the mjl (michael j leblanc)
@themjl
Engineer. Musician. Wily Chaote. Full-Stack Acerbic Humanist. Bandcamp: SoundCloud: Musings: Middle of Massachusetts. USENET refugee.
it would be awesome if anyone seeing this went to google and did a search on some variant of "ICE Shooting Victim"... this 'trains' the algo to use the correct language ("victim") to describe these incidents. POISON THE FEED.
Alas, week off is over. Back to home and work, tomorrow. And probably the last day out here for at least 2.5 weeks.
"It wasn't a SECRET conference..." "Oi? The Waxy Philosopher? Never met 'im..." "I'm a journalist..." (who never reported on this?) "oh man that was AGES ago, anyway, I had already MOVED ON, man... why are we even talking about this...?" The more I read this, the more it smells like merde.🤔💩🤷♂️
Bought a PS5 right before the prices went (more) nuts. For games that don’t even start coming out until July. And this little doohickey just got delivered today (took 4 weeks to get here). Economic prescience. FTW. Get stuff while you can, folks. IF you can…😬
Too late to set up a fancy picture (sleepy, off to bed). But this “cheap” Gretsch guitar I impulse bought a couple weeks ago has been full of surprises…
Here's Miller and Trump, at that very moment. Do these look like "Scared People", to you? IT WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
Feels weird to buy a guitar online. But I need to dismantle & fix my beloved '86 Am. Std. Strat (it's down to one barely-working pickup, wiring's shot), and who knows how long that'll take me. Anyway, it's been shipped (this is the actual).
I just read through Palantir's "22 points" and keep on wanting to ask these people:
I’ve regressed to the listen to the “Syd Barrett vinyl I bought in 1985” stage of Riding the Apocalypse Wave…😂🤷🖖🏼
When you go back and find quite a bit of usable audio you had forgotten about…
Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.
"What if instead of 'Jungian Dune', we'd gotten 'Freudian Dune', instead...? 🤔
This was my favorite album, the year that it was new. Never had it on vinyl. Out of print, but… acquired.
The Liar's Club is getting busy: Replies & quotes turned off, and also apparently can't count (IRL? Only Dem vote in the Senate. Only 4 Dems in the House). "Objective External Reality" still exists, folks...🤷♂️
I had to break it all down to get a circuit repaired over a month ago. Between snow, work, depression..(?) Anyway, the Reconstruction begins. I can at least play a record again.