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The Musk Files - The 💩 Show

img border=“0” src=“https://static.crabapples.net/blogfly.gif" align=“right” alt=“Watch out! It’s a blog fly!”/>I usually provide my own commentary under each snippet of news with my big link posts but not today. I collected so many links before posting I figure it’s just better to throw in some commentary here at the top and call it good.

TL;DR: Space Karen is out of touch with how his social network was being used and why it had become the defacto place for breaking news. By trying to monetize it he’s busted it.

Tech Dirt

Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter.

NPR

Twitter labels NPR’s account as ‘state-affiliated media’, which is untrue

WP Tavern

Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without notice yesterday.

Platformer

His arraignment was carried live on cable news and National Public radio, but I learned of the day’s events where I still see almost everything first: Twitter, which, despite its perilous decline under Elon Musk, remains home base for the U.S. press corps even as the site itself increasingly orients itself to make fools of them.

Reuters

NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

The Editorial Board

Musk sucks at Twitter, succeeds at fascism

The Atlantic

Today, Twitter feels more expired than evil. The company is worth less than half of what Musk paid when he bought it in October, according to the chief twit himself.

ArsTechnica

Twitter has made good on one of CEO Elon Musk’s many promises, posting on a Friday afternoon what it claims is the code for its tweet recommendation algorithm on GitHub.

Vox

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said he wanted to protect its place as a “digital town square,” where ideas from all corners of the internet could flourish. But soon, if you want your voice to really be heard in the town square, you’ll need to pay.

Tech Crunch

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter.

Reason

The layoff would’ve been bad enough on its own, but because of the rules of Vong’s visa, it landed him in a bureaucratic mess that now prevents him from returning to the United States.

Platformer

But Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer.

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Little details in Mono by RM

Release date: 23 October 2018

Official page

Tracklist (RM’s tweet) (translation)

Soundcloud

Credits

RM’s MONO Behind on VLive (now reposted on Weverse)

Tweets from the members: Jimin, j-hope

RM’s tweet teasing the playlist, his tweet showing "Forever Rain” when it was just finished in 2016 (cr.), his tweet showing the album cover framed in his studio

Reviews: NME, Third Coast Review, Kim Youngdae

Colette Balmain’s article: “It will pass, someday: Gothic ethereality and introspection in RM’s Mono”

Bookish Theories’ explanation and analysis (part 1, part 2, part 3)

Trivia

The date of release has been titled “RM Day” in the 2018 Season’s Greetings (src). There was also a note saying to “look up at the sky for over 10 minutes.”

sunny_1306_ on Twitter also noticed that there’s a KimDaily from 2015 titled “mono” but it could be a coincidence.

hopewrlds on Twitter checked the metadata of the songs and discovered that “Everyone” had been put as the owner.

Soo Choi found some info about the people featuring on this playlist. NELL is a Korean modern rock band and eAeon is a songwriter from the group Mot. Both have been close to RM for a while. If you want more, there’s a thread on Reddit recommending songs from them.

RM wrote on the Fancafe that there weren’t official lyrics because he wanted us to “listen to it with our own language and expression” (src.). The lyrics below are thus what was understood by the translators so you’re free to agree or disagree with it.

Colin translated all the lyrics of the playlist. For #1YearWithMono, Liz (baepsayed) made a thread with facts about Mono and AesopsFableFly made a thread to analyze the structure of the playlist and explain why it’s called a playlist.

We can see RM when the tracklist was released in Bring The Soul and in the Memories of 2018.

Tracklist details:

Tokyo

lyrics: BTS-trans, wisha, doolsetbangtan, Muish

Seoul (Prod. HONNE)

lyrics: BTS-trans, wisha, doolsetbangtan, BTSARMY_Salon, Muish, Colin (2nd part)

RM had already twitted a teaser of this song in March

A lyric video with shots of Seoul was released on the 24th, the day after the release of the playlist (translation of the scene at 3:30. There were different lines in the first version released on VLive but it was quickly re-uploaded).

In an interview for the BBC, Honne explained “MONO” stood for “rap MOnster NO more”. There’s been no confirmation from RM though

Minidance made a video to indicate the different locations that were filmed and another one to explain the lyrics and the context

RM also collaborated on Honne’s song “Crying Over You”

Moonchild

lyrics: BTS-trans, wisha, doolsetbangtan, Muish, Colin

A lyric video was released two days after the release, on the 25th. It was filmed in Lumpens’ workroom in Seobbingo

Badbye (with 이이언)

lyrics: BTS-trans, wisha, doolsetbangtan, Muish

어긋 (uhgood)

lyrics: BTS-trans, wisha, doolsetbangtan, BTSARMY_Salon, Muish, Colin

지나가 (with NELL) (Everything goes)

lyrics: BTS-trans, doolsetbangtan, BTSARMY_Salon, Muish, Colin

a making clip was released on NELL’s Youtube channel

Forever rain

lyrics: BTS-trans, doolsetbangtan, DKDKTV, Muish, Colin

An MV was released at the same time as the playlist. It’s a black and white animation following the aesthetic of the whole playlist and of RM in general. It was directed by the studio VCR Works (Twitter, Instagram). Jaehon Choi, the director, also published an artwork character and talked about it during a workshop (trans by @u4eakooks_net and @BTSARMY_Salon). Here’s also an interview in which he talks about his style

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The Code of the Woosters

The 23 episodes of “Jeeves and Wooster”, a British TV series starring Stephen Fry as Jeeves and a young Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster that ran from 1990 to 1993, are now available via YouTube. If you don’t know who Jeeves and Bertie are, you probably won’t enjoy the series. If you do know, you’re almost sure to have quibbles.

