Jason Scott

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"Jason Scott is an arrogant, self-impressed idiot who thinks he's god's gift to techies because he remembers "the golden days" of BBS's." - Superbanana, Slashdot comment, 2006

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Shot of me on the set of JE SUIS AUTO (2024) which is out in theaters in Austria but soon to go to streaming, but also a shot of me when sites announce they're thanking their users for their "incredible journey"

FIGHT THE POWER FIGHT THE POWERS THAT BE

The question I have for all the candidates is what resources and steps are being taken to track down and stop this Gen X hero figure serial killer that is clearly on the loose

The most amusing part for me about the AI music generators is that they unwittingly have deep knowledge about obscure or complicated subjects. I asked one to write a peppy funk song about the pinouts of an ATX Power Supply. The Results: suno.com/song/092b7d9...

Pin It Up by @textfiles | Sunosuno.com groovy rhythmic funk song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

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gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

Despicable Me 4 is exactly the level of what you expect of a sixth film in a franchise, with some of the wheels falling off and no attempt to explain why anything is anything. Minions made me laugh, which is good since they're 40% of the film's screen time.

Was having a nightmare where I was interrupting Flight of the Conchords while they were putting on a show and Jemaine was getting pretty cross, and when I woke I realized Flight of the Conchords music was on my sleep headphones. Sorry, dream Jemaine

Pattern Recognition Enthusiasts out in force today

Home Depot guy, taking 35 minutes to rent me my truck: you have 75 minutes

My new retirement plan just dropped

IT IS TIME FOR THE LOST PRODIGAL TO COME IN FROM THE COLD "Howard the Duck" should be welcomed back into official Thomas Dolby musical canon, with open arms www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOx...

Don't Turn Awaywww.youtube.com YouTube video by Thomas Dolby - Topic

The Minions movie really hits different when you realize the reason the Minions find "sanctuary" in an ice cave and then journey out years later due to "boredom" was 100% to avoid having a Minions movie where they naturally follow Hitler

I forgot to show you the suit.

Yes, yes, you all have hard lives. But the instructions with one of my new suits appears to indicate that there is absolutely no way to clean the suit, ever. Literally no action will not ruin it and therefore wear it for 6-10 occasions and then throw it out? Starting a GoFundme

The way my face drops in the new RedLetterMedia episode when I see Mike mishandle 35mm film

Textfiles dot com got a letter just a week or two ago informing me it was Very Bad I host sex stories and something Should Be Done. Something is not going to be Done

and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.

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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

I'm not really sure if the $271 is the real buzzkill to this activity

Nobody told me I COULDN'T set the icon for the whisper (transcription) collection page: archive.org/details/whis...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machinearchive.org

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Here's a just-recovered 1985 interview with Apple Computer's Bill Atkinson, talking about the new Macintosh. "When I came to Apple, there were 30 people there." He programmed Apple II, designed software for Lisa, and programmed MacPaint. archive.org/details/the-...

The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-08 Bill Atkinson : The Famous Computer Cafe : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-08 Bill Atkinson. This is part one of the interview. Here's part two. This episode aired on KFOX.Digitized from reel-to-reel...

Here's a good example of how hard it is to maintain context on a web that is an interlocked series of handshake deals and text inertia. I was looking over IMDB and then I saw this review, and I'd initially wondered what they were talking about. Naturally I checked up on the reviewer.

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The literally knee-weakening relief of finding 5 obscure novels from the 1790s on Internet Archive, when my other options were a) pay the currently-wildly-overworked BL research services team for scan & send, b) pay £250 for POD versions via AbeBooks, or c) invent the rest of this thesis chapter.

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Phew. The Internet Archive has saved me from driving to Enumclaw to read one chapter in a book. Bless the Internet Archive forever and ever.

A few years ago, I had a role in an Austrian Sci-Fi movie about a rogue AI and its attempts to interface with humans via a car, and the question of the roles of humans in a world with AI. Nothing from it is relevant today. Anyway, the premiere is July 1, Austria Stadtkino.

C A N Y O N Y E R O

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Uploaded to Internet Archive: 7 just-digitized talks from Xerox PARC including Document Management and the Net (order a pizza online!) from 1995 and “You are HERE - Why you will use GPS Every Day Eveywhere” from 1998. archive.org/details/xero...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machinearchive.org

Watching the red letter media guys analyze the movie industry and just absolutely get a pile of things completely wrong was not the greatest way to start the day