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Look at this guy who doesn’t live in a 400sqft apartment with only street parking.

I never made the Neil Young connection, but I absolutely stopped listening to Pearl Jam. The last album I enjoyed was Vitalogy, which lines up with them doing Mirror Ball with Neil Young before their No Code album.

One man’s polished is another man’s over-produced.

Clearly the sound of this album resonated more with the mainstream, but I always felt like the addition of so much distortion, both to the sampling and to the synth, started to get away from what I liked about the genre. The pure waves of the digital instruments are why I liked techno. I had analog genres of music if I wanted to listen to something dirty sounding.

I considered writing “the album that ruined Prodigy for me” but decided to stick with the more inflammatory version. 🤣

Controversial opinion: It’s the album that ruined Prodigy.

Experience and Jilted Generation are amazing and I love every track.

Their first two albums were everything I loved about the genre. As soon as Smack My Bitch Up started getting radio play, they shifted their sound to match and never looked back.

I think the point they’re trying to make is that these two large sites are just the start. Others will follow suit to the point where eventually most sites across the entire internet will be in this bifurcated situation. We’re seeing similar things with things like cookies, ads, and age verification.

What I didn’t realize about Columbo until watching it last year is that every episode is basically a full movie. There’s no connection between each episode, Columbo himself is the only recurring character. Each episode is an hour 10 to an hour 40 long. Also, it’s by FAR the best production and acting on TV in that era. It’s legitimately like almost 70 individual films.

The oldest known footwear was found less than 150mi from Univ. of Oregon, where Nike was initially developed? Iiiiiinteresting.

I want this to be so much better than it is:

https://www.dropout.tv/um-actually

Woz was definitely smarter when it came to chip design and computer architecture. Jobs had a ton of flaws (the thread illustrates a major one), but to discount his overall intelligence and label him solely as an opportunist does a great disservice to him. He had a unique vision and passion that changed the direction of Apple and altered the course of several pivotal pieces of tech. From stealing the mouse from Xerox and using it to make a more approachable user experience, to harping on about font support in core operating system he directed the team at Apple in a way that genuinely did make personal computing more approachable. Similar stories about tyrannically obsessing over optimizing the size of the iPod and simple wheel interface made it more desirable than other options like the Nomad Jukebox. When he advocated for the acquisition of FingerWorks to bring multitouch to a device that was almost entirely touchscreen based, fit in your pocket and was a combination of a music player, an internet broswer, and a phone, he lead the industry in a direction towards consumers and away from the focus on business (like the market dominant BlackBerry).

Jobs wasn’t a genius in the sense that he made all of these things himself. He was a genius in his focus on the user experience and ignoring contemporary wisdom about what a computer was. Again, tons of flaws, probably not a nice dude in a lot of ways, but he changed the world.

I don’t get why we don’t call the “anti-woke” crowd “the asleep.” It seems like if they want to treat becoming awakened as an insult, we should be reminding them that they’re the ones who have their eyes closed and are attempting to ignore all of history.

The optimist in me believes that some day the majority of them will wake up, the same way the majority of Germans eventually denounced the nazi party.