treat artists as atomic individuals — LLCs with an MFA — who bargain, business-to-business, with corporations. Rather, the solutions are in collective power, like unions. You’ve probably heard about the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike, in which creative workers are bargaining as a group to demand fair treatment in an age of generative models. SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher’s speech announcing the strike made me want to stand up and salute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4SAPOX7R5M
The actors’ strike is historic: it marks the first time actors have struck since 2000, and it’s the first time actors and writers have co-struck since 1960. Of course, writers in the Writers Guild of America (West and East) have been picketing since since April, and one of their best spokespeople has been Adam Conover, a WGA board member who serves on the negotiating committee. Conover is best known for his stellar Adam Ruins Everything comedy-explainer TV show, which pioneered a technique for breaking down complex forms of corporate fuckery and making you laugh while he does it. Small wonder that he’s been so effective at conveying the strike issues while he pickets.
Writing for Jacobin, Alex N Press profiles Conover and interviews him about the strike, under the excellent headline, “Adam Pickets Everything.” Conover is characteristically funny, smart, and incisive — do read:
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/adam-conover-wga-strike
Of course, not everyone in Hollywood is striking. In late June, the DGA accepted a studio deal with an anemic 41% vote turnout:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773926/dga-amptp-new-deal-strike
They probably shouldn’t have. In this interview with The American Prospect’s Peter Hong, the brilliant documentary director Amy Ziering breaks down how Netflix and the other streamers have rugged documentarians in a classic enshittification ploy that lured in filmmakers, extracted everything they had, and then discarded the husks:
https://prospect.org/culture/2023-06-21-drowned-in-the-stream/
Now, the streaming cartel stands poised to all but kill off documentary filmmaking. Pressured by Wall Street to drive high returns, they’ve become ultraconservative in their editorial decisions, making programs and films that are as similar as possible to existing successes, that are unchallenging, and that are cheap. We’ve gone directly from a golden age of docs to a dark age.
In a time of monopolies, it’s tempting to form countermonopolies to keep them in check. Yesterday, I wrote about why the FTC and Lina Khan were right to try to block the Microsoft/Activision merger, and I heard from a lot of people saying this merger was the only way to check Sony’s reign of terror over video games:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
But replacing one monopolist with another isn’t good for anyone (except the monopolists’ shareholders). If we want audiences and workers — and society — to benefit, we have to de-monopolize the sector. Last month, I published a series with EFF about how we should save the news from Big Tech:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
After that came out, the EU Observer asked me to write up version of it with direct reference to the EU, where there are a lot of (in my opinion, ill-conceived but well-intentioned) efforts to pry Big Tech’s boot off the news media’s face. I’m really happy with how it came out, and the header graphic is awesome:
https://euobserver.com/opinion/157187
De-monopolizing tech has become my life’s work, both because tech is foundational (tech is how we organize to fight over labor, gender and race equality, and climate justice), and because tech has all of these technical aspects, which open up new avenues for shrinking Big Tech, without waiting decades for traditional antitrust breakups to run their course (we need these too, though!).
I’ve written a book laying out a shovel-ready plan to give tech back to its users through interoperability, explaining how to make new regulations (and reform old ones), what they should say, how to enforce them, and how to detect and stop cheating. It’s called “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation” and it’s coming from Verso Books this September:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
[Image ID: The cover of the Verso Books hardcover of ‘The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation]
I just got my first copy in the mail yesterday, and it’s a gorgeous little package. The timing was great, because I spent the whole week in the studio at Skyboat Media recording the audiobook — the first audiobook of mine that I’ve narrated. It was a fantastic experience, and I’ll be launching a Kickstarter to presell the DRM-free audio and ebooks as well as hardcovers, in a couple weeks.
Though I like doing these crowdfunders, I do them because I have to. Amazon’s Audible division, the monopolist that controls >90% of the audiobook market, refuses to carry my work because it is DRM-free. When you buy a DRM-free audiobook, that means that you can play it on anyone’s app, not just Amazon’s. Every audiobook you’ve ever bought from Audible will disappear the moment you decide to break up with Amazon, which means that Amazon can absolutely screw authors and audiobook publishers because they’ve taken our customers hostage.
If you are unwise enough to pursue an MBA, you will learn a term of art for this kind of market structure: it’s a “moat,” that is, an element of the market that makes it hard for new firms to enter the market and compete with you. Warren Buffett pioneered the use of this term, and now it’s all but mandatory for anyone launching a business or new product to explain where their moat will come from.
As Dan Davies writes, these “moats” aren’t really moats in the Buffett sense. With Coke and Disney, he says, a “moat” was “the fact that nobody else could make such a great product that everyone wanted.” In other words, “making a good product,” is a great moat:
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/stuck-in-the-moat
But making a good product is a lot of work and not everyone is capable of it. Instead, “moat” now just means some form of lock in. Davies counsels us to replace “moat” with:
our subscription system and proprietary interface mean that our return on capital is protected by a strong Berlin Wall, preventing our customers from getting out to a freer society and forcing them to consume our inferior products for lack of alternative.
