tom jennings

I make things. I'm ex- many things right now (programmer, artist, technician, employed...) and it's lovely. Driving southwest deserts when I can, in a car older that most people alive. I like finding novel cracks in the world. We live in an idyllic barbed-wire compound in Los Angeles. Newbie kung fu black belt. Constitutionally anarchist, queer as a $3 bill back when queer mean gay weirdo. Still true whatever the words.

Every person has the absolute right to self-determination.

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2024-10-14 05:40:36

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@npub1qz2…nlrg
That is so sad!

2024-09-14 22:49:24

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@npub1c0m…xqjl
I assume you'd just give an LLM the biggest block of medieval knowledge we can find, and it can then answer its own questions.

2024-08-09 16:38:20

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@npub1qz2…nlrg
wow. Where'd you put it all? Not another unit I hope, lol.

2024-08-01 04:28:40

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@npub1lrv…tth9
How is it that SHE has the problem?

2024-07-19 15:41:53

Good morning and --
OK WHAT NOW.

2024-07-15 23:24:08

Wow. Just stumbled on this grapheneOS feature.
The page itself can't be screenshotted. But a duress password, when entered to unlock the phone, erases the phone and esim.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/793/082/139/674/448/original/415b3f99b5ab366f.jpg

2024-07-13 00:42:54

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@npub1c0m…xqjl
Are workplaces like that common(ish) today? I've been out of the job market for a while but has it really got that bad?

2024-06-29 04:16:46

Wait -- the Internet -- is that thing still around?

2024-06-01 05:02:06

My friend Bill is just terrible at self-promotion. I've known him for 30 years, he's a prodigious doer and and maker of art. He's a real hobo and serious dedicated artist and punk film maker.
He's constantly broke because he's shit at the promo. Buy his books cuz he needs to eat! This is no charity, he makes top-notch stuff.
http://billdaniel.net/tri-x-noise-book
http://billdaniel.net/who-is-bozo-texino
http://billdaniel.net/current-shows-beyond-the-streets-nyc
http://billdaniel.net/publications
http://billdaniel.net/store

2024-05-30 16:23:20

When I search the web for X I am knowingly hoping to find distinct websites that contain or refer to X.
But I think google thinks or maybe knows, most people searching the web for X want an "answer".
Obviously older (length of usage over time; yeah age) users at least partially understood the former was what you got.
I've seen nothing about this discussed, but I'm hardly a model of normality.

2024-05-29 19:45:25

Ugh, here was a weird tank of a computer, a Gridcase 1535 EXP, with plasma display (that did not look all that much better than this awful photo). It was unpleasant to use. No idea what I did with it, probably gave it away.
It ran DOS. I think was used in some network field maint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridCase
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/526/089/368/406/144/original/ed5aff1412f1238e.jpg

2024-05-26 16:50:19

I'm beginning my push to get more things out of the browser. No, not "apps" ala phones ("lock-in") but IP ports, eg email into Thunderbird.
I happily pay for DI.fm (streaming music) but alas, it seems locked into the browser for money/auth reasons.
If I could, the browser would be half way to browsers in say 2005. Not nostalgia, or 'was better then', but for bloat and distraction.
The "Amish" cliche of putting the telephone out in a little house of it's own has the seed of a good idea.
Multi-function programs kinda suck.

2024-05-17 17:44:03

UC Irvine within the last few days. The POV of this photo means that it's official, or sanctioned, or something, comfortably behind or within the massed police.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/457/654/441/154/849/original/025f646fb59ce506.jpg

2024-05-12 16:40:55

No publicly-traded corporation can be trusted.
Prove me wrong.

2024-05-12 03:32:21

Hairless dogs are vigilant about where they plant their bald butts. It's funny to watch them inspect the ground before dropping back. Sometimes they get lazy and plant their butt on something unpleasant and suddenly leap up with a shocked face when they land on something unpleasant.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/426/007/942/256/753/original/54b8935676618f35.jpg

2024-04-13 01:33:48

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@npub1qz2…nlrg
Sure! Where is you body? Mine's in Los Angeles.

2024-03-05 04:23:46

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@npub1ugp…cz6m @npub1hyk…3p33 @npub17x7…naa8
Google has our street right but the number wrong.
Delivery folk never read notes attached to orders and/or just can't accept that their phone is wrong as we stand 100 feet away waving our arms at them.
The reluctance to accept reality vs the phone is itself interesting.

2023-08-13 04:22:24

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@npub14d7…dm4s
LA driver here. I drive an ancient economy car, kept in top condition. When I pass other folk in well tended old cars, there's almost always a knowing smiling exchange of solidarity.

2023-08-06 17:30:55

Stolen from Lemmy.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/110/843/857/976/528/531/original/06d81228d046adea.jpg

2023-08-03 16:30:08

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@npub19yv…2nqf @npub1ddp…2tax
Thanks Pamela. Staid, you are correct. I went silent because I was playing back my logic at posting what I did, knowing that the 2020 vote was hardly a landslide. I'd intended to reply today, not leave you hanging.
Pamela stated it very clearly, thanks Pamela for articulating that.

2023-08-02 16:41:53

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@npub1ddp…2tax
> when roughly half of it actually welcomes it.
I do not think this is the case -- on the ground, the right wing are a minority. What they have is rich folk and corporate power behind them, including media pulling the "two sides" thing.