November update: Community Q&A Nov 25th Newsflash- community, dev and Pine Store news #PineBudsPro available December 2nd - ready to use #Ox64 boots #Linux - available in December #Star64 available in coming weeks #PineTime InfiniTime 1.11 & new apps
We’ve got three key hardware availability announcements this month: for the PineBuds Pro, the Ox64 and Star64, all of which ought to be available in the coming weeks. However, reading this update I’d…
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I thought it would be fun to do a media diet thing since I track most stuff anyway. I'll of course start with a long comprehensive post that will be very difficult to follow up, but perhaps I would do future ones on a more regular basis. This will also not be comprehensive, just things I'd like to comment on.
TV Scandal S1|2|3|4|5 - OK this is my first entry into Shondaworld. I think it's quite weird, probably not even good but I definitely see the allure. I will probably be finishing the series. It really set off ruminations on the role of media in how larger structures are perceived by folk. Futurama S1|2|3|4|5|6 - Danny had never seen this, so I rewatched the whole thing. Classic episodes are just as great. Of the later stuff... I had honestly forgotten I'd actually seen them all. The movies and CC episodes are incredibly uneven, but there _are_ gems in there, up to the last season. Breeders S1 - Pretty good series. Watched bc daddy Martin Freeman is very sexy. Midnight Mass - The flaws in this series sting quite a bit, as there is such a great atmosphere, cin
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I thought it would be fun to do a media diet thing since I track most stuff anyway. I'll of course start with a long comprehensive post that will be very difficult to follow up, but perhaps I would do future ones on a more regular basis. This will also not be comprehensive, just things I'd like to comment on.
TV Scandal S1|2|3|4|5 - OK this is my first entry into Shondaworld. I think it's quite weird, probably not even good but I definitely see the allure. I will probably be finishing the series. It really set off ruminations on the role of media in how larger structures are perceived by folk. Futurama S1|2|3|4|5|6 - Danny had never seen this, so I rewatched the whole thing. Classic episodes are just as great. Of the later stuff... I had honestly forgotten I'd actually seen them all. The movies and CC episodes are incredibly uneven, but there _are_ gems in there, up to the last season. Breeders S1 - Pretty good series. Watched bc daddy Martin Freeman is very sexy. Midnight Mass - The flaws in this series sting quite a bit, as there is such a great atmosphere, cinematography, soundtrack. The New Adventures of Old Christine S1|2|3|4|5 - Didn't age GREAT but it's still fine and I laughed a lot. Cooked with Cannabis S1 - I love kelis but leather storrs is weird. Also highlighted how scientific-sounding jargon has infiltrated the cannabis world, far ahead of non-industry-funded research. Baking Impossible S1 - This was fun, very enjoyable. Prooobably coulda been through a bit more QA We Are Lady Parts S1 - Absolutely Wonderful, my pick for TV of the year. Is this a musical? Music is so critical to it... Mapleworth Murders/The Fugitive/Floored/Dismantled - LOL QUIBI FBoy Island S1 - i feel bad about how many fboys i found hot Dorohedoro - While I was watching it I was maybe unimpressed? but no actually I liked it a lot Superstore S6 - First pandemic media. I think it was a good end to the series. Cried at the finale and hated it The Lady and The Dale - what a fascinating portrait of a person
Music Yung Baby Tate/Baby Tate - I found out about her this year, and damn she's got some bops La Goony Chonga - It's mainly been No Quieres Lio but she is also fun Lil Mariko - I saw her debut show in Brooklyn this year. I would simp for her, sure Ashnikko - STUPID is an amazing track, but overall I like her style more than her jamz grandson - I really want to see him live, Death of an Optimist was a pretty good album Camilo - omfg he is too cute i hate it also i want to kiss his face Orla Gartland - Such lovely songs, More Like You is going to be an all-time favorite Brooke Candy - SEXORCISM is amazing Duckwrth - first live show since lockdown. it made me very happy, and also i got to see duckwrth shirtless so that was transcendent