I really like this. It pairs well with my 2020 observation that the fight over whether “IP” is a meaningful term can be settled by recognizing that IP has a precise meaning in business: “Any policy that lets me reach beyond the walls of my firm to control the conduct of my competitors, critics and customers”:
https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
To see how that works in the real world, check out “The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy,” a magisterial piece of scholarship from Sarah Lamdan, Jason M. Schultz, Michael Weinberg and Claire Woodcock:
https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/
Something happened when we shifted to digital formats that created a loss of rights for readers. Pulling back the curtain on the evolution of ebooks offers some clarity to how the shift to digital left ownership behind in the analog world.
The research methodology combines both anonymous and named sources in publishing, bookselling and librarianship, as well as expert legal and economic analysis. This is an eminently readable, extremely smart, and really useful contribution to the scholarship on how “IP” (in the modern sense) has transformed books from something you own to something that you can never own.
The truth is, capitalists hate capitalism. Inevitably, the kind of person who presides over a giant corporation and wields power over millions of lives — workers, suppliers and customers — believes themselves to be uniquely and supremely qualified to be a wise dictator. For this kind of person, competition is “wasteful” and distracts them from the important business of making everyone’s life better by handing down unilateral — but wise and clever — edits. Think of Peter Thiel’s maxim, “competition is for losers.”
That’s why giant companies love to merge with each other, and buy out nascent competitors. By rolling up the power to decide how you and I and everyone else live our lives, these executives ensure that they can help us little people live the best lives possible. The traditional role of antitrust enforcement is to prevent this from happening, countering the delusions of would-be life-tenured autocrats of trade with public accountability and enforcement:
https://marker.medium.com/we-should-not-endure-a-king-dfef34628153
Of course, for 40 years, we’ve had neoliberal, Reaganomics-poisoned antitrust, where monopolies are celebrated as “efficient” and their leaders exalted as geniuses whose commercial empires are evidence of merit, not savagery. That era is, thankfully, coming to an end, and not a moment too soon.
Leading the fight is the aforementioned FTC chair Lina Khan, who is taking huge swings at even bigger mergers. But the EU is no slouch in this department: they’re challenging the Adobe/Figma merger, a $20b transaction that is obviously and solely designed to recapture customers who left Adobe because they didn’t want to struggle under its yoke any longer:
https://gizmodo.com/adobe-figma-acquisition-likely-to-face-eu-investigation-1850555562
For autocrats of trade, this is an intolerable act of disloyalty. We owe them our fealty and subservience, because they are self-evidently better at understanding what we need than we could ever be. This unwarranted self-confidence from the ordinary mediocrities who end up running giant tech companies gets them into a whole lot of hot water.
One keen observer of the mind-palaces that tech leaders trap themselves in is Anil Dash, who describes the conspiratorial, far-right turn of the most powerful men (almost all men!) in Silicon Valley in a piece called “‘VC Qanon’ and the radicalization of the tech tycoons”:
https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/
Dash builds on an editorial he published in Feb, “The tech tycoon martyrdom charade,” which explores the sense of victimhood the most powerful, wealthiest people in the Valley project:
https://www.anildash.com/2023/02/27/tycoon-martyrdom-charade/
These dudes are prisoners of their Great Man myth, and leads them badly astray. And while all of us are prone to lapses in judgment and discernment, Dash makes the case that tech leaders are especially prone to it:
Nobody becomes a billionaire by accident. You have to have wanted that level of power, control and wealth more than you wanted anything else in your life. They all sacrifice family, relationships, stability, community, connection, and belonging in service of keeping score on a scale that actually yields no additional real-world benefits on the path from that first $100 million to the tens of billions.
This makes billionaires “a cohort that is, counterintutively, very easily manipulated.” What’s more, they’re all master manipulators, and they all hang out with each other, which means that when a conspiratorial belief takes root in one billionaire’s brain, it spreads to the rest of them like wildfire.
Then, billionaires “push each other further and further into extreme ideas because their entire careers have been predicated on the idea that they’re genius outliers who can see things others can’t, and that their wealth is a reward for that imagined merit.”
They live in privileged bubbles, which insulates them from disconfirming evidence — ironic, given how many of these bros think they are wise senators in the agora.
There are examples of billionaires’ folly all around us today, of course. Take privacy: the idea that we can — we should — we must — spy on everyone, all the time, in every way, to eke out tiny gains in ad performance is objectively batshit. And yet, wealthy people decreed this should be so, and it was, and made them far richer.
Leaked data from Microsoft’s Xandr ad-targeting database reveals how the commercial surveillance delusion led us to a bizarre and terrible place, as reported on by The Markup:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you
The Markup’s report lets you plumb 650,000 targeting categories, searching by keyword or loading random sets, 20 at a time. Do you want to target gambling addicts, people taking depression meds or Jews? Xandr’s got you covered. What could possibly go wrong?
