Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
@kolev The more I read about handwriting scripts/hands (as a casual interest) the more I am amazed at the variety used historically and in modern times.
@TommyTorty10 Hi. Old Unix fart here. The dropped characters etc smells of serial flow control issues. You are using 115200 for the serial rate. Is this with a cable with hardware flow control on both ends? What happens if you try 9600?
The dogs had their grooming appointment earlier this week, so it was time for mine. That's how I remember that I need to get my hair cut on a semi-regular basis. Dogs go about ten weeks between cuts, as do I.
Decided to try the #0 buzz offerred by the barber today and now I feel like the hooks side of a velcro strip. Might try getting it actually shaved next time.
(Not that I was ever planning on setting foot in the USA again.)
"The State Department’s guidance also directs visa officers to consider applicants ineligible to enter the U.S. for several new reasons, including whether they are past retirement age, how many dependents - children or elderly parents - they have, and whether any dependents have “special needs” or disabilities, the cable said."
. . .
"A diplomat who received last week’s cable, and also spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said State Department leadership has been very active in finding new ways to deny foreigners entry into the U.S. or just slow down the system."
If you've been to see contemporary art in the last three decades, you will probably be familiar with the feelings of bafflement, exhaustion or irritation that such gallery prose provokes. You may well have got used to ignoring it. As Polly Staple, art writer and director of the Chisenhale Gallery in London, puts it: "There are so many people who come to our shows who don't even look at the programme sheet. They don't want to look at any writing about art."
@acf I just did the bare minimum in reading about artist statements (the article on wikipedia) and found some interesting bits.
"The writing of artists' statements is a comparatively recent phenomenon beginning in the 1990s."
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"Levine & Rule collated and analysed thousands of gallery press releases, published by e-flux since 1999, in an attempt to dissect and understand the peculiar language of the professional art world. It has since become one of the most widely circulated pieces of online cultural criticism."
Peculiar language indeed.
Also, the article on outsider art was interesting as well.
I'm not saying artist statements and formal art culture practices have no value. They just seem to me to be purposely created bafflegab to exclude the everyday people who I guess are not the target audience.
Myself, even just putting titles on my photography grates on me at times. There's probably some art practitioners and write-ups about or by them that prefer to leave things totally up to the viewer to interpret. I read something the other day about a painter that gave up titles and just used numbers.
it's November in southern Alberta and I hear a neighbour mowing their lawn. I guess they could just be sucking up some leaves -- I've done that before.