Movies: The Gleaners and I - MY PEOPLE IN FILM I LOVE THIS Lake Tahoe - This is the 2nd film by Fernando Eimbcke, whose 1st film Temporada de Patos is my all-time favorite film. Of course it is difficult to meet such high expectations (especially since Club Sandwich was just kinda okay)... but this was a very lovely film that I'm already remembering more fondly than when I watched. Redes - I love old films that show the exploitation of the proletariat by default; found this one pretty compelling Shaun of the Dead - This lived up to the hype, but I can't help but think a lot of its humor has been zapped by imitators over the years. Baby Face - Rewatched with Danny, I liked it just as much as the first time. MUST watch the restored 2000s version that has the Nietzsche speech intact and the more ambiguous ending The Decline of Western Civilization I & II : Dude these were great and i am so hype to watch Part III Burnt - OMFG this is the worst food-adjacent film I've ever seen. infuriating Born in Flames - I feel like this is the movie that the fediverse would love. Interesting to watch this with burgeoning anarchism viewpoints The Thing About Harry - omg harry is such a dreamy pan person Jallikattu - This is the manliest film I've ever seen and the ending is so... incredible Paris is Burning - sigh. Perhaps it was the hype. It did not make me happy to see queer brown folk at the altar of hierarchy, wealth, power. Where is the subversion of gender? I was upset enough to hunt a little, and I was happy to find that bell hooks devoted an entire chapter to this movie in Black Looks. She expressed these same frustrations, so I'll probably direct people there. Language Lessons - A movie with so much heart. I've roughly seen it 3x at this point, though, and perhaps the feels fade a bit. Last and First Men - What an experience! This is best experienced in a theatre-like setting, or at least with headphones. Spring/Synchronic - Moorhead & Benson make films that I want to love so much. They are fine. Animas Trujano - This movie actually short-circuited my brain. I think I like it? maybe???? also Torisho Mifune being dubbed over is not even distracting really? also he's hot and plays with his chest hair a bunch xP
Books Drug Use for Grown Ups by Carl L. Hart - Pretty good book saying things I believe. Full drug legalization is the way forward Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh - I quite enjoyed My Year of Rest and Relaxation, so I was excited. It ended up being a bit more of a slog than I initially thought, but drastically picked up towards the end. Quite like a Hitchcock film Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Anecdote-ful and kinda long tbh for what could have been maybe a long-form. But, yes, brain work is effortful and deserving of rest doi The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann - I finished the 2nd half of this book this year. Quite dry, and not super useful in terms of shaping my environmental POV (other than the obvious metaphor in the title.) How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman - I think i was liking this but the regional tongue was quite mentally taxing - too much so for my mood at the time. Borne by Jeff Vandermeer - Fun, quick read. Nothing too deep... i think? Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber - This was a great intro to Graeber. I am drawn to the idea that the obsolescence of human labor due to AI isn't just futurist talk - it's been happening and because mostly upper class jobs are affected, those are the first to be subsidized by the private sector. Normal People by Sally Rooney - Fun read, my kinda romance novel. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber - I got about 60% through this book. It's quite dry... but incredibly enlightening. Of course debt came before currency.
I posted version one of this just about a year before shit started hitting the fan so imma just say this is an annual series or something? lolfuck. stuff has changed I guess:
Apple: i got a fancy new job i mostly love. the only con is that i have a macbook for it, mandatory. It might be the literal worst computing experience of my life, 3 months in. I find new reasons everyday to be frustrated in my preferred workflows.
Facebook: It's annoying insta does so much login bullshit but still pretty close to 0. ->Friendica has been ...mostly up... and mostly fine for me.
Amazon: 0 interaction since besides an accidental order from some merchant on their website or ebay being fufilled by amazon by surprise -_- fuckin' monopolies. My job doesn't even use AWS!!
Microsoft: at work i've been suggested to get a windows VM but ive resisted thusfar >_>
Google: Android: I literally just got the Pinephone - android obsolescence is on the horizon but i worry about: -Dating Apps... this is really it. they might have web-clients i can find, we
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I posted version one of this just about a year before shit started hitting the fan so imma just say this is an annual series or something? lolfuck. stuff has changed I guess:
Apple: i got a fancy new job i mostly love. the only con is that i have a macbook for it, mandatory. It might be the literal worst computing experience of my life, 3 months in. I find new reasons everyday to be frustrated in my preferred workflows.