The Xandr files come from German security researcher Wolfie Christl from Cracked Labs. Christi is a European, and he’s working with the German digital rights group Netzpolitik to get the EU to scrutinize all the ways that Xandr is flouting EU privacy laws.
Billionaires’ big ideas lead us astray in more tangible ways, of course. Writing in The Conversation, John Quiggin asks us to take a hard look at the much ballyhooed (and expensively ballyhooed) “nuclear renaissance”:
https://theconversation.com/dutton-wants-australia-to-join-the-nuclear-renaissance-but-this-dream-has-failed-before-209584
Despite the rhetoric, nukes aren’t cheap, and they aren’t coming back. Georgia’s new nuclear power is behind schedule and over budget, but it’s still better off than South Carolina’s nukes, which were so over budget that they were abandoned in 2017. France’s nuke is a decade behind schedule. Finland’s opened this year — 14 years late. The UK’s Hinkley Point C reactor is massively behind schedule and over budget (and when it’s done, it will be owned by the French government!).
China’s nuclear success story also doesn’t hold up to scrutiny — they’ve brought 50GW of nukes online, sure, but they’re building 95–120GW of solar every year.
Solar is the clear winner here, along with other renewables, which are plummeting in cost (while nukes soar) and are accelerating in deployments (while nukes are plagued with ever-worsening delays).
This is the second nuclear renaissance — the last one, 20 years ago, was a bust, and that was before renewables got cheap, reliable and easy to manufacture and deploy. You’ll hear fairy-tales about how the early 2000s bust was caused by political headwinds, but that’s simply untrue: there were almost no anti-nuke marches then, and governments were scrambling to figure out low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels (this was before the latest round of fossil fuel sabotage).
The current renaissance is also doomed. Yes, new reactors are smaller and safer and won’t have the problems intrinsic to all megaprojects, but designs like VOYGR have virtually no signed deals. Even if they do get built, their capacity will be dwarfed by renewables — a Gen III nuke will generate 710MW of power. Globally, we add that much solar every single day.
And solar power is cheap. Even after US subsidies, a Gen III reactor would charge A$132/MWh — current prices are as low as A$64-$114/MWh.
Nukes are getting a charm offensive because wealthy people are investing in hype as a way of reaping profits — not as a way of generating safe, cheap, reliable energy.
Here in the latest stage of capitalism, value and profit are fully decoupled. Monopolists are shifting more and more value from suppliers and customers to their shareholders every day. And when the customer is the government, the depravity knows no bounds. In Responsible Statecraft, Connor Echols describes how military contractors like Boeing are able to bill the Pentagon $52,000 for a trash can:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can/
Military Beltway Bandits are nothing new, of course, but they’ve gotten far more virulent since the Obama era, when Obama’s DoD demanded that the primary contractors merge to a bare handful of giant firms, in the name of “efficiency.” As David Dayen writes in his must-read 2020 book Monopolized, this opened the door to a new kind of predator:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu
The Obama defense rollups were quickly followed by another wave of rollups, these ones driven by Private Equity firms who cataloged which subcontractors were “sole suppliers” of components used by the big guys. These companies were all acquired by PE funds, who then lowered the price of their products, selling them below cost.
This maximized the use of those parts in weapons and aircraft sold by primary contractors like Boeing, which created a durable, long-lasting demand for fresh parts for DoD maintenance of its materiel. PE-owned suppliers hits Uncle Sucker with multi-thousand-percent markups for these parts, which have now wormed their way into every corner of the US arsenal.
Yes, this is infuriating as hell, but it’s also so grotesquely wrong that it’s impossible to defend, as we see in this hilarious clip of Rep Katie Porter grilling witnesses on US military waste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJhf6l1nB9A
Porter pulls out the best version yet of her infamous white-board and makes her witnesses play defense ripoff Jepoardy!, providing answers to a series of indefensible practices.
It’s sure nice when our government does something for us, isn’t it? We absolutely can have nice things, and we’re about to get them. The Infrastructure Bill contains $42B in subsidies for fiber rollouts across the country, which will be given to states to spend. Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin breaks down the state-by-state spending:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/us-allocates-42b-in-broadband-funding-find-out-how-much-your-state-will-get/
Texas will get $3.31B, California will get $1.86B, and 17 other states will get $1B or more. As the White House announcement put it, “High-speed Internet is no longer a luxury.”
To understand how radical this is, you need to know that for decades, the cable and telco sector has grabbed billions in subsidies for rural and underserved communities, and then either stole the money outright, or wasted it building copper networks that run at a fraction of a percent of fiber speeds.
This is how America — the birthplace of the internet — ended up with some of the world’s slowest, most expensive broadband, even after handing out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies. Those subsidies were gobbled up by greedy, awful phone companies — these ones must be spent wisely, on long-lasting, long-overdue fiber infrastructure.
