Posts by jerod23@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Al8b8fH8iyy8Rx6PAG by jerod23@mastodon.social
2024-08-19T21:45:18Z
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@tomjennings Orca-Freak Storm 2024.
(DIR) Post #AseXiYxvAO3Ojho480 by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T16:42:26Z
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@tomjennings If you go back in time 20 years and visit Missoula you could drive east on South North Avenue West.Apparently they renamed some streets on the north side of town, so streets with the same name elsewhere no longer have "South" in front of them.
(DIR) Post #AtXOfdS1NV7HCAI6ls by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-04-27T15:56:27Z
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OK, I've changed my mind about AI. I think some people absolutely should use it for important things. Like legal briefs...https://newrepublic.com/post/194427/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-ai-generated-legal-filing
(DIR) Post #AtY62evyKHaQU5WdM0 by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-04-28T11:56:10Z
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@tomjennings I should have specified *generative* AI. Expert systems are fantastic.
(DIR) Post #AuhGa7lLNgnnpFaVcW by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-06-01T19:58:46Z
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@tomjennings Stencils. No programming required and applies much faster than writing/printing.
(DIR) Post #AwOavtdEnEQ1whFw7k by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-07-22T15:31:29Z
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@tomjennings I'm old enough to have ridden the Red Line from our home in Laurel Canyon to the Santa Monica Pier.
(DIR) Post #AwhXv9fhG1LVXlQ0Nk by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-07-31T18:57:15Z
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@tomjennings @kevinbowenAbsolutely! For all its faults sending a couple of sheets of paper from Bangor Maine to Honolulu Hawaii for less than the cost of a daily newspaper (kids, ask your parents) and having it arrive in a matter of days was amazing.Zine culture would never have flourished the way it did in the 20th century without the USPS.
(DIR) Post #AwpWuMAujrBdLLksAy by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-04T15:23:36Z
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@tomjennings @chris They were called Amateur Press Associations (APAs). APAs were extremely popular in SF fandom, gaming, and mail art. The individual contributions were called "sub-zines".
(DIR) Post #AwrRwVcAVDTpkCd6em by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T13:37:23Z
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@tomjennings @chris Way back in the day fanzines were very much iterative, many-to-many communications. It just took months for a reply to be published and distributed. Sending a letter of comment (LoC) used to be good for a copy of the issue in which the letter was printed. Threads of replies would go on for years in some zines.
(DIR) Post #AwrfUZZtZX3zHo8jBY by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T16:09:12Z
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@tomjennings @patamystic @chris And going way, way back to the days before home computers and printers were ubiquitous and the overwhelming majority of non-comic-based zines were created on typewriters: you really didn't want to redo an entire page to edit a couple of words.The first couple of issues of MRR were done on a typewriter. Then an electric typewriter with about a paragraph's worth of memory. The first Mac didn't arrive until the second year of publication.
(DIR) Post #AwrimjGObGcyOsMtA8 by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T16:02:38Z
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@patamystic @tomjennings @chris How many of your blog posts were about whether or not piss hardons were a real thing? That seems to be the secret.
(DIR) Post #AwrjYydWkLKXylC5yK by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T16:54:50Z
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@tomjennings Do it! Do it! Do it!
(DIR) Post #AwsSql2QXVj4xDh3QG by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T13:58:23Z
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@nelson @tomjennings @chris Beavis and Butthead already did a paper on the mystery of morning wood.
(DIR) Post #AwsSqm74Xj2IHusHIm by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T14:03:30Z
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@nelson @tomjennings @chris However, I do get the point. The enshittification of the Internet in general and social media in particular has lead to a resurgence of zine publishing. Mark Dery already wrote about how some of the Internet's Golden Age spaces mapped to zines in his 1996 book "Escape Velocity". Although that was how things were when zine culture was on the verge of going into hibernation and the Internet on the verge of infiltrating everyone's lives.
(DIR) Post #AwxgeSVpxh3DAhHMSu by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T13:50:27Z
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@tomjennings @nelson @chris The "third space" discourse. Combined with parents complaining about too much screen time when there is literally no place for kids to hang out outside.The true fanzines were a big part of the infrastructure of conventions/concerts/festivals. Other zines were part of political organizing. And, you're right, why bother when it is easier, faster, and cheaper to do it all online.
(DIR) Post #AwyRGyGMxTJQXWLWDY by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T13:53:39Z
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@tomjennings @nelson @chris As I have become even more introverted and asocial I have no skin in the game of people getting together. So I have no idea what the next step would be.Unless someone came up with a distributed, peer-based networking and communication system that was completely independent of the Internet. A worldwide network of desktop PCs that talked to each other over landlines.Know anyone crazy enough to put something like that together?
(DIR) Post #Ay6YIWo6JGUYi50ZH6 by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T14:05:47Z
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I would bet folding money that the Orem, Utah gunman was an aggrieved MAGAt who lost a bunch of money to some far-right grift. Or had a family member lose a bunch of money. Or had a family member abused by a Republican pastor.
(DIR) Post #B1DUye6tlVcMkG8si0 by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-12-13T20:23:26Z
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@tomjennings At first I was hoping that was a support group for people in recovery from Burning Man.
(DIR) Post #B1mFrHgKKD3CqT66gS by jerod23@mastodon.social
2025-12-30T14:48:55Z
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@tomjennings I remember the very early days of Gilman Street (i.e. building the stage, hanging doors, etc.) and heard variants on that. MAXIMUMROCKNROLL club, MRR space, MRR hall, etc. I don't remember "warehouse" but I wasn't there on a regular basis.
(DIR) Post #B2Q3PJk4K2w73LSVVo by jerod23@mastodon.social
2026-01-18T19:37:52Z
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@tomjennings Stinkhorn! Not safe for Tumblr.