Facebook: It's annoying insta does so much login bullshit but still pretty close to 0. ->Friendica has been ...mostly up... and mostly fine for me.
Amazon: 0 interaction since besides an accidental order from some merchant on their website or ebay being fufilled by amazon by surprise -_- fuckin' monopolies. My job doesn't even use AWS!!
Microsoft: at work i've been suggested to get a windows VM but ive resisted thusfar >_>
Google: Android: I literally just got the Pinephone - android obsolescence is on the horizon but i worry about: -Dating Apps... this is really it. they might have web-clients i can find, we'll see...
Maps: well i ain't done much travelling so my use has way decreased and even been supplanted a lot by nextcloud maps! that works great for exploring and marking personal locations.
Youtube: My RSS feeds have been perfected and more integrated into JellyFin, so I mostly use that for subscriptions now, not using the youtube UI. However, invidious has split up and I havent set up my own server yet, so I've been delayed in this arena.
Voice: no progress and this is actually the most important one but its also the most complex ;_; fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Important: Most local reporters primarily come up as crime reporters. These are pure access relationships that depend on a cop giving a tip about a burgulalry to one TV station over another. twitter.com/gaywonk/status…
Corporate media — which benefits from a close relationship with police and is threatened by mass movements — is going to spend the next few weeks lecturing a grieving community about how to best respond to the state-sanctioned murder of its people.
"Today's web is mostly commercial. The smaller web of individuals has neither the resources nor the will to compete for visibility and audience the way the commercial web does"
Another great post by @neustadt - welcome to Mastodon by the way, a part of the new small web!
“It’s day 69 of quarantine so you know what that means!
That’s right. Time to stand a corpse length away from your dying loved one as they drown in their own lungs for the sake of a perverse intended mutual satisfaction that neither of you actually …
whole timeline is upside down feels like up is down left is right hot is cold but guess what THERE ARE STILL INFINITE GENDERS AND INFINITE SEXES some truths just dont change thats buckaroo science. checkmate devils
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Who knew that meatpacking plants would become the flash point for everything that’s wrong with our food system. An alarming 18% of packinghouse workers are infected with Covid-19—the ones known.
Because the plants closed, farmers have nowhere to send their ready-for-slaughter animals. But, says Civil Eats , don’t blame them for having to cull their animals. It’s not their fault; it’s the fault of the big companies that own the animals.
Farmers under contract don’t own the animals they are raising, and therefore cannot simply find a new market for them…The reality is that farmers don’t have to option sell the animals anywhere else. If the company tells them to euthanize an entire flock of the bird it owns on the spot, farmers have no choice but to comply—even as consumers clamber over empty shelves in the supermarkets, farmers are forced to depopulate.
Burning, burying, or composting up to 70,000 hog carcasses a day—or even grinding them into dust—could have serious consequences for our air and drinking water.
In interviews with poultry workers in Georgia, Arkansas and Mississippi a similar pattern of alleged negligence, secrecy and mismanagement emerged at facilities operated by some of the largest food manufacturers in America…For more than a century, the meatpacking industry has been a symbol of how corporations are able to exploit workers in the name of efficiency. The Covid-19 outbreak has opened another chapter.
Trump, says The Guardian, is marching meatpacking workers off to their deaths.
With his executive order on Tuesday night, the president is in effect overruling safety-minded governors and mayors who have pressured numerous meat, pork and poultry plants into shutting temporarily after they had become hotspots that were spreading Covid-19 through their surrounding communities. With such a move, Trump is – let’s not mince words here – is showing contempt for both workers’ health and public health.
Why has the pandemic thrived in meat factories? It was a perfect storm caused by a whole raft of dysfunctionalities, from the rise of giant agribusiness companies to the hollowing out of the nation’s regulatory state, and the hyper-exploitation of a vulnerable, largely immigrant working class which staffs the lines. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspections have long been laughable at these plants. Fines, when leveled, tend to be a few thousand dollars, a pittance for billion-dollar corporations. The low-wage workers who staff the plants live in cramped quarters, sometimes with more than one family sharing the same dwelling—so if one person gets sick, the disease can spread quickly…By intervening so directly in the food-chain crisis, the Trump administration has thoroughly politicized the conditions under which food is produced.