That’s a good note to end on, but I’ve got an even better one: birds in the Netherlands are tearing apart anti-bird strips and using them to build their nests. Wonderful creatures 1, hostile architecture, 0. Nature is healing:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/15/in-the-dumps/#what-vacation
Next Tues, Jul 18, I'm hosting the first Clarion Summer Write-In Series, an hour-long, free drop-in group writing and discussion session. It's in support of the Clarion SF/F writing workshop's fundraiser to offer tuition support to students:
https://mailchi.mp/theclarionfoundation/clarion-write-ins
[Image iD: A dump-truck, dumping out a load of gravel. A caricature of Humpty Dumpty clings to its lip, restrained by a group of straining, Lilliputian men.]
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Commercial Satellite Broadband Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.23% during the forecast period and market is expected to reach US$ 9.97 Bn. by 2030.
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Weekly output: the CIA's SXSW sales pitch, Amazon unveils Project Kuiper receivers, NASA's plans for privately owned space stations
This week went by fast, between my spending the first two days of it in Austin for SXSW and then spending all of Wednesday at the Satellite 2023 conference in downtown D.C. And then St. Patrick’s Day came around–which this year reminded me of how great it was to return to Ireland last summer, the first trip I made there with my Irish passport. 3/15/2023: The CIA’s SXSW Sales Pitch: We Need Your…
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1 From web, weirdcore II //NAME???//
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2 9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous
3 1. Attempts to portray sincere parent/child relationships always seem creepy.
4 2. Hot curly haired black women go moist for wireless broadband routers and mainframes.
5 3. People who sit in cramped cubicles answering customer service calls in drab corporate callcenters are overjoyed to help fix your DSL modem.
6 4. At least 1 in 3 people chosen at random will necessarily be "African American," even though only 13% of the US population is black.
7 5. The amount of forced enthusiasm you have for a commercial product is directly proportional to how big of an asshole you are.
8 6. Kids love manual labor.
9 7. That one-handed, one-knee laptop bullshit is the preferred way to get real work done.
10 8. Random-ass white dudes should be placed all over your corporate website for no fucking reason.
11 9. Teenage boys share intimate feelings with each other.
12 Source
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1.1 Mini-gallery
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2 "90s (Cyber/-) Positivism" and or, "Oldest (Alt.) Nets (80s-'93)"
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term that is something like guilty-pleasure, but it is *this* feeling when you feel good, disgusted, question how society and economy still works; and how dissecting everything into some kind of morale render us incapable to do anything that is not (in) any sense "bad"...
if you get this; what i wanted to say
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Before the pandemic, there was a real world, and this fake one, real friendships and “friends”, political communities and “followers”, genuine political expression and “likes”. The risk, when interactions with other human beings are narrowed to these remote, glancing and often combative exchanges – simulations – is that, once the lockdowns are over, people will bring the culture of the virtual into the real, creating even angrier, more impatient, more superficial, more transactional, more commercial and less democratic societies. Forging stronger bonds in a post-pandemic world, if one ever comes, will require acts of moral imagination that are not part of any political ideology or corporate mission statement, but are, instead, functions of the human condition: tenderness, compassion, longing, generosity, allegiance and affection. These, too, are the only real answers to loneliness, alienation, dislocation and disintegration. But the fullest expression of these functions across distances as easily spanned by viruses and flood waters as by broadband cables and TikTok videos, requires both society and government. What’s needed is nothing less than a new social contract for public goods, environmental protection, sustainable agriculture, public health, community centres, public education, grants for small businesses, public funding for the arts. It won’t be a new New Deal. The dangers are graver because decades of a world, both real and virtual, shaped by Reaganism and Thatcherism, has left the waters rising, all around us, and the forests on fire. Governments rest on a social contract, an agreement to live together. That contract needs renewing. But the problem, in the end, isn’t with society, or the social fabric. It’s with governments that have abandoned their obligations of care.
Jill Lepore, Is society coming apart?
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.....what do you mean "dial up the internet?" did you have to call someone to turn it on for you?
I... I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not. 😭
But I'll take it as serious because apparently everyone else prior to 2015 was having fun on their nice and fast internet here except me, which is fair! So congrats on being one of today's lucky 10000.jpeg.
It does technically involve the telephone, but not exactly in that way. I'm not calling anyone, but the internet itself is, sort of?
Wikipedia describes dial-up Internet as "a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network to establish a connection to an Internet service provider by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line."
Basically dial up is a now outdated form of internet that used a standard phone line and analog modem to access the Internet at data transfer rates of up to 56 Kbps. It was released commercially around 1992 but fell out of popularity in the early to mid 2000s after the introduction of commercial broadband in the late 1990s, except in rural or poorer areas where it tended to persist for a little while longer. (Hello from the rural areas.) Anyway, a dial-up connection is the least expensive way to access the Internet, but is also the slowest connection. (When I was a kid, I tried to watch a three minute video of the "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" song, and it took me at least an hour to load it without buffering. Though text based pages or images would maybe take a few minutes or so, so it wasn't like completely unusable.)
