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Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 19 hr
I went to Reznor's housewarming party and touched that door, heedlessly
"Pig" door from Manson murder house auctioned for $127,000boingboing.net Want to own a piece of rich Southern California history, directly tied into the horrific and infamous Manson family murders? Specifically, the door from Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's Cielo…
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 19 hr
Two of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbitarstechnica.com Did OHB really not test the satellite antennas on the ground?
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 19 hr
ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain textarstechnica.com The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 19 hr
as seen on fbook this morning must watch
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accountswww.404media.co CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
Sony winding down production of recordable Blu-ray discs boingboing.net/2024/07/05/s...
Sony winding down production of recordable Blu-ray discsboingboing.net Finding recordable Blu-Ray discs might soon get tougher, as Sony is reportedly ending consumer production.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
Swarm of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black holearstechnica.com Stars shouldn't form that close to the black hole, so these would need explaining.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
does it?
AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Lawgizmodo.com Here's everything you need to know about California's new AI bill and the fight to speed up or slow down AI that's spilling into politics.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
GOP Heritage Foundation: Democrats must step in line with MAGA — or expect blood (video)boingboing.net President of GOP's Heritage Foundation warns Democrats to step in line with MAGA cult — or expect blood (video)
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2 days
Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M schemearstechnica.com The work underpinned an Alzheimer's drug by Cassava, now in a Phase III trial.
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Oregon the DM🕎 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 4 days
hereee we goo www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Bird flu human case is reported in Coloradowww.reuters.com Public health officials in Colorado on Wednesday announced an adult man had tested positive for avian flu after reporting mild symptoms, including conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 3 days
A History of Altered States at Esalen with Sam Stern and Erik Daviswww.eventbrite.com Discover the pivotal role of Esalen Institute in explorating altered states of consciousness and developing the human potential movement.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4 days
FCC plans to rule carriers must unlock phones after 60 daysboingboing.net Carriers still lock handsets whenever they can, and the FCC is planning to put an end to the predatory practice.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4 days
LISTEN: The End of Libraries as We Know Them? | Internet Archive Blogsblog.archive.org
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 4 days
as seen on fbook this morning
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 5 days
On X, john tuefel commented "I think this gets at something Biden's inner circle doesn't understand. It wasn't a "bad debate." It was a tremendously difficult to watch, on a human level, display of frailty and decline. It felt cruel to even witness. It cannot be unseen."
The Problem for Democrats Now? We Can’t Unsee What We Saw.slate.com The debate was bad. The spin is somehow even worse.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 5 days
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 5 days
Supreme Court Bounces Back Question On Social Media Moderationwww.huffpost.com The ruling vacated two lower court decisions, saying that they hadn't adequately analyzed aspects of the challenges.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 5 days
President Biden steps up to the microphone. "Members of the press thank you for attending. For the rest of this month, we're going to really focus on infrastructure. Then, for the fall, we're going to have a season of executions.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 7 days
this!
Are you lost in the world like me?www.youtube.com An animation by Steve Cuttshttps://stevecutts.wordpress.com/
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 7 days
if you're lucky enough to be in Austin Texas
S/He is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary — aGLIFFwww.agliff.org Pioneering electronic musician/avant garde artist/spiritual explorer/gender revolutionary/cult leader Genesis P. Orridge has been featured in numerous films and videos, but never the full story…unti...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 7 days
Forget the “female virgin” trope: Ancient Mayan ritual sacrifices were mostly malewww.salon.com A new study upends myths about pre-colonial religious rites while deepening understanding of Indigenous history
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 7 days
Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishersarstechnica.com Appeals court decision potentially reversing publishers' suit may come this fall.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 8 days
In the movie version, the VP finds inner resources of strength, honesty & perceptiveness that nobody knew she had & communicates that to enough voters to win the election in an exciting squeaker. At the end, the bad guy is being carted off 2 jail while the new president speaks at her inauguration
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 8 days
Harmful Toxic Ooze... good title for my next album
Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn expertswww.theguardian.com More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 8 days
"Larbi Layachi (1937–1986) was an illiterate Moroccan servant and street vendor who gained international recognition through his collaboration with American writer Paul Bowles, author of The Sheltering Sky."
Illiterate street vendor's raw tale exposes gritty 1960s Tangier lifeboingboing.net This originally appeared in my free newsletter, Book Freak I came across Yesterday and Today, by Larbi Layachi, 30 years ago on the secondhand bookshelf of The Psychic Eye bookstore in Sherman Oaks,…
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 9 days
"To be fair, Mondo 2000 and Wired had a lot of the present day tech dystopia in their DNA. Very little humanism, or activism, or emphasis on the role that tech could play in building either." whites with dreads, Mondo, Jaron, Wired... oh my www.reddit.com/r/MetaFilter...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 9 days
Minimalist Light Phone III gets an OLED display, camera and industrial new lookboingboing.net Other relatively undistracting upgrades include USB-C, fingerprint ID, a flashlight, 5G, a clicky wheel, and NFC
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 9 days
SCOTUS nixes injunction that limited Biden admin contacts with social networksarstechnica.com Supreme Court avoids clarifying when government can control online speech.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 9 days
this guy commenting on twitter today >> Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear The Supreme Court today: - Homelessness is a crime - Bribery is okie dokie - Companies can pollute all they want and the government is powerless to stop them >>