Jeeves, indispensable personal manservant, and his employer, mentally negligible man about town Bertie Wooster, were the supreme creations of P. G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Woodhouse”), the most gifted (to my mind) author of light fiction who ever lived. George Orwell, who wrote an intelligent though ultimately too generous discussion of Wodehouse, explained to ignorant Americans that Bertie was a pre-World War I Edwardian “knut”, a languid, yet somehow charming fellow whose general incompetence somehow makes it appropriate that he should have more money than he can spend.

The fact that a lot of Bertie Woosters got slaughtered in the trenches of World War I somehow did not decrease the market for Wodehouse’s fiction. Wodehouse, who always looked rather determinedly on the bright side of life, at least in public, shrewdly guessed that a lot of people would prefer to pretend that the Great War never happened, and so made the world of the knut even more extravagantly self-indulgent and unreal than it had been in the balmy days when King Edward was still alive,1 creating a world of young men in spats, white flannels and cucumber sandwiches, smart flats and country homes, heiresses and French maids, all of them pure as the driven snow—for Wodehouse’s world is as innocent as the real one is wicked.

What makes Wodehouse worth reading is the wonderful dexterity of both his language and his plots—“musical comedy without the music,” he liked to call it, although few musicals could match the twists and turns of his absurdist plots where everything is first turned upside down—very often due to Bertie’s blundering—and then flipped rightside up again thanks to Jeeves’ brilliance.2 Wodehouse drew heavily on the tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan for both his plots and language, translating them onto the written page. He had a wonderful ability to mix the clichés of formal and colloquial English—ponderous “Establishment English” and English “public school”3 slang, in particular—turning them inside out or leaving them rightside in while placing them in incongruous surroundings, shifting constantly from outrageous overstatement to similarly outrageous understatement within a single sentence.4

When I first saw the Jeeves and Wooster episodes I was disappointed that every line of Wodehouse’s superb verbal stunting wasn’t faithfully replicated on the screen—absurd, no doubt, but, as Bertie would say, there it is. After almost thirty years to collect my thoughts, I find that, so far, my original judgment was a bit harsh. Stephen Fry makes an excellent Jeeves, though there’s often an ironic tone to his supposedly respectful responses to Bertie’s inanities—as though Fry feels the need to let us know that Jeeves knows how stupid Bertie is—which strikes me as lazy and self-indulgent. The real Jeeves, one feels, would be above the need to signal his superiority.

Laurie’s Bertie Wooster is more of a mixed bag. In the first scenes of the first episode, Laurie engages in some horrible mugging, intended to let us know that Bertie’s suffering from a hangover, but if the plot didn’t make that clear, we’d never have guessed. Eventually. Laurie improves, and physically he makes an excellent Wooster, his tall, spindly, eccentric frame making even the most elegant outfit look somewhat ridiculous, and thus serving to ridicule rather than distinguish its wearer.

The trappings of twenties and thirties elegance are very well done, but the Brits, of course, never tire of this. British studios must have roundhouses of puffing locomotives, garages bursting with antique sports cars, taxis, and limos, not to mention immaculately maintained country homes and smart flats. The theme music, a sort of palm court jazz, if that isn’t too rude a term, is quite catchy as well.

The attempts to “open up” Wodehouse’s world are another matter, and an area where devotees are likely to quibble. The series takes us inside Bertie’s “Drones Club,” but the members are depicted as emotionally stunted six-year-olds, while I always envisioned them as emotionally stunted thirteen-year-olds. I ended up bailing on the series back in the nineties for its lack of “respect” for Wodehouse, but if I persevere through the whole thing this time around I may be more forgiving.

Afterwords In the “real” twenties, knuts were better known as upper-class twits or “Bright Young Things.” The current British series The Windsors does a better job taking down the modern-day upper-class twit, because The Windsors deals with shagging and snorting as well as cigarettes and liquor, which are the only sins permitted in Jeeves and Wooster, though The Windsors still keeps it light. For a grimmer touch, you can find a TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, in which all the Bright Young Things are damned to Hell—or at least would be if Evelyn had his way. Variations on these themes can also be found on the once legendary Upstairs Downstairs series, which you can get on Amazon, if not elsewhere, as well as the execrable Downton Abbey—execrable if not indeed damnable—which I ridiculed both here and here.