Also, due to how it's set up, you can't use the telephone (home phone) while connected, and if you were to try, it would make what we all know as the classic internet sounds, that you've probably heard even if you didn't know what it was: Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*. That's terrible phonetics, but I just took that off a search, I wasn't gonna try to type the sound out myself. This, anyway: X.
It honestly baffles me when people don't know what dial-up is, makes me feel old, but I can't hold it against anyone because if you didn't live in a rural area, most people got high speed or some variant thereof really really early on, and most people younger than me and even some older have always had it, so dial-up internet Georg (me), who still couldn't get a single image of a Nicolas Cage meme to load 8 years after the invention of the iPhone is an outlier and should not have been counted, apparently.
On that note, the store where I work at has frequent power outages, which always knocks out the internet to the debit machine, so I'll be like, sorry, we're on dial-up, and some people will smugly be like "oh I bet you don't remember dial-up," and I'll be like, "No, I, I had dial-up like all through high school," and their eyes will go wide, but I think it's mostly because 1. I look like I'm 12, but I'm very much not 12. and 2. Again, people not used to the rural experience, catches 'em off guard.
#dial up internet#ask#long post#my internet is still so slow I might as well have dial up some days my goodness
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this is my sample pack. it includes all the one-shots, loops, and mixer presets i have used for all of my releases from 2019-2024. this includes:
Relation Emulation (2019)
█▓▒░❛❛Sui Generis?❜❜░▒▓█ (2019)
Hindmost Residuum Of The Monochromatic Inamorata (2020)
MAGICORE w/ STATICCA (2020)
•⧉•Artifactual•Construction•⧈• (2020)
Object Limner( ✎)(2022)
Locus Faciendi Manus( ¿)(2024)
it is sourced, specialized, and customized from various sample packs (Satan's Drum Stuff, SOPHIE, Com Truise, COSMIC, PRXZ, gin$eng, John Mello, Jungle 1989-1999, etc. & more) and includes some of my own custom samples, all organized with a focus on decisive sound design for music production.
below you can find a list of all of the virtual instruments and presets i have used on tracks:
DAW - FL Studio
Instruments > Bass > Ibanez
Instruments > Guitar > Strat Pos A, Strat Pos B, Strat Mute
FM8 - VST
Telepath
Crystal
Bigdiz Bass
Massive - VST
Blue In Grey
Big Lead
kutsustrings
Pluck - Square
Dank Lead 2
A Love Lead
Kodosyn
Amazing Lead
ATM NASTY WEATHER
Sytrus - VST
Orbital
Cerbera Saw
Deformed
Deep
Fry
Detuned Saw
Choir
Choir 2
Choir 3
Arrakeen tabla
Harmor - VST
Rhodes by nucleon
Aural Psynapse
Moonlight EP (intransigence)
Rotochip
Pad Atmosferico
Toxic BioHazard - VST
LED KutThroat ToTc
Musical ToTc
Dune - VST
FM Beauty BT
Frozen Bottle ARK
Amiga Organ KS
Brute Sine RL
Intelligence KS
Rimshots KS
Magenta KS
CS-80 V4 - VST
Big Move
CS-80 V3 - VST
Ach Steel*
Morphine - VST
LED LoFi Techno Chord MC
Vox TakeMe2TheTop MC
FabFilter Twin 2 - VST
Fudge Chunk -O
Omnisphere - VST
Epic Proportions
In Memorium 2
Boys Choir Oos
Spire - VST
GT Old Trance V
BA Beatitude
PD Beatitude
LD Dimension 8000 SK
LD Sawer IPM
BA Rave SK
LEAD - Infinite
SQ JP Order
BA Up And Down AS
LD Juicy V
LD Crispy V
LD NEON
LD Eclipse
BA ONE V
LD Unlinked
LD Virus V
BA 304 Square FL
BA Grungier Dub
PD Formanta DP
PL The Trance Pluck A
PL Stopper DRK
BA Benassi
LD Matrix 12
LD Eighty's MLM
BA Oxygene
DR Animal Kick 5
LD Exhale AS
LD Zero76 AL&RS
LD Angry Reso
LD Eurotrancer
PD Unicorn DP
LD Digital Egyptian BJP
LD Your Typical Superlead
LD Chromium V
LD Combo A DP
LD Fusion AS
LD Bright Future DRK
DR Tape Kick
DR Animal Kick 6
LD Underground
LD MODSynth HFM
PD East Coast DP
LD InstaWhore SK
LD Virus V
LD Glider DP
LD Heavy Duty DP
LD X-Lead
BA Synth Bass VS
BSQ Outbreak V