I suppose we must thank the Covid-19 pandemic for so clearly exposing deep structural problems and inequities in our food system.
Will a new labor movement arise? See tomorrow’s post.
“Mothra is known for protecting all life on Earth from threats. On #EarthDay we celebrate our planet & take on a part of Mothra's work protecting the planet.
This Mayday is unlike any previous Maydays. There will be no marches in the streets and no public speeches. Yet, now more than ever, we need to show that we are still here, still angry and still fighting. GAF is calling for an autonomous day of action on the 1st of May. We can’t demonstrate, … Continue reading "Mayday Revolt Call Out"
“Sorry to announce you're not allowed to post your hot takes during quarantine anymore. Everyone is too online right now -- the discourse is growing too powerful.”
Food and Coronavirus continued: food dumping and other reminders of the Great Depression
The Miami Herald reports that millions of pounds of fresh produce are being left to die on the vine or plowed under because the shutdown of the hospitality industry — restaurants, cruise ships, schools, airlines, and theme parks — has reduced demand.
Harvesting that fruit can cost more than twice as much as simply razing it. Workers who usually make between - an hour, paid by the amount they pick, instead earn minimum wage doing field work. So one million pounds of green beans and four million pounds of cabbage at R.C. Hatton will be churned into mulch in the next few days.
Grimshaw Farms in Henderson, New York milks about 300 cows. This week they’ve dumped 30,000 pounds of milk. “We are being told there is too much milk on the market,” Grimshaw shared on Facebook. “This is very strange when we are being told many milk shelves across the country are empty. Sure hope we can remain in business after these trying times.”
So are dairy farmers in Wisconsin,who used to sell most of their milk to schools, restaurants, and food service companies.
The Wisconsin dairy industry has been dealt a harsh blow from the economy that’s been slammed by coronavirus shutdowns. About one-third of the state’s dairy products, mostly cheese, are sold in the food-service trade.
And here is a letter from Gene McAvoy of the University of Florida’s Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences detailing what he has been hearing from growers about food dumping and losses. This is a brief excerpt; it’s worth reading all of it.
On Tuesday, March 24, a local broker says, everything changed. From brokers, orders stopped and everything got quiet. Wednesday, the 25th, super-quiet. Since then tomato volumes are down 85 percent, green beans are like 50 percent, cabbage is like 50 percent. R.C. Hatton has plowed under 100 acres of green beans, around 2 million pounds, and 60 acres of cabbage, or 5 million pounds. Florida’s tomato growers target 80% of their production to restaurants and other food service companies, rather than to supermarkets. In this sector, growers are walking away from big portions of their crop. Tony DiMare estimates that by the end of the growing season, about 10 million pounds of his tomatoes will go unpicked.
Then, the public was so appalled by farmers’ destroying food while hungry people were lining up for food handouts that the federal government had to respond. That’s when it authorized food assistance programs, among them food stamps (now SNAP). This program was designed originally to help farmers as well as the poor. Poppendieck’s book explains how small farmers got left out of those policies, a decision that haunts us to this day.
So here we are with farmers destroying food and New York City providing free meals to anyone who needs one (see my post on this).
Will all this produce a much stronger safety net for everyone who has been put out of work by this crisis or is paid too poorly to survive?
Will this at last lead to agricultural policies that support small and mid-size dairy farms and farms in general?
If COVID-19 has done anything beyond making people sick, it has made these needs clear.
poppy has been warning us of our current covid times
1. in scary mask, poppy talks about wearing her mask, not taking it off, and urges you to NOT TOUCH HER. DO NOT EVEN LOOK AT HER. the man asks you "are you wearing your mask??"
2. in her latest album, released barely after the prc announced to the WHO, poppy has songs:
“so i don't have cable and was lurking on the @ifc page and it looks like u can watch this really cool cooking show for free right now https://t.co/BCLgZXCPmK”
I liked this video quite a bit. It's definitely something I've constantly battled with - even though things are shitty, I _strongly_[ believe that we should try our all to change things for the better. The issue comes with deciding where to put one's efforts... invidio.us/watch?v=n2YptT8l3jM
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