Back in his heyday, between the two big wars, Wodehouse was the beloved pet of virtually every English writer, from Orwell on the left to T. S. Eliot (officially an American, of course,5) on the right, first because he was so funny and second because he offered no competition to them, despite writing of a world that they all knew never existed.6 The Wodehouse cult endured a great crisis in the early days of World War II when Wodehouse and his wife, enjoying an extended vacation in France, managed to get themselves captured by the German army. They were interned as enemy civilians, and Wodehouse agreed to make a few radio broadcasts for the Germans, in which he explained that his hosts, once you got to know them, proved to be rather jolly chaps in the whole. This naturally enraged the British population, who regarded Wodehouse as nothing less than a traitor.

The intelligentsia can always love an outcast—some more than others, of course—and Wodehouse admirers like Orwell rallied round in an excessive manner, rushing to “explain” that Wodehouse was a political naïf who knew not what he did. I think one can wonder about that. Wodehouse was quite a wealthy man—rarely the mark of a naïf in the first place—and many wealthy people on the eve of World War II feared that a “long war” would inevitably lead to crushing taxation and endless governmental regulation of every aspect of society no matter who “won”. Better to have the whole thing settled and done with, so that, hopefully, we could somehow find our way back to “normality”. Far more illustrious men than Wodehouse—Picasso, Matisse, and Andrè Gide, for example—were willing to make their peace with the Nazis. One must learn to accept that which one cannot change, after all.

Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 until 1911, was the figurehead monarch of a society that was moving rapidly towards civil war (over the question of “Home Rule” for Ireland) when an even greater external crisis intervened. Great Britain, as it then was generally called, was spared a civil war at the expense of about 600,000 dead and an equal number of wounded. On the one hand, there was almost nothing that Edward could do to prevent the smashup. On the other, there was almost nothing he did do to prevent the smashup. ↩︎

Eighteenth century literature featured many plots where, as Orwell (again) put it, the elements fit together like the teeth of a zipper, but the real classic that prefigures Wodehouse is Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, far better known in the U.S. via Mozart’s opera. Wodehouse no doubt got the idea from Gilbert and Sullivan rather than the “original”. ↩︎

English “public schools” are what we would call private schools. Wodehouse was immensely happy at his school—confusingly known as “Dulwich College”. It isn’t hard to guess from his work that he found the idea of an all-male society revolving largely around sports and adolescent hijinks immensely appealing. ↩︎

Wodehouse came from a seriously “colonial” family, and according to Wikipedia was raised for the first two years of his life by a Chinese nurse. I’ve read (somewhere) that the historian Edward Gibbon was cared for in his first years by a French nurse, and William F. Buckley was initially raised by a Spanish one. Not being exposed to your “native language” from birth can perhaps lead certain spirits to experience language as “naturally” artificial. ↩︎

Wherever he went, Eliot liked thinking of himself as a “metic” (Greek for “resident alien”)—St. Augustine’s notion of the proper role of a Christian while here on earth. I once read an interesting biography of Eliot that collected the opening remarks of addresses he gave, largely in the U.S. and the U.K., in which he would politely but firmly explain to his audience that he was not one of them. ↩︎

Not every writer adored Wodehouse. It’s typical of writers, regardless of background, to think of themselves as aristocrats and identify with the aristocracy, but some British writers, raised in the “Dissenting” tradition, hate everything about the whole country house fantasy. The fact that Wodehouse created a sort of “Disney version” made it no more palatable. ↩︎

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The 6 bad things about Clubhouse

Clubhouse is supposed to be the "next big thing."

Wait, what's Clubhouse? Clubhouse is a voice-only social network. In the mobile app, people can start "Rooms" where they and the other speakers they choose can essentially do a live group podcast, then optionally invite listeners who click a "raise your hand" button to join the conversation as well. The app is available on iPhone only for now, and you need to be invited by an existing user to get in.

They had been available in China, and some Chinese users were having conversations critical of the Chinese government. I said on TWiT yesterday that I'd be surprised if they're not banned within a week. They were banned in China today.

Yes, Clubhouse is the hot new thing. I predict its hotness and goodness won't last forever.

Here are the 6 bad things about Clubhouse.

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Litecoin'in Uzun Süredir Aradığı Kan Bulundu

Litecoin’in Uzun Süredir Aradığı Kan Bulundu

Toshi, bir çeşit cüzdan sistemi olarak kripto para yatırımcılarına bir dizi hizmet sunuyor. Toshi, Ethereum tabanlı ürünlere odaklanan bir hizmetken Charlie Lee’nin de retwitlediği son twit bu durumun değişmek üzere olduğunu gösteriyor. (more…)

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Don't even think about missing this epic TWiT episode!

Wow! In this special episode of This Week in Tech, host Leo Laporte and guests Owen JJ Stone and me talk about Cyberpunk 2077, the Apple M1 chip, Google Stadia, the Apple guns-for-iPads scandal, future MacBooks, the China diaspora for manufacturing, Amazon hiring, Comcast caps, Black Friday, TikTok matters, Snapchat stuff, Twitter Fleets, Google Photos, Darth Vader, Tony Hsieh and more!!! Watch here now. Subscribe here now.

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