BA Analog Square
PL Nord Pole 3 DP
BA Snappy AS
LD Sprut
PL Anjuna Pluck
PL PlayHouse
PD Hid Lights
LD Aquamarine
LD Disarm MLM
ZETA+ 2 - VST
"DruggedEraBass"
Huge Chord Seq
Sad Arp
Equinox BT
Stella C2 2011
The Good Times 1
Phadt Raver
Funky Hi Fat Lo
Dancing Oscillators
Dynascraper
Textures - Trance anthem
Build That Track
Digital sound factory - Modern Digi Synth
24-osc xy hoover
Vjooprrrr Lead
crispy arp c1 (mw)
crispy arp c1 02 (mw)
Basic Trancer 1
FM Hall Practice
The Phatness FG
Noisy Beauty (Mw) BT
BitTek DMS
Creamy Poly XS
Super Eight Bars FI
Classic Content - Leads Hard - undecided
Old Lab FS
Brutal Legato FS
FM Lead Shapes FI
Commercial Trance
Ravers Arp 3
zt3r30 zinc
BroadBand Connection
Crisp Keyed FG
Chiptune Plucks XS
Reso Fat Lead
90s Revisited FS
technic
Broken Piano Amp BC
Phatman XS
Teccnoe Boeing
Ravers Slice 4
Ez Raver BC
Commodore64 Hits XS
Leading Tarnce FI
Toy Piano DMS
Electron Drum Circle 3 FI
Spezial Bell Swirl Laye
Hardcore Kick 1 XS
The Prophet FG
Zeta+ Crunk 2 FI
Milk Steak WRJ
Phased Noise Tines FI
Sp3ctrum S4w mw FI
Lofi Dream (Mw+Pb) BT
Electro FM FI (Synthwave-y + knitecap)
Alone in the Arena II
Sizzle Keys (Mw) BT
Thick Gate FI (umieram)
Angelic Vocoder (juncture)
FM Gliss FI
Digi Slapper (Mw+Vel) BT
Multipoint Brass FI
Metallic Vapors XS
Aqua Flange Pad BC
Hard Fanfare FS
FMed Duplets 1 FI
Big Bass Lead FS
Classic Rock Lead XS
Brass lead
Resonator Pluck
Blue Stars XS
Dream Arp 2
Psytrance Kick XS
Colors Crossfade FS
Sweet Dee WRJ
Serum - VST
Such Relaxation
Celestial Light
BASS - R4V3R
BASS - Make Some Jungle
MoBambaBell
PL Hot Chocolate
SuperAlba
Bass - Cold Night
Key JP09
PAD - Pancakes
LD Hypersaw
BASS - Deep and Clear
BASS - Hard Bass Pluck
SQ Automator 4 [GS]
FG Pop-Star
SY Euphonic
PL Little Harp - Mw-loop
BASS - Essential Subs
SY ModSync 1 [GS]
SY Morricone
PL Big Bells [AS]
PL Downpitcher [FN]
PL Crusty Pluck [LCV]
POLY FM242 Brass
LD Festival Beez [FP]
BA Modern Fapping [GI]
BA RBLz [7S] (ataraxia intro)
KY Static Crystal
SQ PianoStepper
SY Sqrs [GS]
KY Let's Get Nutz [FP]
SQ8L - VST
Voyager
Drumaxx - VST
Diseased FG
Sawer - VST
FG Burnt
FG Pro-52
FG Hum & Bass
FG Squarer
PD Memories
LD Pulse Lead
FG Fat Plastic
MC Chunkee
MC Waterphone
PD Sonic Juice
FG TypiTarnce
FG Fury of V
LD Chiptune 2
PD Sapphire
SY Metal Scrape
SY Sunkissed
SY Poly '86 (Shlohmo-like)
KB Accordion
FG Four Bits
LD Dance Lead 1
LD Sad Lead (ataraxia main)
BA Analog Bass
KB 80's Keys
LD Space Voice
FG Harpsichordal Injury
LD Stiff Pulse
SY Beijing
FG Soviet Stylee
Nexus - VST
Dirty Might 2
Amigo
Angel One
Bellevue
Broken Square
Butterfield
Good Chi
Tremolize
We Atlas
DnB Sine
Chinese Dominator
Phantompad
Dance Guitar
Crystalbells
Broad Pulse
Attack Lead 3
Attack Lead 2
Benny Dance Split
Pulse Noise Lead
Vocoder Talk
Vocoder Larry
Chainsmoker 4
Guitar Strummed 1
Dance Pattern 2
Detuned Bass 2
VZ Bells 2
Dutch Style 2
Culture
Piranha
Detuned Lead 6
Detuned Lead 3
Detuned Lead 10
Wild West Saloon
Big Bells
Hollywood Violins
Andro default Saw
AR Etheral
King of Buzz 1
King of Buzz 5
Distorted Piano Strings
Delayed Piano
Slapped Bass
Detuned Lead 11
Dance Saw 1 (Fuck Somebody Nice)
Arena Ambience
Dance Saw 2 (His)
PN Trancepiano
LD Detuned Lead 8
LD Trance Saws Wide
TG Vocal Slicer
Cheap Dance Organ
ST Dark Cellos
Xpand!2 - VST
29 Glassy Glockenspiel
Sylenth1 - VST
433 KEY Harpsichord
118 LD Tunnelvision
007 ARP ClassicVA
OB-XA V - VST
Cross-mod Suitcase
SEM V2 - VST
Age of Solo
Jup-8 V3 - VST
Muppet Mayhem
Nitzer Bass
India
GMS - VST
Boomerang Bass
TAL U-No-LX-V2 - VST
76 Space Sound 3 (Lifter)
Sakura - VST
BW Catgut Chorus
KBD Grand Harpsikord FG
SYNTH String Like DS
Poizone - VST
ARP Classic VA
KBD AmbientKeys ToTc
KBD JazzAmpedGuitar ToTc
SYN Funky HP
BAS Stereo Bass
BAS Simple But Peppy
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Boeing is using Fortnite game technology to update the B-52s
Will this "hyper-realistic" modeling tool help give the program a Victory Royale?
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 23/09/2023 - 12:27 in Military
A popular Fortnite game engine is helping Boeing modernize 60-year-old B-52 bombers for another three decades of service.
To see how the new Rolls-Royce F-130 engines would work in the U.S. Air Force's B-52 Stratofortresses, the plane's manufacturer resorted to Unreal Engine 5, the software that powers the Fortnite shooting game. The 3D environment of the game engine allows pilots and maintainers to virtually interact with an updated digital representation of the B-52, such as starting and turning off an engine.
It is a "powerful and really impressive tool," said Jennifer Wong, senior director of bombers at Boeing.
Wong said that commercial digital software, such as the "hyper-realism features" of Unreal Engine 5, reduces costs and delivery time.
“We learn faster and are able to adjust faster when we talk about models than [when] we learn after bending metal,” she told reporters last week at the annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference event of the Air and Space Forces Association.
The virtual environment gives USAF “unprecedented access” to modifications from the beginning and gives feedback to Boeing long before they start upgrading the aircraft, Wong said.
This is part of a modernization effort called the Commercial Engine Replacement Program, or CERP, which will replace the eight Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines in each jet to keep the bomber flying.
The program is much larger than just the engine replacement, Wong said, as Boeing will also update the aircraft's displays, cockpits and other avionics systems.
Rolls-Royce is on track to complete the initial engine tests by the end of the year and begin the "critical project review" in the first quarter of 2024.
Boeing will also replace the current B-52 radars with Raytheon's active electronic scanning radar, called AESA. The radar is already used in the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornets jets.
"When we say things like 'the B-52 will have capabilities similar to those of fighters in the future', that's what we mean. Eventually, the B-52 will be able to have some notion of capacity similar to that of a fighter and a little of that visualization that is currently on the F-18 platform," Wong said.
The new radar will allow the B-52 to track multiple targets simultaneously, Wong said. Other updates to the radar program include a new broadband radome, which protects the radar antenna, large digital touchscreen displays for browsers and manual controllers.
"This will allow us to continue to improve resources in the future, because the advance will be made through software, rather than hardware changes in the future," Wong said.
Raytheon recently announced that it has delivered the first AESA radar to Boeing for the program.
These modernization programs are crucial, since the B-52 could fly even beyond the 2050s, according to Colonel Scott Foreman, leader of the Air Force's B-52 program. Foreman pointed to the A-10 Warthog, almost half a century old, as an example of an airplane that is still flying after several attempts by the U.S. Air Force to retire it.
“Even if we're saying 2050, I have no reason to believe that he can't fly for a long time after that,” Foreman said at the AFA conference.
Boeing said it will have all the B-52s modified with the new radar by the end of fiscal year 2031 and the engine replacement program completed by the end of fiscal year 2036.
Source: DefenseOne
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Devastation’ at Tulkarem refugee camp following Israeli raid
An Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank camp, which led to the death of six Palestinians, also left “devastation” behind, after military bulldozers destroyed roads and other vital infrastructure, says Faisal Salama, who heads the committee that provides services to residents.
Salama told Al Jazeera the army destroyed all the entry points to the camp and closed them using earth mounds and other barriers. It also demolished five houses and detained more than 50 Palestinians.
“The army destroyed water pipes and power networks, as well as cell phone towers and poles for broadband services, and damaged more than 100 commercial stores as well as 120 homes,” Salama said.
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This long exposure photo of the sky above Gunnison National Park in Colorado shows the movement of light—coming from both natural and artificial sources. The thousands of satellites in orbit around the earth can shine millions of times brighter than objects farther away in space, getting in the way of astronomic observations. Photograph By Babak Tafreshi
It Looked Like A Bizarre Alignment of Meteors. It Was Something Else.
Astronomers are calling arrays of thousands of Satellites, like that of Starlink’s, “Mega Constellations” because of their overwhelming presence in the night sky.
— By Terry Ward | August 11, 2023
A fleet of UFOs, a bizarre alignment of meteors, a drone show: These are just a few of the things SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have been mistaken for of late.
National Geographic photographer Babak Tafreshi, however, knew exactly what he was seeing on a recent July evening in California’s Pinnacles National Park, when a “caravan of satellites” paraded across the sky, aligned as if they were perfectly-spaced stars.
“I see them very often because there are just so many of them,” he says. “People react because they have no idea what it is.”
These satellites bring broadband internet to some of the planet’s most remote reaches. They are usually seen in low-earth orbit (around 186 miles from ground) on their way up to their final orbit at 342 miles high. As they rise, they grow dimmer and spread out until they’re mostly out of sight of the naked eye, which can take up to several weeks. Astronomers call these massive arrays of satellites “mega constellations.”
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Lowenthal agrees that SpaceX “quickly heard the alarm from astronomers around the world,” engaging in conversations with astronomers from the company’s first Starlink launch. “What they haven’t done, however, is slow down launches,” he says. “We have always relied on our ability to turn to the night sky for solace and personal connection as well as scientific study…that’s all threatened.”
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I wonder if Ian and Mickey relate everything to their love like we do 😂 “oh this romantic tune is playing, ah yes my husband” “oh this super sexual song is playing, ah yes my husband”
that's hilarious 😭 we really do that don't we sjkdafh i will always find a way to make it about Them lmao - i bet they totally do this. ian hears literally any sound and is like HUSBAND????
commercial jingle? husband. internet broadband connecting screech? husband. terrible beat poetry at some west side bar? husband. every single song on the radio? HUSBAND.
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This day in history
I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!
#15yrsago Zoe’s Tale: Scalzi’s smart-ass young-adult sf thriller https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/12/zoes-tale-scalzis-smart-ass-young-adult-sf-thriller/
#10yrsago UK home secretary wants to overturn human rights treaties and make terror suspects stateless https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/12/theresa-may-british-terror-suspects-stateless-passport
#10yrsago David Nutt wants to make non-addictive, safer synth-booze that comes with a sober-up pill https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/getting-drunk-without-the-hangover-or-health-risks-scientist-seeks-investment-for-alcohol-substitute-drug-8931946.html
#10yrsago Irish Freedom of Information amendment will send FOI fees to infinity https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2013/11/10/freedom-information-fees-multiplied-new-amendment/
#10yrsago GCHQ used fake Slashdot, LinkedIn to target employees at Internet exchanges https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue-quantum-insert-attack-via-linkedin-slashdot-pages/
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#5yrsago The market failed rural kids: poor rural broadband has created a “homework gap” https://www.wired.com/story/rural-kids-internet-homework-gap-fcc-could-help/
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My family and I having a good laugh at the local news sharing a "concerning health issue" about the "problems with Youtube Shorts"....that kids watching short clips too many times is detrimental to their development, attention span, and addictive sense of gratification. So......
a.) -uh, a little bit too late here, folks. Kids have been watching internet blurbs on YT and FB since the broadband high-speed internet spread of the late 2000's. Quick clicking peeks at gifs and memes is endemic to the internet----and has been for a looooong time.
b.) "Health concerns of the attention span".....so says the blaring TV set that has been sludge-pumping (as compared to the beneficial movie-sludge we should all be taking in on a daily basis ) us with incessant commercial breaks since the 40s. Let's also not overlook how terribly abbreviated and terse and tantalizing MSM news has been for a looooong time. Then they insist you check them out on WWW.BSnewsoutlet.com where even your computer gets addled by all the crappy mutii-media windows and ads jammed into one screen.
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10 Awesome Internet Facts
Here are ten internet – related facts and milestones that have helped shaped connectivity across the South Africa, Africa, and the Earth.
It was in 1974, when the term “internet” was first used as a shortened term for “internetworking” (lame, right?) . At the time, there were several internets, as they referred to collections of linked networks.
The internet emerged in ’89 when a programmer named Tim Berners – Lee wrote the code for the first web browser called World Wide Web along with the standards for HTML, HTTP and URLs. The world also saw it’s first internet service providers (ISPs) starting at the same year. In the US, the first commercial dial-up ISP called ‘The World’ was started in 1989.
Rhodes University located in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa received the first South African IP Address in ’88.
In ’90, the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers granted South Africa the country code top-level domain .za.
South Africa’s internet user base grew from 2.4 million in 2000, to 5 million in 2008 to 12.3 million in 2012. In January 2021, this number grew to 38.13 million or close to 60% of the population, by contrast, Africa’s average internet penetration is just under 50%
Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system was launched by SEACOM in 2009. The 17 000 kilometers submarine cable connects African countries like South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania etc. to the internet.
In 2017, China had 756 million people connected to the internet, and India, 391 million people connected to the internet so basically Asia accounts for almost half of the world’s active internet users!
Gauteng is the province with the most access to the internet with 72.2% of the population connected and growing, while Limpopo is the province with the least number of people connected to the internet with 42.6% of the population connected to the internet and growing.
The average fixed broadband download speed in SA is 50 mbps which is an increase from when it was 46 mbps in May 2021. As fibre infrastructure in being rolled out and capacity improved, this number is expected to keep climbing.
The most popular website is…. You guessed it. Google. Facebook is the world’s favorite social media platform with 2.8 billion monthly users and growing.
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